Windows XP installed in under 256MB.

[curtis]

Hello, so far I've managed to get my XP install image to 89MB and the actual install down to 265MB with only two services running (Plug and play and RPC). It currently takes 4 seconds to boot but I have not optimised it properly yet, except from minlogin (which does help and means oembios.bin could be deleted)

Screenshot attached below:

Edit: Forgot to say the PF usage just after boot is a lot lower (24MB) and as you can see it is in VMware.

Edited December 23, 2006 by curtis

[Jeremy]

Use nLite but don't focus so much on removing stuff from your OS. It's Christmas time.

[prx984]

Wow thats pretty **** good, but I doubt its very useful. I bet it does give a better understanding of what should be removed, what could be removed and what should not be removed for future "lite" versions of XP.

[Jeremy]

No, not really. It's been dealt with time and time again by many others over the years. Nothing new here.

[luke.mccormick]

i wanna try...think u could post or last config from nlite? how long did it take to install?

[LLXX]

It's just a proof of concept, a minimal system to build on.

For comparison, a full install of Windows 98SE takes up approximately the same amount of space. (Minimized 98SE... ~5Mb)

[tap52384]

Please post your last session.ini...It would be interesting to know what still remains in that installation and how functional it is...it would also help if you explained fully how you acheived said results...

[curtis]

Removed basically everything in nlite, then removed a few other DirectX dlls left behind and replaced winlogon for minlogon. I'll post the config when I get access to the computer I did it on. Yea, it isn't anything new but just got back from hospital so have to stay in a for a few days and got bored

Also, I forgot to say about disabling the page file and hibernation as that removes around 1GB from the drive.

I was thinking about leaving in essent and the database support as they are only 500kbish each.

Merry christmas to everyone

Edited December 24, 2006 by curtis

[/.er]

Hm. "replaced winlogon for minlogon"

I just ran through the 1.3 beta and I saw nothing about replacing winlogon. Am I mistaken?

[dirtwarrior]

The option for using minlogon instead of winlogon is useful but I dont think Nuhi is going to have it in nlite. Myself I dont go for the size of windows but for efficientcy. Most of the times they are the same. If you slipstreamed minlogon into instaqll CD please let me know how you did it.

[curtis]

The option for using minlogon instead of winlogon is useful but I dont think Nuhi is going to have it in nlite. Myself I dont go for the size of windows but for efficientcy. Most of the times they are the same. If you slipstreamed minlogon into instaqll CD please let me know how you did it.

I added it after install, got it down to 75mb total now. Nothing left to do with it so I'm gonna not bother with it any more

You have got a point though about going for efficiency, when I do my normal images that is what I go for.

[XtremeFuturistic]

WOW, IF U WUD ATTACH THE ini FILE, WUD MAKE SO MUCH COSIER FOR US THAN U RATHER TALKIN ABOUT UR HAPPINESS IN DOIN IT.

WE ALL WANT IT !!

[prx984]

All caps is annoying, so I hope you were just joking man

[DIGItonium]

There's nothing special to bringing the install down to that size... just remove just about everything imaginable. I got mine down to about 220MB with PF disabled. It boots up so fast the scrollbar didn't get to scroll. This is with nLite 1.2.

As for usefulness... I just need the bare minimum to get iTunes and PowerDVD working for my CarPC. So with the drivers and applications loaded, I can probably get away with a 512MB card. Once I get the navi software, that's another mess to resolve.