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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RE[5]: Comment by TusharG
by Bounty on Tue 1st Jul 2008 16:33
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Member since:2006-09-18
or you're a regular user (meaning you don't have special boot disks and don't go around fixing your family's computers)
and need to upgrade your HDD, or want to play with linux for a while (meaning wipe whole hdd), then decide to go back to windows.... or want to make an 'ultimate' boot cd w/o trying to hack into your special proprietary (undocumented) restore software to get i386 files.
If they want to save money by not including many DVD's then they can put all the extra crappy software on 1 other "drivers and apps" DVD.
RE[5]: Comment by TusharG
by kaiwai on Wed 2nd Jul 2008 01:27
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Member since:2005-07-06
What about his thing called "restore partition" that I had heared of in relation to "Windows" - does this perform the same purpose?
Had that on a Vaio laptop. Works great until your HD dies then what do you do?! If something is going to die in a computer it'll probably be the HD. *shakes fist at Sony*. For the cost of a couple of cents of DVD this problem would "go away"... well, except the crushing feeling you get when your computer say something like "OS not found" on a black screen in white system font...
Had that on a Vaio laptop. Works great until your HD dies then what do you do?! If something is going to die in a computer it'll probably be the HD. *shakes fist at Sony*. For the cost of a couple of cents of DVD this problem would "go away"... well, except the crushing feeling you get when your computer say something like "OS not found" on a black screen in white system font...
Well, you could always create the restoration DVD as soon as you get the computer.
RE[6]: Comment by TusharG
by burnttoy on Wed 2nd Jul 2008 07:25
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Member since:2006-07-28
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2006-07-28
What about his thing called "restore partition" that I had heared of in relation to "Windows" - does this perform the same purpose?
Had that on a Vaio laptop. Works great until your HD dies then what do you do?! If something is going to die in a computer it'll probably be the HD. *shakes fist at Sony*. For the cost of a couple of cents of DVD this problem would "go away"... well, except the crushing feeling you get when your computer say something like "OS not found" on a black screen in white system font...