Many people are screaming to downgrade Vista and use XP instead, how about getting the benefits of both at the same time? You can put Vista on a diet, by stripping off every advanced feature!

Vista default installation is about 7 GB, you can strip away most of the features, and save yourself more hard disk space, more memory and processing power. All this can be done with a nice and small program called vLite! Locate "vLite" in any major search engine and download now.

This software will not strip your existing Windows Vista, but requires you to copy your Vista installer into a directory, and rebuild the installer base on your settings. You will need to reinstall Vista with the new installer.

Some tips for you before using it:

Tip #1 - Keeps only the drivers for your hardware, lose others

You only need what you have; In most cases, if you are getting new hardware with drivers' disk, you can lose them all and install them from the separate disk.

Tip #2 - Keeps the core

Anything highlighted red should be kept, unless you know what you are doing.

Tip #3 - Integrate Vista hotfixes (not required)

Download up to date hotfixes and integrate into the installer before rebuilding it.

Tip #4 - Automate product key entry and tweak settings

You can do preset the product key and tweak settings into the installer, so that new installer will not prompt for the key and further settings.

After all proper setups, click to apply settings; vLite will start to strip all unwanted features and prepare the installer for your. When installer prepared, you can start creating installation CDs or DVD.

Using vLite not only strip away unwanted features, automate the installation process, it also allows you to speed up Vista significantly ! You can now have both Vista and XP together, in one package!

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