Windows 7 & vLite *DEPRECATED*

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If you are having issues with Windows after removing components and have come to ask for help, please attach (not paste) your Last Session.ini file to your post to facilitate quicker assistance.

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Windows 7 & vLite DEPRECATED how-to shrink and keep functionality... Rate Topic:

#451 cluberti

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Posted 23 July 2009 - 12:56 PM

Kelsenellenelvian, on Jul 22 2009, 09:54 PM, said:

This thread should be closed and deleted...

It's in the gray area, but I'm leaving the thread open. The build string is public as of yesterday, and discussions of such aren't warez. I'd caution folks from
discussion of torrents and the like, but otherwise, this seems OK.

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Posted 23 July 2009 - 01:11 PM

I just tried to vLite my w7 installation disk and failed again. It seems it just doesn't work with W7 at all. I just removed some components (kept drivers) and after booting I get a message saying something like "driver for you CD/DVD drive could not be found". When I point the setup to the location of drivers on my HDD, it fails again with unloadable driver (contact vendor for updated one).
What gives?

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Posted 23 July 2009 - 03:29 PM

make sure you have the boot.wim, install.wim and setup.exe files in your sources directory and make sure you remove manual install with vlite

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Posted 23 July 2009 - 03:30 PM

cluberti, on Jul 23 2009, 02:56 PM, said:

Kelsenellenelvian, on Jul 22 2009, 09:54 PM, said:

This thread should be closed and deleted...

Thank you cluberti u da man

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Posted 24 July 2009 - 11:19 AM

Seem to be a problem whit ultra64.ini config and last RTM 7600 x64 ( only ultimate).A have ligthly modified the ini for the italian language and some small error.I have tested the iso in a virtualbox machine and at the end og the installation i have foun this problem.

- Net config problem.When i set my parameter of my router manuly and i disable the dhcp.

MSTD.exe not found

- When i lunch Windows DVD maker

Wmvcore.dll not found

I think that the problem is in the unavaiability of window media center.For the MSTD.exe i dont know.

So i want to rebuil a 7600 lited image whit elite.ini for evaluate the difference between the ini's.

Bye

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Posted 24 July 2009 - 01:06 PM

Zumoc, on Jul 24 2009, 01:19 PM, said:

Yea the ultra preset removes a lot of stuff. Hopefully i will be uploading new preset shortly along with scripts for DISM package removal and misc file cleanup.

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Posted 24 July 2009 - 05:17 PM

Ok liquid ,i think that is no bad idea to keep this two files. I can retry the intire procedure whith this files protected. Can you test also?

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Posted 24 July 2009 - 06:13 PM

Protect those files and things should work i personally kill and despise the DVD maker and media center is OK but i just use media player 12 which i seem to like.

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Posted 24 July 2009 - 07:20 PM

Which version of the Italian language pack are you integrating? Make sure it's 7600.16385 :hello:

Also, can anyone give me some pointers on how to reduce ISO size? I use the DISM script and vLite, but then I get an image thats over a gig. Even after trashing winre.wim, extra desktop backgrounds, WinsXs backup, and only rebuilding Home Premium. Thanks to all you guys, I really need this to fit on a CD!

Is there an option to use maximum compression when unmounting or something? I only have that option when capturing...

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Posted 24 July 2009 - 08:21 PM

SausageHack, on Jul 24 2009, 09:20 PM, said:

Which version of the Italian language pack are you integrating? Make sure it's 7600.16385 :hello:

No, in fact compression can only be done on capture or export. You could consider creating a new WIM file with just the version you want via exporting that section of the WIM to a new WIM via DSIM, and then using that to vLite. Not sure if you'll get it down under 700MB though, that'll be quite a feat if you can.

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Posted 25 July 2009 - 03:45 AM

I think manual capture is not worth it: on an image of around 1GB, vLite trails behind only 1.5MB on capturing with maximum compression.

