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Diff Between Vista Ultimate and Vista Ultimate Lite

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CadCrazy
CadCrazy Original post #1
Jun 24, 2007 at 10:08 PM
What is diff between vista ultimate and vista ultimate lite ????
Vishal Gupta
Jun 24, 2007 at 10:54 PM
"Vista Ultimate" is official OS released by Microsoft and "Vista Ultimate Lite" is a modified version of Vista Ultimate, in which lots of components are removed and a few registry hacks included.
club_pranay
Jun 25, 2007 at 8:44 AM
*www.microsoft.com/windows/products/windowsvista/editions/choose.mspx

how come microsoft ppl dont know about this version?? while the whole google community is discussing it!! weird!

i think is available only in spain.
QwertyManiac
Jun 25, 2007 at 9:30 AM
@club_pranay - Heh. No, its a user modified version of Vista, quite popular in the warez scenes. :)
CadCrazy
Jun 25, 2007 at 10:27 PM
QwertyManiac said:
@club_pranay - Heh. No, its a user modified version of Vista, quite popular in the warez scenes. :)

how come any user can modify such a high secure os like vista. This is not open source mannnnnnnn
Sukhdeep Singh
Jun 25, 2007 at 10:28 PM
jugnu_009 said:
how come any user can modify such a high secure os like vista. This is not open source mannnnnnnn
vLite - Play with it :D
Vishal Gupta
Jun 25, 2007 at 10:32 PM
@jugnu_009
Modified version of Vista doesnt mean we modified the source code. Actually you can remove components from the setup, add some registry tweaks, integrate updates, etc. using vLite. So thats what we were talking about. ;)
CadCrazy
Jun 25, 2007 at 10:36 PM
@sukhdeepsinghkohli & vishal gupta

thank you very much for info abt v lite

can i modify vista ultimate so that it can run with full eye on system with 512 MB RAM and Onboard graphics
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spikygv #9
Jun 26, 2007 at 10:04 AM
and wats teh difference between the oem edition and retail edition ?
QwertyManiac
Jun 26, 2007 at 10:10 AM
OEM editions don't have as much as drivers and hardware-specific stuff stuffed in them as Retail ones are. And the license is limited to use only on the computer you purchased with which it came, no other, not even as one-at-a-time.

And there are hell lot of other differences, there was a thread recently, try searching it :)
club_pranay
Jun 26, 2007 at 10:11 AM
so u ppl mean we can install Vlite on a slow machine too?? i mean on an intel845 chipset?
QwertyManiac
Jun 26, 2007 at 10:12 AM
Probably, doesn't Vista run on an 845? All it needs is 512 MB RAM and a decent processor, really.
infra_red_dude
Jun 26, 2007 at 10:18 AM
club_pranay said:
so u ppl mean we can install Vlite on a slow machine too?? i mean on an intel845 chipset?

with vlite u can slim down vista and remove the unneeded services/features. tho u won't get the eye candy but u can still tweak it to perform better on older hardware. this can be done after installation too but then using vlite u can create an installation medium wid automatically applied tweaks/mods.
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spikygv #14
Jun 27, 2007 at 11:10 PM
QwertyManiac said:
OEM editions don't have as much as drivers and hardware-specific stuff stuffed in them as Retail ones are. And the license is limited to use only on the computer you purchased with which it came, no other, not even as one-at-a-time.

And there are hell lot of other differences, there was a thread recently, try searching it :)

i'm sorry , i tried searching but cudnt find it . plz help