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   mikiem2
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   neowin[.]net/news/tiny11-2311-is-out-lightweight-smaller-and-serviceable-windows-11-version-23h2/

   neowin[.]net/news/meet-tiny11-core-a-windows-11-mod-that-only-requires-3gb-of-disk-space/

   archive[.]org/details/tiny-11-core-x-64-beta-1

   archive[.]org/details/tiny11-2311

   While I've included the links from Neowin, Tiny11 is talked about on quite a few Windows &/or tech-related sites. NTDEV enjoys making Windows smaller, figuring out how to get rid of some of the bloat, and then some. On a whim I decided to download the latest Tiny11 2311 & Tiny11 Core ISOs and use them for a couple of VMs while scrolling through the remaining Black Friday sales and whatever's available now for tomorrow's Cyber Monday. I can say now that they do work as advertised. The larger 2311 version comes in at ~9.5GB while the Core version is ~7GB. That's on a compacted VHD, meaning all the free space has been removed, making the VHD file as small as possible. The Core version is missing Windows update, though it works just fine on the larger version.

   Anyway, something to maybe check out if you want/need the smallest Windows footprint possible.

   Posted 12 months ago #
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   mikiem2
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   The core version of Tiny11 doesn't include Windows Update. With this week's Patch Tuesday I downloaded the patch and tried to install the December update manually. Even after copying over the missing Windows Update files it would not work, so the version you download is what you get. I updated the larger version, which went OK, but the end result was only about 1GB smaller than my regular Win11 VM with added software like Firefox. Long story short, I'm not at all sure it's worth it, especially if you can remove Edge, which should give you at least 1GB space savings.

   Posted 11 months ago #

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