[alvinkhorfire]

Hybrid Keyrayder

Just be patient. dead0 will release SP1-compatible batch files when they are ready, as promised by him.

dead0, on 18 August 2009 - 01:55 PM, said:

Update (18/08/10)
a refresh of the guide is up along with new sets of batch files. nothing too major regarding changes except the batch files now include clearing of most of the winsxs folder without the use of vlite. also the update batch files have been updated to include all ms updates since rtm til this month. this will also be my last set til sp1 is released. i hope to do a proper makeover of the files as currently, especially the r2 file, it is very messy, when sp1 is finally out. i will only focus on Ultimate x64 & R2 so no x86 support but I will post a special laptop edition of x86 based on Ultimate.

Give dead0 sufficient time to perform the required testing. I am sure that when they are ready, dead0 will release them accordingly.

This post has been edited by alvinkhorfire: 17 January 2011 - 01:05 AM

[Junior2613]

alvinkhorfire, on 17 January 2011 - 01:05 AM, said:

Hybrid Keyrayder

Just be patient. dead0 will release SP1-compatible batch files when they are ready, as promised by him.

dead0, on 18 August 2009 - 01:55 PM, said:

Update (18/08/10)
a refresh of the guide is up along with new sets of batch files. nothing too major regarding changes except the batch files now include clearing of most of the winsxs folder without the use of vlite. also the update batch files have been updated to include all ms updates since rtm til this month. this will also be my last set til sp1 is released. i hope to do a proper makeover of the files as currently, especially the r2 file, it is very messy, when sp1 is finally out. i will only focus on Ultimate x64 & R2 so no x86 support but I will post a special laptop edition of x86 based on Ultimate.

Give dead0 sufficient time to perform the required testing. I am sure that when they are ready, dead0 will release them accordingly.

+1 to this. Hey dead0 been a long time since I posted here great job with the batches works greater than ever!

[joesi]

So I tried doing this prodecure, but the windows 7 installed saying "cannot install required files". Also during vlite while applying changes had a similar error "cannot find file" or something which I think is related to why the install didn't work either.
I did make some mistakes though (used an older session file, possible other files older as well. It was rather confusing since dead0 didn't post his latest file package in his original post), so I'm retrying the procedure again, with just the new files, and hopefully with no mistakes.


Anyway, the main reason that I'm posting, is I'd like an explanation of what is being removed by the dism bat and removal bat (and/or the vlite preset)for win7x64 of dead0's latest file package, and what impact it has on the functionality of windows.

I can see the components obviously from vlite, so that's less of an issue, but with the dism, there's no description of the components that it removes, so it's harder for me to understand it's impact.
Is there a basic explanation of the functionality that is still there or the functionality that isn't? For instance I saw some diagnostic and/or network things were removed with both vlite and the dism bat - does that mean I wouldn't be able to view the network (or even system) performance section of (task manager's?) resource manager?

Also, Windows Remote Management is on vlite's removal list, but it says it's required for event log. Is this false, or should I uncheck remote management if I want to use the event log?
Same thing goes on with "quality of service" (network section) and "IPSec Policy agent" (service), to have enabled windows update (service).
Or is it possible that the remove/dism already removed components that allow the event log or windows update to work already?

One big thing I was wondering about is that the removal batch file says something like ".net framework will not be installable in the future" I assume this is still true, or is there some sort of fix or what? I was just wondering because what if a more recent net framework (or small, but critical for some, update for it) pops up in 1-5 years down the road? Will I just be screwed? I don't want an OS that won't last for a long time.

Oh another thing: I am using an ISO which already has updates slipstreamed onto it, I presume I can skip the add an remove stages of the guide fine, right?

Edit: so I tried doing the guide procedure again and It didn't work perfectly. When vlite was just finishing up the modification it said "The system could not find the file specified" (although it didn't SEEM to abort the whole process, but the ISO file size was hardly shrunk at all, so maybe it did abort).
The only things different is when I ran vlite I kept zip/cab viewing, Quality of Service, Digital Rights Management, and IPSec Policy agent. Also the Windows ISO has updates on it already, and I skipped the updating steps.
Also errored on install, something like "windows cannot find install files". This occurs before even doing step 12 or 13.

