As far as C:\Program Files\Common Files there's a lot of crufty stuff, if you're looking to slim the disk space. If you're looking for lowest overhead, then you can muck about in there, but disk is not usually at a premium anymore (unless you're trying to hit a USB disk size). Actually, I had to run the disk space up to 5GB instead of the 4.4 that I would have preferred so that I could back up the VM to a DVD. Though I doubt that there is 600 MB that I could throw away.
Two places where you can make some substantial disk space available at the expense of all else is to make sure you never enable hibernation and to reduce the page file to the minimum that gives you the performance you need. If you're going for size, set it for either 0 (I don't think it allows this) or like 2 MB. Also, make sure you turn off all indexing crap, etc. I do that before I start doing anything. As this is a virtual machine, I hibernate it instead of shutting down. Care to elaborate, as there doesn't seem to be much on the web explaining this. Also, isn't the paging file similar to/swap? For Solidworks (CAD) I don't think that I should reduce it.
Lastly, once you have Windows (not with apps, just barebones) where you want it, defrag until the lines quit moving. Then you can install your apps. Silly question: Do virtual machines need to be defragged as well? Isn't the fragmentation handled by the filesystem? Though, Windows does _think_ that it's on a FAT filesystem.
For something small and portable without MS Vis Studio, I do something like a 5GB vHD, depending on my mood when I create it. Sometimes I'll do 4. XP needs a miminum of 2 to do anything useful, and 4 is kind of cutting it. No bigger than 8, unless you either do a lot of rendering (temp files) or if you are into that whole sado-mas thing. Anything over 8 (talking in round numbers, not percents or fractions) cannot be reasonably burned to a DVD without compression, and that'll suxors big time if you run into that problem. Also, you'll have to wait a while transferring over the network (assuming brick level backup of the whole vHD on occasion to another box) if you don't have GigE all the way around, so the smaller the disk size the better. These disk images can be compressed? How? Backing up to DVD is _exactly_ something that I am interested in.
There are guys out there who will slim an install till they can't remove another file without disrupting Windows Core functionality. I'll offer this if you get hooked on slimming. IE and Explorer share the same core, and that core is the same core that the rest of the system uses for the APIs. So the Save As... dialog is the same all the way through (interesting note, this is part of why they could never say they had removed IE from the system after a certain point. Because of these shared libs. That would be like saying Gnome is only gone if you don't have any GTK libs on your system, or whatever). So, hope that helps, and I'm usually available over gmail, and I love this sort of thing. To me, slimming is the ME of CS, so there you have it. Thanks.
I imagine that traveling to Mars and staying there to do serious research would, without significant advances, mean a shorter lifespan and for some; a martian burial. And then we could monitor the body decompose. If there is no bacteria on Mars, then the body should decompose in a rather interesting way that may be beneficial to study.
Hell, I'm young and healthy, but I would _still_ volunteer for this mission. Unfortunately, I am certain that my wife would volunteer me as well..
but super scientific ovens do? i suppose the ice melted before they could cook it? There was not expected to be ice in the surface dig. It's only on the third or fourth TEGA chamber that ice is expected to be detected in the sniffer.
And as they were there first, I strongly suspect they were German-speaking Martians. No, the Palestinians will shoot rockets at them and claim the area as their own.
Well, you'd have to delete the bottom panel of course. Naturally.
What I find interesting is that 768 vertical pixels seemed like enough when I had only 1024 going from side to side. Now that I have 1680 going from side to side, even 1050 vertical pixels do not seem to be enough. I know that it is because of the aspect ratio and DPI resolution, but still, the effect is interesting.
Have you started at Black Viper? I just recently was made aware of the site, and have yet to dig deep into it. I should also google a bit, I know, and I will before I get to slimming.
How long ago did you learn to muck about in the registry, read *.inf's, etc? The what? I'm a Ubuntu geek, I really don't know my way around Windows. Strange, I know, but I'm certain that I'll be able to figure out the "how to do" if given the "what to do". In any case, I know that the registry exists and that mucking with it is dangerous. I like to learn by breaking. That's why I study ME, not CS.
How well do you know %system_dir% (C:\Windows\System32) or %windows_dir% or your individual profile? I don't. I've happily never had to muck with that before.
Do you know what you those files in C:\Program Files\Common Files do? I'm starting to feel like Yoda is trying to talk me out of this:)
These are the sorts of questions that you have to start considering depending on what you're doing, but you'll notice I'm right at the border of what's going into XP versus what goes into XP Embedded. I would start with Black Viper, then the Windows Powertoys has one good utility, then you have some other things to think about, regarding disk space and performance, etc. Feel free to contact me at my nick @ google mail to see if I can't help you really stream it down. An AMD/ATI HW thread doesn't seem like the right place to do a VM load trim session... Thanks, Nick, I will keep your address handy in case I need it. It will be a few weeks, though, as I'm swamped right now and slimming the install is not high priority. Funny how I find the time for/. though...
