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Generic Eric:

Can we talk about black viper ' guide to turning off unneeded services?

Also rather than talking about someone else's release of the parts they deleted is there a way to talk about reducing the footprint of windows in a technical matter with a howto?

In the yester years, I used to do the slipstream installs.   Take you initial disc, down load all the service packs, driver packs.  If your favorite program supported silent installs you could add the commands in a script through a cool tool. 

If you can do that... There has to be a guide somewhere on what to delete. 

There is untold risk of that.. things not working or sacrificing lack of printing capabilities or some such. But if a smaller OS footprint is important you have to know some thing is going to be given up.



ed12:

handy little page
black viper
explains alot..that we need to know without crossing any line's

ed :applaud:

PL1:

Nothing at all wrong with discussing services to remove/disable.   ;D

I think it would be great if someone came up an emulator-friendly, detailed, how-to list of services/drivers that can be either de-selected during install or disabled after install for various operating systems/service packs.

Ideally, it would include notes to indicate which services might still be useful. (networking, parallel port, printing, etc.)

This might be a good topic for a wiki page. (haven't checked to see if someone started one yet)


Scott

EDIT: There is a Fast Booting Windows wiki page that might provide a starting point.

ark_ader:


--- Quote from: PL1 on September 10, 2014, 10:44:19 pm ---The legal questions involved here are rather murky. *  (legal vs. illegal, what is enforced vs. not enforced by M$)

Instead of everyone putting on their "I'm not a lawyer, but I play one on the forums" hat, I've changed my earlier post to focus on what is acceptable vs. not acceptable to post on BYOAC.

Saint pays for this forum so it is his right to define acceptable speech here.

You have a right to free speech, but there is no such thing as a "right to be heard" and you don't have the right to force someone else to pay for your soapbox.   :soapbox:   [/rant]


Scott

* = Nominated for "Understatement of the Year, 2014"

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They are not murky but black and white. Running TinyXP without a license is illegal.  Running TinyXP with a bought license is legal.  XP is out of date in 5 more years so it is not like M$ is hurting.  Actually if you email them about it you would probably get a standard response.

Besides this topic is in the software forum with Nlited installs and nobody has called the police on us for that.  Send this thread to software where it belongs and lets get back to the building control panels and arcade machine restoration chat which is more interesting.



PL1:


--- Quote from: ark_ader on September 11, 2014, 04:48:47 am ---They are not murky but black and white. Running TinyXP without a license is illegal.  Running TinyXP with a bought license is legal.

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Hate to break it to you, but simply repeating something does not make it a fact.

What you are saying may be accurate from a Microsoft policy/practices standpoint, but Microsoft policy/practices are not the same as federal/state/local/international law.

There are a number of laws that may (or may not) apply regardless of Microsoft's intent (or lack thereof) to pursue legal action.

It is the laws and legalese, not MS policy/practices, that makes the legal aspects murky.

One thing that is clear -- M$ has deeper pockets and more lawyers on retainer than any of us do.


--- Quote from: ark_ader on September 11, 2014, 04:48:47 am ---lets get back to the building control panels and arcade machine restoration chat which is more interesting.

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:cheers:  Agreed.  Stop making me think and talk like a :censored: lawyer.   :dizzy:  :P


Scott

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