Help a Newbie

[Franciscoec]

I'm using nLite for the first time, and am trying to create a dedicated OS (XP) for gaming. Basically because my computer is not the best, but I want to squeeze all I can out of it. I only need it to do two things; play games (obviously) and be able to connect to the internet for multiplayer games. This is my first attempt at the components part, can anyone see something blatantly wrong with it?

[Components]
;# Applications #
Accessibility Options
Briefcase
Calculator
Charmap
ClipBook Viewer
Defragmenter
Games
Internet Games
Paint
Pinball
Screensavers
WordPad
;# Drivers #
Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM)
Cameras and Camcorders
Display Adapters
Display Adapters (old)
Ethernet (LAN)
IBM PS/2 TrackPoint
IBM ThinkPad
ISDN
Modems
Multifunctional
Portable Audio
Printers
Scanners
SCSI/RAID
Serial Pen Tablet
Sony Jog Dial
Sound Controllers
Tape drives
Toshiba DVD decoder card
Wireless Ethernet (WLAN)
;# Hardware Support #
AGP filters
ALI 1535 SMBus Host Controller
ALI IDE Controller
ATM Support
Battery
Bluetooth Support
Brother Devices
CMD PCI IDE Controller
CPU AMD
CPU Transmeta Crusoe
Firewire (1394) Support
Firewire Network support
Floppy Support
Gravis Digital GamePort
IEEE 1284.4 devices (Dot4)
Infrared
Intel PCI IDE Controller
Iomega Zip drive
Joystick Support
Logical Disk Manager
Microsoft Color Management (ICM)
Modem Support
Multi-port serial adapters
PCMCIA
Ports (COM and LPT)
Printer Support
Ramdisk
Secure Digital host controller
Smart Cards
Sony Memory Stick
Teletext codec
Toshiba PCI IDE Controller
USB Video Capture devices
VIA PCI IDE Controller
Video Capture
Windows CE USB Host
Windows Image Acquisition (WIA)
;# Keyboards #
Albanian keyboard
Arabic (101) keyboard
Arabic (102) AZERTY keyboard
Arabic (102) keyboard
Armenian Eastern keyboard
Armenian Western keyboard
Azeri Cyrillic keyboard
Azeri Latin keyboard
Belarusian keyboard
Belgian (Comma) keyboard
Belgian (Period) keyboard
Belgian French keyboard
Bengali (Inscript) keyboard
Bengali keyboard
Bosnian keyboard
Bulgarian (Latin) keyboard
Bulgarian keyboard
Canadian French (Legacy) keyboard
Canadian French keyboard
Canadian Multilingual Standard keyboard
Chinese (Simplified) - Microsoft Pinyin IME 3.0 keyboard
Chinese (Simplified) - NeiMa keyboard
Chinese (Simplified) - QuanPin keyboard
Chinese (Simplified) - ShuangPin keyboard
Chinese (Simplified) - US Keyboard keyboard
Chinese (Simplified) - ZhengMa keyboard
Chinese (Traditional) - Alphanumeric keyboard
Chinese (Traditional) - Array keyboard
Chinese (Traditional) - Big5 Code keyboard
Chinese (Traditional) - ChangJie keyboard
Chinese (Traditional) - DaYi keyboard
Chinese (Traditional) - New ChangJie keyboard
Chinese (Traditional) - New Phonetic keyboard
Chinese (Traditional) - Phonetic keyboard
Chinese (Traditional) - Quick keyboard
Chinese (Traditional) - Unicode keyboard
Chinese (Traditional) - US Keyboard keyboard
Croatian keyboard
Czech (QWERTY) keyboard
Czech keyboard
Czech Programmers keyboard
Danish keyboard
Devanagari - INSCRIPT keyboard
Divehi Phonetic keyboard
Divehi Typewriter keyboard
Dutch keyboard
Estonian keyboard
Faeroese keyboard
Farsi keyboard
Finnish keyboard
Finnish with Sami keyboard
French keyboard
FYRO Macedonian keyboard
Gaelic keyboard
Georgian keyboard
German (IBM) keyboard
German keyboard
Greek (220) keyboard
Greek (220) Latin keyboard
Greek (319) keyboard
Greek (319) Latin keyboard
Greek keyboard
Greek Latin keyboard
Greek Polytonic keyboard
Gujarati keyboard
Hebrew keyboard
Hindi Traditional keyboard
Hungarian 101-key keyboard
Hungarian keyboard
Icelandic keyboard
Irish keyboard
Italian (142) keyboard
Italian keyboard
Japanese Input System (MS-IME2002) keyboard
Japanese keyboard
Kannada keyboard
Kazakh keyboard
Korean Input System (IME 2000) keyboard
Korean keyboard
Kyrgyz Cyrillic keyboard
Latin American keyboard
Latvian (QWERTY) keyboard
Latvian keyboard
Lithuanian IBM keyboard
Lithuanian keyboard
Malayalam keyboard
Maltese 47-key keyboard
Maltese 48-key keyboard
Maori keyboard
Marathi keyboard
Mongolian Cyrillic keyboard
Norwegian keyboard
Norwegian with Sami keyboard
Polish (214) keyboard
Polish (Programmers) keyboard
Portuguese (Brazilian ABNT) keyboard
Portuguese (Brazilian ABNT2) keyboard
Portuguese keyboard
Punjabi keyboard
Romanian keyboard
Russian (Typewriter) keyboard
Russian keyboard
Sami Extended Finland-Sweden keyboard
Sami Extended Norway keyboard
Serbian (Cyrillic) keyboard
Serbian (Latin) keyboard
Slovak (QWERTY) keyboard
Slovak keyboard
Slovenian keyboard
Spanish keyboard
Spanish Variation keyboard
Swedish keyboard
Swedish with Sami keyboard
Swiss French keyboard
Swiss German keyboard
Syriac keyboard
Syriac Phonetic keyboard
Tamil keyboard
Tatar keyboard
Telugu keyboard
Thai Kedmanee (non-ShiftLock) keyboard
Thai Kedmanee keyboard
Thai Pattachote (non-ShiftLock) keyboard
Thai Pattachote keyboard
Turkish F keyboard
Turkish Q keyboard
Ukrainian keyboard
United Kingdom Extended keyboard
United Kingdom keyboard
United States-Dvorak for left hand keyboard
United States-Dvorak for right hand keyboard
United States-Dvorak keyboard
United States-International keyboard
Urdu keyboard
US English Table for IBM Arabic 238_L keyboard
