stormraider

I think that it is a cool topic and he/she needs somewhere to start. My main problem when I've tried was that I had many bugs It took me so much time and I could not resolve anything. I've started searching again today and there are my conclusions that I keep if I test again. These are in slimmed down windows that worked better than mine: 
 


Components to keep:


Accessories:
- Accessibility
- Character Map
- Disk Cleanup
- Game Explorer
- Mobility Center
- Notepad
- Paint
- Snipping Tool
- System Information
- Welcome Center
- Windows Gadgets
- Wordpad

Drivers:
- Modems
- QLogic Fibre Channel Adapter
- Storage controllers
- TV Tuners

Hardware Support:
- Dynamic Volume Manager
- Fax Support
- Firewire (1394)
- Floppy Disk Support
- Infrared Support
- Internet Small Computer System Interface (iSCSI)
- Microsoft Multi-Path Bus
- Modem Support
- Printer Support
- Smartcards
- TV Tuner support
- Windows HotStart
- Windows Image Acquisition
- Windows Portable Devices
- WLAN Support
- XBOX 360 Controller
Multimedia:
- Intel Indeo
- Media Metadata Handler
- Photo Metadata Handler
- Shell event sounds
- SideShow
- Sound Recorder
- Windows Aero Theme
- Windows Media Codecs
- Windows Media Player

Network:
- Connect to a Network Projector
- Distributed File System (DFS)
- File and printer sharing (Server)
- Internet Explorer
- Internet Information Services (IIS)
- Link-Layer Topology Discovery (LLTD)
- Network and Sharing Center
- Network Explorer
- Quality of Service (QoS)
- Remote Desktop and Assistance
- Remote Desktop Client
- RIP Listener
- Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)
- Simple TCPIP services
- Telnet Client
- Telnet Server
- TFTP Client
- Windows Collaboration
- Windows Firewall
- Windows Mail

Services:
- Application Experience
- Background Intelligent Transfer Service (BITS)
- Computer Browser
- Desktop Window Manager
- DHCP
- Diagnostics
- Distributed Link Tracking Client
- Distributed Transaction Coordinator (DTC)
- DNS Client
- Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP)
- Interactive Services Detection
- Internet Connection Sharing (ICS)
- IP Helper
- IPsec Policy Agent
- Multimedia Class Scheduler
- Network Access Protection Agent
- Network List Service
- Network Location Awareness (NLA)
- Offline Files
- Protected Storage
- Quality Windows Audio Video Experience
- Remote Access Auto Connection Manager
- Remote Access Connection Manager
- Remote Registry
- Routing and Remote Access
- Secondary Logon
- Secure Socket Tunneling Protocol (SSTP)
- SSDP Discovery
- SuperFetch
- Task Scheduler
- TCP/IP NetBios Helper
- Telephony
- TPM Base Services
- Universal Plug and Play (UPNP)
- User-mode Driver Framework
- Volume Shadow Copy
- WebDAV (WebClient)
- Windows Color System (WCS/ICM)
- Windows Connect Now
- Windows Event Log
- Windows Remote Management
- Windows Time
- Windows Update

System:
- 16-bit Support
- Beep
- Crash Dump Support
- Digital Rights Management (DRM)
- Disk Quota
- IMAPIv2 Burning Support
- Jet Database Engine
- MDAC
- Microsoft Client For NFS
- Microsoft HTML engine
- Microsoft Message Queue (MSMQ)
- Parental Controls
- Performance Counters
- Reliability and Performance Monitor
- Remote Differential Compression
- Run a legacy CPL elevated
- Software Quality Management (SQM)
- Subsystem for UNIX-based Applications (SUA)
- Sync Center
- User Account Control (UAC)
- Windows Picture and Fax Viewer (Shimgvw)
- Windows SAT (Performance Index)
- Zip Folder



REMOVE COMPONENTS


 DISM

With DISM the following packages :

- Anytime Upgrade Results
- BLB Client
- Business Scanning Feature
- Clips In The Library
- Printer Drivers
- WinOcr
- GroupPolicy Client Extensions
- IIS WebServer AddOn
- IIS WebServer AddOn 2
- Indexing Service
- IE Troubleshooters
- Links
- Local Pack AU
- Local Pack CA
- Local Pack GB
- Local Pack ZA
- Local Pack US
- Mobile PC Client Sensors
- Optical Media Disc
- PeerDist Client
- Printing XPS Services
- RasCMAK
- RecDisc SDP
- Sample Content Ringtones
- Secure Startup
- Share Media Control Panel
- Shell Home Group
- Sidebar Killbits SDP
- StickyNotes
- Terminal Services Command Line Tools
- Terminal Services Misc Redirection
- Terminal Services Publishing WMI Provider
- Terminal Services Remote Applications Client
- Terminal Services USB Redirector
- Terminal Services WMI Provider
- Windows Media Player Troubleshooters
- WMP Network Sharing Service
- Networking MPSSVC Rules Ultimate Edition

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DELETE DIRECTLY FROM MOUNTED IMAGE:

About 550Mb was removed from:
Windows\System32\DriverStore\FileRepository\
These items were: Printer Drivers, Camera Drivers.

About 3700Mb was removed from:
Windows\winsxs\

Other miscellaneous items were removed like the contents of the
Recovery folder and certain folders from the Web folder.

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PART 3/3: vLite method based removal 



Accessories:
- Games
- Speech Support

Drivers:
- Diva Server
- Printers
- Scanners

Multimedia:
- Media Center
- Music and Video samples
- Sample Pictures
- Screensavers
- Wallpapers

Services:
- Error Reporting
- Windows Search

System:
- BitLocker Drive Encryption
- Help
- Manual Install (Setup.exe)
- Natural Language
- Security Center
- System Restore
- Tablet PC
- Windows Defender- Windows Easy Transfer

 
I cannot verify the source since I did some edits in this....

What dareckibmw means is that we are here to help you, not do it for you. Try it yourself, then tell us exactly what you did, what happened vs what you expected to happen, and we'll go from there.

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