Installation Question

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safety123

I would like to install Vista on a Macintosh I have.
It's a 250 g hard drive, but I've already used up 150 g.

Is there a way not to put on all that extra junk that comes with
Windows?

I've already bought it a year and a half ago, the macintosh hard drive
was replaced.

Thank you
 
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Nil

I would like to install Vista on a Macintosh I have.
It's a 250 g hard drive, but I've already used up 150 g.

Is there a way not to put on all that extra junk that comes with
Windows?

What "extra junk" do you have in mind?
 
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smlunatick

I would like to install Vista on a Macintosh I have.
It's a 250 g hard drive, but I've already used up 150 g.

Is there a way not to put on all that extra junk that comes with
Windows?

I've already bought it a year and a half ago, the macintosh hard drive
was replaced.

Thank you

The "extra" junks is not from the Windows Vista install CD. If you
have any official Microsoft Vista install CD (Retail or "Generic" OEM)
you do not have the extra junk that most "big OEMS" tack on. You
should not have been using a "branded" OEM recovery CD / install CD
(like Dell, Gateway, HP etc..)
 
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Peter Foldes

One simple question before I can advise you on your issue. Is the Windows Vista with
the secret version is it for a Mac or a PC?

--
Peter

Please Reply to Newsgroup for the benefit of others
Requests for assistance by email can not and will not be acknowledged.
http://www.microsoft.com/protect
 
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Mary

How are you installing Vista, using VMware, Paralles, or Bootcamp?

In any case it is a virtulization, you might need all that extra windows
"stuff" to run vista properly, but you can always disable features you don't
want by doing the following:

1) click the start button (blue circle windows button)
2) click control panel, under Programs, click "unistall programs".
3) in the programs and features screen, select "Turn Windows features on or
off " last choice on the left menu.
4) Windows Vista will now ask for your permission to access the Windows
Vista Features. You should click on the Continue button to give this
permission.
5) Next to each feature is a box that can have three states. If the checkbox
is checked that means that the feature, and all of its subfeatures if it has
any, are enabled. If the box is filled with a solid blue color, then that
means that some subfeatures of this feature are enabled but not all of them.
If the checkbox is empty, then that feature and none of its subfeatures are
enabled.

To enable a feature, simply put a checkmark next to the feature name. To
disable a feature simply remove the check from the feature or one of its
subfeatures. When you are happy with how you disabled and enabled the
features, you should click on the OK button to save these changes.

I am running Vista on my iMac, and this is how I customize Vista for me!
Good Luck!
 
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safety123

I'm installing it with boot camp.

I don't use alot of the extra stuff that comes with Vista.

How much hard drive space did you give it?
 

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