[quantan]

Hi dead0,
I've made one Win7 Lite iso using your lastest Update. Then I tested the build in Vmware. Everything is perfect except I don't see any Network adapter???

Thanks.

[quantan]

The network adpater is done...but I got another problem. When I installed MS Office, it said : Cannot register font. How can I fix it?

This post has been edited by quantan: 02 November 2010 - 04:49 AM

[franner]

Hey dead0,

first of all you made a great guide and alot of effort must have gone into making this.

An problem I got through is the file removal (7x86.bat, 7x64.bat, 7R2e.bat). The problem is the files say "access denied" when the batch file is running. I have tried taking ownership ower the whole folder but that will mess up the windows installation (don't know why but it somehow corrupts when taking ownership over ALL files). I don't know if there is an easy solution. It would take quite some time writing up takeownership for each file/folder in the batch file. I have tried on my main system and on a clean virtual machine and both gives rise to same issue (unable to delete then file specified in the batch file). The rest of the guide works just perfect for me.

[ps2pk]

franner, on 04 November 2010 - 06:04 AM, said:

Hey dead0,

first of all you made a great guide and alot of effort must have gone into making this.

An problem I got through is the file removal (7x86.bat, 7x64.bat, 7R2e.bat). The problem is the files say "access denied" when the batch file is running. I have tried taking ownership ower the whole folder but that will mess up the windows installation (don't know why but it somehow corrupts when taking ownership over ALL files). I don't know if there is an easy solution. It would take quite some time writing up takeownership for each file/folder in the batch file. I have tried on my main system and on a clean virtual machine and both gives rise to same issue (unable to delete then file specified in the batch file). The rest of the guide works just perfect for me.

this happens after mounting the image and dragging 7x86, 7x64, 7r2e to s2?

What I did was copy the batch file to s2/programs

from there i cut it and then placed it back to the root of s2 and then double clicked and it worked fine. do that for the rest and it should work.

one problem I'm having is no network printer support. i've looked through vlite, dism removal, etc but not sure which package corresponds to the network printer support. I've got it connected to a wireless router but when I try and add a printer nothing is found.

other then that I've got the install @ 2.5gb w/200mb page file. working flawlessly. very compact. thanks for the guide. just need to figure out the printer problem and all will be well.

[neo2k]

hey!

First of all, I wanna thank you for all your effort you put into this. This goes to all the people who helped testing and fixing stuff as well of course.

Got Windows to 6GB down from 14GB without pagefile, I think thats a good result. I'm still testing what to delete from winsxs to get the size down but keep windows update compatibility.

This post has been edited by neo2k: 20 November 2010 - 03:29 PM

[shutfu]

I have tried countless times (atleast 10-15) following your guide trying to make a slimmed down Windows 7 Ultimate x64. I followed it word for word, exactly, multiple times, but I can never get past the installation without some error or needing some driver or file.

I'm currently on a Windows 7 x64 machine with vlite and Vista Sp1/2008 WAIK installed, so I should be able to make a slimmed down win7 x64 by following your guide, correct?

I'm gonna give it one more go, this time without any updates, using your scripts exactly as you have them.




Also, whats this RT7lite program I keep hearing about? is it just a bunch of bogus ?

[franner]

shutfu, on 21 November 2010 - 09:10 AM, said:

I have tried countless times (atleast 10-15) following your guide trying to make a slimmed down Windows 7 Ultimate x64. I followed it word for word, exactly, multiple times, but I can never get past the installation without some error or needing some driver or file.

I'm currently on a Windows 7 x64 machine with vlite and Vista Sp1/2008 WAIK installed, so I should be able to make a slimmed down win7 x64 by following your guide, correct?

I'm gonna give it one more go, this time without any updates, using your scripts exactly as you have them.




Also, whats this RT7lite program I keep hearing about? is it just a bunch of bogus ?

I had a similiar problem. What caused it was having a wrong setup.exe.
It must be the one 239 kb, there is also one which is 110 kb with that one it won't work. The error is right before you normally can choose the version of windows right?

[shutfu]

franner, on 21 November 2010 - 09:56 AM, said:

I had a similiar problem. What caused it was having a wrong setup.exe.
It must be the one 239 kb, there is also one which is 110 kb with that one it won't work. The error is right before you normally can choose the version of windows right?

I'm sure I had the correct setup.exe because I made that mistake the first time or two as well.

Usually I get an error during the installation process, right after you choose which harddisk/partition to install windows on.

Have you successfully made a vlited 64bit windows 7?

