Vista Ultimate 64bit SP1 "Lite" - Help please

[qwertyaas]

So I just made a "lite" version of Vista. Mainly took away useless stuff like extra languages, Printer drivers and the speech to text. Upon my first boot up, I have 5.5GB used (after shutting off Hibernate, Page file and System Restore). After installing 180MB of updates and rebooting, the Windows folder is now 10.5GB (Software distribution folder is only 95MB so it isn't a bunch of updates sitting there).

Anyone knows what this could be? Why would it first boot up as 5.5GB used then go up to 10.5GB?

(I checked to make sure the settings I took away aren't still here. All the languages on the list are there, but the only keyboard settings that aren't in English are the ones I kept through VLite).

Here is my config:

; vLite preset file

;

;#Environment:

; vLite v1.2 beta

; Framework 2.0.50727.312

; Microsoft Windows NT 6.0.6000.0 64-bit

;

;#Target:

; Windows Vista ULTIMATE 64-bit Service Pack 1

; Version 6.0.6001.18000 English (United States)

;

[Compatibility]

DriveimageXML

Aero Glass

File and printer sharing (Server)

Internet Explorer

Recommended

Scanners and Cameras

System Restore

[CustomHide]

[Components]

;# Accessories #

Speech Support

;# Drivers #

Printers-Apollo

Printers-Brother

Printers-Canon

Printers-Citizen

Printers-Dell

Printers-Diconix

Printers-Fuji Xerox

Printers-Fujitsu

Printers-Generic printer

Printers-Gestetner

Printers-IBM

Printers-Infotec

Printers-Konica

Printers-Konica Minolta

Printers-Kyocera Mita

Printers-Lanier

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

;# Languages #

Arabic

Brazillian

Bulgarian

Croatian

Czech

Danish

Dutch

Estonian

Finnish

French

German

Greek

Hungarian

Italian

Japanese

Korean

Latvian

Lithuanian

Norwegian

Polish

Portuguese

Romanian

Russian

Serbian

Simplified Chinese

Slovak

Slovenian

Spanish

Swedish

Thai

Traditional Chinese

Turkish

Ukrainian

;# Multimedia #

Media Center

Music and Video samples

;# System #

Natural Language

Tablet PC

[Options]

DEP (Data Execution Prevention) = Default

User Account Control (UAC) = Disabled

AntiSpyware Realtime Protection = Default

AutoPlay = Enabled

Paging Executive = Enabled

Power scheme = Balanced

Power button = Default

Sleep button = Default

Hibernation = Default

Control Panel - Classic View = Default

Show hidden files and folders = No

Show protected operating system files = No

Show extensions for known file types = No

IE Phishing Filter = Default

IE Phishing Verification Ballon Tips = Default

[services]

[Protection]

[Drivers]

[unattended]

DontSelectImage

[Hotfixes]

[LanguagePacks]

Edited July 14, 2008 by qwertyaas

[logic_earth]

That would be Shadow Copies (System Restore/Previous Versions)

[qwertyaas]

That would be Shadow Copies (System Restore/Previous Versions)

I turned all that off right when I got into Vista (System Restore, Previous Versions, Hibernate, Page file - anything that really eats a chunk of space). And this is within the Windows directory itself (went up by 5GB).

[qwertyaas]

Tried another rebuild and reinstalled. The ISO size was 1.6GB. After Vista was installed and updated, my Windows folder is 9.68GB (Vista Ultimate 64bit SP1). Is this a normal size (I forgot what the standard Vista Ultimate 64bit install size was)?

The settings I removed were in the first post. Another odd thing, is that I took out all the languages but they keyboard templates are still here (when I preview the other language keyboard settings).