You wana make it light and fast? Here you have!

Nestor · Post by **Nestor** » Sat Apr 30, 2005 12:12 am

This is the new version of a great clasic! XPLite is a good option for those that need a fast, reliable way to costumise their PC, only for their music.

You can uninstall from scratch many features that are imposible to uninstall without this program.

It works very well, but of course, like with everythin related with the system files, you have to know what you are doing. Nevertheless, it is very easy to work with.

Read all about, and try it, it's great

You'll sysltem will fly.

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dbmac · Post by **dbmac** » Sat Apr 30, 2005 8:05 am

http://www.litepc.com/xplite.html

/dave

Post by **hubird** » Sat Apr 30, 2005 8:19 am

the more of this kind of stuff you need, the more trouble you'll get, I'd say:-)

braincell · Post by **braincell** » Sat Apr 30, 2005 8:27 am

I was a big fan of 98lite. This one looks more difficult to use. If you try it post results and instructions here. I'm just not sure what to uncheck and what to leave checked.

symbiote · Post by **symbiote** » Sat Apr 30, 2005 4:50 pm

EDIT: Nevermind, I was talking about nLite (http://nuhi.msfn.org/index.html)

I've used it for my current XP install and it's been really great, way tight and stable. It actually makes things alot simpler, as it'll ask you all the usual XP install question, and integrates any service pack and updates you provide it into a single ISO. Installation time is thus shorter, post-install tweaking is alot shorter (no need to turn off half the services and half the settings etc.) And it makes the Windows dir alot smaller too, mine is currently sitting at around 850 megs for a full install with all drivers, sp1, tons of codecs, security updates etc (this includes hand-removing dllcache tho I guess, I don't think nLite does this (or it might by this time, I don't know)). Probably won't matter much in these days of 400gb harddrives, but I like to keep things clean and tidy myself, so I think it's great.

About not being sure about what to remove, as far as I know, if XP needs something that's not installed, it'll prompt you for the XP CD to install it, so you can just feed it your normal XP CD if it doesn't find what it needs on the nLite one.

Here's a list of the components I removed, note that I don't use wireless, printer or filesharing:

Accessibility Options
Briefcase
Screensavers
Battery
Display Adapters
Toshiba DVD decoder card
IBM Thinkpad
InfraRed
MultiFunctional
Printers
FrontPage Extensions
Internet Information Services
Internet Printing
Windows Messenger
MSN Explorer
Netmeeting
Outlook Express
Synchronization Manager
Web Folders
lang_Arabic
lang_Baltic
lang_Central Europe
lang_Chinese Simplified
lang_Chinese Traditional
lang_Georgian
lang_Greek
lang_Hebrew
lang_Indian
lang_Japanese
lang_Korean
lang_Thai
lang_Turkish
lang_Vietnamese
Images and Backgrounds
Luna Theme
Media Center
Mouse Cursors
Movie Maker
Music Samples
Old CDPlayer and Sound Recorder
Speech Support
Tablet PC
Windows Sounds
Windows Media Player
DR Watson
File and Settings Wizard
Help
MS Agent
Search Assistant
Shell Media Handler
Tour
Web View
Zip Folders
Alerter
Application Layer Gateway
ClipBook
CTF Loader
Distributed Link Tracking Client
Error Reporting
Fax Services
Indexing Service
Messenger
Performance Logs and Alerts
Remote Registry
Secondary Logon
SNMP
Service Advertising Protocol
System Restore
Telnet Server
Terminal Services
Universal Plug and Play
Volume Shadow Copy
Wireless Zero Configuration
dir_docs
dir_support
dir_valueadd

[edit: typos + post-coffee clarity finally set in]

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braincell · Post by **braincell** » Sat Apr 30, 2005 5:03 pm

I guess you have to do a clean install with this? I dread that because of all the software I have. It would take me days.

symbiote · Post by **symbiote** » Sat Apr 30, 2005 5:30 pm

XPLite doesn't look like it needs a re-install, nLite does.

braincell · Post by **braincell** » Sat Apr 30, 2005 6:57 pm

What's nlite?

braincell · Post by **braincell** » Sat Apr 30, 2005 7:09 pm

Oh I see nlite is similar but free.

