Many More Bytes with SP2

> In XP-Pro the biggest footprint offender is probably the firewall, when
> you add networking to your config you get the firewall and all its
> dependencies by default. I think the documentation or the release notes
> tell you which component exposes the configui to disable this firewall
> dependency before running check dependencies (assuming you don't want the
> firewall, i recommend leaving it there for security).
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> Andy
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> Tom Salicos wrote:

>> Amazingly, there are only two XPE Group Google hits for "SP2 Bloat". My
>> image was 84 MB, now 120 with SP2. My question is whether it is worth
>> trying to pare it down, or is everything just bigger and better? Mine is
>> Minlogon with TCP/IP, MFC and not a whole lot more.
>>
>> Tom Salicos
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>I added the Core Networking Component, then went in and turned off Firewall
>and my SP2 Image is still much larger than my SP1 Image. I don't know what
>else to trim out. I think it has a lot to do with the XP SP2 Files and
>DLL's and such. I was at 90 megs and now almost 130 megs. Something
>somewhere added some bloat.
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> Richard
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> "Andy Allred [MS]" <andyall@online.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:44FF1C7B.1040909@online.microsoft.com...

>> In XP-Pro the biggest footprint offender is probably the firewall, when
>> you add networking to your config you get the firewall and all its
>> dependencies by default. I think the documentation or the release notes
>> tell you which component exposes the configui to disable this firewall
>> dependency before running check dependencies (assuming you don't want the
>> firewall, i recommend leaving it there for security).
>>
>> ----
>> Andy
>>
>> Check out the Embedded team blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/embedded/
>> This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no
>> rights.
>>
>>
>>
>> Tom Salicos wrote:

>>> Amazingly, there are only two XPE Group Google hits for "SP2 Bloat". My
>>> image was 84 MB, now 120 with SP2. My question is whether it is worth
>>> trying to pare it down, or is everything just bigger and better? Mine
>>> is
>>> Minlogon with TCP/IP, MFC and not a whole lot more.
>>>
>>> Tom Salicos
>>>
>>>
>>>

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