Man claims he's reduced Windows OS to 40MB. Strewth!

Bloatware becomes shrinkware in miracle move

By INQUIRER staff: lundi 17 mars 2003, 15:08


AN ENTERPRISING SOUL claims to have taken the bloatware out of the Windows 9X operating system and reduced it from the huge size it was to a mere 40MB.
And that means his PC boots "in seconds", needs no security updates and flies along like the proverbial off the hot shovel.

The chap even posts free CDs and instructions to people who want to try out his SPEEDOS or STREWTH! operating system.

The 67 year old man and his accomplishments has written all about it on the PC Advisor forums.

You'll have to register at PC Advisor but after that, you'll be able to read all about it, here, and the 500 posts that follow the breakthrough he claims.

He says: "Number of files total, programs and system, 1339. The equivalent 98SE uses 9318."

And adds to his claim: "To balance all that criticism of the company, this is a 100% Microsoft system, born out of the 98SE core, illustrating once again just what superb operating systems they are at heart. Eat your heart out Linux companies, you can NEVER achieve this."

But a reader points out this is kind of bloatware itself, and points to this Windows-on-a-floppy project that gets 3.11 down to between 5MB and 10MB. As Eva would no doubt ejaculate: "Sheesh!" µ





Source

http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=8354

Wow! I think some people have way too much time on their hands, but then again I applaud his efforts!!

yeah me too !!

Cool. I wonder how MS will feel about this though. That is pure reverse engineering which of course is illegal. He better watch his ass for a law suit.

As for it being so small. Yeah, sure, but as soon as you start installing some of the stuff that was in there to begin with, you start inflating the OS size fast. Windows is bloatware because of all the extras that are in there, not because of the core technology.

I wouldn't mind getting a copy of this article. I really don't feel like subscribing to yet another forum using the old "dangle the carrot" trick. Could somebody get this instructional info and post it?

hmmm thats kinda cool, wouldn't mind trying it out.

yea Darkwolven, i'll try and do it tonight.

Kinda obvious:
:)

i don't see how it's possible, i'm going to read more later but from what i read he basically ripped a lot of the 32 bit components out of it, including the registry so it's all ini file based, ala win 3.1

i think that would be a nightmare, yes it would be faster because of a lot less files being loaded in and out of ram and the size of the install is much less, but everything is running in dos compatibility mode, which is much slower than 32bit, and i think it would create a ton of software conflicts with apps that require the registry too

I hope that man is in REAL good health. That way he might have the time to a crack at WinXP. I wanna see that fit on a ZIP disk :D

Ya now that would be a trick.
Hope he goes for it!!
Would like to get this "40" meg O/S
Anyone got a-hold of it yet??? :rtfm:

i have a linux that boots off my pendrive, how about that? :) That also proves that linux/bsd is far more flexible than windows. old wanker.

This has been posted already.