Your local torrent dealer must have a striped version of XP... yes and yes, I had one on a VM and no virus... also wireshark didn't show any strange phone to home activity. That striped versions of XP are quite popular btw. Seeing how everything else on this machine is legal, and how I personally think that [stealing||infringing||notPaying] is immoral, I won't do that. Thanks for the tip, though.
Yes, I know that the nice guys finish last. Like Helmut said, good always looses because good is stupid. That's me.
Which is another way of saying 'less than 5% of the population of the world still uses Fahrenheit'. Looked at that way I'd assert it's in exactly the same league, or, indeed, the same 5.560 kilometres.
I will be getting one as well. But I'll walk into the store like I don't know that they exist and ask which high-end video card is recommended for Linux. I want the salesmen to know that Linux users exist and that there is hardware that supports Linux.
Load fusion-icon, then you can switch windows managers whenever you are on battery. I also disable compiz before firing up GoogleEarth or a virtual machine.
For the record, the latest Compiz runs great on this two-year old Dell Inspiron with ATI X1400 video. And I don't use it for the eye candy. The Enhanced Desktop Zoom and Negative effects essentially make this high-res monitor usable.
For shame. I had the marginal luxury of 50 MHz on you, but you decide. I've (and it still runs) an AMD K6-2 450 which _had_ 192 MB RAM (3x64) (now has 3x128, so it pairs with yours) and I put XP on it about 2003. I do AutoCAD with it, rotating 3d models in real time, with barely a lag. I would really like to know what you've done to slim down XP. I must run XP in a virtual machine for Solidworks, and I'd like to slim it down as much as possible. Naturally all the pretty themes and effects are disabled, but that does not seem to have helped much.
At the risk of breaking the/. recursive comment record, I'm going to go very far out on this limb and ask: have you tried running the app in Wine under Linux?
The best way to teach them is for them to actually suffer the consequences of their apathy and ignorance. If their identity is actually stolen, they'll realize that you're speaking sense. Not when it's someone I care about.
As ridiculous as this will sound, have you tried running the app in a virtual machine? I'm not familiar with Xres but it might be a better solution than perpetuating that ME box.
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Hey, I'm using OpenOffice on my Eee PC right now, you insensitive clod!
Funny, I thought that emacs was the only text editor with a build in webbrowser.I break laws. I just don't overstep my morals. The two are not always mutually exclusive.
Thank you! I've heard of nlite in passing, and forgot about it.
Your body contains plenty enough bacteria for it to decompose by itself.
And then what? No maggots, I would suppose. With nothing to feed the bacteria after I'm gone, what next?yeah!
just like Duke Nukem Forever will really really really really really really really come out this year!
Duke Nukem is already done, but it only runs on Herd.Hell, I'm young and healthy, but I would _still_ volunteer for this mission. Unfortunately, I am certain that my wife would volunteer me as well..
Karma: shields up!
What I find interesting is that 768 vertical pixels seemed like enough when I had only 1024 going from side to side. Now that I have 1680 going from side to side, even 1050 vertical pixels do not seem to be enough. I know that it is because of the aspect ratio and DPI resolution, but still, the effect is interesting.
Twelve hour AM/PM or twenty-four hour military time?
Both. Are you not familiar with the digital clock?Yes, I know that the nice guys finish last. Like Helmut said, good always looses because good is stupid. That's me.
Likewise. Don't forget that the clock is largeUnit:middleUnit:smallUnit from left to right as well.
Which is another way of saying 'less than 5% of the population of the world still uses Fahrenheit'. Looked at that way I'd assert it's in exactly the same league, or, indeed, the same 5.560 kilometres.
That's more than Linux users, by the way.(posted by Celsius-measuring Ubuntu user)
I will be getting one as well. But I'll walk into the store like I don't know that they exist and ask which high-end video card is recommended for Linux. I want the salesmen to know that Linux users exist and that there is hardware that supports Linux.
Do you write to the game developers and let them know that you need support for Linux? Here are a few addresses to get you started:
ArenaNet: http://www.arena.net/contact.php
Ironclad Games: http://www.ironcladgames.com/contact.html
Blizzard Entertainment: http://us.blizzard.com/support/webform-us.xml?gameId=0
Firzxis: http://www.firaxis.com/support/
Electronic Arts: http://www.info.ea.com/company/company_prlist.php
Load fusion-icon, then you can switch windows managers whenever you are on battery. I also disable compiz before firing up GoogleEarth or a virtual machine.
For the record, the latest Compiz runs great on this two-year old Dell Inspiron with ATI X1400 video. And I don't use it for the eye candy. The Enhanced Desktop Zoom and Negative effects essentially make this high-res monitor usable.
At the risk of breaking the /. recursive comment record, I'm going to go very far out on this limb and ask: have you tried running the app in Wine under Linux?
As ridiculous as this will sound, have you tried running the app in a virtual machine? I'm not familiar with Xres but it might be a better solution than perpetuating that ME box.