Stripping win 7 to a minimum

[jimbojames]

Hi all,

Does anyone here bother stripping win 7 down to only essential services / features to free up resources for gaming etc? If so what and how and why?

 

[Josh Weston]

I'm not sure if people do it for gaming, but people certainly do it when striving to get the best benchmark results possible. Lemme try and find the thread...

http://forum.overclock3d.net/index.php?/topic/35242-quick-guide-to-os-bench-optimisation-tweaking/

 

[Cyanide89]

I honestly JUST installed a stripped Windows 7 custom version. I also just unistalled it. I did this three times, removing less each time because it's an absolutely terrible idea to do this if you're gaming.

I went through hell trying to figure out why Windows kept getting errors, so I would edit the installation with minor things (removing non essential functions and such) but Windows would still fail an sfc /scannow procedure. With over 2000 errors all because of how unorganized the install became, thus creating instabilities.

I even tried just removing themes, backgrounds, games, etc... still didn't run well. Even with the guide I followed online (to the dot) i would get instabilities. And it didn't even save much space... you can save just as much doing post install tweaks!

 

[Matthias2437]

There is no reason the strip down a Windows 7 install on a modern gaming machine. The performance increase you might see is not worth the hassle that comes most of the time with stipped installs. I tried it one time and after the tenth time of going to do something that I normally would be able to do, but couldn't anymore because I stipped it I decided to just eat the slight performance decrease and did a fresh full install.

 

[jimbojames]

Looks like I'll give it a miss then

 

[KING_OF_SAND]

I don't think even stripping is going to yield much better results. Also you can just go into task manager and just kill everything.