Just For My Memory Posted December 27, 2009 Share Posted December 27, 2009 Windows 7 installation disc is approx. 2,45 GB and installed size is approx. 8 GB. I know Windows 7 runs faster, but It's only a bit faster. It's still slow, compared to Windows XP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedphoenixLS1 Posted December 27, 2009 Share Posted December 27, 2009 Windows 7 installation disc is approx. 2,45 GB and installed size is approx. 8 GB.I know Windows 7 runs faster, but It's only a bit faster. It's still slow, compared to Windows XP. My Asus EEE PC flies with Windows 7 (and all my other computers with it), it's better in every way over XP... It boots faster, it runs faster, the interface is vastly superior, much safer to use.. What kind of computer are you using? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buendia Posted December 27, 2009 Share Posted December 27, 2009 Depends on hardware it runs on. On mine, 7 is at least as fast as WinXP is. And besides, Seven is way more better, not just performance wise. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Udedenkz Posted December 27, 2009 Share Posted December 27, 2009 1. Go to vlite forums 2. Find guide on slimming down Windows 7 ISO 3. Follow Instructions 4. Get yourself a slimmed down Windows 7 5. Install EDIT: But, I do agree: Windows 7 is slower than Windows XP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LittleNeutrino Veteran Posted December 27, 2009 Veteran Share Posted December 27, 2009 Who cares about the installation size. That does not mean that it is bloated. Initial code for the OS is very large not just for images and stuff so the Installation size is going to be rather large However compared to the 13Gb that Vista Ultimate took on the Test machine i installed it on 8Gb is fantastic lol. Also i have installed 7 on some rather pathetic computers and it runs rather speedy on those machines. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Just For My Memory Posted December 27, 2009 Author Share Posted December 27, 2009 My Asus EEE PC flies with Windows 7 (and all my other computers with it), it's better in every way over XP... It boots faster, it runs faster, the interface is vastly superior, much safer to use.. What kind of computer are you using? My computer is a newly-bought one with 300GB of hard disk and 4GB of RAM. But I can't stop complaining Windows 7's size compared to nice Windows XP one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+John Teacake MVC Posted December 27, 2009 MVC Share Posted December 27, 2009 In the day and age of 1tb hard drives does it matter?, At the end of the day your not forced to use it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AltecXP Posted December 27, 2009 Share Posted December 27, 2009 Windows 7 installation disc is approx. 2,45 GB and installed size is approx. 8 GB.I know Windows 7 runs faster, but It's only a bit faster. It's still slow, compared to Windows XP. .....and Snow Leopard is 8.2GB installed 2.45 of that 8GB is the install files, Windows itself is about 5.5GB, but unless you are installing on a 60GB HDD whats the problem? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yxz Posted December 27, 2009 Share Posted December 27, 2009 http://tinycorelinux.com/ (N) to bloat! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Just For My Memory Posted December 27, 2009 Author Share Posted December 27, 2009 1. Go to vlite forums2. Find guide on slimming down Windows 7 ISO 3. Follow Instructions 4. Get yourself a slimmed down Windows 7 5. Install EDIT: But, I do agree: Windows 7 is slower than Windows XP. Yes, but vLite had a big problem when applying it with Windows 7 - It's so nut when Dino Nuhagic did not make "something like 7lite". I miss this tool. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Just For My Memory Posted December 27, 2009 Author Share Posted December 27, 2009 (edited) <snipped> Depends on hardware it runs on. On mine, 7 is at least as fast as WinXP is. And besides, Seven is way more better, not just performance wise. I mainly complain about its size. The performance is really better than Windows Vista. Edited December 27, 2009 by Calum Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BajiRav Posted December 27, 2009 Share Posted December 27, 2009 Windows 7 installation disc is approx. 2,45 GB and installed size is approx. 8 GB.I know Windows 7 runs faster, but It's only a bit faster. It's still slow, compared to Windows XP. Come back to me after you've gone through a few weeks of dock/wake-up/sleep/undock/wake-up/sleep/dock.. cycles. Win XP may be faster initially but I can almost see it failing miserably in my workflow. Not to mention the horrible memory management of XP. :s You should really think twice before comparing Win7 to a 8 year old OS that should've died 3 years ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Just For My Memory Posted December 27, 2009 Author Share Posted December 27, 2009 http://tinycorelinux.com/(N) to bloat! No. