Software Tool Strips Windows Vista To Bare Bones

Preedit writes "A free download that can cut Windows Vista's gargantuan footprint by half or more is developing a big following on the Internet. vLite is a configuration tool that lets users automatically delete a lot of unnecessary Vista components — such as Windows Media Player and MSN installer — to pare the OS down to a reasonable size. The software is catching on. An InformationWeek story notes that a forum that asks users to suggest new features has drawn nearly 50,000 page views. Meanwhile, Microsoft officials have themselves conceded that Vista is "bloated" and are developing the next version of Windows on a core called MinWin, which is smaller than Vista by an order of magnitude."

The next step...

[Chonnawonga]

Great. Now somebody turn this into a virus, and we're all set.

Re:Vista XP is here!

[dave420]

It's much faster than XP, uses your memory and other resources far more intelligently, and the performance benefits of DX10 over DX9 (even with some DX10 trickery involved) are things you simply can't find in any other OS out there, open source or otherwise. That's just an FYI.

Software Tool Strips Windows Vista To Bare Bones..

[niceone]

.. and then pushes it into a freezing lake?

Re:Slashdot = Clicks

[Slashidiot]

And the 50000 page views are hard-coded on the article! That's soooo web 1.0...

Re:Comparing MinWin and Vista doesn't hold up

[Mr. Underbridge]

MinWin is a non-graphical kernel that doesn't do much more than boot up and host a webserver. It's not exactly a full functional operating system, so yes it's going to be considerably smaller.

Point is that by getting the cruft out of the kernel customization will be easier and the result probably still overall smaller.

Amazing ideas these MS boys have these days. Imagine an operating system with a small, even micro, kernel. To this the user can add the operating system toys that he needs around that kernel, resulting in a lean, mean operating system that does what he needs and nothing more.

I hear some crazy Finnish guy had a similar idea once but nobody listened to him.

Now microsoft can prove it

[jollyreaper]

Microsoft alway said Vista wasn't fat, it was just big-boned. Now they can prove it!

Re:Vista XP is here!

[Razed By TV]

If you have a powerful enough machine

...then you could run XP that much faster than Vista.

Re:Comparing MinWin and Vista doesn't hold up

[Draek]

No, the pedants are going to get *you* for comparing them to some tiny jewelry. Andrew Tanenbaum will take care of the GP for comparing Linux to a microkernel.

Re:Comparing MinWin and Vista doesn't hold up

[powerlord]

Ooooo, the pendants are going to get you for implying that Linux uses a "micro" kernel.

That depends if they [gnu.org] Hurd [wikipedia.org] him.

Even if they did, it might not Mach [wikipedia.org] any difference.

Re:Vista XP is here!

[Anakron]

The GUI is definitely part of the GUI

Truer words have never been spoken!

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WARNING: Use with care!!!

[Captain Sarcastic]

I tried it, and it did such a thorough job of stripping down my system that my wallpaper of Pamela Anderson was replaced with a skeleton.

Re:Vista XP is here!

[Hatta]

Are you high?

by dave420 (699308) on Monday January 28, @10:29AM (#22208342)

Oh, I guess so.

Re:WARNING: Use with care!!!

[mattgoldey]

How were you able to tell the difference?