Best ways to save space?

[Decker87]

Hi. I'm wondering what everyone here thinks are the easiest ways to save space. I just finished integrating Bashrat's driver packs and all the current hotfixes, and my CD is 777 MB! Not good. I already removed games and screensavers and things, but I'm wondering what you all feel are the easiest ways to save space. My goal is to have a CD that can automatically install the basics on any computer.

[gosh]

there's plenty of tools on this site such as nlite and vlite and all those. Seek and ye shall find

-gosh

[slipk487]

what all have u removed.

[rajesh.kumar]

Using nLite, all drivers except scanners and cameras can be removed to bring it <700mb. . But older printer driver installation gives problems and modems drivers must be present if the drivers wanted to install automatically.

So if u want xp not to give problems anytime, the following are the most number of components that can be removed :

Accessibility Options

Briefcase

ClipBook Viewer

Internet Games

Screensavers

All Languages

Images and Backgrounds

Intel Indeo codecs

Media Center

Mouse Cursors

Movie Maker

Music Samples

Old CDPlayer and Sound Recorder

Speech Support

Tablet PC

Windows Sounds

Client for Netware Networks

Communication tools

FrontPage Extensions

MSN Explorer

Netmeeting

Synchronization Manager

Windows Messenger

.NET Framework

Desktop Cleanup Wizard

Disk Cleanup

File and Settings Wizard

MS XML 2.0

Search Assistant

Tour

User account pictures

Messenger

For sounds, wallpapers, themes, cursors, screensaves, i include my own collections.

Anyway my xp consumes around 1gb so i use dvd which includes WPI and totally fills the dvd.

Edited August 31, 2007 by rajesh.kumar