Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 30th Jun 2008 18:48 UTC, submitted by Dan Warne
Through all the Windows and Microsoft bashing on the intertubes, it's almost easy to forget that Windows does, in fact, have quite a few positive aspects as well. One of those aspects is the modularity of its installation system, which allows you to create your custom installation image of Windows - with relative ease. Sadly, Microsoft decided to keep this ability away from normal users, making it a sort of OEM tool only. Lucky for us, there's a tool called vLite/nLite which allows us to slipstream fixes, applications, and drivers into the installation image as we please. This functionality of course also made its way to the 'underground' community, who used it to produce something called TinyXP. APCMag decided to take a look at it.
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I've used nLite and created WindowsXP installation disk for my HP laptop. HP didnot gave me the OS installation disk and only gave me a option of creating restore disk along with hell lot of crapware and unwanted programs.
I used nList along with one pirated XP disk dumped the pirated one on disk, replaced the i386 folder of pirated one with mine and burn the DVD!
I use my original serial number that came with Laptop and I dont have the HP's bolted installation but simple clean xp installed on my laptop. Rest of the laptop drivers I downloaded from HP site.
What these guys are doing is nothing a complex thing.