For some of you, this may be a kind of new thing to play with, or maybe you have tried it before. Windows XP Tiny is built by carefully and unofficially removing useless components that come installed together with Windows XP.
Some say it is designed for gamers while some says it is designed to run on older systems which have limited RAM or disk spaces. Of course, there are different Tiny XP created for different purposes. Anyway, it's up to the creator to create and decide which components to remove.
If you would like to create your version of windows; Windows King Kong, MyWindows, Treasure Windows, Compact Windows, Speedy Windows; there are two recommended softwares with opposite functions but same goal, which is to create a tiny version of Windows XP.
XPLite (www.litepc.com)
Not every software comes free. This costs from $39.95. It allows you to remove any Windows components as well as reinstall the components provided you have the Windows CD.
The software is divided into two parts, listing all the windows components. Part A showing the components which are safe to remove, and Part B showing the components of 'You have to know what you are doing'.
I have installed the program on my gf's laptop. Installation was smooth and no problems whatsoever. The interface is simple to understand and I carefully selected the components from Part A. After a restart, Windows XP prompted for missing files and missing components. Bad enough, though. The day before, I popped in my Windows XP SP2 CD and started to add in all the components that I had removed previously. Amazingly, the laptop showed Black screen upon restart. I believed it's worst than bluescreen.
BSOD - Blue Screen of Death
BlSOD - Black Screen of Death
The seriousness of these scenarios is that, the user will have to reinstall the OS.
* I refer it as BSMD - Black Screen Means Death, in my term, not knowing the existence of BlSOD
nLiteOS (www.nliteos.com)
Some say it is designed for gamers while some says it is designed to run on older systems which have limited RAM or disk spaces. Of course, there are different Tiny XP created for different purposes. Anyway, it's up to the creator to create and decide which components to remove.
If you would like to create your version of windows; Windows King Kong, MyWindows, Treasure Windows, Compact Windows, Speedy Windows; there are two recommended softwares with opposite functions but same goal, which is to create a tiny version of Windows XP.
XPLite (www.litepc.com)
Not every software comes free. This costs from $39.95. It allows you to remove any Windows components as well as reinstall the components provided you have the Windows CD.
The software is divided into two parts, listing all the windows components. Part A showing the components which are safe to remove, and Part B showing the components of 'You have to know what you are doing'.
I have installed the program on my gf's laptop. Installation was smooth and no problems whatsoever. The interface is simple to understand and I carefully selected the components from Part A. After a restart, Windows XP prompted for missing files and missing components. Bad enough, though. The day before, I popped in my Windows XP SP2 CD and started to add in all the components that I had removed previously. Amazingly, the laptop showed Black screen upon restart. I believed it's worst than bluescreen.
BSOD - Blue Screen of Death
BlSOD - Black Screen of Death
The seriousness of these scenarios is that, the user will have to reinstall the OS.
* I refer it as BSMD - Black Screen Means Death, in my term, not knowing the existence of BlSOD
nLiteOS (www.nliteos.com)
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