News Windows 11 squeezed into a mere 100MB using text-only trick — Tiny11 maker NTDEV takes Windows install image challenge to the extreme

[Admin]

Tiny11 maker NTDEV demos his skills by making the smallest Windows 11 image ever, distilling it to below 100MB. Since this offers just text-only mode, many of its GUI functions have been stripped. It is the bare minimum install to have a functional operating system.

Windows 11 squeezed into a mere 100MB using text-only trick — Tiny11 maker NTDEV takes Windows install image challenge to the extreme : Read more

 

[Alvar "Miles" Udell]

Who knows! Maybe NTDEV will find some further excess fat that can be trimmed in upcoming releases. Time will tell!

Removing things that break the normal operation of the OS and/or prevent the normal running of applications is not "trimming fat".

 

[coromonadalix]

any windows could be trimmed down of many crap, but M4oft love to push us in some cases many thing we dont need

they should implement some drivers purge, once the machine is functional, and all we need is installed

but still the same problems with winsxs who become huge, hiberfil file, pagefile, swapfile ... same old stories

 

[sjkpublic]

Microsoft makes money through 3rd party apps. And it makes money by feeding your data into AI. It is not about reliability. It is not about trimming the fat and resources. It is about controlling your own data and privacy.

 

[endocine]

At this point its Textdows, not Windows, just install DOS