Two ?s Time and ISO size

[greyclear]

Ive ran this thing close to 70 times, and a VM setup trying to lighten the load on Windows 7. Some attempts fail during setup other times it works out ok I just break it down piece by piece. But I am running into two problems.

1) I been breaking it apart piece by piece, creating a new ISO, new copy everytime so I can continue (if I do to much at once setup fails) anyways the problem I am having is even though my first copy worked, I go back and resume and even just one item or two, it fails so I gave up and decided to try -> 2) If I go through everything all at once take my time then apply my changes.... it just sits there, stops at on components, 5%. I even followed this guide http://www.overclock.net/t/804451/guide-stripping-w7-install-disc-for-benching The program is not locked up or anything but doesn't seem to be any activity on it. I watch my task manager, disk monitor... its just sitting there. This is a copy of Windows 7 pro 32 bit. Downloaded from Technet. using RT7. I am basically stripping it down to almost nothing. Vmware/Vbox will emulate most of the drivers I need and a lot of the services can be removed to lighten up processor usage... Im just experimenting. When I did Windows XP I got the ISO from 565 megs down to 120 megs lol and functions on as little as 64 megs of ram. Works great for customizing old laptops for extreme basic operations. Works great

My second question is the size of the ISO. 2.3 gigs in size, after removing items the ISO doesn't change size are there any guides to what I can remove after the WIM file is extracted?

[Kelsenellenelvian]

What THING!?!?!

[greyclear]

k let me simplify

Read this http://www.overclock.net/t/804451/guide-stripping-w7-install-disc-for-benching

RT7 sits there does nothing. Stops at 5%

[Tripredacus]

My second question is the size of the ISO. 2.3 gigs in size, after removing items the ISO doesn't change size are there any guides to what I can remove after the WIM file is extracted?

Typically, when files are "removed" from a WIM, they are just removed from the index so they are not used. Did you try exporting the WIM out?

[greyclear]

RT7 extracts the WIM file into a temp folder RT_Mount. I did some research on this and found that a specific folder holds most of this data. WinSxS folder. I haven't had much time to research what file is linked ot what. Resolved my first issue something about media center... can't remove it. An OEM disk is about 5 gigs in size, twice the amount which I expect anyways. SxS folder -- lots of info on the net but its post installation not pre