slim down Windows 7
As I run out of disk space on my previous setup on my MacBook Pro, I decided that on my new Book I will try to save some more Bytes.
Lucklily I found a interesting tutorial to slim down Windows 7 to below 4GB [1].
In short it is about using vlite [2] to remove unwanted components or divers.
I followed that tutorial with Windows 7 Professional but with the 64bit version.
I quickly checked the slimmed down version in VMWare and it worked.
The result was promissing: it just needed 5.5GB.
I guess that the difference to the orignial tutorial is due my usage of the 64bit version.
If you are interesting in my config file you can have it [3].
Compared to a vanilla install which took about 7GB I decided to use the slimmed version.
Another improvement is compared to the ultimate version which took around 20GB (without the optimizations mentioned below).
The most diskspace savings are due:
- vlite removed TabletPC and speech support
- disabling the pagefile
- disabling hibernation
- shrinking the trash can to 256MB
[1] Installing Windows 7 To Use 3GB Of SSD/HDD Space
[2] vlite
[3] my ini file