The Microsoft engineers themselves admit Windows Vista to be bloated (Eric Traut: "A lot of people think of Windows as this large, bloated operating system. That may be a fair characterization,"). When he says "a lot of people", he surely means everybody, because there's already quite some talk about Windows 7 being released next year, and some projects like MinWin are so anti-Vista that sales reality must be very lame.

But what can YOU do about it?

If you find yourself among those people that need Windows Vista, or just want it for the looks, there're two options: you get a good computer or you trim Vista down. And there's an application called vLite that will allow you to do just that. Last week, version 1.1.6 (that brings back "Service Pack Slipstream" support) went Release Candidate, so you can delete everything you don't need from the list of things to be installed with the OS. You can leave Vista at half the size it has by default, which should improve responsiveness.

Link: vLite.

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