T-R-A's nLite suggestion is surely the best route to take. I have an old IBM Thinkpad T23 that's been dropped or maybe drug behind a runaway horse. The 30Gb hdd was bad and the only laptop drive I had was an old 1.5Gb. I installed W2K which used up over 1Gb then started trimming it down. This was my starting point... http://technical-issues-tips.blogsp... In addition, I removed outlook express and IE (google for instructions), then compressed the drive. The result was a W2k install of about 500Mb including a 256Mb swap file. Lightning fast boot and shutdown and the swapfile size works fine with 256Mb system memory. Browser, office, pdf reader, etc. came from http://portableapps.com/suite Just use what you want. The portable apps suite went on a 2Gb SD card and with what I wanted to install, uses about 500Mb. Bottom line is an old hdd with 1Gb free space and a SD card with 1.5Gb free. This laptop is used mostly in the bedroom for internet surfing, reading ebooks, playing dvd's and so forth. Important Note: I played it safe; got all my hardware and drivers together and installed before I deleted anything from Windows 2000. I don't see any problems with the nLite install if you follow the procedure T-R-A posted. Good luck; let us know what you decided and how it worked for you. Edit: Since this is the DOS forum, my next project is a dual boot with DOS/Win3.x and trimmed down W2k on an overclocked P233/256Mb/6.4Gb machine. Skip

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I used nLite and seems to be working fine. (Windows uses only 345mb with disk compressed). Thanks.

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>>>This was my starting point... http://technical-issues-tips.blogsp<<< Hmm, some good stuff there. The nLite install had several things already cleaned out, but a few were not. Even if someone didn't want to delete, it might be a good idea just to compress and move it off the drive to be safe. Also hardily recommend the Portable Apps Suite as well. Like Skip, I've got everything on a 2GB SD Card on the side of the EeePC and have room to spare. Got an 8GB USB drive to take tons of video, music and games along too. Also may want to try Opera-USB for a fast and svelt alternate browser and PDF Creator for an alternative to taking a printer along with you. Found a USB Modem for $7 and an made a "homebrew" alternate power supply incase the broadband & power goes down (i.e. usual power-outages/other TEOTWAWKI scenarios) (I'm sure we'll get "trolled" for talking about XP in the "DOS" forum...)

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"(I'm sure we'll get "trolled" for talking about XP in the "DOS" forum...)" Well, we did talk about DOS stuff; linux stuff and freeBsd too. Guess that makes all of us pretty dandy sinners. "Ok, I just want a graphic Os whick takes up less than 2gb on HDD and have the hardware support for 800x480." Well, that means MS-DOS 5 and dosshell won't work. At least at 800x480. Some of us will remember trimming the size of a DOS 6.x install in order to fit the OS and apps we needed on a 10Mb hard drive. We also learned to have everything working before deleting "extraneous" files. We found out it's a lot easier to delete necessary files along with the unnecessary ones. "...it might be a good idea just to compress and move it off the drive to be safe." That would have been nice 15 years ago too, but just wasn't possible unless we were rich enough to afford an extra hdd or tape back up. Backing up to floppies was a nice idea but I never saw a backup set that worked when restore time came around. I often wonder what folks are thinking when they build and sell a system in which the OS eats up over half the SSD. It's no stinkin' wonder projects like nLite pop up. Skip

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And while we're on the subject, a couple other handy tools for the Eee (with XP): http://www.cpp.in/dev/eeectl/ http://www.vasileios.gr/freesoft/nu...

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