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JunkMail Posted December 27, 2009 Share Posted December 27, 2009 There were times when people said the same thing about XP, used XPLite for removal of bloat and then nLite. Anyways, This app 7Customizer is a replacement for vlite for windows 7. Click the link to know more Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Just For My Memory Posted December 27, 2009 Author Share Posted December 27, 2009 to Xilo, Sawyer12, +HouseOfLeaves: I mean: hard drives are cheap. Oh C'mon, It only happens in US only. What another country? They are not cheap. to Xilo: Whatever you call me. "...When software improves, space requirements gets bigger." this is totally wrong. to dhan: Yes, you're right to JunkMail: Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lee31 Posted December 27, 2009 Share Posted December 27, 2009 (edited) Same **** different day. Have all these XP fanboys forgot what hardware was available when XP came out? A system with 80GB hard drive, 1GB Ram and CPU around 2.0 GHz would have been a luxury for most people in those days and would have cost mega ????'s. Edited December 27, 2009 by Calum Censored out a word to fully comply with our own filter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Krome Posted December 27, 2009 Share Posted December 27, 2009 Windows 7 installation disc is approx. 2,45 GB and installed size is approx. 8 GB.I know Windows 7 runs faster, but It's only a bit faster. It's still slow, compared to Windows XP. Well, my Windows 7, after a fresh install without any software or drivers added, it deflated to about 14GB. I don't know why you only get 8GB. That is awesome that you get that low drive space. As for bloat, well I don't really care. I just love every bit of Windows 7. At the moment, the only thing I hate about Windows 7 is that if you touch the registry, it will fight back. I mean literally, it will force a certain functionality to be completely disabled even if the registry has nothing to do with whatever you touched. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Just For My Memory Posted December 27, 2009 Author Share Posted December 27, 2009 (edited) Oh dear god, can you read? I'm not but these people who attack you clearly must be. Why else they don't want a better product?<snipped> I think there a lot of improvements over Windows Vista, except the disk space are the same - even when I removed a lot of components from Windows features (=removed virtually). I wonder if they did visit Windows 7 Taskforce regularly. <snipped> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Calum Veteran Posted December 27, 2009 Veteran Share Posted December 27, 2009 Windows 7 installation disc is approx. 2,45 GB and installed size is approx. 8 GB.I know Windows 7 runs faster, but It's only a bit faster. It's still slow, compared to Windows XP. Windows XP was (and still is) very slow for me. Windows 7 performs very well for me. It all depends on the programs you use and the hardware you have. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Just For My Memory Posted December 27, 2009 Author Share Posted December 27, 2009 Windows XP was (and still is) very slow for me. Windows 7 performs very well for me.It all depends on the programs you use and the hardware you have. No, I complain mostly in disk space, not performance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brentaal Posted December 27, 2009 Share Posted December 27, 2009 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hdood Posted December 27, 2009 Share Posted December 27, 2009 Windows is always going to be "bloated," and the bigger the hard drives get, the more it is going to use. Windows 7, for instance, has close to a gigabyte of just printer drivers. Also, you should know that when you disable features from the control panel, they are not removed. Windows never actually removes anything, it keeps it around for servicing so that you don't end up with a security hole or version conflict if you enable the component at a later time. The only way to actually trim it down is by using a third-party utility. Unless you have a very small SSD, I would just sigh loudly and forget about it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salty Wagyu Posted December 27, 2009 Share Posted December 27, 2009 I wouldn't call SSD drives cheap... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Just For My Memory Posted December 27, 2009 Author Share Posted December 27, 2009 Same s**t different day.Have all these XP fanboys forgot what hardware was available when XP came out? A system with 80GB hard drive, 1GB Ram and CPU around 2.0 GHz would have been a luxury for most people in those days and would have cost mega ????'s. You should read this Bloatware at Wikipedia, I compared to older OS. Not only Windows XP. I'm not Windows XP fanboy, I now do not like it. >>> For the later version, they should have a reasonable disk size. It's amazing when seeing disk size jumped from Windows XP to Windows Vista and Windows 7 This picture is awful, don't express your emotion like this and like this picture. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DigitalE Posted December 27, 2009 Share Posted December 27, 2009 My Atom nettop runs waaay faster with 7 than it did with XP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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