This post has been edited by Randomness: Jan 3 2009, 06:44 AM

Nice guide! But it always depend on your use. Some others components recommended for you are safe to remove regarding your personal use.
Anyway it can help some people
Thank

This post has been edited by hannubys: Aug 5 2008, 11:02 AM

my suggestion:

Display Adapters - remove all use newer driver or integrate it
Diva Server - remove it u mostly dont need it
Ethernet Network adapters - leave it its tiny and very useful when its new OS getting inet to work
Modems - remove it use the web to get the lastest driver
Printers - remove it all use the web to get the lastest driver
QLogic Fibre Channel Adapter - remove it u mostly dont need it
Scanners - remove it all use the web to get the lastest driver
Sound Controllers - small driver for hd sound driver keep it if u dont wanna use the "big" driver
Storage Controllers - leave it its dont take much
TV-tuners - remove it all use the web to get the lastest driver


vista will work lessy bugy with newer drivers

This post has been edited by aviv00: Aug 5 2008, 11:13 AM

As for the drivers section; If you integrate newer drivers, then it's safe to remove all...

Nice guide,but you should add "the other" components who are hidden with the "compatibility list"

and some components that are safe to remove in you guide need components that arent safe to remove?

Thanks anyway!

i tick most of the red ones

'IMAPlv2 Burning Support - Keep it, or else you won't be able to burn CDs or DVDs'
huge lie

This post has been edited by bledd: Aug 5 2008, 07:12 PM

For many components you only say keep it but you should give a reason at least. A good reason would be even better.

Simple TCPIP Services - i removed it and its OK
Telnet - most home users dont use telnet right? i removed it too without problems

thats just my opinion

but this is a great guide. care to do 1 for Services too?

i remove some of the items u listed as red & i never have any problems

That is exactly why we need a thread like this. I do not know in detail about all the components. Therefore it says keep it at many places, since I'm too unsure to remove it. So if everyone could try to specify which things they know are safe to remove, then do so.

i only remove languages.. lol.. scared to remove others..never knw it can cum in need...

Keeping this thread going and updated with information would be fantastic. Sometimes it's hard to track down what every component does, or what effects can happen when it's removed.

Ive had no problem removing it.

Remove it and use the manufacturer's driver.

Remove it and use the manufacturer's driver (do people still use dialup?).

Stability reasons? Hmm Ive removed and my Vista is fine.

Remove it and use the manufacturer's driver.

If you dont have or use Firewire then just remove it.

If you dont have or use a modem then just remove it.

If you disable sounds then just remove it.

If you dont plan on recording using your mic then just remove it.

Remove it and just use a third-party photo manager.

If you dont use PlugnPlay, just remove it.

If you dont download DRM-protected files, you can remove it.

Remove it and use a third-party burning software. And afaik, they dont need this component.

You can just remove it. Windows Update will have the latest version anyways.

I consider this component rather useless since Im rather capable of monitoring my security software myself.

Remove it and just use a third-party image viewer like XnView.

Remove it and just use a third-party archive tool.

Good initiative. I agree with all the follow-up posts here at the moment, and got a couple of extra notes for you:


It is also used for text-to-speech applications. Ventrilo for example uses this to make Microsoft Sally (or whatever her name is) say who connects to the server, changes channels, etc.


Isn't this needed for Dynamic Drives?

As for drivers. If you have downloaded drivers available for integration, you can remove them all.

thats wrong. if u use nero or cdburner u dont need this crap!

I would point out that many Printer/Scanner drivers use parts of the integrated drivers.Canon for example.Removing integrated drivers means that Scanner/printer wont work even with fresh drivers.
IMAPv2 Burning support is needed for a ISO maker app that uses it.

Sounds like a poorly coded and outdated app. Anyways, there's tons of OSS for ISO creating/burning that are coded without using any "native" resources on windows.

Remove and integrate your own.

Mainly used for WMV (WMV3/9 and WC-1) decoding. It also supports most MPEG-4 standards such as h264, DivX4+ and XviD. Just get ffdshow to cover all crap you need. It's still needed as noted for wmv streams along with WMP (the firefox addon won't do much without WMP as a side note

Note that this is still needed if you want the thumbnail support for some codecs such as WMV at all. If anyone knows a way to fix this (has an idea on what files are needed for wmv decoding /w thumbnail support) send me a PM.

Again, keep it with Windows Media Codec (70MB~) until someone can figure out those 1-3MB worth or files needed (only*) for WMV thumbnail/playback support as well.

Same call as on XP, your choice.

If you've gotten used to BSODs I suggest you remove it. Most BSODs for normal folks are cause by display drivers anyways...


I also recommend you to try the extreme switch once your familiarized yourself with vLite.

@ Randomness How much Memory did your Vlited Vista take, please ??
Thank you...

This post has been edited by grafx1: Aug 10 2008, 03:25 AM

You mean Check all.