Originally Posted by
BigLar
I don't think Microsoft is interested in telling you what not to install.
In the old days, we used to prune an OS installion by just deleting stuff we didn't need/never used. Not so easy nowadays, but the add/remove window gives you the option of removing Windows components.
Are you wanting to do a minimalist install because of hard drive space restrictions, or just to speed up the install process? You can do a complete XP install in under 4 gigs, and it's hard to find even older computers with less than 20-40 gigs.
Hard drive space is not the problem , but XP etc loads up a lot of stuff at start-up that you will never use ,
This takes time to load and also RAM that can be used for something else.
and the add/delete window is great if you know what to delete
