STRIPPING XP Pro into a Single User Micro OS

[jadison]

After skimming through this whole thread to the end...I began to wonder if the thread starter is just plain full of sh** or is he actually accomplishing something useful and maybe even interesting. I'd like to get anyone else's views on what they think of this thread, it's topic, the thread-starter's goal, and if you think it can be achieved. Check out the thread HERE (http://www.tweakxp.com/idealbb/view.asp?topicID=2183&forumID=4&catID=2&num=20&pageNo=1&sessionID={584FD7AF-79CC-4998-917F-B99C55E47AD5}).

[Herb]

I had always 98lite from the beginning and it was rockstable.
A similar approach for XP is overdue:)
Sadly enough at 98lite.net is no move since last year:(

If I wouldn't need the NTFS partition for movies, I'd still stick with 98lite.

[Herb]

Hah, I thought to have a quick check at 98lite.net and see what I found:

2) Where the bleep is 2000-xplite?
- Once the site is up and were back in control - we'll finish it and release it. Can you say "vapourware"? We can... but hopefully we can turn that around sooner rather than later.

Good news:)

[wizofid]

well as soon as I get time to install it and play - I'll post back the horror story - wiz

[NDC]

Well, for one thing. Windows XP is nothing like Win9x. Windows XP seems to have so many dependencies on certain applications, services, etc., I wouldn't totally rely on that post and start uninstalling components from Windows XP.

[wizofid]

well this was it - I have played with the services on win95 and 98 to get a stripped system. but I figure that xp with reliances on the NT stuff probably has more issues in just cutting stuff out -

I kinda agree with Jadison and you - it sounds like a good trip through la la land - too much rose colored glasses!

burn a disk off and let someone else test it?
wiz

[Herb]

You can forget most of the reliances, as soon as you go on a fatXX drive. Dependencies will be investigated thoroughly and relations will show up more and more clearer.

If you read the M$XP embedded approach, you can see clearly they copied Shane Brooks approach from 98 embedded.

I'm not a programmer, but the Configuration Manager for a Solaris type of OS of the size win95 had, with a registry of around 10MB for real time processing of thousands of measurements. I know that all the stuff "Can't be deintegrated" is a load of BS.
There was a test going on a few years ago to use simply vmn32 and another file, I forgot which, that where cabable to establish a fully functional 32bit environment, nothing else like a linux kernel then.

I think it's just a matter of how much of the bloat you really need and what not. IMHO:)

[storm2k]

this is when i prove to the world i am so not into this like other people...

NONE OF THIS STUFF BOTHERS ME. it's just there so what i'm not like pscyho about it, it can stay and it doesn't bother me. i don't have paranoid delusions of ms or anyone else trying to control me or my pc. as long as i have adaware and anti virus i'm good... i know it's just me and i'm proving myself to just be a tool of the system, but i have limits as to what's important and worth wasting energy on...

[WAGGS]

Well I dont know about you guys but everything here seems to happen almost instantly, as fast as I click the mouse .....lol. Isnt that fast enough? I think this guy has alot of time on his hands and likes to disect OS's for fun. Some people like to overclock for fun, making there systems faster than the other guy. I wouldnt go and start deleting half of XP to save a millisecond in operation time...........My two cents:D