Talk:NLite and vLite

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Please do not delete this page. NLite is an important tool for modifying windows software and creating installation cds. I would have never found out about NLite if not through wikipedia. It would be a mistake to delete this article and not some of the many off the wall ones around wikipedia.

Found this discussion at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/NLite

--Chrisdab 00:41, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Using nLite for slipstreaming

As far as I know, nLite is the tool of choice for easy slipstreaming. I do a fair amount of server administration at several companies, and I've noticed that if a system has no floppy drive, you'd often need to slipstream drivers onto a Windows CD to even install the stuff. All admins that I know would just grab nlite off of the web for this, or just have it permanently installed. Even for "regular" users, slipstreaming might be a better option than using a floppy drive.

Besides this specific application, the whole nlite article seems to be written by an "I don't want to have to put up with any MS bloatware" anti-microsoft-ionist POV. However, this is just one application. Another would be for System admins, to create Windows CD's with stuff like product key, admin password, installation options, etc already built in, to make for easy windows reinstalling.

[edit] removing unwanted windows components article

I would propose that we create an article headlined as something like "removing unwanted windows programs" (or anything fitting this basic topic description), this can be merged with "removing internet explorer" article. While the individual programs used to remove unwanted parts of windows are mostly non-notable, the topic and phrase iteslf is notable considering current Microsoft trends with uninstallable programs like IE, Outlook, etc. In this article I propose the discussion of those specific components normally unremoveable from Windows. In addition we can easily merge all articles about programs like this into a single topic. Forwarding a user to the "removing unwanted windows programs" article from a search of "nlite" or similar programs like "xplite", etc.

I would propose an article format as follows:

Headline: (whatever is chosen to describe this topic)

Description: (short descrition of the topic/opener)

History: (this will note the history of this topic/when microsoft {and other companies} began this habit, user reaction, etc)

Security issues: (note on the fact that these programs have known security issues/problems causing a problem for people desiring to avoid these issues, but being unable to delete them)

MS EULA: (a mention of how removing these programs in this way is in violation to the MS EULA)

List of programs: (a list, with short descriptions and their current status, of all the known programs created to remove components)

Links: (related articles and related sites)

--SomeGuy1969 07:45, 21 September 2006 (UTC)

It seems to me that the links to Bold-Fortune and the actual paragraph containing his purported thoughts are nothing more than website spam. A more neutrol POV in relation to this seems to be a better solution, although the link to Bold-Fortune's guide should not be deleted (unless this causes a cascade of similar articles being added) 24.148.194.197 21:49, 28 June 2007 (UTC)