Guys, I'm late on WinReducer8, so I will delay WinReducer 7 new step again, I'm really sorry ...
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=:= Files that a WR7 build still has but vlite doesn't when removing similar components =:=
(I used WR7 to remove: Action Center, Speech, all Tablet PC parts, Natural Language, Languages, Windows Easy Transfer, Recovery Environment, Sticky Notes, Help & Support, and maybe some minor other things. This is about what I used to remove using vLite, but with vLite I also removed Accessibility and some other things. So it's similar to one of my vLite builds. However, the files/folders mentioned below remained in the WR7 build but were removed in the vLite builds. So I think WR7 can remove these without ill effects, so the images can be even smaller.)
[This is on a x64 build but I think the same applies to x86 builds (although that won't have Program Files (x86), of course. Here are the folder/files left over in WR7 build:]
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==== Program Files ====
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* Common Files *
\SpeechEngines (folder not present on vLite build, but it is in WR7 build) [should be removed when removing Speech?]
* Windows Mail * (folder not present in WR7 build (but I did NOT remove Mail), but it IS present in vLite build. So this is strange and the exception, because all other things WR7 did NOT remove, but for some reason Mail did get removed in WR7 builds even though I did not select it to remove Mail.)
* Windows NT *
\TableTextService folder present on WR7 build but not on vLite build [should be removed when removing Tablet PC?]
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==== Program Files (x86) ====
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* Common Files *
\microsoft shared\ink:
- micaut.dll
- Microsoft.Ink.dll
- mraut.dll
- mshwgst.dll
- mshwLatin.dll
- penchs.dll
- penjpn.dll
- penkor.dll
- penusa.dll
- pipanel.dll
- pipres.dll
- skchobj.dll
- skchui.dll [these .dll's should be removed when removing Tablet PC?]
\microsoft shared\ink\en-US:
- micaut.dll.mui, mshwLatin.dll.mui, rtscom.dll.mui [should be removed when removing Tablet PC?]
\SpeechEngines (entire folder not present on vLite build) [should be removed when removing Speech?]
* Windows Mail * (folder not present in WR7 build (but I did NOT remove Mail), but it IS present in vLite build. So this is strange and the exception, because all other things WR7 did NOT remove, but for some reason Mail did get removed in WR7 builds even though I did not select it to remove Mail.)
* Windows NT *
\TableTextService folder present on WR7 build but not on vLite build (when removing Tablet PC?) [should be removed when removing Tablet PC?]
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==== WinSXS size ====
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I noticed that on the vLite build, the WinSxS folder was significantly smaller (2gb actual size as reported by Explorer/7-Zip, which translates as around 300-400mb in the install.wim size). I know WinSxS hard-links, so it may not be actual size of the folder, but for our comparision it makes no difference since WAIK tools see no difference either (just like Explorer doesn't). So somehow the vLite build ends up with smaller WinSxS. I don't know how, but it seems like vLite removes relative parts out of the WinSxS of the components removed by vLite, or something. I don't think vLite uses WinSxS compression, but I'm not sure. That "nuhi" guy that made vLite was kind of a wizard, so you never know
That's all the differences I've been able to find at this moment.
winterstorm2050 wrote:Yes, WinReducer 7 is not completely optimized yet, and I will release a new build during September (don't know exactly when for the moment ...)