All I know is ricktendo64 has made some VERY COOL videos showing how he uses the power of MSFT utilities to alter and reconfigure a Win7 install disk.

He USED to have a LINK in his SIGNATURE line, but I don't see it here.

I added the link to the videos back to Rick's signature.
Nothing like a little shameless advertising, eh Rick!

BTW my mom is currently visiting family in Louisiana, she is returning on the 13th IDK what sorta old parts you may have but if they can fit in a suitcase I think she could bring them :S

He USED to have a LINK in his SIGNATURE line, but I don't see it here.

Rick, I wish you lived closer so I could send you some computer hardware, but the shipping charges are outasite....

Am looking forward to your next instructional (and extremely VALUABLE) video.

Please share those links again and keep up the fantastic work!

From a friend forever in Atlanta, GA USA.

MARK STRELECKI

Many trips to various forums and sending messages to the authors went nowhere until I ran across a posting that provided an answer: RT 7 Lite will only run if Win7 has been installed on the C:\> drive - if the user is dual/multi-booting and installed Win7 on a drive not C:\ then RT 7 Lite fails to run.

My #1 system has Win7 32-bit on drive I:\> and Win7 64-bit on drive H:\> - RT 7 Lite fails.

My #2 system has Win7 32-bit also on drive H:\> - RT 7 Lite fails here too.

In the RT 7 Lite form the program author's response to this problem was it's the users fault not his. I guess his position is that to use his program you must install Win7 on drive C:\ - period.

With Win7, not so much.  The rt7lite tool can do a lot of work customizing a WIM image but that is really all it's doing, customizing a WIM.  It even uses existing msft tools to do so.

However, unlike XP images that have been massaged with nlite, I have seen nothing that proves that a customized Win7 WIM will perform better or be more stable than what msft distributes.

The poster in #4 would be well served by updating his knowledge base and stop trying to judge or evaluate current OS releases based on obsolete knowledge.

Yes, there IS such a thing as obsolete knowledge and it holds people back.

I will re offer MDT - it makes 7lite unneccessary

I will not be upgrading to Windows 7 unless I see 7lite or a similar tool out there.  It is so much I was able to accomplish with nLite for Windows XP, getting down to 33MB of RAM ussage on a fresh install, etc, there is no way I am about to sacrifice such a great utility in the name of bloatwarerish crap of Windows 7.

So, no 7lite, no Windows 7.

That's my policy.

RT 7Lite has been around for awhile now

IMO Windows 7 is not bloatware, I dont need tools such as 7Lite to build a bitching ISO all I need is WAIK

So, no 7lite, no Windows 7.

That's my policy.