This post has been edited by joesi: 31 January 2011 - 06:38 PM

[dead0]

joesi, on 31 January 2011 - 05:02 PM, said:

So I tried doing this prodecure, but the windows 7 installed saying "cannot install required files". Also during vlite while applying changes had a similar error "cannot find file" or something which I think is related to why the install didn't work either.
I did make some mistakes though (used an older session file, possible other files older as well. It was rather confusing since dead0 didn't post his latest file package in his original post), so I'm retrying the procedure again, with just the new files, and hopefully with no mistakes.


Anyway, the main reason that I'm posting, is I'd like an explanation of what is being removed by the dism bat and removal bat (and/or the vlite preset)for win7x64 of dead0's latest file package, and what impact it has on the functionality of windows.

I can see the components obviously from vlite, so that's less of an issue, but with the dism, there's no description of the components that it removes, so it's harder for me to understand it's impact.
Is there a basic explanation of the functionality that is still there or the functionality that isn't? For instance I saw some diagnostic and/or network things were removed with both vlite and the dism bat - does that mean I wouldn't be able to view the network (or even system) performance section of (task manager's?) resource manager?

Also, Windows Remote Management is on vlite's removal list, but it says it's required for event log. Is this false, or should I uncheck remote management if I want to use the event log?
Same thing goes on with "quality of service" (network section) and "IPSec Policy agent" (service), to have enabled windows update (service).
Or is it possible that the remove/dism already removed components that allow the event log or windows update to work already?

One big thing I was wondering about is that the removal batch file says something like ".net framework will not be installable in the future" I assume this is still true, or is there some sort of fix or what? I was just wondering because what if a more recent net framework (or small, but critical for some, update for it) pops up in 1-5 years down the road? Will I just be screwed? I don't want an OS that won't last for a long time.

Oh another thing: I am using an ISO which already has updates slipstreamed onto it, I presume I can skip the add an remove stages of the guide fine, right?

Edit: so I tried doing the guide procedure again and It didn't work perfectly. When vlite was just finishing up the modification it said "The system could not find the file specified" (although it didn't SEEM to abort the whole process, but the ISO file size was hardly shrunk at all, so maybe it did abort).
The only things different is when I ran vlite I kept zip/cab viewing, Quality of Service, Digital Rights Management, and IPSec Policy agent. Also the Windows ISO has updates on it already, and I skipped the updating steps.
Also errored on install, something like "windows cannot find install files". This occurs before even doing step 12 or 13.

use the files in the first post under heading pre-sp1. note this is for a clean install without ny updates slipstreamed.

until a proper sp1 is released on msdn there wont be any further updates. i just did a reverse integration of sp1 but its gonna take me weeks to to shrink it properly and thats just for the x86 version so will wait

[joesi]

I think my problem may be due to either the modified install I was using (or still possibly the fact that I'm running vlite on an OS that wasn't slimmed down right so some things are buggy).

Anyway, I'll try some other stuff and see if I can get things working better.

This post has been edited by joesi: 01 February 2011 - 06:52 PM

[joesi]

This time that I retry, my untouched dvd, it doesn't get far at all! the dism batch doesn't work- all the actions receive error 5: access is denied.

ThePegass, on 21 January 2010 - 10:19 AM, said:

And I had problem with removex86.bat, It gave mi info "Access Denied" while removing files. So I add to your batch file a couple lines to take ownership and admin permission:

takeown /f {folder} /r /d y
icacls {folder} /grant administrators:F /T

...so as first take ownership, then permission and then remove files and folders.

I honestly don't see how this will help me, as I didn't have this issue when I used another install source, but now I am getting the problem all of a sudden. I tried it anyway though. It took a very long time!!
One folder, "documents and settings" was NOT allowed access to change permissions.
Whether or not that was the reaon, Most (not all) of the dism batch actions failed. I think it's possible some of them succeeded last time also, but the large majority of them failed, just like now.

Why would (seemingly just) a different source cause such a huge difference?

This post has been edited by joesi: 02 February 2011 - 01:18 AM

[Photek]

dead0: Thank you for this guide!

If you make a guide for W7 SP1, I think it deserves a new thread.

My testing so far makes me believe that vlite doesn't work with SP1. I even tried removing Traditional Chinese only, nothing else.
I'm getting this error after I click "Install now":
"The product key entered does not match any of the windows images available for installation. Enter a different product key."

