How big is your Vista Windows folder?

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Vista Ultimate x64 SP1 - 21.2GB, 91051 Files and 20,244 Folders

winsxs takes up a whole 11.7GB

Is there any reason to this thread?

I guess in retrospect the question should have been how big is it after install.

I'm just trying to make sure it has to be that big, if there is anything I can purge I'd certainly like to.

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I didn't know so many people vLited Vista.

I have a 160GB hard drive on my laptop so it's not a huge deal, I just wanted to make sure I didn't have a lot of unnecessary bloat (other than what Windows comes with I mean)....

Out of curiosity, what do you guys vLite out of it, what are the biggest space hogs?

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I didn't know so many people vLited Vista.

I have a 160GB hard drive on my laptop so it's not a huge deal, I just wanted to make sure I didn't have a lot of unnecessary bloat (other than what Windows comes with I mean)....

Out of curiosity, what do you guys vLite out of it, what are the biggest space hogs?

My Vlited SP1 x64 disc is 641mb :p

Everything removed below,

(nothing below is illegal/private, it's just the name of services/content)

[Compatibility]

Aero Glass

Internet Explorer

[CustomHide]

[Components]

;# Accessories #

Accessibility

Character Map

Disk Cleanup

Mobility Center

Paint

Snipping Tool

Speech Support

System Information

Welcome Center

Windows Sidebar and Gadgets

Wordpad

;# Drivers #

Display adapters-Ati

Display adapters-Intel

Display adapters-nVidia

Diva Server

Ethernet network adapters

Modems

Printers-Apollo

Printers-Brother

Printers-Canon

Printers-Citizen

Printers-Dell

Printers-Diconix

Printers-Epson

Printers-Fuji Xerox

Printers-Fujitsu

Printers-Generic printer

Printers-Gestetner

Printers-HP

Printers-IBM

Printers-Infotec

Printers-Konica

Printers-Konica Minolta

Printers-Kyocera Mita

Printers-Lanier

Printers-Lexmark

Printers-Minolta

Printers-Minolta-QMS

Printers-NEC

Printers-NRG

Printers-Oce

Printers-Oki

Printers-Okidata

Printers-Olivetti

Printers-Panasonic

Printers-QMS

Printers-Ricoh

Printers-Samsung

Printers-Savin

Printers-Seikosha

Printers-Sharp

Printers-Sony

Printers-Star

Printers-Tally

Printers-Tektronix

Printers-Wipro ePeripherals

Printers-Xerox

QLogic Fibre Channel Adapter

Scanners

Sound controllers

Storage controllers-Adaptec

Storage controllers-Elxstor

Storage controllers-Hewlett-Packard

Storage controllers-IBM ServeRAID

Storage controllers-ICP vortex

Storage controllers-ITE

Storage controllers-LSI Logic

Storage controllers-MegaRAID

Storage controllers-nVidia

Storage controllers-Promise

Storage controllers-SiS

Storage controllers-ULi

Storage controllers-Via

TV Tuners-ADS Technologies

TV Tuners-ASUSTeK Computer Inc.

TV Tuners-AVerMedia Technologies, Inc.

TV Tuners-Compro Technology Inc.

TV Tuners-Conexant Systems, Inc.

TV Tuners-Creatix

TV Tuners-Hauppauge

TV Tuners-KNC ONE GmbH

TV Tuners-KWorld

TV Tuners-Lumanate, Inc.

TV Tuners-Philips Semiconductors

TV Tuners-Pinnacle Systems

TV Tuners-TerraTec Electronic GmbH

TV Tuners-VidzMedia Pte Ltd.

TV Tuners-ViXS Systems Inc.

;# Games #

Game Explorer

Inbox Games

Premium Inbox Games

;# Hardware Support #

Dynamic Volume Manager

Fax Support

Firewire (1394)

Floppy Disk Support

Infrared Support

Internet Small Computer System Interface (iSCSI)

Modem Support

Printer Support

Smartcards

Windows Image Acquisition

Windows Mobile Device Center

Windows Portable Devices

WLAN Support

;# Languages #

Arabic

Brazillian

Bulgarian

Croatian

Czech

Danish

Dutch

Estonian

Finnish

French

German

Greek

Hebrew

Hungarian

Italian

Japanese

Korean

Latvian

Lithuanian

Norwegian

Polish

Portuguese

Romanian

Russian

Serbian

Simplified Chinese

Slovak

Slovenian

Spanish

Swedish

Table Driven Text Input Processor

Thai

Traditional Chinese

Turkish

Ukrainian

;# Multimedia #

Media Center

Movie and DVD Maker

Music and Video samples

Sample Pictures

Screensavers

Shell event sounds

SideShow

Sound Recorder

Wallpapers

Windows Calendar

Windows Photo Gallery

;# Network #

Connect to a Network Projector

File and printer sharing (Server)

Internet Information Services (IIS)

Remote Desktop and Assistance

Remote Desktop Client

Windows Collaboration

Windows Firewall

Windows Mail

;# Services #

Application Experience

Computer Browser

DHCP

Diagnostics

Distributed Link Tracking Client

Distributed Transaction Coordinator (DTC)

Error Reporting

Interactive Services Detection

Internet Connection Sharing (ICS)

IP Helper

IPsec Policy Agent

Microsoft DFS Replication

Multimedia Class Scheduler

Offline Files

Protected Storage

Quality Windows Audio Video Experience

Remote Registry

Secondary Logon

TCP/IP NetBios Helper

TPM Base Services

Universal Plug and Play (UPNP)

Volume Shadow Copy

WebDAV (WebClient)

Windows Remote Management

Windows Search

Windows Time

;# System #

.NET Framework

BitLocker Drive Encryption

Digital Locker

Disk Defragmenter

Disk Quota

Guided Help

Help

IMAPIv2 Burning Support

Jet Database Engine

Malicious Software Removal Tool

Manual Install (Setup.exe)

MDAC

Microsoft Agent

Natural Language

Parental Controls

Performance Counters

Reliability and Performance Monitor

Remote Differential Compression

Run a legacy CPL elevated

Security Center

Sync Center

System Restore

Tablet PC

User Account Control (UAC)

Windows Backup

Windows Defender

Windows Easy Transfer

Windows SAT (Performance Index)

Windows Ultimate Extras

Zip Folder

[Options]

DEP (Data Execution Prevention) = Default

User Account Control (UAC) = Disabled

AntiSpyware Realtime Protection = Default

AutoPlay = Disabled

Paging Executive = Disabled

Power scheme = High performance

Power button = Default

Sleep button = Default

Hibernation = Off

Control Panel - Classic View = Enabled

Show hidden files and folders = No

Show protected operating system files = No

Show extensions for known file types = Yes

IE Phishing Filter = Enabled

IE Phishing Verification Ballon Tips = Default

[Protection]

windows\system32\msconfig.exe

[Drivers]

[Hotfixes]

[LanguagePacks]

I only do it for personal preference.

I've become quite an addict to slimming down my discs since nlite.

I know many people will tell me I've probably removed "important" things, but remember what's removed above isn't important to me.

All my games/applications/internet work and I have an Antivirus running 24/7.

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