25 Aug
2010
25 Aug
'10
4:57 p.m.
On 24 August 2010 15:38, Chuck Guzis <cclist at sydex.com> wrote:
On 24 Aug 2010 at 16:16, Pontus Pihlgren wrote:
No, it doesn't. Virtually none of the functionality is in common.
Control Panel /hides/ components; XPLite ensures they were never
installed in the first place.
Check out xplite, I have not tried it myself, but
heard some good
about it.
http://www.litepc.com/
Not sure how it works with windows update though.. if it affects it at
all.
XPLite gets a big <shrug> from me. ?It fronts XP's control panel's
add/remove Windows components and settings, deletes update rollback
and temp files mostly. ?All of which can be accomplished manually.
Utter piffle. I think you are thinking of some other program.
XPlite is a tool that you use to create custom XP install CDs. It does
not and cannot and does not even try to do anything at all to an
installed system.
It enables you to (say) take an XP install CD with no service packs,
slipstream SP3 into it, remove IE, OE, WMP, MSN, Messenger, Movie
Maker & all the other crapware, pre-load a licence key, put the OS on
C:, the programs on D: and the user data on E:, set it for your
country and keyboard, remove all the other languages, and then creates
an ISO for you to burn which will allow you to install a custom system
non-interactively.
It is a brilliant tool. I don't know what you're attempting to
describe but you are thinking of something entirely different. Perhaps
you're thinking of 98Lite for Windows 98, which was both capable of
performing stripped-down installations and of removing some components
from an installed 98 system - but far fewer than a
clean install.
What I wish it would do: ?Automate moving key files to
other
partitions
It does.
and prune the registry of unnecessary entries.
Don't even know what that's mean to mean, really, but if you remove
all the accessories and Internet clients from the Windows installation
CD, then their registry entries never get created in the first place.
Me, I just use TinyXP r9. It's on all the torrent indices. It's a
custom distro of XP SP3 with most of the crap removed for you; you can
choose whether you want IE/OE/WMP or not, a "bare" install with no
accessories at all, and whether you want a collection of drivers
preloaded.
It's great. I run it in a VirtualBox VM under Ubuntu/64. The bare
install took <9min from bootup of the VM to finished system, ran in
40MB of RAM and shifted like greased lightning.
Even with drivers, tuning, updates & antivirus, it takes only ~70MB of
RAM. For XP, that's nothing.
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