ibay770

"ask Virgus to explain it to u in more detail - not that easy, believe it or not." Fair. Maybe we should make another thread for that. "have u installed win10 or win11 on a vhd yet?" Yes I have win10 installed.

"ready for a plethora of instructions on the matter." sounds good. Perhaps it can be scripted too. I know the internet archive has a decent portion of reboot.pro archived, so perhaps it could be possible to scrape the site/resources and make a searchable database som

"ready for a plethora of instructions on the matter." sounds good. Perhaps it can be scripted too. I know the internet archive has a decent portion of reboot.pro archived, so perhaps it could be possible to scrape the site/resources and make a searchable database somewhere.

Thank you very much for this. Curious what got reboot.pro shutdown, lack of funds for hosting? Would it help to revive it, or should we perhaps use this as the replacement? "great space gains can be obtained in shrinking the following folders: winsxs, driverstore, and some other ones as well." Curious how to shrink those, can it be done with a batch file? I'm all for a tinyOS, I think a guy on the archive got a winPE of win7 to 65mb, I know ntlite has ways of deleting winsxs but it costs money. A guy tried to slim to down windows and make a win10to7 project but he got crucified in the comments so he stopped it: https://forums.mydigitallife.net/threads/project-10to7-slimming-down-debloating-windows-10.76459/ I know strelec who made a winPE, has unique ways of making his images on the smaller side, for example net framework is only extracted and added to the ramdrive if a program calls for it. I made a spreadsheet with windows alternative software, if that helps with the slimmed image: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1MUWzC7Y5V4i9GYX2at9D8vxytAsQ9ThU9-ij7hLmfg2AQgozCk/edit?usp=sharing

Curious if it's possible to add a feature to switch bootloaders, such as Clover or opencore to the drive. Also an feature to patch acpi.sys for win7 systems booting on uefi.

Thanks for the indepth explanation. My idea was to make a usb that works both on old legacy boot system, the baytrail tablets with a funky bootia32 bios, and modern devices but I'll try the vhd method you suggested.

Is it possible to a make a mixed boot windows which can boot both from mbr and uefi?

care to share how to do that? I want to try it in a vm.

If you're like me and use winxshell, if you don't need uwp and word, you can delete dwminit.dll, dwm.exe, explorer.exe and sihost.exe just make a text file and call it dwm.exe instead. Enjoy your fast windows.

https://legacyupdate.net/

This was a program back in the vista days that let you search the net with commands from the start menu/run box and command line, as well as showing results in the start menu, which Microsoft finally did in win11, but we all know how bloated it is. Curious if it's possible to get it working in Open Shell instead. Installer is enclosed. Thanks in advance More info here: https://www.instantfundas.com/2009/12/start-makes-windows-vista7-start-menu.html https://archive.org/download/start-0.8.1-setup/Start___0.8.1_Setup.msi

Curious how you got so low.

Do they charge for that version? Good to note! Another idea is to install whatever you want in a winpe and just boot that. Here is a guide for audio but the principles are the same. https://audiophilestyle.com/forums/topic/64929-windows-pe-as-audio-os/

Personally I use this: https://github.com/ionuttbara/windows-defender-remover This is just a start, at least for me. I delete autochk, werfault (to disable error reporting) and wrpinit (to get rid of windows resource protection)

Who says it's not practical? I have systems running win8 and they work great as a print/file server. You can make your changes and use a deep freeze software and you should be good to go.