ANALYSIS OF OS WINDOWS 10 FILE OBJECTS FOR SYSTEM PARTITION SPACE CLEANING AND OPTIMIZATION

Abstract

The paper analyzes the causes and ways of solving the problem of free space lack on the system partition during the OS Windows exploitation. The peculiarities of the system partition organization during the installation of common Microsoft operating systems are analyzed. The main system file objects, paths to them, their purpose and role in the use of system partition space and in the functioning of the operating system are considered. Represented the list of paths to the files of the folders that occupy the largest volumes on the system partition. Thees folders correct cleaning or configuring may save a lot of space on the system partition. The main tools of the operating system for the cleaning methods implementation are considered: command line interpretator, PowerShell environment, system registry editing tools, and system library function calling tools. Particular attention is paid to batch files as the simplest and most effective means of implementing automated use of system utilities, taking into account the peculiarities of the command line interpreter. One of the ways to manipulate objects with commands is to use the PowerShell environment. This environment is able not to process commands, but to generate streams of objects related to this command and form their processed representation using both command and graphical interface. Described the logical and physical structure of the registry as one of the tools for managing Windows settings. Was made the comparative analysis of some software products, such as the system console utility for servicing deployment and management images, as well as a number of free software. It has generated the list of functions used for the system partition optimization and cleaning from excessive data.  Based on the generated list, the efficiency of using the considered software tools for cleaning the system partition is analyzed.