24 Aug
2010
24 Aug
'10
11:35 a.m.
Pontus Pihlgren [pontus at Update.UU.SE] wrote:
Hmm, it boasts being able to remove Internet Explorer
and
other things
that comes by default. The home page says:
"The latest developments in XPLite now see clean installations of
Windows XP in under 350MB"
Which is somewhat missleading, you have to make a full installation
first and then remove stuff using xplite.
I believe that the point is you take your XP CD and make a copy on
hard disk, download the latest service pack and "slipstream" it into
that copy, use Xplite to strip stuff out of what you now have,
download the patches-du-jour and integrate those in (iirc xplite does
that
too), add a bunch of software you'd like to install automatically (if
you want), and then burn the result to CD.
Do it right (i.e. with an auto-answer file) and your re-installation now
becomes:
- pop in CD
- quick format drive (if necessary)
- kick off installation
- do something else for N minutes
When you come back you have an up-to-date XP installation. (OK, you
might want to do a Windows Update because patches come out with
quite monotonous regularity), but you don't need to baby sit it.
At least that's how I believe you are supposed to use Xplite ... I
do all the setup by hand because I'm odd like that :-)
Antonio