Gullible Jones Posted June 1, 2014 Share Posted June 1, 2014 It's Windows nostalgia time again! I'll admit to a certain love/hate relationship with Windows 7, with a lot of reasons for both sides. But I want to start messing around with it again. Partly because I see a lot of it at work, partly because let's be frank, it's a really cool shiny OS, and much more advanced than Linux in a lot of ways. (GPU scheduling and VRAM management, powerful filesystem ACLs with integrated mandatory access control, filesystem snapshotting without LVM or such, probably better CPU and I/O scheduling...) Also it'd be nice to gain a little familiarity with Powershell and Windows system programming. Here's the problem: what I actually want is more like Windows 2008 Server Core. I want to be able to install only the components I want. Not Windows Explorer or IE, not Media Player, and not 10 GB of drivers for PCI devices I'll never use; basically just System32, Powershell and some CLI tools, and cmd.exe. The rest I can download. Is there a way to do this? Aside from using vLite or WAIK or such, where you have to install Windows, install .NET, build a custom ISO, burn it to a DVD, reinstall from that... My initial thought was something like, "Use a batch script to XCOPY the stuff I need from the install DVD to the hard disk." But the install process seems more complicated than that. Any helpful ideas? :) Edit: using an unaltered, legally purchased install DVD. Just want to make that clear. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dot Matrix Posted June 1, 2014 Share Posted June 1, 2014 Install Server 2008 R2? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gullible Jones Posted June 1, 2014 Author Share Posted June 1, 2014 ... Don't have $1000 to spare at the moment? Hmm. Actually, would a manual install violate the EULA? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dot Matrix Posted June 1, 2014 Share Posted June 1, 2014 Not sure if it violates the EULA, but I'm positive you'd be running an unsupported Windows 7 install. Windows 7 is not meant to run in that type of configuration. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gullible Jones Posted June 1, 2014 Author Share Posted June 1, 2014 Hmm. I was thinking that wouldn't be a problem, but you're probably right - chances are I'd be missing header files that I needed for system programming stuff. Okay, scratch that idea... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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