Announcement XPLite/2000 Is Here

MERRICKMERRICK In the studio or on a stage
edited November 2004 in Science & Tech
With XPlite and 2000lite we give YOU the power to set up YOUR machine the way YOU want! The power to remove unwanted features, the power to remove upgrades that go bad, the power to strip potential security and privacy threats out by the roots.

Microsoft locked Windows away from you...

...We have the keys:XPlite and 2000lite Professional



http://www.litepc.com/xplite.html

Comments

  • TemplarTemplar You first.
    edited October 2003
    Most of that can probably be done with some small program or registry hacks :\ i.e. TweakUI
  • mmonninmmonnin Centreville, VA
    edited October 2003
    XP anti spy.
  • CreepCreep Hell Icrontian
    edited October 2003
    what is it? I mean I know what it does, but how does it do it? Do you get like a CD-Rom install disk and reinstall windows? Is it just a program like XP-Anti Spy? Anyone around here use it?
  • MERRICKMERRICK In the studio or on a stage
    edited October 2003
    I really thought most people knew about this. Okay let me shed light where I can.

    First, this XP/2k version is brand new and I have not used it. However 98Lite has been around forever and that I do know a thing or two about.

    PClite is a company that allows you to "strip" components in windows that microsoft dosen't. It's about removing modules that include files and registry entries that take up valuable seek time resources. I'm currently working on a stripped version of 98SE with an under 40MB install foot print. It is fast and stable on a 333MHZ CPU box and is much faster than my bloated 500MHz CPU box and 1000MHz CPU box. It is designed for one task only (DAW) But this is an extreme example.

    This product is for people who want a more dedicated computer,
    XP is vastly more customizable than 98 from the start, but if you reallyy study PC lite's complete website you'll get a much bigger picture of the pros/cons of stripping down the fundamental O/S.

    Tweak UI 1.33 (For win9x) dose not do what 98 lite does.

    You install it after installing XP and service packs but you can install service packs after (98lite allows to be loaded before Win98 install via A:\).

    I don't know what XP-anti spy is but this program is not really a maintenance program. Kinda set it once and your're done. It dosen't run in the background just as regedit dosen't run in the background.

    I'm not affiliated with PC lite in any way.
  • mmonninmmonnin Centreville, VA
    edited October 2003
    Basically the same thing as Xp-Anti Spy. Not sure if they do the same things tho. I know XP-Anti Spy will remove some settings and messanger, Windows error message and some other stuff.
  • WuGgaRoOWuGgaRoO Not in the shower Icrontian
    edited October 2003
    hmmm...is this necessary at all....or is it more for the pople who wanna run xp on a 450mhz machine
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited October 2003
    I was looking at a list of removable components, and almost all of them are removable through registry/sysoc.inf hacking..Some TweakUI.

    Basically, nothing extremely new here except that it's all condensed into one handy application.
  • SpinnerSpinner Birmingham, UK
    edited October 2003
    I'll have a look at it.

    Edit: Looks pretty cool, but hardly anything new, and the fact that it isn't 100% freeware is again a bit of a put off. I noticed a few options and stuff that I haven't currently got with my other utilities, but nothing I couldn't really do manually. For the novice though, it looks to be a handy piece of kit.

    Thanks for showing it to us Merrick, it's a nice find.

    Cheers
  • MERRICKMERRICK In the studio or on a stage
    edited October 2003
    Okay I know "Novice" wasn't pointed at me directly and I do not yet use XP or know about ease of stripping it etc. I will say that 98lite offers features which I belive are exceptinal such as allowing 98 to use the 95 Explorer and shell32. If that is something easy to do I'd like to hear about it. But 98lite is for very ecclectic applications and it does more than just getting better performance from a 450Mhz CPU.

    I'll be keeping an eye on XPlite and if they claim a new update with something really interesting I'll post.

    Well back to my EOS 30MB Win 95-98-ME combination install experiment. Almost done and so far so good.
  • SpinnerSpinner Birmingham, UK
    edited October 2003
    Hey dude, that comment about the novice, wasn't aimed at you no. Sorry I should have worded it better, I meant no offence, what I just meant to say was, is that it looks like an invaluable piece of software for the less tech'd up user. Unlike the crowd round here. I was just trying to illustrate the fact that I thought the software wasn't as 'same old same old' as some folk were making out. That's all, and I was mainly commenting on XP/2000 Lite not the 98 version.

