Windows 7 Lite ?

Subliminal Aura · 25 Jan 2012 at 17:22

Is there a guide out there that I can use to slipstream and strip the chaff out of a typical windows 7 installation DVD ?

I essentially want a stripped down version of Windows for use on an SSD.

Any pointers would be great

EDIT
For reference here's what I did

1 - Install Windows 7 x64 with 4gig or less, this reduces the foot print.

2 - Apply some of these great tips http://bit.ly/wuVgTk http://www.ocztechnologyforum.com/f...3-*-Windows-7-Ultimate-Tweaks-amp-Utilities-*

3 - Remove windows features that you don't need.

4 - Throw in the rest of your RAM and your install size should be around 10gig

done

UnworthyBean · 25 Jan 2012 at 18:13

RT Seven Lite. Be careful with what you remove though.

Best thing to do is strip stuff out and then install it onto a virtual machine to check if it actually works.

Subliminal Aura · 25 Jan 2012 at 18:28

Yeah, I'm looking at these guides

http://www.overclock.net/t/1156654/seans-windows-7-install-guide-optimization-for-ssds-hdds

http://forum.notebookreview.com/alienware-m15x/516410-windows-7-optimized-ssd-install-5-5gb.html

Hudzy · 25 Jan 2012 at 18:53

How big an SSD?

I can't see you saving much space really.

Subliminal Aura · 25 Jan 2012 at 18:55

Hudzy said:
How big an SSD?

I can't see you saving much space really.

60gig... It's not really a space saving exercise it's more to do with an efficient windows build without any unnecessary services or apps

darael · 25 Jan 2012 at 19:01

On my netbook I have Windows 7, Office 2010, quite a few tools, and have about 45gb free on my 60gb SSD. Pretty reasonable if you ask me.

wesley · 25 Jan 2012 at 19:06

lite version of window on SSD wouldnt make any difference really.

would make massive difference on p2 1.2ghz 256mb ram with 20GB hard drive

Deleted member 77746 · 25 Jan 2012 at 19:31

Windows 7 is lite, how lite do you want it?

Subliminal Aura · 25 Jan 2012 at 19:34

mrbell1984 said:
Windows 7 is lite, how lite do you want it?

As lite as linux

Deleted member 77746 · 25 Jan 2012 at 19:38

Subliminal Aura said:
As lite as linux

Then use linux.

d_brennen · 25 Jan 2012 at 19:48

I set up a debian system with the 150MB iirc business card cd image and LXDE recently. Only installed just what was needed. Now that's light, and you can lighter Linux

Meatball · 26 Jan 2012 at 01:04

To be frank it's a pointless and waste of time. Any potential MINUTE improvements in performance will be counteracted by stability issues and incompatibility.

MagicBoy · 26 Jan 2012 at 01:24

Subliminal Aura said:
As lite as linux

I've got copy of DOS 5 on floppy somewhere...

Stripping down Windows 7 is pointless. MS did a decent enough job. When they tried to strip it down further with Windows 7 Thin PC they started removing the useful bits that made it tick.

bledd · 26 Jan 2012 at 09:44

Windows Vista/7 are different to XP, more chance of breaking with future windows updates than XP ever had by removing components.

For this reason, I don't touch it.

davethe11 · 26 Jan 2012 at 13:21

Personally I wouldn't mess with it either, unless you enjoy stripping down an os and putting in the time to test it, in which case go for it

If you don't use hibernation then disabling it will free up some gigs on your SSD. Personally I put the swap file on another disk (in it's own partition too), W7 is very efficient with managing ram and I believe accessing the swap file is minimal so you may not see much of a performance hit moving it onto a non-SSD HDD (others hopefully can provide more info on this). Also, I change the temp directory to another HDD other than my OS drive - another attempt at reducing the load on my OS drive, and reducing fragmentation (but I think W7 is very good at dealing with this anyway).

TLDR: save space on your SSD in otherways other than stripping down the OS.

Subliminal Aura · 5 Feb 2012 at 09:08

For reference here's what I did

EDIT: Updated OP