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Old 04-08-2008, 07:55
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Windows XP with 256MB RAM

Is there a tool available which automatically removes/disables all unnecessary services & tools to run a Windows XP SP3 + IE7 + Office 2007 on 256MB of ram. Currently there is only about 40MB free mem

I know about nLite and stuff but want to apply this to a regular/default CD installation without doing every tweak by hand

Adding memory is no option (al least for this system)
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Old 04-08-2008, 11:28
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How about XPLite instead then? If I understand correctly, you want to remove components from an already installed system rather than remove components from the installation package (as nLite does) - yes, that's what XPLite does.
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The olde no background pic, minimal visual settings etc will free up RAM.

You could also sift through the things that XP loads by using msconfig :P
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Old 28-12-2008, 10:38
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Apologies for the thread necromancy, but this can be achieved easily via a .reg file (plus a restart for the service changes to take effect). Attached is an example taken from eXPerience's minimalist Windows setups which should provide a useful starting point (after decompressing, rename it from .txt to .reg).
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Old 28-12-2008, 11:46
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Ehm, can you quote the URL of the page you got this from? I LOVE tweaking stuff!
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i will not post links to anything warezey in future, i will also consider the contents of my post before i post
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Just because its needed.
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totally agree there
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