Thread: using nLite to create XP for Aspire One

your comments are interesting. I have seen many comments from users of microXP and tinyXP ( which I understand are essentially nlited copies of xp) saying that they run very fast. I must admit that xp seems to run slowly, particularly when using the internet. Also the sound on Skype is very quiet, echo ey and slow and I wonder if the machine is being overwhelmed by the processing required and this is causing the problem. nmesisca, you say that...

Real world example - My Thinkpad (with a SSD in it), normal XP Pro - starts up in 15 seconds, has 15 apps running My AAO, TinyXP starts up in 25 seconds, 17 apps running. The *only* benefit of TinyXP is disk space. Turn off services if you need speed.

hi there yeah i have used it last time not more then 2 weeks ago. Love it. You have to take your time with it tho, but once you find what works best for you, reinstalling can be fully automated, including joining a domain, creating users etc.. The ISO I have made for use on my AAO is 318MB. I havent been over-cutting on the features as I use the AAO for dev under Visual Studio etc and dont want to break anything by mistake. The first thing I...

I agree w/ Adrian. I would also be careful extraneous things you might install that sit in the system tray and run all the time: ebay monitors, several IM clients, digicam tools, etc. These will all slow your machine down.

When using nLite it tells you what most of the things are, what they're used for and whether they're essential. It can be overwhelming but you'll get a lot of the benefits by just leaving anything that you're not sure about in.