I'm having to go away for a while and am taking a laptop with a small corsair force 3 or whatever on it. 60GB or so. So I'm looking at all these suites to trim down the non-essential components I don't want (games, media center, that stuff) so I have room for a few games to play with my fiancée, and room for stuff like Word and Skype. I'm also hoping to slipstream SP1 and some drivers and the like.
I've used vLite, RT Se7en, 7Customizer, BUsomething - as many as I can find. I've been going back and forth configuring and installing AIKs and creating backup .ISOs to avoid damaging the originals and so on. Apparently none of them are actually removing anything when I configure them, since the installed size (Home Premium x64) is pretty consistently around 14.3/4GB, and all the programs I choose to remove stay on the machine.
Anyone who's done this got any ideas or suggestions? Just about tearing my hair out. The only redeeming feature is that installing from a USB drive to an SSD only takes about 5 minutes. All threads on google are a few years ago, and even finding some of these softwares was tricky due to a lot of dead links.
I've used vLite, RT Se7en, 7Customizer, BUsomething - as many as I can find. I've been going back and forth configuring and installing AIKs and creating backup .ISOs to avoid damaging the originals and so on. Apparently none of them are actually removing anything when I configure them, since the installed size (Home Premium x64) is pretty consistently around 14.3/4GB, and all the programs I choose to remove stay on the machine.
Anyone who's done this got any ideas or suggestions? Just about tearing my hair out. The only redeeming feature is that installing from a USB drive to an SSD only takes about 5 minutes. All threads on google are a few years ago, and even finding some of these softwares was tricky due to a lot of dead links.