[dead0]

SP1 is not looking too good for the moment. always getting install errors. vlite removal does not work at all with sp1 unless you use 7 rtm with sp1 slipstreamed. the msdn version with sp1 will not work.

i was thinkin of calling it quits but i may have found a workaround...

This post has been edited by dead0: 27 February 2011 - 10:16 AM

[alvinkhorfire]

dead0

Yeah, it is very frustrating that vLite does not work anymore.

Anyhow, your Windows 7 Ultimate x86/64 "not-so extreme" Removal necessitates GImagex and batch files to overcome the shortcoming of vLite in slimming down Windows 7. Definitely, your method really work and I am sure many of us here appreciate your effort here.

Still, have you ever thought of using RT 7 Lite to replace vLite? I mean, besides using RT 7 Lite to slim down Windows, we also use GImagex and batch files to augment the ability of RT 7 Lite. As of now, RT 7 Lite still cannot remove certain components that can easily be removed by vLite. I know that it is easier said than done. You have to modify all of your batch files to work with RT 7 Lite and it is not an easy attempt.

Well, it is just my suggestion and you make the call yourself. No worries if you choose to stick with vLite.

Nevertheless, thanks for all batch files you have shared thus far.

This post has been edited by alvinkhorfire: 28 February 2011 - 12:09 AM

[dead0]

alvinkhorfire, on 27 February 2011 - 11:56 PM, said:

dead0

Yeah, it is very frustrating that vLite does not work anymore.

Anyhow, your Windows 7 Ultimate x86/64 "not-so extreme" Removal necessitates GImagex and batch files to overcome the shortcoming of vLite in slimming down Windows 7. Definitely, your method really work and I am sure many of us here appreciate your effort here.

Still, have you ever thought of using RT 7 Lite to replace vLite? I mean, besides using RT 7 Lite to slim down Windows, we also use GImagex and batch files to augment the ability of RT 7 Lite. As of now, RT 7 Lite still cannot remove certain components that can easily be removed by vLite. I know that it is easier said than done. You have to modify all of your batch files to work with RT 7 Lite and it is not an easy attempt.

Well, it is just my suggestion and you make the call yourself. No worries if you choose to stick with vLite.

Nevertheless, thanks for all batch files you have shared thus far.

i just find rt7lite takes too long whereas with vlite i could do it in half the time or less. now this is partly due to rt7lite relying on waik 2.0 which is so **** slow. i still haven't given up on vlite yet

[alvinkhorfire]

dead0

No problem. I see what you mean. I see that in the thread problem with Vlite 1.2 and Win7 SP1 (MSDN), many users have reported success with your method. Hopefully, whenever you are free in the future, you can update your pdf guide that unifies all of the steps needed to modify vLite to work with Windows 7 SP1 iso. Looking forward to that. Thanks.

This post has been edited by alvinkhorfire: 28 February 2011 - 11:37 PM

[Corrado RS]

Seems like the file links are dead. Anyone have the latest guide/batches/updates and is willing to share? Much thanks! =]

[TrendMark]

I also tried to work on a lite job from this file but I recieved "dism error. How can I solve this problem. If anyone knows how to do it, please help me...

[vincentvega007]

Has anyone yet available x86 guide? All link are dead.
Thanks

[DarkPoe]

Corrado RS, on 06 May 2011 - 08:06 AM, said:

Seems like the file links are dead. Anyone have the latest guide/batches/updates and is willing to share? Much thanks! =]

Every link is dead

[alvinkhorfire]

vincentvega007 and DarkPoe
Well, this guide was for Windows 7 RTM (no Service Pack 1). You guys should instead refer to dead0's most recent guide on Windows 7 SP1, Windows 7 Ultimate/Server 2008 R2 Enterprise SP1 Batch Removal.

[DarkPoe]

Yes, but neither the links there are valid, all are like removed or expired or something...

[Lege]

Can anyone upload pdf file again and post link. i wanna read this tutorial but i cant becouse broken link...?

[Kernelspoke]

I feel like someone just zapped me with a defibrillator and am stranding off these cobwebs and mummy strands all around me, and yes I have just received confirmation that this is the year 2012 prolly just begun...... wow!! ...Still trying to figure out what my name is doing here, I think my mem needs fibrillation. Now where are those probes?

Hallo people!

[The Glimmerman]

Better late then never.
For the people who need this. Here are the files.

Reminder these are very old files. PRE SP1

X64 & x86 Files and Guides