Lightweight edition of Windows 7 or another alike OS?

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Microsoft offers a Windows Embedded Version of Windows 7 which you can customize the way you need it. Here you can install which functions you want and which not.

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Jonas Hoffmann

Updated on September 18, 2022

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Jonas Hoffmann over 1 year

I have a 64GB SSD, which I use for OS. Windows 7 and 8 use a lot of space once they install all the latest updates. It eats about half of my SSD space. I would like to have a very lightweight edition of Windows 7, because Windows 8 does not have all the drivers my computer needs. I was wondering if there is a way to have the latest updates, Windows 7-8 security, drivers support, great performance and a very lightweight OS. I would use Linux, which would be a great idea in this case, but I need to run software that only works on Windows. Any help will be very appreciated.
- gronostaj over 10 years
  
  Create it yourself: RT 7 Lite.
- Jonas Hoffmann over 10 years
  
  Yes, it's a good tool, but the updates still take more than twice the space the original installation takes.
- SuperSafie over 10 years
  
  I think you can delete de Updates uninstallers, you will only lose the ability to uninstall the Updates, not the Updates themselves
- Jonas Hoffmann over 10 years
  
  Yes, I did that before. It saves a little bit of space.
- Admin over 10 years
  
  I might be the only one who remembers good ol' TinyXP :)
Jonas Hoffmann over 10 years

Thank you for your post. Unfortunately, it is complicated to find alternatives for the software I use and I am very used to my old programs. The second solution is a good idea, but my point to reduce the size of OS drive is to have heavyweight software and a game or two on the same drive (since SSD increases the speed).
Admin over 10 years

Have you looked into using Wine? It's a wrapper for Windows applications that runs in linux. So far I've only found a few programs that haven't run properly, and they were video games. Most programs should work fine. winehq.org
Holloway about 10 years

If you do try the linux option (and you can try a live version to see if it works first) you could get away with a full blown distro not just puppy linux. Ubuntu only takes something like 10Gb.