Re: Best Vista Setup for Development - Karl Peterson?

Rick Raisley <heavymetal-A-T-bellsouth-D-O-T-net> wrote:
"Karl E. Peterson" <karl@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
* Size is a problem; my Vista install is (so far) over 10 GB in size. Yours
was 2.3 GB (the zip at least). How do I get the size smaller? I have the
Coding Horror article, but it's about installing WinXP, and I wasn't sure
how to do it with Vista. Especially since a lot of programs and utilities
don't work with Vista.

Delete stuff. <G> Viciously. I think my final Vista VHDs came in around 5.5Gb
before ZIPping. One really neat trick I learned was to follow a routine like
this, right before archiving:

* Mount the VHD in another VPC, as drive D:
* Delete the swapfile! It'll regen on its own, next time you boot.
* Run a defragger on it.
* Run sdelete to wipe all the ununsed space.
* Shutdown this secondary VPC.
* Run the "Virtual Disk Wizard" to compact what's left of the VHD.
* ZIP it!

I'll try that. But starting out with over 10 GB, I'm sure I did something
wrong to start with.

I don't think so. The swapfile alone is huge. That sounds about where mine
started, as well. The steps above cut it about in half, then WinZip took another
~50% cut.

* How does the 30 day expiration date of a trial install work out here? If
it uses the install date, won't installing a 31 day old copy from a DVD end
up being out of date, and therefore unusable? This part is really confusing
to me (like the rest isn't). ;-)

I'm sure those are calendar days.

So, all those DVDs you burned, will have to be re-made after 30 days? The
Vista ones, anyhow?

No, I used MSDN bits -- no expiration date that I'm aware of.
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