[franner]

I sucessfully made installations of windows 7 x64, x86 and server 2008 r2.
At the beginning I made some mistakes too and overread some parts of the guide.
Remember to install the vista WAIK and place gimage inside the WAIK folder.
But after I followed it over 100% it worked a charm. Remember to check for errors when doing DISM as it at some point can make errors where you need to unmount and do a clean up + reboot (happened to me a few times). Remember to delete the pending.xml if u delete anything inside winsxs. What I did at last when i got some errors was take it in steps. Like do the frist steps till dism (removal), then create the installation file, if no errors good install, do next step etc. Doing it all at once makes it harder to check where the error is happening. If dism fail and not add files correctly it can cause break of installation.

[Remanent]

First things first: Great guide. First time through, after downloading the few missing kb updates, I had a working os, at 870mb for 7 ultimate x64 disc, which installed @ 2.1gb with hibernation / pagefile disabled.

I was getting a gameux.dll error with any game I used after I tried to use it as an os drive. I realize that I need to not remove game explorer. Is there anything else I need to modify frome the guide for game explorer to work, or just uncheck it in vlite when I go thru it the first time for the component removal.

Thanks in advance.

[Remanent]

Well, apparently all I had to do was unchecked games explorer durin the first run with vlite. Tested the os under vmware, and the games explorer was present. Will conduct further testing to make sure everything works as intended.

Once again, great tutorial, I really like this as you can make 7 take up so little space.

[Remanent]

Still got the gameux.dll error. Tried to register it, didn't work, windows started generating a wer.dll error as well after trying to register the gameux.dll. I'm out if ideas at this point.

[theKramer]

Remanent, on 07 December 2010 - 06:02 AM, said:

Still got the gameux.dll error. Tried to register it, didn't work, windows started generating a wer.dll error as well after trying to register the gameux.dll. I'm out if ideas at this point.

Try installing the latest Games for Windows Live. That helped to resolve issues I had with gameux.dll. Make sure to "Run as Administrator" to avoid the error code 0x800710dd

This post has been edited by theKramer: 31 December 2010 - 05:25 AM

[MaxKristopher]

Remanent, on 07 December 2010 - 06:02 AM, said:

Still got the gameux.dll error. Tried to register it, didn't work, windows started generating a wer.dll error as well after trying to register the gameux.dll. I'm out if ideas at this point.

hi,

You can go to this site ..
http://www.fix-all-d...com/gameux.dll/

as I registered few dll's from this site as it is free...worked in my case

[dead0]

hey all, i know ive been away a while, just been a bit busy. here is a new set of batches and vlite presets. this is only for a clean version of 7 ultimate x86/x64 and server r2 enterprise so no updates required (haven't tested with updates yet)

http://www.4shared.c...18q/win7r2.html

you can still use the guide from the previous batch as it still follows the same procedure. i have only removed a minimal amount in vlite so you can remove more. but with this version, do not remove the winsxs folder with vlite, let the batch files do it.

a few notes:
all versions now keep netfx3, powershell removed
x86: media center retained, media streaming should work with wmp12, homegroup should be working (make sure you don't remove windows collaboration in vlite), game explorer retained (untested)
x64: media streaming should work with wmp12, homegroup should be working (make sure you don't remove windows collaboration in vlite), no media center, game explorer retained (untested)
r2: n/a

these batches are still in a testing phase. this set is more of a "not-so extreme" removal method. average install size is about x86: 1.6gb, x64 and r2: 2.5gb with pagefile/hiberfile removed.

This post has been edited by dead0: 09 January 2011 - 07:16 PM

[gendouhydeist]

guys do you know what package does remove WebcamUI and PrinterUI on Devices and Printers??

[dead0]

gendouhydeist, on 10 January 2011 - 03:33 AM, said:

guys do you know what package does remove WebcamUI and PrinterUI on Devices and Printers??

i dont think any packages remove those unless you use vlite to remove windows image aquisition and windows connect now...?

[alvinkhorfire]

dead0

Thanks once again for sharing your batch files. In short, in comparison to your previous batch files (dated 13/09/10), your latest batch files will remove less files in overall, but will retain a little more Windows functionalities, right?

This post has been edited by alvinkhorfire: 11 January 2011 - 12:22 AM

[dead0]

alvinkhorfire, on 11 January 2011 - 12:21 AM, said:

dead0

Thanks once again for sharing your batch files. In short, in comparison to your previous batch files (dated 13/09/10), your latest batch files will remove less files in overall, but will retain a little more Windows functionalities, right?

thats right! the vlite presets are the minimum baseline so you can remove more in vlite...most of the files that are removed with the batch files are linked to the dism package removal. in a sense, this set is what my original "not-so extreme" removal intended to be.

[Hybrid Keyrayder]

Hi dead0. SP1 has just been released a day ago LINK . Can we get a new updated guide from you? And thank you for all your hard work done so far. I"ve made a win7 32bits custom from your guide and after 3 months it works flawlessly. I installed adobe suite, autocad, office and no problems what-so-ever.