I read an interesting article today about a rather “slimming” Vista installation tool, vLite. vLite, simply put, is a tool which allows you to install Windows Vista without all added “features”. You can remove these options at install time so the components are never put on your system to consume resources.
There is a terse write up on Information Week which gives a short explanation of the tool. The only catch is you have to run this tool when you are installing Vista. If you already have Vista installed, this will not work. According to the article:
vLite, however, isn’t for the technically timid. The software warns that the changes it imposes on Vista are “permanent, so be sure in your choice.”
If the bloat of Vista is scaring you away from the new OS or you have just recently installed a copy, this tool might be worth a look.
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It’s not the bloat of Vista that turned me back to the familiar – it’s the incompatibility!
Gonna be awhile before the majority swing back to Vista considering XP is still the more dominant OS.
Loved the look and feel to Vista, but if the compatibility was there, I’d take on vLite – heard some great stuff about it!
Seems to me, as a total newcomer to vista home premium,
someone’s gone to a great deal of trouble to make a very unfriendly, aggravating, and in my case so far, bloody useless package which requires a disproportionate amount of memory and cpu usage and provides me with a heap of useless options which I don’t want or need but which I can’t remove– wanna go back to XP !!!