vinifera

if you aim for such weak system, you're better off with Opera 10 but before 10.5 (then it became heavy) as Unity and more crap was added as for Firefox, why not use 3.6 ? version 4 and onwards are basically version 4.x (and bloat)

I'd rather see new win2000 with incorporated whole driver wide range and hotfixes and app compatibility layers than this dog shit presented after win7

to me they lost 18 years of NT "experience" with this new 8/10 crap Metro is nothing than recycled Windows Neptune, which was in about 97-98 era they are just using a bit different approach to run these so called apps, but they are not apps as for security, NTOS will NEVER be secure until every system file requires specific cert (ok 64bit ones have this) and until they manage to make every process to run sandboxed, and no UAC isn't that, as is no good since naturally user especially novice will always click YES just to run an app, kinda beats the purpose... not only that, all this cloud crap and backdooring data-mining just opened more doors for malware and that registry + yet unsolved "dll hell" doesn't help maybe I'm missing something (UI won't comment as its shit)

also try with .net reinstall 3.0, 3.5, and above after cleaning not sure but I think they dump some crap into SxS too

theres difference between recommended RAM (which is now called minimum), and a must have when I switched from winME to 2000pro with 128meg RAM it still was flying but XP was already taking its snail trail sure you can run Vista with 128meg too but - anyhows, if they didn't screwed up GDI in win7 which for whatever reason is WORSE than in XP w7 would be "ideal" OS (as Windows can be)

more tests required can you install new updates offline can you install IE 9 , 10, 11 can you uninstall updates installed

you nailed it in start its not faster nor easier to use this should be the law of OS

youre after w32uires.dll for both text and colors problem is, you can change these things only with win7 before SP1 as SP1 includes certificate/signature check, and you can't fake that so if you change something it will break, unfortunately I had to find this out on hard way.... there are also backup files within wim of the same (w32uires and spwizimg, and others...) so if you edit originals you need to replace backup ones too

not really winblinds supports PNG and animated PNG's, which XP's uxtheme does not also winblinds support few effects that XP alone does not and also (lol) wblinds 5 and 6 utilised GPU while XP alone (doh) does not

err doing tests in VM are... like what the hell... do it on real machine

ouch for you then I can tell you as ex-heavy modder via skinstudio that XP with winblinds could have any UI you wanted even animated, later even glass with blur, at that point XP only got bunch of light replacements of what vista had, from file managers to sidebars

i still don't get it since i never did this ...

now this is some nice info ! btw, for last thing regarding %systemdrive% you say its always X:, but I am searching for "installed OS" you say search for "special tag file" how, and what is that ?

if you gonna sell it then you better make it clean without any screwup - and this is big responsibility, as you can't sell something and put label "I am not responsible for damages caused by ....."

I wouldn't use "8" either it should be official that MS just blew it Vista as much as major thing was, UI-wise was terrible, and for some reason MS only partially enhanced it in "7" (file manager and taskbar are better) but everything else is still too **** complicated to find so instead fixing this in "8" and "10", no... lets screw it even more well I always repeat myself but until they freaking start to THINK how to make decent OS, I'm staying on "7" if XP wasn't that obsolete, I'd stay on it

well if you gonna charge it then situation stays the same

good luck tracking all the registry entries

so let me explain yes I slimmed down my win7 as much as I could at the expence of any recovery SO my question would be this how to do this: DVD boots into a DOS/BAT type program where I have 2 selections to choose 1. Install Windows 2. Recovery if 1. is selected, the win setup starts if 2. is selected, it would invoke 7zip cmd line arguments to extract specific folders from install.wim and here lies the problem - how can CMD environment variables detect what letter is CD/DVD drive and parse it to 7zip cmd line - how can CMD environment variables detect %SYSTEMDRIVE% and parse it as temp variable to 7zip to extract files to ---- i have never done this nor I know how yet instead using some custom PE, I think this is fastest and easiest, but again I don't have knowledge of that any help ?

modified with latest updates sfc won't work as I removed every instance of backup and recovery seems to me whatever was in that .cab can't update some crap yet if IE is standalone since vista, it should install with no problem

pretty much any duplicate file finder big bonus gets those who can mark folders and not just files for deletion you can go heavy way by any fast search program, but then you need to watch out by DATE and BUILD number also the whole Backup folder is to be removed but as you noticed you don't spare too much space from SxS folder alone, 100 MB somewhat while Backup folder might vary from 500 MB to more in fact the only real clean SxS I ever saw done correctly was eXperience guy who made "Tiny7" but hell one has to know what exactly to remove as most files are linked to .cat (catalog) files and manifests all in all its bul*****

Yes, but the new driver model and the NT major version change have been in Windows 10 since RTM. What I got out of this is that the "biggest kernel change since Vista" happened between 10240 and 10586, and if that is the case, I am really curious into seeing what it is. (they probably integrated telemetry into the OS at a kernel level) hmm probably that then

win7 boots within 40 secs so 30% reduction is what ? 12 seconds ??? gee my world is gonna spin now with that blazing fast boot time reduction

i guess it belongs to those bugs, if nobody notices it then its not worth fixing

he wrote biggest kernel change SINCE VISTA 6.0 to 10.0 to us ordinary users thats nothing to devs, its new driver type (since number changed as it didn't follow up 6.x numbering), and probably some API hooks beneath

seems like Linux is indeed the future