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Tried another rebuild and reinstalled. The ISO size was 1.6GB. After Vista was installed and updated, my Windows folder is 9.68GB (Vista Ultimate 64bit SP1). Is this a normal size (I forgot what the standard Vista Ultimate 64bit install size was)? The settings I removed were in the first post. Another odd thing, is that I took out all the languages but they keyboard templates are still here (when I preview the other language keyboard settings).

I turned all that off right when I got into Vista (System Restore, Previous Versions, Hibernate, Page file - anything that really eats a chunk of space). And this is within the Windows directory itself (went up by 5GB).

So I just made a "lite" version of Vista. Mainly took away useless stuff like extra languages, Printer drivers and the speech to text. Upon my first boot up, I have 5.5GB used (after shutting off Hibernate, Page file and System Restore). After installing 180MB of updates and rebooting, the Windows folder is now 10.5GB (Software distribution folder is only 95MB so it isn't a bunch of updates sitting there). Anyone knows what this could be? Why would it first boot up as 5.5GB used then go up to 10.5GB? (I checked to make sure the settings I took away aren't still here. All the languages on the list are there, but the only keyboard settings that aren't in English are the ones I kept through VLite). Here is my config: ; vLite preset file ; ;#Environment: ; vLite v1.2 beta ; Framework 2.0.50727.312 ; Microsoft Windows NT 6.0.6000.0 64-bit ; ;#Target: ; Windows Vista ULTIMATE 64-bit Service Pack 1 ; Version 6.0.6001.18000 English (United States) ; [Compatibility] DriveimageXML Aero Glass File and printer sharing (Server) Internet Explorer Recommended Scanners and Cameras System Restore [CustomHide] [Components] ;# Accessories # Speech Support ;# Drivers # Printers-Apollo Printers-Brother Printers-Canon Printers-Citizen Printers-Dell Printers-Diconix Printers-Fuji Xerox Printers-Fujitsu Printers-Generic printer Printers-Gestetner Printers-IBM Printers-Infotec Printers-Konica Printers-Konica Minolta Printers-Kyocera Mita Printers-Lanier Printers-Minolta Printers-Minolta-QMS Printers-NEC Printers-NRG Printers-Oce Printers-Oki Printers-Okidata Printers-Olivetti Printers-Panasonic Printers-QMS Printers-Ricoh Printers-Samsung Printers-Savin Printers-Seikosha Printers-Sharp Printers-Sony Printers-Star Printers-Tally Printers-Tektronix Printers-Wipro ePeripherals Printers-Xerox ;# Languages # Arabic Brazillian Bulgarian Croatian Czech Danish Dutch Estonian Finnish French German Greek Hungarian Italian Japanese Korean Latvian Lithuanian Norwegian Polish Portuguese Romanian Russian Serbian Simplified Chinese Slovak Slovenian Spanish Swedish Thai Traditional Chinese Turkish Ukrainian ;# Multimedia # Media Center Music and Video samples ;# System # Natural Language Tablet PC [Options] DEP (Data Execution Prevention) = Default User Account Control (UAC) = Disabled AntiSpyware Realtime Protection = Default AutoPlay = Enabled Paging Executive = Enabled Power scheme = Balanced Power button = Default Sleep button = Default Hibernation = Default Control Panel - Classic View = Default Show hidden files and folders = No Show protected operating system files = No Show extensions for known file types = No IE Phishing Filter = Default IE Phishing Verification Ballon Tips = Default [services] [Protection] [Drivers] [unattended] DontSelectImage [Hotfixes] [LanguagePacks]