vLite

[dock98]

If there's ever been an operating system that could use some slimming down, it's Windows Vista. Enter vLite, a donation-supported software tool by Dino Nuhagic that lets you create a Vista installation DVD that leaves out drivers and programs you don't want, installs Vista so that it begins with settings and options that you do want, and lets you install Vista without responding to any prompts. It does this by automating procedures that are thoroughly documented by Microsoft, but which normally require hours of work modifying installation files by hand. I used vLite to create a slimmed-down automated Vista installation DVD that let me get a new system up and running faster and more efficiently than the DVD that I bought from Microsoft. As long as you make these changes only to your own copy of Vista, and you don't distribute the resulting DVD, this seems to be a perfectly legal way of automating changes that Microsoft supports anyway.

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[BongoKongo]

I have tried this and had success using nLite with XP but every time I try to make an anorexic Vista DVD with vLite it turns into a Coaster. I don't know what I am removing that causes the problem, but after about 5 frisbees I gave up in disgust.

If you could post a topic on what NOT to remove and post it or send it to me in a PM I would be gratefull.

[dock98]

i would love to help;however,i really havent had time to try this on my vista 64.sorry.

[shought]

I have tried this and had success using nLite with XP but every time I try to make an anorexic Vista DVD with vLite it turns into a Coaster. I don't know what I am removing that causes the problem, but after about 5 frisbees I gave up in disgust.

If you could post a topic on what NOT to remove and post it or send it to me in a PM I would be gratefull.

Could you post here which components you DID remove, maybe someone(might be me, might be someone else) can tell you what you shouldn't remove.