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Posted 25 July 2009 - 11:17 AM

So, are the elite/ultra presets no good for RTM? I'm sitting at 11gigs for a full install and I don't really know enough to putz around with Vlite myself.

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Posted 25 July 2009 - 12:26 PM

Jeronimo, on Jul 25 2009, 04:45 AM, said:

I think manual capture is not worth it: on an image of around 1GB, vLite trails behind only 1.5MB on capturing with maximum compression.

Thanks for the quick replies. What is the minimum image size you can get? How low has everyone gotten? I'm planning on integratinga lot of drivers, so maybe I'll just forget about super-shrinking the ISO

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Posted 25 July 2009 - 12:47 PM

I am just trying my presets with the RTM build with Dutch integrated and it works great.

I also nullified the Backup-directory (recreating all files there with size 0). An article on My Digital Life said the files should only be present in order for WIndows Update to work and far as I can see it works. I updated the removal.bat accordingly, see my post here for all details and downloads.

I am at 1.02GB install.wim size, 3.37GB installed size and 4.37GB after installing all my stuff. Most of the extra space is Nvidia PhysX (118MB) and OpenOffice.org (337MB).

Also something I have not read yet here, which liquid0624 found out: when you do not remove Application Expereince with vLite, but disable the service, then it causes issues with removal of executables (exe-files). The files can be removed, but then reappear as some kind of ghost files (removed, but still vissible) and eventually they vanish all on their own.

This post has been edited by Jeronimo: 25 July 2009 - 12:52 PM

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Posted 25 July 2009 - 02:51 PM

Meh... I installed the 'russian' 16385 and it installed at 11gigs. I just installed the new one and it's 14.7gigs after running the Ultra profile in vLite... I don't get it.

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Posted 25 July 2009 - 04:33 PM

Jeronimo, how can you remove game explorer ( even wlan support and network and sharing center? ) without getting error during the setup?

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Posted 25 July 2009 - 04:54 PM

Has anyone had an issue with bluetooth pairing... I got an error 80004002.

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Posted 25 July 2009 - 08:40 PM

SausageHack, on Jul 24 2009, 08:20 PM, said:

Which version of the Italian language pack are you integrating? Make sure it's 7600.16385 :hello:

There no exist yet the italian LP for 7600 and the previous versions does not works. I have also tested .

Ok i have repacked my 7600 but it's happened a strange thing. When i have saved the ini of my 7600 repack i have see "7264" in the first part of the ini file but i don't know if are writed whith the previous repack or the image is a really 7264 masked from 7600. The winver.exe command in a 7600 repack declare Seven 7600.

The provenience of the 7600 iso is genuine so i think that is a remain of the previous 7264 repacked version. Also the 7264 LP does not work and this is good

This post has been edited by Zumoc: 25 July 2009 - 08:42 PM

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Posted 25 July 2009 - 10:25 PM

liquid0624, on Jul 23 2009, 11:29 PM, said:

make sure you have the boot.wim, install.wim and setup.exe files in your sources directory and make sure you remove manual install with vlite

Setup.exe isn't there, why is that? Is that the problem? Are you folks not using any different WIM version than the one in vLite or something?

edit: Do you mean to copy setup.exe back there just before I make vLite create the image?

Also, do I need newer version of the .sys and .inf files that are normally present in vLite? I just installed Win7 version of AIK and they are not there at all!

This post has been edited by TheWalrus: 25 July 2009 - 10:45 PM

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Posted 26 July 2009 - 01:32 AM

PabloW, on Jul 26 2009, 12:33 AM, said:

Jeronimo, how can you remove game explorer ( even wlan support and network and sharing center? ) without getting error during the setup?

That is because I remove packages before running vLite, see my guide (link a few posts up). I think liquid0624 pointed out it is because of Snipping Tool.

@Zumoc: if you have build 7600 and it says 7264 in your preset (ini-file), then isn't that in the part where it states on which Windows version you ran vLite? For me this was build 7132 and that what it states in my preset. This is no problem.