How can I reduce the footprint size of a Windows XP Embedded runtime?
If you are trying to reduce the runtime image footprint size, here a few things you may want to try: • Disable pagefile support. If you have enough RAM to support the services you expect the user to run, then you may not need the pagefile. Note that pagefile is disabled by default anyway. • In the configuration, disable or delete any hardware components you do not need. These driver components may have component dependencies, which in turn may have additional dependencies and so on. So, having one unneeded driver component in the configuration may have an impact (sometimes a huge impact) on your resulting footprint. • If you used TAP.exe to generate the hardware configuration, please see the Disabling Software Enumerated Devices Picked up by TAP.exe tip. These can have a significant impact on your footprint if you are not careful. • Convert the partition on your target machine to NTFS, and then compress the volume (the compression feature requires NTFS file system). This can reduce the
