Thread: smallest install of win98se?

i have mine down to 95mb... i had win95 down as low as 80mb... i experimented deleting the system32 folderin in windows directory, since they seemed to be duplicate files of system directory... i gained around 20mb right there... other than that, i deleted absolutely everything, even calculator!

And my system was reliable and never crashed.

Cool... Thanks for the reply... that is cool cuz I'm going to look for Compact Flash or Smart Media adapters that plug straight into IDE... see if I can use two, one on master for OS and one on slave for swap since swap will kill Solid state media and this will minimize reads from the OS/Configuration drive... and then put mp3s on a usb CDRom it was my original idea, but I abandoned it until people posted about compact flash IDE adapters...

check out 98lite.net
you can do a micro install of 98se which is like 50MB or so and VERY fast bootup.

REally? I use 98lite on my desktop... I didn't know they had a smaller faster setup... a must-see appy

Or you can use a linux distro.
I've seen a single floppy disk that would boot and had the programs to play mp3s
So under 1.44 megs

Originally posted by King Snake:
<STRONG>i had win95 down as low as 80mb... </STRONG>

80Meg for Win95? That's huge. I've had it down to 40 Meg, 50 including IE. And I really didn't do anything special.