Windows gaming edition?

[Chris230291]

Hi all! I was wondering if there's such a thing as a gaming edition of Windows? I thought it would be cool to boot into a completely stripped down and optimised installation which essentially just presents you with your game library. Almost like a games console kinda thing.

Any thoughts? Or better yet does such thing exist?

Chris.

 

[SieB]

I can't remember what it is called, but there is a program that lets you make your own install disk for Windows using the install disk.
Basically it lets you remove all the stuff you don't want/need and takes it out so when you install Windows from the custom install disk you made you only have the things you want.
Not sure if it works with Windows 8, but it does with XP and 7. I just can't remember what it's called :\

Anyway, you could use it to make a gaming edition of Windows.

 

[Chris230291]

That sounds like something i'd like to have a play with. Anyone have any idea what the utility is called? Hopefully there's a Windows 8 version somewhere

At the moment i just have Steam open on launch. However because I'm booting from a HDD it's a little slow.

EDIT: I found this ... http://lifehacker.com/374376/trim-down-windows-to-the-bare-essentials

Is that it?

EDIT 2: I have found a program called WinReducer8 for Windows 8. I'm going to give it a try.

 

[SieB]

The one I was thinking of was nLite but it doesn't work with Windows 8.
There are a list of others here but I don't think they work with 8 either.

http://www.techradar.com/news/softw...ting-custom-windows-installation-discs-679477

 

[Chris230291]

Thanks but I'm going to give WinReducer a try as i think it's the only solution for 8.

I didn't realise your average Joe could actually make their own stripped down version of Windows.

 

[Feronix]

Honestly it'd be pretty cool if Microsoft released a cheaper version of Windows 8 just focussed on gaming. Kind of like the Xbox One OS.

Especially when you buy console-like hardware and this OS you can build a pretty good and cheap gaming PC that will be at least as good as a console. I guess that could help PC gaming out a bit cause we all know people usually buy consoles cause they are cheaper than PCs.
(Assuming people buy Windows legally)

There's also the Steam Big Picture thing though. It's basically like a console OS but it runs within Windows. You can make it start-up automatically as Windows boots and it will be all full-screen.