vinifera

would be cheaper to invest in making linux emulator for winblows apps

boot anim is locked since win7 sp1 forget about changing it, you need valid certificate which cost $$$ or if you use test one, you'll end up with that stupid test mode watermark if not BSOD

Premium yes, basic not basic is limited and its even worse since DWM is non existant if i remember (or was that starter ?) and when you run win7 in "XP theme engine", its so choppy and broken that its nightmare shit this NT 6 line has so many versions I can't keep track

pretty much all slimmers do the same I'm aware of only 2, RT7 lite and NTlite (vlite breaks win7 SP1, so its out of question) its just up to user to know what should remove and what not, tho you can "lock" certain components NOT to be offered for removal those that usually break things if removed everything else you have to do manually (7zip is your friend)

if he is doing just office things then he can dual core cpu with 2 gigs of ram without page file runs win7 just fine tho i wouldn't go for ultimate as it is filled with maximum junk you're better off with home premium or whatever is below Professional version Ideally Embedded is best but no user has it

we are talking about OS, not apps XP flies with 2 gigs of RAM 7 flies with even 3 both no page file, in fact the most hungry thing are browsers and media editor programs but we are talking about OS

I have it on older system and had it on even worse system and soon will put it on even worse than worse system take note that WEI score means nothing, its bul***** which you can cheat, yet it doesn't mean to system anything slimmed down OS, can help as it will naturally search through less files to use (on magnetic HDD's), for SSD's this is no longer an issue also if you want it faster don't use page file and indexer and superfetch, these 3 will constantly slowdown daily usage you can also look at black viper's guide to disable services for optimal use

Actually WFP is also backbone for firewall, so that is a plus. System files are protected by Trusted Installer but even that one fails if PC is infected with any crypt trojan. I use RT7lite + manual deletion outside the WIM and then returning things back into it unfortunately unlike vlite, RT7 doesn't show what was removed but list should be something like this: system wide ~80% redundant data, (duplicate files, other language and SKU files except EN and HR and Professional) .net Framework 3.5 (and 3) and its backup Win Media Player and codecs Media Center components, Tablet components All language packs except EN and HR System Restore, Volume Shadow Copy, Indexing, Backup file(s) recovery invisible Recovery Partition (its that crappy .wim with ~250 MB) Windows Photo viewer CD/DVD recording WinSAT movie clips all themes except Aero/Basic and Classic (and its additional files) Prefetch Indexing Defragmenter Defender Natural Language search (this s*** alone saves you ~500 MB) --- Disabled Page File and Hybernation File SxS folder has been "filtered" (down to 1.8 GB) - there could be more i can't remember anymore overall not much is removed, just junk bit funny how actual OS should have been "big", but they went lazy way, just dump all language files all SKU (version) files, and when user needs some sort of recovery, just copy it back from shitty duplicates... but why bother if you still have to install OS from DVD, why not then leave all that crap on DVD ?

he'd have to do it manualy as registry holds "bonds" and that is nightmare

- the only errors can be maybe found in event viewer of volume shadow copy errors - it sucks at it while UAC may help but at the end of the day, its user who says "yes run it" and any modern malware is capable logging in as SYSTEM, and here is where WFP fails well until microshit develops normal sandboxing NT will never be safe

wow how time flies by .... so I guess with this extended support it means they will put any junk in so called updates that they want what a shame, win7 definitely deserved SP2 if not 3

so don't rely on SFC scan I downsized win7 to roughly 2 GB (installed) but will create my own "repair" method, while WFP still works, and should be left to exist as it is tied to more things than just recovery (which is useless)

results pls

true, but some components are really unnecessary i compared for example SP1 SxS with my fully updated and cleaned, the SP1+2015 is over 9 GB !!!! f*** me that is huge, my cleaned is 1.8 GB and what components I ditched, the ones that nobody needs 1. language packs... OS uses english, and your keyboard uses your locale, everything else is not needed 2. filter out any other SKU that isn't yours, for example I use Pro, so any other... bye bye 3. WMP, WMC, who the hell use this ? - its obsolete, crappy and DRM-ed... bye bye 4. "Natural Language" for search, I never used it nor even know what the hell is it, all I know its half Gig of junk 5. dotNET 3 and 3.5, totally unneeded, v2 needs to stay 6. defragmenter, defender, system restore (which includes VSS and Backup/Recovery) - useless, if your system gets infected nice day restoring it with virus back init 7. Photoviewer - another total crap in MS line of products there, all this listed removed, and everything else intact gets your SxS from 9 GB to 1.85 GB (if you keep backup folder) hell I even left some .net 3 components, and IE win update works without problem manual update works without problem and someone who has good programming skills, that can make app to filter out things like locale, builds, sku's that would be it... when I did full manual removal of things (not just SxS), I couldn't believe how many JUNK does Win7 has its monstrosity..., there is no self-cleaning service at all which OS badly needs

you dumb or blind or both ?

actually, being evil, theoretical size can be ~350 MB but I haven't seen smaller than 500 MB if I remember correctly, this I'll inspect today my bad, now I see SxS reduction to 114 MB - LOL

windows\system32\oobe\FirstUXRes.wim FirstUXBackground.bmp is background ... (black in this case) letters are part of PE procedure which you can't change (no certificate = file corruption) and that flashing crap down is part of those smaller images within same .wim which are located on specific coordinates which again you can't move coz (no certificate = file corruption) but you can remove them and have just custom background

well I hit bit crappy setback... i took basebuilds back to sxs so now with base build files (of en_us, my language, and _none) without backup folder, its all 1.85 GB on x86 OS (was 750 MB but I think it was totaly broken hehehehe) this is my final clean probably, so can't wait to see your results

yup

use Enabler to bypass it

:D

true but considering the 3 year gap one would expect more from "free" version

PS is just addition, its not XP internal component... try looking for ngen service(exe) that shit is usually tied to .net 2 as it is its "optimizer" that runs when .net app is invoked

getting same crap when trying installing POSIE 11

in these times i stopped with "WTF" face... like guy in the Cube says at the end when he's asked "what is out there ?" he simply says "endless human stupidity"