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Vlite for windows 7

ahenkel

ahenkel

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I can't get Vlite to work in Win 7 is there a tool specifically made for windows 7. I'm getting an SSD drive and want to shrink down 7 first.
 
You should read the "memory and storage" forum on Anand's. There are lots of SSD tips. Most people think the easiest and best way to install an SSD is just do a clean install of Windows 7. Even a small 30GB SSD will work for a clean install. After this, you just need to use your head, and hopefully have a regular hard drive for storage of large files and programs.

My current Win7 install has quite a few programs installed, not large game files however, and it fits in a 40GB size on my 80GB SSD.
 
A fresh install of Win7 is only about 13GB. Installation of "typical" programs might bring this to ~17GB. You still have plenty of room.

If you need more, buy a bigger SSD!
 
I tried Rt7lite and I had problems with the DVD I burned. Ended up using an ISO from my technet account. It woulda been nice to strip it down but my 60gb ssd has 34gb free still after the OS, Office 2010, and FO3.
 
I have used rlite and it does work, but you need to know what you are doing when you change things with it as it doesn't safeguard you from making an image that will not work.
 
it was the RC version. I imagine I rushed through it though. I could try it again but eh everything works fine and I don't want to screw with my install. Ya know the whole it ain't broke thing.
 
About 8 years ago when the Networking started among Enthusiasts big Chunk of the troubles posted by people who started to use broadband were caused by the Bizarre eagerness to Switch Off Services in Win XP following the Magic thinking that it will improve performance.

Few people here did controlled Benching and showed that switching Off Services, does nothing to improve anything unless you have a laptop with less than 100MB memory.

Yeah use vlite

Down the line you will spend days tearing your hair down Not understanding why something suddelny does not work. 😱


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I've always had good results with Nlite and Vlite. I am a bit more conservative though. Mostly just dropping features. I rarely mess with Services other that disabling indexing on my SSD. I do know what you mean though people get a little nuts.
 
no virtual machine, not really any need to retry it just I used a clean ISO from technet. I'm not that upset about it. Mostly just wanted to save drive space.
 
JackMDS said:
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Down the line you will spend days tearing your hair down Not understanding why something suddelny does not work. 😱


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I did this , but not with a program like vlite,rlite. I disabled some services in windows and when I went to use netflix online streaming it would not work. I couldn't figure it out. I enabled every service that should have something to do with netflix and still nothing. I re-installed silverlight , checked drivers, contacted netflix and nobody could say why it wasn't working.

Then finally someone posted the answer. MS in their wisdom has made Tablet pc input service a requirement in silverlight. Silverlight will work without it partially but not on some functions. It will not give a warning or error that leads you to the cause being a disabled tablet pc input service either. And in the service it shows nothing dependent on it.
 
So, Modelwork, you prefer 200 hundred individual Services? :hmm:

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My super loaded C: with win 7 is about 40GB (about 10GB of software loaded is rarely used).

My storage drives are in the TBs. A 60GB SSD is about what a heavy user needs.

The only thing with Win 7 is to keep about 18GB free, in case an In-place install is needed.
 
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