Nestor · Post by **Nestor** » Sat Apr 30, 2005 11:42 pm

On 2005-04-30 06:56, stardust wrote:
Nestor ?
Do you have a link ?

Upppssss, sorry about that, here you are:

http://www.litepc.com/xplite.html

Nestor · Post by **Nestor** » Sat Apr 30, 2005 11:47 pm

On 2005-04-30 09:27, braincell wrote:
I was a big fan of 98lite. This one looks more difficult to use. If you try it post results and instructions here. I'm just not sure what to uncheck and what to leave checked.

No prob Brain, as you can get back as soon as there is something not working well. Of course, nevertheless, it is strongly adviced for you TO READ about each and every item to be remouved. You should not remouve something you don't know or understand.

Nevertheless, for those not using games, most internet apps, server side of things, etc., it is great. It is much better to remouve those items with XPLite than getting into the "msconfig". It is a different result. XPLite truly uninstalls the components from its roots, while "msconfig" let you, let say, switch it off.

I think this program is prety secure if you don't mess with it. This is not a program you should be using everyday, it is for you to setup your system, leaving it alone after.

Hope it helps.

Nestor · Post by **Nestor** » Sun May 01, 2005 12:00 am

I didn't know nLite, it seems quite interesting too, and if it is free, well... you cannot ask for more.

at0m · Post by **at0m** » Sun May 01, 2005 5:38 am

Hoi,

I also use nlite. You give it an iso copy of your XP cd, and you can select which items to remove from it. After removal, you're left with a small iso (mine was 136mb) which you can burn and use as XP installation CD. No need to clean up a bloated installation later.

Thanks for that list, symbi0te! I once said I'd post mine here too but I lost the exact settings, and never got round to set up nlite again after it made the iso I'm currently using. It was a bit of trial and error, untill I had the package I was after. There's no such thing here as 'one hack fits all' eh, everyone has to try out their own. It took me 3-4 burns. One time there was no Services configuration, another time there wasn't any right-click menu's

Enjoy!

spoimala · Post by **spoimala** » Tue May 03, 2005 1:54 am

On 2005-04-30 09:19, hubird wrote:
the more of this kind of stuff you need, the more trouble you'll get, I'd say:-)

Yeah, I'm also a bit suspicios towards XPLite. Harshly removing some files from working Windoze installation doesn't sound like a neat idea.

But nLite is different story. Using it, Windows instalaltion just won't copy (install) the files it doesn't need in the first place.
Windows installation is really a collection of scripts and it's pretty safe to remove unneeded scripts. As far as you know what are unneeded...

Post by **hubird** » Tue May 03, 2005 8:00 am

on mac there's a controll panel where you can turn on and off those drivers, engines etc (called system 'extensions').
Every setting of active extensions can be saved as a user file, f.e. as 'audio', or 'internet', or 'audio and internet', etc.
Switching configurations need a restart then.
But I don't mess around too much in this panel, as long as my system works fine.

emzee · Post by **emzee** » Tue May 03, 2005 4:48 pm

Be prepared for a 260mb download of
SP2 Network.........doh...doh....if you want to integrate the latest Service Pack.

emzee · Post by **emzee** » Tue May 03, 2005 7:50 pm

But it'll allow you to make a new installation CD with all Service Packs, current hotfixes and tweaks installed....which is valuable as heck.

emzee · Post by **emzee** » Wed May 04, 2005 6:19 am

Aah...I walked in to a Net Cafe and they had the CD for SP2 Network for sale for $7.50. I figure it's a bargain considering I'm on dialup.