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Title: Strip down Windows 7 - Free
Post by: Glenn on Jan 22, 2011, 12:12:53
RT Se7en Lite is developed by Rockers Team to customize windows 7 operating system and to make it lite. You can add wallpapers, Icons, themes, integrate updates, drivers, language packs, applications, remove components, enable or disable features, unattended installation settings, bootable ISO and USB creator , etc. It will be very easy to operate and changing the style of your windows 7 operating system.

http://www.rt7lite.com/
Title: Re: Strip down Windows 7 - Free
Post by: Rik on Jan 22, 2011, 12:19:35
Nice find, Glenn, all the tweaks a boy could dream of.  :thumb: :karma:
Title: Re: Strip down Windows 7 - Free
Post by: Glenn on Jan 22, 2011, 12:28:14
Thanks, some of it you can already do via msconfig
Title: Re: Strip down Windows 7 - Free
Post by: Rik on Jan 22, 2011, 12:29:24
I know, but centralised tweaking is so much easier.
Title: Re: Strip down Windows 7 - Free
Post by: pctech on Jan 22, 2011, 15:02:34
Anyone know if MS has released a Tweak UI applet for Win 7 yet.

Have it installed on my XP system.

Title: Re: Strip down Windows 7 - Free
Post by: Steve on Jan 22, 2011, 15:07:16
I think the answer is no. However there is something called the Ultimate Windows Tweaker v2.1 which is compatible with v7.
Title: Re: Strip down Windows 7 - Free
Post by: Simon on Jan 22, 2011, 15:15:02
I'll have to upgrade one of these days.  :)
Title: Re: Strip down Windows 7 - Free
Post by: Rik on Jan 22, 2011, 15:48:14
Don't rush. ;)
Title: Re: Strip down Windows 7 - Free
Post by: Simon on Jan 22, 2011, 15:49:20
Have you given up?
Title: Re: Strip down Windows 7 - Free
Post by: Rik on Jan 22, 2011, 15:51:20
No, though the laptop doesn't get a lot of use. It's just that, by the time I'd finished with it, I'd managed to make 7 look and feel like XP. ;D
Title: Re: Strip down Windows 7 - Free
Post by: Simon on Jan 22, 2011, 15:52:19
Yes, and didn't we all try to make XP look and feel like 98SE?  ;D
Title: Re: Strip down Windows 7 - Free
Post by: Rik on Jan 22, 2011, 15:57:59
True, so really I'm using a souped up version of 98. ;D
Title: Re: Strip down Windows 7 - Free
Post by: Simon on Jan 22, 2011, 16:01:49
 :D
Title: Re: Strip down Windows 7 - Free
Post by: armadillo on Jan 22, 2011, 16:48:35
Quote from: Simon on Jan 22, 2011, 15:52:19
Yes, and didn't we all try to make XP look and feel like 98SE?  ;D

Mine still does. The first thing I did with XP (after turning Automatic Updates off) was set the "classic" interface.
Title: Re: Strip down Windows 7 - Free
Post by: Rik on Jan 22, 2011, 16:50:23
Same here, and I've done it to 7 too.
Title: Re: Strip down Windows 7 - Free
Post by: armadillo on Jan 22, 2011, 16:51:51
Oh good. There's hope yet. I had wondered if W7 could be made to look like 98SE.
Title: Re: Strip down Windows 7 - Free
Post by: Rik on Jan 22, 2011, 16:56:39
It can, Dill. :)
Title: Re: Strip down Windows 7 - Free
Post by: Simon on Jan 22, 2011, 17:37:35
Luddites, all of us!  ;D
Title: Re: Strip down Windows 7 - Free
Post by: Rik on Jan 22, 2011, 17:40:49
And proud of it. ;D A lot of my motivation, in going Classic, is to remove colour from the desktop as much as possible. It can have a massive impact on colour judgement when doing photographic work. Blacks, greys and whites are my ideal. In the same way, I would only have white or grey walls, and I use 6500K lighting to preserve colour integrity.
Title: Re: Strip down Windows 7 - Free
Post by: Technical Ben on Jan 22, 2011, 17:46:16
Is it free?  :whistle:

I've not started messing with Win7 yet. I'll probably end up with windows 9 before I get too annoyed at this little box.
Title: Re: Strip down Windows 7 - Free
Post by: Rik on Jan 23, 2011, 11:34:09
It is, though you can donate, Ben.
Title: Re: Strip down Windows 7 - Free
Post by: mrapoc on Jan 23, 2011, 13:17:09
Is this as good as nlite was with XP/Vista?
Title: Re: Strip down Windows 7 - Free
Post by: DorsetBoy on Jan 23, 2011, 15:55:35
How does adding 4 more applications make your OS "Lite" ? 
Title: Re: Strip down Windows 7 - Free
Post by: Technical Ben on Jan 23, 2011, 17:23:58
Huh? AFAIK they are installed just to configure the system. Then you can remove them?
Title: Re: Strip down Windows 7 - Free
Post by: Ray on Jan 23, 2011, 18:01:53
As I see it from looking at the website, it's not for tweaking a live windows installation it's for making a customised installation DVD and slip streaming drivers, updates etc into the install DVD, a bit like you could do with Nlite in Windows XP.
Title: Re: Strip down Windows 7 - Free
Post by: Glenn on Jan 23, 2011, 18:05:00
That was my take too, Ray.
Title: Re: Strip down Windows 7 - Free
Post by: armadillo on Jan 23, 2011, 23:05:28
Quote from: Rik on Jan 22, 2011, 17:40:49
And proud of it. ;D A lot of my motivation, in going Classic, is to remove colour from the desktop as much as possible. It can have a massive impact on colour judgement when doing photographic work. Blacks, greys and whites are my ideal. In the same way, I would only have white or grey walls, and I use 6500K lighting to preserve colour integrity.

Amazing how we have a similar approach. I customised my Windows XP colour scheme so the desktop is mid grey, the gradient in the window title bar is black to grey for foreground window and dark grey to light grey for background. All my menus are grey and my highlight colour is black! In my computer room, the walls and ceiling are white, the curtains and floor are grey. The table is white.

Where did you find 6500K lighting? Can you get those in dimmable bulbs? I am using dimmable halogens but 6500K would be great.
Title: Re: Strip down Windows 7 - Free
Post by: Rik on Jan 24, 2011, 10:36:33
http://www.energysavingdaylightbulbs.co.uk/

or

http://www.gbbulbs.co.uk/acatalog/Full_Spectrum.html

:)
Title: Re: Strip down Windows 7 - Free
Post by: armadillo on Jan 25, 2011, 01:07:42
Thanks for shedding the light, Rik.
Title: Re: Strip down Windows 7 - Free
Post by: Rik on Jan 25, 2011, 10:32:49
I think Gary knows another supplier.