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Submitted by: Bill Hickey
NCVA List Master

NRT-0395 Windows VISTA LITE:

A Croatian college student has created a utility that installs a seriously stripped-down Windows VISTA, saying the heft of Microsoft's biggest desktop operating system is just too big to believe. The free program lets users pick and choose which VISTA components, hot fixes, drivers, and even language packs are installed, then builds a disk image that can be burned to a DVD for unattended installation of the operating system. While Microsoft recommends that users set aside 15GB of hard-disk space to install its pride and joy, users boast of squeezing it into an image file as small as 515 MB that takes up just 1.4 GB on the hard drive. One user reported condensing Windows VISTA Home Basic into a 526 MB ISO file and installing it in a virtual machine that used just 1.3 GB of drive space. VLite 1.1 can be downloaded from http://www.vlite.net/index.html

(ComputerWorld 31JAN08)

Last Modified: Sunday, 17-Feb-2008 14:14:50 EST