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On 5/13/2015 at 11:01 AM, bphlpt said:
With today's hardware, there is not as much need or interest in "slimming" an OS as there once was, regardless of the sorry bloated state of today's OS especially Windows 8.x+.
Personally, I prefer to remove nothing, and just disable the services and whatever else I don't need, since if you find out later that you need something that you had removed, because you want to run some new software or hardware or something, adding things back is often much, much harder than it was to remove it, if it is possible at all. Also, sometimes removals interfere with future necessary OS updates, thus requiring a complete re-install.. Many of the tools that people used to use to slim their OS, such as RT7Lite, haven't been updated in several years, even though some folks still use them, and finding support for those tools is very difficult.
Win Toolkit can do a good, safe job of updating your OS, and is one of the best of the current set of Windows installation / customization tools, but slimming is not it's main focus, and if you are, mistakenly IMHO, convinced you need to have a "small light version of Windows 7", you might be disappointed in the results.
If you are truly only going to use your machine for one predefined purpose, you might actually be better off with one of the Linux variants, since you can probably find someone that has already made a version configured for that task, though it might take a bit of looking to find it.
With all that said, if you still want to proceed in your Windows slimming efforts, beyond what Win Toolkit can do, you should probably check out NTLite, which is made by nuhi, the same guy who wrote nLite and vLite. It is under active development and I have heard good things about it from others who have used it. Just make lots of backups and be prepared to make several trial and error installs as you fine tune your system. Whether your efforts end up being worth the time involved will have to be seen.
Good luck!
Cheers and Regards
what if you only can afford a pc laptop with 1, 2gb of ram then smaller builds give u the option to run theses builds and still install office and when you shut down all crap is gone thats if you run in ram, there is a few very lite programs to assist you i still have copy's to make the vhd files along with the drivers, what does running in ram harm? not being funny just giving the people with less spending an option what will not ruin there pc laptop!!
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the mackyreddy these are insane builds from a very pop guy to run in ram or full enjoy....x32 install wim is 343 MB an gets smaller 4 barebone!!!!!
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I have been told that it is not possible to activate a Windows 7 SP1 version using a windows 7 non SP1 key. Is this not a true statement ?
Untrue
ricktendo are you saying my original HP pre SP1 key will activate an SP1 iso of the same (home premium x64)
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i find just using dism from a cmd prompt (run as admin)
is very easy to add all msu and cab files and maybe your product key and drivers to an offline image (will handle Win 8, 8.1 also)
i know this has been covered before everywhere!!! might help others though! :prop:
make 4 folders
1=win7 (to contain your Windows 7 files from dvd extracted)
2=mount (the folder dism will mount to)
3=integration (inside make the 4th folder below)
4=x64 (or could be x32)
use the following cmd's
of course changing the drive letter to the right drive my case c (adding all the folders to the root of the drive)
i quickly open task manager and change the priority of Dism.exe & DismHost.exe to high for faster install
1= dism /mount-wim /wimfile:c:\win7\sources\install.wim /index:1 /mountdir:c:\mount
2= dism /image:c:\mount /add-package /packagepath:c:\integration\x64 (will add all updates inside that folder 1 after the other)
also set your product key with this
dism /image:c:\mount /set-productkey:?????-?????-?????-?????-?????
you could also add drivers with this below
making another folder inside integration
1=Drivers
cmd's
1= mkdir c:\mount\Drivers
2= xcopy c:\integration\Drivers\* c:\mount\Drivers\ /cherkyi -
Kind of new to using this tool and maybe i am doing something wrong... but when i try to remove programs like games, themes, and stuff like that using wintoolkit, it doesnt appear to actually remove it from the ISO but instead just hide it. Even though i hit the save button and it says i cant retrieve it, i still can if i reload the WIM... also when i use the ISO to load the files are still there.
I am able to integrate windows updates and other programs just fine but i cant seem to remove anything...
i am use to winxp and nLite so when when remove something it is actually gone from the ISO is this not the case with win7 and wintoolkit or am i doing something wrong.
Download gimagex run go to Export tab browse to your install.wim you used with win toolkit select the image you can check if you press select button,
Destination desktop call it install.wim make sure the Compression is Maximum leave name blank go to bottom and then hit Export this will export your wim and get rid of all the files left over by win toolkit replace this wim with your old one if you use 7.zip open it you will see all left over files are gone
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Easy way unpin win media player from task bar start menu go to windows media player program files (not x86) wmplayer.exe then pin that to task bar and start menu you can still use the reg tweak above though to makesure
Personally, I prefer to remove nothing, and just disable the services and whatever else I don't need, since if you find out later that you need something that you had removed, because you want to run some new software or hardware or something, adding things back is often much, much harder than it was to remove it, if it is possible at all. Also, sometimes removals interfere with future necessary OS updates, thus requiring a complete re-install.. Many of the tools that people used to use to slim their OS, such as RT7Lite, haven't been updated in several years, even though some folks still use them, and finding support for those tools is very difficult.
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fair play u remind me ov zd7 days