[rescue] Oh yeah ...

[Lionel Peterson]

On Feb 20, 2009, at 12:49 PM, Ethan O'Toole <ethan at 757tech.net> wrote:

>> Yup.  I'm being freshly reminded how painful XP is, with the bling  
>> that
>> you can't disable and assorted management settings obfuscated and  
>> tucked
>> away in hard-to-find places.  Tracking down the interface settings  
>> and
>> setting for performance-over-shiny helps.  But there's still way too
>> much bloat and bling and unnecessary space-wastage in the interface.
>
> There are ways to trim all of that out.
>
>> And then I remember that Vista is WORSE.  WTF was Microsoft thinking?
>
> Linux has followed the same path. You can trim out the extra stuff  
> in both OSes.
>
> Check out XP Embedded for some odd stuff.

Check out WinFLP, Windows XP For Legacy Platforms, a very minimal  
WinXP install...

Lionel