Several days ago my friend said he has a new Windows Vista with compressed into only one CD with 700MB capacity and I really get surprise since I know Windows Vista is packed in DVD.

So I borrow his CD Windows Vista and I start to install on my old PC like I do when I install Tiny XP Professional in the same PC. The booting like usual from CD drive and wait in several minutes and we must use NTFS partition and not other partition system since Windows XP can be use on FAT 32 system. The process installation until finish only need 45 minutes and the it has been packed with 12 hotfix edition. The version of the operating system is Windows Vista Ultimate Edition, since I know it’s the highest version of several Vista series.

All of the driver for my old PC has been detected correctly without need to find another update driver. The total capacity needed when it’s completed only 4GB less than total Windows Vista installation from DVD version. There are several missing files and first I found is the offline help from Microsoft. If you need tutorial or some guide all you have to do must connect to internet and go to the Microsoft help data center.

The second is all of printer driver is missing. I can not found any type of printer driver but it’s worthed to free your hard drive space. Many components has been removed from Tiny Vista ultimate Edition but still include 3 important main program from Microsoft: Internet Explorer 7, Windows Media Player 11 and Windows Mail (Formerly “Outlook Express”).

I use Intel Pentium III with 256 MB SDRAM and the speed is like running Windows XP Professional. I think because much of the driver and components has been remove and it’s really fast for an old PC.

Note: Tiny Vista is illegal/pirate version and I just try to know the performance. Please don’t use it and buy the original Windows Vista. Please don’t ask me where I found it.

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Tiny Vista Ultimate Edition