what to remove?

[dangerpaki]

hi guys,

i am planning to get a new computer which will probably arrive in the following week. and i will be installing vista on it. vista 32 bit that is. because i will be using 2 GB of ram so i don't need 64 bit and it causes too much trouble with drivers so i am leaving out on that for now.

but my question is what should i remove and what should i leave on my iso for vista.

i will be using the vista for the following things:

• Gaming (UT3, PES 2008, Crysis etc etc)
  
• Office 2007
  
• MSN
  
• internet using firefox for that
  
• connecting my mobile phone with windows mobile on it
  
• utorrent
  
• SPSS (statistics)
  
• playing MP3 and movies
  

nothing special to be honest

the hardware will be the following:

• MSI P35 Neo-F, S775, P35, 4xDDR2
  
• NEC AD-7191S 20x12x RAM,
  
• Kingston DChannel 2GB Kit, 2x1GB DDR2 PC2-5300
  
• Intel Core 2 Duo E4500 2.20GHz, 800MHz, S775
  
• Club 3D Radeon 3850 256MB, 2xDVI, HDTVo, PCIe
  

so my question is could someone please tell me what things i definitely should not remove or what services i definitely should not disable.

thanks in advance.

by the way i have worked with vlite before so i know how it works. it's just that i'm lacking the knowledge of what i can or cannot remove. i know i can probably start doing this and finding it out by trial and error but i'm sure someone else here has tried this before and it would be a waste of time to go through the same process again to find exactly the same results.

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EDIT:

Ok i've made an iso with the following components removed until now. this is how it looks. and i have kept the things i needed.

; vLite preset file

[information]

Version = 1.1 RC on 2.0.50727.312 Microsoft Windows NT 6.0.6000.0

Target = Windows Vista ULTIMATE 32-bit - 6.0.6000.16386 - English (United States)

[Compatibility]

Halo 2

Paint.NET

Aero Glass

File and printer sharing (Server)

Scanners and Cameras

[Components]

;# Accessories #

Accessibility

Paint

Snipping Tool

Speech Support

System Information

Welcome Center

Wordpad

;# Drivers #

Display adapters

Diva Server

Ethernet network adapters

Modems

Printers-Apollo

Printers-Brother

Printers-Canon

Printers-Citizen

Printers-Dell

Printers-Diconix

Printers-Epson

Printers-Fuji Xerox

Printers-Fujitsu

Printers-Generic printer

Printers-Gestetner

Printers-HP

Printers-IBM

Printers-Infotec

Printers-Konica

Printers-Konica Minolta

Printers-Kyocera Mita

Printers-Lanier

Printers-Lexmark

Printers-Minolta

Printers-Minolta-QMS

Printers-NEC

Printers-NRG

Printers-Oce

Printers-Oki

Printers-Okidata

Printers-Olivetti

Printers-Panasonic

Printers-QMS

Printers-Ricoh

Printers-Samsung

Printers-Savin

Printers-Seikosha

Printers-Sharp

Printers-Sony

Printers-Star

Printers-Tally

Printers-Tektronix

Printers-Wipro ePeripherals

Printers-Xerox

QLogic Fibre Channel Adapter

Scanners

Sound controllers

;# Games #

Inbox Games

Premium Inbox Games

;# Hardware Support #

Fax Support

Internet Small Computer System Interface (iSCSI)

Smartcards

;# Languages #

Japanese

Korean

Simplified Chinese

Traditional Chinese

;# Multimedia #

Media Center

Movie and DVD Maker

Music and Video samples

Sample Pictures

Screensavers

SideShow

Wallpapers

Windows Calendar

Windows Photo Viewer

;# Network #

Connect to a Network Projector

Internet Explorer

Internet Information Services (IIS)

MSN Installer

Remote Desktop and Assistance

Remote Desktop Client

Windows Collaboration

;# Services #

Computer Browser

Diagnostics

Distributed Link Tracking Client

DNS Client

Error Reporting

Microsoft DFS Replication

Offline Files

ReadyBoost

Remote Registry

Volume Shadow Copy

WebDAV (WebClient)

Windows Remote Management

Windows Search

Windows Time

;# System #

BitLocker Drive Encryption

Disk Quota

Help

IMAPIv2 Burning Support

Microsoft Agent

Natural Language

Performance Counters

Reliability and Performance Monitor

System Restore

Tablet PC

Windows Backup

Windows SAT (Performance Index)

Zip Folder

[Options]

DEP (Data Execution Prevention) = Default

User Account Control (UAC) = Disabled

AntiSpyware Realtime Protection = Default

AutoPlay = Enabled

Paging Executive = Enabled

Power scheme = Balanced

Hibernation = Off

Memory requirement = Default

Control Panel - Classic View = Disabled

Show hidden files and folders = No

Show protected operating system files = No

Show extensions for known file types = Yes

IE Phishing Filter = Default

IE Phishing Verification Ballon Tips = Default

[Protection]

[Drivers]

[unattended]

[Hotfixes]

[LanguagePacks]

Edited January 4, 2008 by dangerpaki

[nuhi]

Looks ok.

Just not sure about the SRSS since I never used it, only possibility would be Performance Counters if it actually takes some statistics from the running machine. If it's you who is entering data then it's not related.