Thursday, January 31, 2008

Vista Shrinks

How do you shrink a bloated 15GB Vista operating system? Dino Nuhagic, a fifth-year student from Split, Croatia answered with his own product, vLite.


The free program builds a selective installation of Vista components that strips the bloated OS which can be burned to a DVD.


Some vLite users stripped Vista into a package as an image file that was as small as 515MB and takes up just 1.4GB on the hard drive.


One report stated that condensing Windows Vista Home Basic into a 526MB .iso file and installing it in a virtual machine that used 1.3GB of drive space.