Software Tool Strips Windows Vista To Bare Bones

Preedit writes "A free download that can cut Windows Vista's gargantuan footprint by half or more is developing a big following on the Internet. vLite is a configuration tool that lets users automatically delete a lot of unnecessary Vista components — such as Windows Media Player and MSN installer — to pare the OS down to a reasonable size. The software is catching on. An InformationWeek story notes that a forum that asks users to suggest new features has drawn nearly 50,000 page views. Meanwhile, Microsoft officials have themselves conceded that Vista is "bloated" and are developing the next version of Windows on a core called MinWin, which is smaller than Vista by an order of magnitude."

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Re:Vista XP is here!

[Sciros]

Wow I like how your utter lack of any insight whatsoever got modded insighful.

If you have a powerful enough machine then Vista's advantages remain while by far most of its disadvantages disappear. And by "powerful enough" I mean a $900 HP you could have picked up at a retail store 6 months ago. Nothing crazy.

You can upgrade for DX10, a better UI and search functionality, smarter resource management when you do have a lot of apps open, a FAR better multimedia experience if you're into watching movies or TV on your comp, actually good tablet (as in, Wacom) integration, etc.

If for now you're running into driver issues on Vista because of some hardware peripherals you want to keep using, then I can understand sticking with XP even when you get a new machine. But otherwise, you really shouldn't run into any deal-breakers as long as your machine has enough RAM (2-4 gigs), and RAM is cheap.