Not familiar with nLite? Well, let me enlighten you. nLite is a great free utility for Windows that lets you configure a Windows installation to your liking before you install it. Its main use is to remove features you don't need to save disk space and improve performance, but it can also be used to add features and even entire third-party programs and create an unattended install CD. If you haven't tried it, I highly recommend you check it out the next time you need to install Windows.Of course, with the imminent release of Windows Vista, intrepid programmers have created vLite, a version of nLite for Windows Vista. It works just like the original nLite, though it's been prettied up a bit for the Vista scene. vLite is in beta, naturally, so you probably won't find it as rock-solid as its progenitor, but it's bound to be just as useful.
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12-29-2006 @ 3:31PM
Andy Melton said...
It is really neat. The beta releases of the Windows DVDs have all versions from Starter to Ultimate on them. With vLite you can choose with version you want to customize.
The only thing I've noticed is that there do not appear to be a lot of customization options. You can remove a lot of things, however, with nLite you can remove the memory and hard drive requirements, which is how I've been able to install XP Professional onto a computer with only 32 megabytes and 2 gig hard drive. However, I'm sure they're working on it even more and we'll hopefully see those options in a future release of vLite.
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12-30-2006 @ 12:48PM
Catweazle said...
"The beta releases of the Windows DVDs have all versions from Starter to Ultimate on them."
The final version does also. This looks nice, might actually make Vista usable. It's a very early release though so it's still pretty incomplete (there is nothing at all in the display tweaks section for example) and a bit buggy. If nlite is anything to go by though I'm sure this will be excellent when it reaches version 1.0 :)
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