Hi all
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Please consider this project as Terminated/Concluded unless of course someone else would like to to continue with its production. I have decided that it is a project or idea that is taking me away from the initial idea or concept that it was originally designed for.
REASONS:
1) For my own particular situation or needs, to shrink or reduce XP Home to a footprint of circa 212Mb was just too small, adding further third party programs like freeware AntiVir & AVG & Anti-malware programs, & in conjunction with backup software etc was proving difficult with files needing to be reinstalled making the project very specific, which is not what I originally intended!
Also with the introduction of larger hard drives, making XP the smallest it can be at the cost of functionality is not the path I want to tread.
2) I do not have the necessary skill to make XP very small & keep functionalality sorry!
CONCLUSION:
My intention is to go back to the beginning and start again with a larger footprint & work on a parallel installation so it will not be defined as a project any more. My intention is to make it as easy as possible to undertake so it will be applicable to a wider audience, I will also be working on this idea offline. If I manage to pull it off at a reasonable level I will produce a tutorial if users want it?
I have deleted a lot of my posts in an attempt to reduce the size of this post it is afterall 9 Pages long Yikes! (now reduced to 6 pages)
Regards & Respect,
ispy