Thank you for trying this special eXPerience edition of Windows Vista Ultimate.
No product key is needed. Windows Vista is activated upon installation. Windows
is fully patched with all "important" Windows Updates to 8th may 2007.
The 512Mb RAM memory requirement is reduced to just 256Mb.
The requirement of almost 8Gb of disk space is reduced to less than 3Gb.
This installation only takes up about 35% of the size of a normal installation
of Windows Vista. Many components have been removed from this edition of Windows, but you still have Microsoft's three main programs:

Internet Explorer 7
Windows Mail (Formerly "Outlook Express")
Windows Media Player 11

You also have the new Aero theme in this edition
of Windows and the ability to use Windows Update.

There are no services taken out of this special edition of Windows.
Only three services have been disabled: Remote Registry, Windows Error
Reporting Service, Windows Search.

You cannot do an upgrade installation from this CD, because the upgrade files
have been removed. You can only install Windows by booting from the CD and
formatting your partition or hard drive.

There are concerns about finding a good firewall and antivirus for Windows Vista.
If you want to use a good antivirus, get hold of NOD32 v2.70.31 (or later) and use
the NSANE fix. For a firewall, you're stuck with the built in firewall it seems, at
least until software vendors start to make Vista compatible firewalls. On June 7th
2007, Comodo Firewall version 3 is due for release - this will have Vista support.

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[eXPerience Folder On The CD]

The eXPerience folder on the CD contains the following three folders:

---DirectX DLL Files---
Despite Windows Vista being an absolutely massive operating system, it still
does not even include DirectX DLL files! What were Microsoft thinking? So if
you need the DirectX 9 DLL files (d3dx9_24/25/26/27/28/29/30/31/32/33.dll)
you can just double click the file in this folder to extract these 10 DLL
files to system32. This will keep compatibility with games you might have
stored on another drive from a previous installation.

---Ethernet Drivers---
Despite Windows Vista being an absolutely massive operating system, it still
does not even include some Ethernet Drivers! What were Microsoft thinking?
So if your Ethernet card is not working after installing Windows Vista and
it needs its driver installing, you can use the Ethernet Driver pack thats
included in this folder. Follow the instructions in the ReadMe.txt file.
After installing your Ethernet Card, see if your onboard sound is working,
IT PROBABLY WON'T BE, it seems Microsoft forgot to include Realtek AC97
sound drivers in Windows Vista, this is ridiculous considering almost
every motherboard in the world has Realtek AC97 sound! Its almost as if
Microsoft are trying to annoy people on purpose, they give you a 2.5Gb+
DVD sized Operating System WITHOUT Ethernet Drivers, Sound Drivers or
DirectX DLL files.

---Release Info---
This folder contains all the detailed information about this TinyVista CD:

1 - FAQ
2 - How To Install Windows
3 - Removed Components
4 - Windows Updates
5 - Custom Tweaks

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[How To Install Windows]

This unattended version of Windows is very easy to install.

You can only install this edition of Windows onto a formatted partition or hard drive,
in other words, you cannot do an upgrade installation from within Windows.

To find out all the information on how to install this edition of Windows, open the
eXPerience folder that is on the CD and open the file "2 - How To Install Windows.htm"
This guide will show you exactly what to do, with full images of the setup screens.

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[Custom Tweaks]

This edition of Windows is heavily modified for the best possible user experience,
with more than 120 registry tweaks, you can see all the details of the changes made
by looking at the file "5 - Custom Tweaks.htm" that is in the Release Info folder in
the eXPerience folder on the CD.

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[Removed Components]

This CD sized release of Windows Vista has had
the following components removed using vLite:

[Accessories]
Accessibility
Speech Support
Welcome Center

[Drivers]
Display adapters
Modems
Printers

[Games]
Game Explorer
Inbox Games
Premium Inbox Games

[Languages]
Japanese
Korean
Simplified Chinese
Traditional Chinese

[Multimedia]
Media Center
Movie and DVD Maker
Screensavers
Wallpapers
Windows Media Samples

[System]
BitLocker Drive Encryption
Help
Microsoft Agent
Natural Language
Security Center
Tablet PC
Windows Defender
Windows Easy Transfer

The ability to upgrade from an older version of Windows has also
been removed manually after vLite was used. vLite does not support
this at this moment in time, but this was done by removing every
file and folder from the "sources" folder on the CD except the
two Windows image files "boot.wim" and "install.wim"

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[Windows Updates]

This special eXPerience edition of Windows Vista includes all
the "important" Windows Updates up to Tuesday, May 8th, 2007.

These hotfixes are installed silently near
the end of the Windows install process...

KB890830
KB925902
KB928089
KB929399
KB929735
KB930178
KB930857
KB931573
KB931768
KB932246
KB936824

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