Build a lighter Vista with vLite: step-by-step
Although we’ve been asking for a leaner, meaner Windows operating system for our lightweight mobile devices, the best we’ve seen so far is a stay of execution for Windows XP and the potential for Windows Mobile 7 to be more "laptop friendly". That creates a market for products like nLite and vLite, both of which are actually free. These two apps let you customize the programs and services you want in Windows XP and Vista respectively and I got my first look at nLite when considering my XP install on the Eee PC that was limited to 4 GB of storage.
vLite is the Vista customizer and if you ever wanted to get a feel for how it works, Simple Help offers a nice step-by-step guide on the process. Note that the guide doesn’t tell you what to include or remove from your install: that’s a personal choice up to you. This is one of the better guides I’ve seen out there, so if you’ve wanted to take your legally owned Vista DVD and lighten it up a bit, this guide should get you started. While I have upgraded my Samsung Q1UP from XP to Vista, I should note that I didn’t use vLite; the device is capable of running everything in Vista and has plenty of storage so I opted for a standard installation.
(via Lifehacker)
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The cool thing about when I ran vlite to me was seeing just how much stuff is in that OS. I made a Ultimate vlite build and got rid of all the language packs I didn’t need and a lot of the tablet stuff and few other things. I was surprised to see how much I actually did want.Vista is an excellent OS and the more I use it the more I am impressed with it.
Do you think I need to re-install my HP2133 with vLite and make my Vista running smooth? Mine is 1.6Gz 160GBHH Vista business!
I’ve used vlite to slim down a Vista Home Premium installation on my Toshiba Portege M200, with 2Gb of RAM, an upgraded CPU to 2GHz and 120gb hard drive. Vista runs well and I can even get World of Warcraft to work, the one thing I wish I could change is the graphics but its getting to the point where that old joke about the broom thats 20 years old rings true (you know the one its had 5 handles and 3 heads but its still the same broom). Well vlite helped make things even better by stripping out all that I thought I didn’t need, I have fewer processes running and the system seems snappier, all in all I couldn’t be happier. The only caveat I would offer to people is to slipstream SP1 with your installation as you may find, like I, did that you can not install it afterwards.
I’ve been running the same vLite’d Home Premium base install on three tablets, two since Vista retailed. The DVD was only 1.5GB for a base install Vista OS under 5GB, with full functionality and seamless updating for over year (SP1 first roadblock). I’ll never run any Vista that hasn’t been stripped of all bloat possible without losing features via vLite.
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i want know the disadvantages of VLite.please