[NiugeS]

Excellent and thorough guide but I have ran into a few problems..

I followed the guide step by step (and rechecked everything) but after install of my vista business x86 I noticed a few small problems (hopefully no others).. removed the services as suggested and only safe stuff..

After install, I notieced there was no way to add the network icons in the taskbar (tried many options and suggestions) and also the network sharing center page when clicked on in Control Panel would come up blank.. tried a few suggestions there and still couldn't get it going..

DELl Vista OEM disk..

Any suggestions on what I did wrong for future reference as I have reverted back to the original OEM disk for a new installation...

[pogdish]

Thanks for this guide. I was a little bit intimidated about screwing around with a custom Vista build with vLite and this alleviated some of my concern. Just got my new system components from newegg today and am building it now, and taking the leap from XP to Vista x64.

Just a suggestion, but instead of DriverMax for backing up your drivers I'd suggest the freeware Double Driver found here: http://www.boozet.org/dd.htm

[sorr]

Randomness,

you can update your guide that:
it's safe to remove Windows Photo Gallery and Windows Photo Viewer. as i delete them every time and i just install Windows Live Essentials "Windows Live Photo Gallery" which will automatically install Windows Photo Viewer too.. i've done that many times with different selections
so you get it as a fresh install not a program update
thank you for you great guide

[MPalmz]

NiugeS, on Jan 20 2009, 03:12 PM, said:

Excellent and thorough guide but I have ran into a few problems..

I followed the guide step by step (and rechecked everything) but after install of my vista business x86 I noticed a few small problems (hopefully no others).. removed the services as suggested and only safe stuff..

After install, I notieced there was no way to add the network icons in the taskbar (tried many options and suggestions) and also the network sharing center page when clicked on in Control Panel would come up blank.. tried a few suggestions there and still couldn't get it going..

DELl Vista OEM disk..

Any suggestions on what I did wrong for future reference as I have reverted back to the original OEM disk for a new installation...

Copy your last_session.ini file from your installation disk and attach it here and we can take a look. Which network icons are you talking about? I've used this guide and can always find the standard network icon in the system tray portion of the task bar, and it's the only one I want to see. Are these the same network icons you are talking about?

[WiCiO]

nice guide
quick question: why did you mark 'Shell Event Sounds' as UNSAFE ??
ok, maybe some more..
'Printers' - if you remove HP Printers you won't be able to use one 'cause some hpprinters don't have downloadable drivers for vista..
'Storage Controlers' - not safe for virtuals (vmware) and some notebooks
'Windows Photo Gallery' and 'Windows Photo Viewer' - both pretty safe to remove
'Remote Desktop and Assistance' and 'Remote Desktop Client' - as i remember if you remove those you won't have the 'Terminal' service any more, and some programs need this for installation..
'Windows Firewall' - safe to remove (happy comodo user )
'Internet Connection Sharing' - safe..
'UAC' - you won't be able to install some drivers for some touchpads (Synaptics if i'm not mistaken..)

and again: very impressive guide, so KUDOS!

[rubab]

Great job man. Looks awesome.

[g-force]

No need to open a new Thread for this, I add it here.

A really good vLite-Guide especially for german speakink users you`ll find here:

http://german-nlite.org/wiki/index.php?tit...te:VLite-Portal



Regards, g-force

[MPalmz]

WiCiO, on Feb 5 2009, 04:46 PM, said:

'Remote Desktop and Assistance' and 'Remote Desktop Client' - as i remember if you remove those you won't have the 'Terminal' service any more, and some programs need this for installation..
'UAC' - you won't be able to install some drivers for some touchpads (Synaptics if i'm not mistaken..)

In my other thread I talk about ERROR 1904 on installing certain programs. You think this has something to do with my removing UAC?
http://www.msfn.org/...howtopic=130512

g-force, on Feb 28 2009, 01:29 AM, said:

No need to open a new Thread for this, I add it here.

A really good vLite-Guide especially for german speakink users you`ll find here:

http://german-nlite.org/wiki/index.php?tit...te:VLite-Portal



Regards, g-force

Too late. And this guide rules for English speaking users. Furthermore it's on MSFN! Thanks though.

[slimzky]

great work! i appreciate it.

Cheers2u

[WarS]

Great guide ! TYVM for putting this up - was a tremendous help.

Question at the end of your guide - you noted your iso was down to 520 mb. I did pretty much the same settings you did in the guide (i took out a couple extra's) and removed the drivers for display, printer, tv tuners, diva, qlogic, and scanners. In the end my iso was still a solid 1.3 GB.

What are the really big size eaters or am I missing something ?

Thanks.

[Randomness]

It would be hard for me to guess which component you might not have removed. As my install fitted on a CD, I'm certain of that the entire setup was indeed below 700MB (CD capacity).

I wonder if this thread could become stickied?

[Ringthane]

Hello Ramdomness,

Thank you very much for the vLite guide.
Very slick. Great work.

[awpd]

Can you provide an editable copy of your guide? Something generic like Windows RTF would be nice.

I would like to update your guide with my personal notes for my own use.

thanks

Anthony

[jamesbebby]

hi, thank u so much, the best bit is about removing components, wish vLite just made safe & lite like nLite!!!
cheers james

[suryad]

Appreciate all the super hard work man! You rock!

[SDMTEAM]

Please mirror for Complete Guide to VLite v1.2

[banana.beach]

Thanks for this great guide.

[hazor9]

trying message

[aviv00]

hey thx could u add windows 7 recommending setting

[drive55]

Hi, I've just hyperlinked the urls & created a TOC for this fine .pdf guide,
and PM'd Randomness for approval -
so if anyone has faster way to contact Randomness & let them know this is available,

Thank You