How big is your vlite ISO?

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Did a search but couldn't find any results from others..

How big is your Vista ISO?

I've just had my first go at vlite, only ever used nlite before, the default vista ISO seems to be 2.8/9gb and ive managed to chop mine down to 973mb

Incredible how much can be cut out of a vista install

EDIT: this is vista 64bit with service pack 1 integrated (prior to vlite)
 
It worries me when people manage to get an image down to that big. Surely you're having to sacrifice useful features?

Burnsy
 
this is vista im talking about ;) :p

What i have removed basically is ALL the preloaded drivers for components and peripherals ill never use, all the languages, a good 50%+ of the services i always turn off anyway (rather than just disabling them you get the option to completely remove them!)

^ all that is completely unneeded to me, i don't use a camera, scanner, printer so that's a lot of things i can remove from that alone

Its a pity i couldn't chop it down to fit on a CD lol

EDIT: oh this is vista business if that counts for anything (fully legitimate from the MVLS website might i add before someone wonders why I'm using business edition)
 
What's the point? It's only a few gigs of hard drive space. It's not like it really makes that much difference these days! Plus what happens if you one day need a feature you left out and it can't be installed manually?
 
dbmzk1 said:
What's the point? It's only a few gigs of hard drive space. It's not like it really makes that much difference these days! Plus what happens if you one day need a feature you left out and it can't be installed manually?
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Point is im installing it on a 36gb raptor so every gb counts

Also it saves me disabling the services every time i reinstall windows (if i ever need to)
 
Caged said:
Why are you disabling a ton of services anyway?
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Exactly. Just don't see the point. It's not like any of them actually speed up your PC in any actually noticeable way. The odd one or two maybe. After that it just becomes pointless.

Regarding the Raptor, why not just upgrade it rather than screwing around with your Vista install, something which is unsupported by Microsoft and might prevent you getting updates? Upgrading is easier, safer, obviously has more space and most modern 7200RPM hard drives are faster. Plus they are ridiculously cheap at the moment.

Also, instead of using this option, why not just use something like Ghost to take a backup of your drive right after installing Windows, that way you will never need to install Windows again should something go wrong!

Maybe it's just me :p
 
The more crap you remove the faster your PC boots. Windows will be more responsive. Simple.

My slipstreamed XP SP3 CD is 97MB.
 
How do you get em so low? Do you remove everything from printer support to most network support and all that? I got an XPSP3 down to 350 and my Vlite ISO is down to 2.2 lol.

Certainly makes Vista faster though, less processes, quicker boot and also less HDD and less memory usage.
 
Suit yourselves, personally i feel i gain a large improvement from having a load of stuff i will never need, use or want running in the background, why leave it when you can get rid of it?

under XP i never have more than about 15 processes running, obviously hidden processes i cant detect but with only few processes running it makes it easier to detect anything that shouldn't be there

With regards to the raptor, i have 3 large drives which aren't all that fast and used for storage, i have a raptor sat in a draw and decided i wanted to use it

EDIT: yay ratbag and willhub, someone else that can see sense
 
Can you help me make a super small Vista ISO? I want to disable everything I dont need, some things I aint sure but I still want network, printer support and be able to game and all that still.

2.2 gb to just under 1gb is a lot I dont know what else to disable :eek:
 
there is a hole load of stuff you can (should?) disable in a default vista install, the lower spec machine you ahve the bigger speed improvment you will see....
 
mrbios said:
EDIT: yay ratbag and willhub, someone else that can see sense
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It's not seeing sense, it's doing something which suits you, and I'd like to bet that you spent more time removing things than you saved by letting them load in the lifetime you use that ISO. ;)

I used to do the same with XP using nLite, but in the end I just stopped bothering. It made so little difference it wasn't worth it. Most of the difference was rose-tinted glasses.

It's almost like the point of this thread is negative epeen waving. You're saying you have less or use less than those of us who don't see the point or get any real benefit out of doing it. :P
 
this_is_gav said:
It's almost like the point of this thread is negative epeen waving. You're saying you have less or use less than those of us who don't see the point or get any real benefit out of doing it. :P
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O_o i was only asking for the sake of wanting to know how small it could get, no "epeen" involved, it was a genuine curiosity question - tbh i assumed a lot more people would have used this

I beg to differ on the amount of time saved :) besides, I'm a gamer so the less going on in the background the less there is to interfere with my games in anyway

I'm surprised so many people on a computer forum are so against optimizing windows performance, whats with you lot?
 
I'm surprised so many people on a computer forum are so against optimizing windows performance, whats with you lot?
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People getting lazy, rather than accepting a OS with a smaller footprint and lesser requirements, just buy a larger HD and a new computer :-/
 
badbob said:
People getting lazy, rather than accepting a OS with a smaller footprint and lesser requirements, just buy a larger HD and a new computer :-/
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Or we like a fully fledged, fully featured OS? I've been through the vlite options and tbh, there's not much I'd want to disable.

And it also avoids unusual errors from missing dependencies.

Burnsy
 
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Burnsy2023 said:
Or we like a fully fledged, fully featured OS? I've been through the vlite options and tbh, there's not much I'd want to disable.

Burnsy
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Understandable when there is nothing in there you actually want to remove

My personal reasons for removing what i have:
All i use my PC for is games and the internet
I hate themes
I don't use any smart cards, scanners, printers, cameras etc etc
I don't have any particular network requirements, its just me my laptop and a net gear router lol
Having the install unattended with my required drivers preinstalled was ideal
I don't care more about performance than security

^ the only reason I'm even switching to vista from my current XP install is for the sake of having DX10 + 4gb ram capabilities and i haven't tried the new 3dmark yet

All the above makes a large part of the OS completely worthless to me, that or there are parts of the OS i dont use because i have other software thats better at the job (WMP and IE for example)
 
|It'd be nice if Vista setup allowed you to opt not to install the additional drivers and languages, especially considering even OSX allows you to do so.

I'm a bit reluctant to start chopping bits out of it myself though, heard of a few people who were unable to install some Windows updates etc because of installations they'd done with Vlite.
 
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