On Tuesday 26 July 2005 10:26, paddy wrote:
> Can anybody recommend any utilities that will shut down the unnecessary
> programs that the developers of Windblows insist on running in the
> background, i.e messenger, outlook, ad nasuem.
Have you looked at XPLite? Made by the same outfit that made 95Lite
<www.litepc.com>. It has an option to remove many parts of XP that aren't
needed.
>From their web page:
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With XPlite and 2000lite we give YOU the power to set up YOUR machine the way
YOU want! The power to remove unwanted features, the power to remove upgrades
that go bad, the power to strip potential security and privacy threats out by
the roots.
The latest developments in XPLite now see clean installations of Windows XP in
under 350MB and Windows 2000 approaching less than 200 MB (excluding paging
file) with much smaller memory requirements! These sizes are obtained simply
by running XPLite/2000Lite on a fresh install of windows. Enterprising
developers should easily be able to strip out additional log files, INF files
and unused drivers to reduce the footprint by another 50MB or so. If your
goal is to run a dedicated task in as little storage as possible - then look
no further than XPlite.
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I have used it with Win2K before, and it does work as advertised. And it
appears that the newer version removes even more stuff than the older version
that I tried. If you have to use Windows, then this is about as close as you
can get to making it work the way that you want it without compiling from
source.
Jeff
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