taki-jap

I seem to disagree with the previous posts. Personally I find the component removal feature the most important in a tool that has the purpose of customizing a windows install. The reason is simple: most other tasks that can be performed with W7T are also available post-installation, like system and registry tweaks, updates, software installation, GUI customization etc. While it is nice to be able creating an install disk with everything pre-configured, it isn't as vital as being able to remove the unnecessary clutter from the bloatware that Windows has become, since that cannot really be done efficiently and safely after installation. Furthermore, other "windows customization" tools that implement a component removal do it in an unpolished and unreliable way (RT7-Lite anyone?), which leaves us pretty much without a real alternative For the above reasons I believe that the sooner the "extensive work to the component removal" is started, the better. W7T does a good job on that so far, but the scope is still pretty limited