Does anyone know of a quicker way of stripping the junk out of drivers? Take a Realtek sound driver. It has the sys and inf files but also a bunch of exe's and dll's which install some stupid application automatically that sits in the system tray and serves no function other that eating up system resources. I'm a "less is more" type of person, I hate bloat. At the moment I am manually going through every driver by deleting exe and unnecessary dll files and removing references to them in the inf. This is the same for Intel gfx drivers - why do I want hot key commands to change my graphics settings?! Do people really want to change their screen resolution that often?!

I don't want to have to go through this process each time a new driver is released.. and I have quite a few drivers to look after! I doubt there is a less tedious way to do this but I thought this would be the best place to ask.

Suggestion: integrate the drivers with nLite. You just need to extract the installer and copy the files you need/want.

whistler114, which files did you remove from the realtek package? i installed the drivers from the inf file, but it still installs a whole bunch of junk. what are the essential files? did you ever package your stripped down drivers as a 'lite' version?

edit: well, i went through the installation a number of times and got the drivers down to just the sys file and the inf down to only a few sections.