    I would hardly call you novice bud. If I did, then it would be like calling myself unattractive to women, and lets face it, we all know that ain't true.;)
  • MERRICKMERRICK In the studio or on a stage
    edited October 2003
    Spinner man,

    I was out of town all this time and thinking that you might think I thought you meant novice about me :eek2: . I worded it wrong but it was too late to get to a prompt. Sorry it took so long to get back, yeah I know you were using the word in a much more general way. Though Lord knows I can be a novice at times anyway! :doh:
  • SpinnerSpinner Birmingham, UK
    edited October 2003
    MERRICK had this to say
    Though Lord knows I can be a novice at times anyway! :doh:

    Can't we all.;)
  • guitaristguitarist BC Canada
    edited November 2004
    What items should a DAW user like us change? Almost everything except the audio components? I used 98lite too and WOW it really helps you comp scream. Imagine burning your optized install to memory somehow or a HD cable adapter unit- it would be the worlds fastest OS hard drive.
  • MERRICKMERRICK In the studio or on a stage
    edited November 2004
    Do you run 98lite with the win 95 explorer?
    I'd say that, plus disabiling ACPI in the BIOS (careful, you may want to do it in conjunction with a fresh install) and using 999MB RAM on a win 98SE core system is the way to go. As far as stripping, well that's another thing. Some things are obvious, some are not, and if you are really into it, you can replace a lot of system files with ME files.
    My machine is insanely fast, and stable but as I've said in other posts, When Adobe Audition and Cubase (Unless Adobe Audition 2.0 will support VSTi, then I'd scrap Steinberg altogether) go pure 64bit, then I'll scrap my 9x aspirations and go with XP 64 bit but I think that scenario is still a year away at least IMHO
  • guitaristguitarist BC Canada
    edited November 2004
    Do you run 98lite with the win 95 explorer?
    I'd say that, plus disabiling ACPI in the BIOS (careful, you may want to do it in conjunction with a fresh install) and using 999MB RAM on a win 98SE core system is the way to go. As far as stripping, well that's another thing. Some things are obvious, some are not, and if you are really into it, you can replace a lot of system files with ME files.

    Yes I've tried the 95 shell, amazing! I tried to install my EMU drivers with a halt from the driver "Xp only" so thanks to you guys tried the XPlite. I clicked almost everything save media related stuff and did the standard rec treaks from an article. Like: clear DLLs, disable scads of services etc. If I could trick the EMU install into thinking I had XP I'd consider stickin with thayt.
    There's MusicXp.net and I think there was an article on the Cubase site too. But I'm a freak about this and would like to absolutely maximize this area involving Windows. Thank you XPLite. Maybe we could move this thread to it's proper forum and compile a prescription list but I'm no expert on this. :smokin:
  • MERRICKMERRICK In the studio or on a stage
    edited November 2004
    guitarist wrote:
    Yes I've tried the 95 shell, amazing! I tried to install my EMU drivers with a halt from the driver "Xp only"

    Did you ever contact EMU to see if they had a 9x driver? SOmetimes they have something lying around as an unsuppoerted beta etc,

    Yeah a digital audio forum would be cool at Short-Media

    What other forums do you haunt?
  • primesuspectprimesuspect Beepin n' Boopin Detroit, MI Icrontian
    edited November 2004
    We have a digital media forum :)

    I would be willing to entertain the idea of a pro audio subforum. I'll have to pass it by the other two admins :)
  • MERRICKMERRICK In the studio or on a stage
    edited November 2004
    That sounds real cool but let me share what I've observed:

    It seems to me that computer tinkering people who relate to media production are more often video content orientated and out number audio orientated people greatly. E.g. Emedia magazine is 95% video with an occasional sub par audio app review. In the music trade magazines (Mix, EM, SOS, Pro Sound etc.) there is usually a resident 'puter writer who covers software/hardware on a tweaking, geeking level, that is usually buried in the back of the mag somwhere.

    I've really searched around for a forum or publication that delt with optimizing O/S (as you know from my past 9x insanity) but it just dosen't seem to exist (in the old days 98 lite had an open forum but they closed it down about three years ago :(

    I guess what I'm saying is that the very real niche of audio DAW tweaking is quite a slim bunch and might not warrant such a forum, on the other hand, as of now I know of no forum that addresses the issue. I myself would love to hang around such a forum but I could not help in a more responsible way at this time.
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