Uzbek Cyrillic keyboard
Vietnamese keyboard
;# Languages #
;Arabic
Arabic (Algeria)
Arabic (Bahrain)
Arabic (Egypt)
Arabic (Iraq)
Arabic (Jordan)
Arabic (Kuwait)
Arabic (Lebanon)
Arabic (Libya)
Arabic (Morocco)
Arabic (Oman)
Arabic (Qatar)
Arabic (Saudi Arabia)
Arabic (Syria)
Arabic (Tunisia)
Arabic (U.A.E.)
Arabic (Yemen)
Divehi (Maldives)
Syriac (Syria)
Urdu
;Armenian
Armenian
;Baltic
Estonian
Latvian
Lithuanian
;Central Europe
Albanian
Bosnian (Latin, Bosnia and Herzegovina)
Croatian
Croatian (Bosnia and Herzegovina)
Czech
Hungarian
Polish
Romanian
Serbian (Latin)
Serbian (Latin, Bosnia and Herzegovina)
Slovak
Slovenian
;Cyrillic
Azeri (Cyrillic)
Belarusian
Bulgarian
FYRO Macedonian
Kazakh
Kyrgyz (Kyrgyzstan)
Mongolian (Mongolia)
Russian
Serbian (Cyrillic)
Serbian (Cyrillic, Bosnia and Herzegovina)
Tatar
Ukrainian
Uzbek (Cyrillic)
;Georgian
Georgian
;Greek
Greek
;Hebrew
Hebrew
;Indic
Bengali (India)
Gujarati (India)
Hindi
Kannada (India)
Konkani
Malayalam (India)
Marathi
Punjabi (India)
Sanskrit
Tamil
Telugu (India)
;Japanese
Japanese
;Korean
Korean
;Simplified Chinese
Chinese (PRC)
Chinese (Singapore)
;Thai
Farsi
Thai
;Traditional Chinese
Chinese (Hong Kong S.A.R.)
Chinese (Macau S.A.R.)
Chinese (Taiwan)
;Turkic
Azeri (Latin)
Turkish
Uzbek (Latin)
;Vietnamese
Vietnamese
;Western Europe and United States
Afrikaans
Basque
Catalan
Danish
Dutch (Belgium)
Dutch (Netherlands)
English (Australia)
English (Belize)
English (Canada)
English (Caribbean)
English (Ireland)
English (Jamaica)
English (New Zealand)
English (Philippines)
English (South Africa)
English (Trinidad)
English (United Kingdom)
English (Zimbabwe)
Faeroese
Finnish
French (Belgium)
French (Canada)
French (France)
French (Luxembourg)
French (Monaco)
French (Switzerland)
Galician (Spain)
German (Austria)
German (Germany)
German (Liechtenstein)
German (Luxembourg)
German (Switzerland)
Icelandic
Indonesian
Italian (Italy)
Italian (Switzerland)
Malay (Brunei Darussalam)
Malay (Malaysia)
Maltese
Maori
Northern Sotho
Norwegian (Bokmal)
Norwegian (Nynorsk)
Portuguese (Brazil)
Portuguese (Portugal)
Quechua (Bolivia)
Quechua (Ecuador)
Quechua (Peru)
Sami, Inari (Finland)
Sami, Lule (Norway)
Sami, Lule (Sweden)
Sami, Northern (Finland)
Sami, Northern (Norway)
Sami, Northern (Sweden)
Sami, Skolt (Finland)
Sami, Southern (Norway)
Sami, Southern (Sweden)
Spanish (Argentina)
Spanish (Bolivia)
Spanish (Chile)
Spanish (Colombia)
Spanish (Costa Rica)
Spanish (Dominican Republic)
Spanish (Ecuador)
Spanish (El Salvador)
Spanish (Guatemala)
Spanish (Honduras)
Spanish (International Sort)
Spanish (Mexico)
Spanish (Nicaragua)
Spanish (Panama)
Spanish (Paraguay)
Spanish (Peru)
Spanish (Puerto Rico)
Spanish (Traditional Sort)
Spanish (Uruguay)
Spanish (Venezuela)
Swahili
Swedish
Swedish (Finland)
Tswana
Welsh
Xhosa
Zulu
;# Multimedia #
Acm Core Codecs
AOL ART Image Format Support
Images and Backgrounds
Intel Indeo codecs
Luna desktop theme
MIDI audio support
Mouse Cursors
Movie Maker
Music Samples
Old CDPlayer and Sound Recorder
Speech Support
Windows Media Player
Windows Media Player 6.4
Windows Sounds
;# Network #
Active Directory Services
Communication tools
Comtrol Test Terminal Program
Connection Manager
Dial-up and VPN support
FrontPage Extensions
H323 MSP
Internet Explorer
Internet Information Services (IIS)
IP Conferencing
Map Network Drives/Network Places Wizard
MSMail and MAPI
MSN Explorer
Netmeeting
NetShell Cmd-Tool
Network Monitor Driver and Tools
Network Setup Wizard
NWLink IPX/SPX/NetBIOS Protocol
Outlook Express
Peer-to-Peer
Share Creation Wizard
Synchronization Manager
TAPI Application Support
Vector Graphics Rendering (VML)
Web Folders
Windows Messenger
;# Operating System Options #
16-bit support
Administrative Templates
Blaster/Nachi removal tool
Certificate Management
Color Schemes
Desktop Cleanup Wizard
Disk and Profile Quota
Disk Cleanup
Document Templates
DR Watson
Extensible Storage Engine (Esent97)
Extra Fonts
FAT to NTFS converter
File and Settings Wizard
Format drive support
Help and Support
Help Engine
IExpress Wizard
Input Method Editor
Internet Explorer Core
Jet Database Engine
Manual Install and Upgrade
MDAC
MS Agent
MS XML 2.0
Private Character Editor
Remote Installation Services (RIS)
Search Assistant
Security Center
Shell Media Handler
Symbolic Debugger (NTSD)
Tour
User account pictures
Web View
Zip Folders
;# Services #
Alerter
Application Layer Gateway
Automatic Updates
Background Intelligent Transfer Service (BITS)
Beep Driver
DHCP Client
Distributed Link Tracking Client
DNS Client
Error Reporting
Fax Service
HTTP SSL
IMAPI CD-Burning COM Service
Indexing Service
Internet Authentication (IAS)
IPSEC Policy Agent
Kerberos Key Distribution Center
Messenger
Net Logon
Network DDE
Network Location Awareness (NLA)
Performance Logs and Alerts
Protected Storage
QoS RSVP
Quality of Service (QoS)
Remote Registry
Removable Storage
Route Listening Service
RPC Locator
Secondary Logon
Service Advertising Protocol
Simple TCP/IP Services
SNMP
System Restore Service
Task Scheduler
TCP/IP NetBIOS Helper
Terminal Services
Text Services Framework
Uninterruptible Power Supply
Volume Shadow Copy
WebClient
Windows Time
Wireless Configuration
;# Directories #
DOCS
SUPPORT
VALUEADD

