myne

I realise I'm very late and you've already solved it, but someone on vogons found this nugget of info: https://www.geoffchappell.com/studies/windows/km/cpu/cx8.htm Specifically : "In the early days of Windows NT, however, not all the extant processors implemented the cmpxchg8b instruction. In versions before 5.1, every function that uses the instruction has an alternate coding for processors that do not support the instruction. Very early during its initialisation, the kernel checks whether the boot processor supports the cmpxchg8b instruction. If the support is missing, the kernel patches jmp instructions at the start of each of those functions to redirect execution to their alternates. Conversely, if the boot processor does support the instruction, and the functions are left unpatched, then the kernel requires that all processors support the instruction, under pain of the bug check"

The developer of this/anyone else might want to check out Windows Embedded Standard 2011 if you want more tricks on slimming it down. It is (at this stage) essentially Windows 7. It will quite likely remain the basis of MANY hidden computers for a long long time. http://www.microsoft.com/windowsembedded/e...10_Standard2011 From a quick play, it looks rather good.

Hey, I have an EEEPC 701. Currently I'm trying to minimise 7 onto it. It's about 2.7gb at the moment but I'd rather it be less than 1gb if possible. I've skimmed through this thread, and played a little with the WAIK but that's the best so far. 7's file structure is giving me a bit of a headache with the hard linking of files and the file permissions/ownership - which admittedly is a GREAT idea for file security and should have been done donkeys ago (NT4). I made a PE iso, and that works, but I guess what I'd really like is 7lite (everyone here does) or 7 embedded. Anyhows, what I know: Randomly deleting files can break things. Deleting files doesnt always delete them, it just deletes a hard link to another file. 7 is bloated. I'd like to delete packages from the original ISO. Can WAIK do this? I'm especially interested in deleting all the unneeded drivers - previously I'd just delete driver.cab but... well, you know :/ What's the smallest 32bit iso/install size anyone has made so far? Tips/links appreciated.