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nLited XP installs for a cab
Monkee:
Hi, do you guys have any recommendations for as nlited edition of Windows 7 for groovymame and the emulators/games in general ?
Thanks
tommyinajar:
I haven't tried windows 7 in any emulator benchmarking way, but from what I've been reading there might be no difference if any (maybe worse) in a stripped windows 7 install. Performance supposedly is good as long as you turn off unused services. I was looking for this before & he has some good settings for all windows xp, 64, 7 & 8 and can make a "tool" to do them automatically!
http://www.blackviper.com/service-configurations/
Monkee:
Thanks tommyinajar! ;)
TorgoHiggins:
Hey, just wanted to drop a line here and say thanks for this thread. Getting XP installed on this little poverty system I rigged up has proven a lot trickier then I thought, and it's ultimately lead me here. I had no idea nlite was even a thing, so thanks for the resources and tips for build a slim, trim version of XP. :)
(The last hoop, hopefully, is that I actually need to create the .iso on my WinXP system. Apparently there's an issue with making XP .isos on Win7 w/ slipstreamed service packs that causes the product keys to stop working. If it's not one thing it's another amirite?)
edit: And starting from the bottom of the thread and looking up I find that someone out there has put together excellent, all-purpose small xp installations. I'll try that out first. :D
TorgoHiggins:
--- Quote ---If it's not one thing it's another amirite?
--- End quote ---
So I might have trimmed out a little too much. ;D Tried to test a game on it and running into enough issues with dx, then issues trying to get it installed manually that I might put together another iso.
Or I saw a link to BlackViper's XP trimming guide. If hard drive space isn't a concern, is that the way to go? If not, what do I need to keep in for full dx9 functionality? Because man I'm loving how fast this baby runs otherwise.
On a related note, if I do go with a (mostly) full install, what do I need to trim out to bypass the eula agreement? One problem I was running into when I was just trying to do full install was I would get an error during setup saying that the eula couldn't be found and would kick me back out to startup.
(Note: I'm booting/installing from a flash drive, which I understand WinXP doesn't like so much, but I was able to install the trimmed version from my flash drive just fine, so...)
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