[bennett]

I am currently running windows 7 ultimate on my mini 9, but I am thinking that maybe a little bit overkill. I am a software developer and have a msdn membership so I have access to any version of windows 7 (including the starter version).

I am just trying to find the right balance of speed to usability. Starter maybe too limited, but might be better as it may have a small footprint on the SSD which by the way is only 16GB.

Anyways, should I just keep ultimate or try downgrading? I did read the posts about optimization and I did follow those for my current copy of ultimate. But theres so much stuff in ultimate I'm never going to use on a netbook

Thanks,
Bennett

[holmes4]

The edition you have will make no difference in performance. All the higher edition costs you is disk space.

[Scooter70]

x2. I'm running Professional on my Mini only because I didn't need the extra few things that Ultimate brings. (I have a TechNet Plus account so I can use any version as well.)

[dstrauss]

May not be of any help, but I see no difference in performance between Win7 RC (Ultimate) and Win7 Home Premium currently on the machine.

[rrfranczak3]

I think that the major difference with Ultimate is the bitlocker drive encryption which I can almost bet that 9 out of 10 people dont even use, I know I dont and probably never will..

[TobyRhino]

Yep, main difference is diskspace and some apps like bitlocker. Probably a few additional services to do with those apps. To anyone else who doesn't have an MSDN or TechNet account, you can always use Vlite on windows 7 to shrink your install.

[MoInSTL]

bennet, I have used vLite many times during the beta and release candidates and am running Ultimate on my 9 with 16GB SSD also. Just don't do it when you are tired! I removed WiFi support by accident this last time.

if you don't want to create a new image/install you may want to also edit your services and set some to manual and disable others. The other thing you can do is remove some Windows 7 features in control panel under Programs & Features.

[TobyRhino]

I run a vlited windows 7 on my mini and I think I somehow removed the ability to share media through a homegroup. But I can't be bothered to re-install for the sake of that one problem I have.

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I run a vlited windows 7 on my mini and I think I somehow removed the ability to share media through a homegroup. But I can't be bothered to re-install for the sake of that one problem I have.

So long as you do some reading on doing it, and have some idea about what does what, vlite is great.