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.

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.

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!

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.