Hey guys, I'm new here and after a couple of days of bashing my head against the wall I figured I'd join up and post. To keep this short, what can't Win Toolkit do when compared to other options such as RT 7 Lite, vLite etc.? I'm not looking for someone to tell me how to do the things I want to do although I won't say no to someone who offers advice, I'm simply trying to figure out if Win Toolkit is the software to invest my time into to achieve my goals. Goals: 1) Integrate Windows updates and drivers 2) Remove things I don't use, want or need - ideally trimmed as much as possible for me, realistically stability > size and then refine as I go 3) Integrate my programs such as games, media software, browsers (maybe even have addons for firefox installed too?) 4) Basic Tweaks - start menu programs folder organizing, what appears in start menu, taskbar pinned programs, sys tray notifications, taskbar thumbnail preview hover time, assign directories to general libraries such as music, pictures, video etc. 5) Cosmetic Customization - Themes, custom theme, Rainmeter Post #4 - This guy mentions using RT 7 Lite to remove unwanted stuff first, then RT 7 Booster for removing even more stuff and then using Win Toolkit to integrate updates and drivers. I have a link but I read here on wincert that it should be done the other way, integrate first and then do removal but I'm curious because the post I linked makes it appear as though RT 7 Lite can remove more things than Win toolkit. I also keep reading about the win.sys folder and people removing it which I'm still not sure if this is something I should do or not. Addition details, rant! I would really like to customize my windows install visually and organizationally. Since I'm not a pro and I learn the hard way I usually end up trying many things to find something I like but will usually end up with some problems along the way. Sometimes it is easier and less time to just start over rather than troubleshoot a problem. Having an install disk/iso with even just 1 and 2 would greatly reduce my effort when reformatting. About 2 weeks ago my computer started acting up and eventually I couldn't get back into windows even after attempting repairs, recovery, last known good configuration etc. so I reformatted. This took a good 14 hours to get most of my programs back on and updates installed because of having to download most of it from the internet. When I tried to update my audio drivers with the Realtek HD audio mobo drivers the audio quit working and I had to revert to a last known good configuration. I also had to do another revert when I tried to install some themes that required some standalone theme downloading software after which I just left things alone and left me using the standard windows audio drivers instead of the Realtek HD. Then about 4 days ago my audio quit working and I spent the better part of a day trying to fix it with no luck. At this point I want to save my time troubleshooting for things that I need to work and there is no reset button! If I had an install disk/iso up to goal 4 I would then I wouldn't spend so much time troubleshooting problems like this because getting set up to where I was pretty much before the problem arose wouldn't take very long. As far as RT 7 Lite goes, it seems like a good idea but I've spent more time dealing with it telling me to "please select a valid windows 7 operating system" or to unmount some image than I have actually using it nor have I been able to create an install ISO that worked for even just updates and mobo drivers. I have two separate windows 7 source files to work from which I create a copy of for RT 7 Lite to use so as to leave the original source files untouched. More often than not if I can even get RT 7 lite to work, once it's done and I find the newly created ISO doesn't install correctly, RT 7 Lite won't use a new copy of the original source file that it just used. Bottom line is sometimes it works for me enough to get into rt 7 lite but most of the time it doesn't. The last way it worked for me was to delete all extractions and temp folders used and let RT 7 lite do the extraction from the Source ISO, not sure if this is repeatable for me or not. My point being is that for the amount of time and effort I've already invested I should have been able to achieve goal 1 and partially 2 if not completely. Reformatting twice inside a month is not the norm for me but considering it has happened, I would like to devote some time to achieving these goals so that the next time I have to reformat it takes less time and I don't have to waste so much of my time off of work dealing with this whenever it decides to happen.