Another thing, what services can I disable?

Thanks for any help

Edited December 16, 2008 by Franciscoec

[TranceEnergy]

even if you just play games, it will still come down to what games you play, because some games require f.example wmp codecs, while others dont, some might ask framework during install, printers as well. I've been around the block so many times, what you ask is simple, yet the answear is not.

understand what you can remove depend also to some extent what computer you have, in specific details, also specifically what drivers you install with it. Even your bios version will affect the outcome, such as newer cpu settings as well as old ones, c1e, coolnquiet etc.

While we could dish up something for you to try, you will still end up in a scenario where you had to redo things and try try try again.

If you dont start the process yourself, what you will learn from it, most likely NIL:

Good job posting a preset with just about everything, if not not completely everything.

Depending on what you will need to use windows, you may or may not need to remove something.

I would not remove Active Directory Services f.example.. On that note, there's tons of things u can remove that you've selected, but most likely will break things.

But there's no way of knowing this, only you can know that. What you truly need or not.

Edited December 16, 2008 by TranceEnergy

[Franciscoec]

Good job posting a preset with just about everything, if not not completely everything.

Depending on what you will need to use windows, you may or may not need to remove something.

I think there might be a misunderstanding. The .ini file lists all the things that are to be removed.

Just a question, are there things that are absolutely essential to installing, running games and connecting to the internet? For example DirectX9, etc.

Edited December 16, 2008 by Franciscoec