April 2, 200818 yr Honestly, guys... Am I just removing paint, wordpad, and extra languages to make the XP footprint smaller and have a nice install disc, or am I actually making XP run faster?Seriously now -- no BS please!
April 2, 200818 yr it won't make XP faster, the only way to make it faster is to remove some service you don't need (network, printer, ....)
April 2, 200818 yr @ronmanp - you can also just disable the services Anyways heres two similar threads (to what the OP is asking): Increase performance with nliteTechnical reasons for nLite improving performance?
April 2, 200818 yr After using nLite for a long time, I can definitely confirm there is big difference whether a component (service, driver...) is not present or just disabled. On boot (but also on MANY other occasions) windows enumerates and lists what it has, so obviously the less components - the better. Also, often during these enumerations, windows actually loads these files (usually dlls) that in turn load other files and do other things. It's the way windows works.That's my experience (not scientifically measured, but consistent every time; seen with process monitor which I use a lot).GL*Edit* Also, don't forget the reduced size of the registry and lesser number of files in the %systemroot% (C:\Windows) directory. However mighty computers are, these operations (searching for a registry key or for a file) are performed many times per second. Edited April 2, 200818 yr by GrofLuigi
April 3, 200818 yr the desktop speed alone is worth itthe benchmarking speeds probably aren't changed that much, but it's noticably faster imo
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