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Something I edited.

FUgly, need I say more?

Just look at the pics below. No matter how fancy the photography it will not change the fact that this has just got to be ugliest car around next to Honda Element, and one of the first Scion models. This photo doesn't quite show it well but the car is way too long for its design.
But clearly it's designed to be ugly so I guess it's ok.

One of the best softwares I have used so far for those little clean jobs to make your xp faster.
This isn't a system cleaner like those other softwares that get rid of your junk files or bad registry entries.

http://www.nliteos.com/

Microsoft XP Professional Install CD is about 600meg. It includes alot of services and junk that most of you won't ever need and some that you will. The more processes and components means more cpu usage and more memory usage. By using nlite you can eliminate those uneeded components and embed sp3 into your xp install CD. And when you boot to that CD and install ms windows xp on your computer it will be faster and less of a resource hog than before.

I have customized mine and I was able to get it down to 144Meg iso. After installing cpu process stayed very low and memory usage usually stayed below 100meg (out of 3Gig total available).

Try it out yourself. You could even try installing inide a virtual machine to see the result of its resource usage. (Vmware - not free unless you get player which is useless if you want to try installing xp) or you can try (QEMUmanager - comes with QEMU and is free solution to being able to create your own virtual machines with Microsoft Windows XP)

I will be posting very soon instructions on how to create dual boot usb installation.

Many of the instructions I found on internet were old, incorrect, or just didn't have enough information for what I wanted to accomplish.

So I have gone through many trials and failures and some successes and so I am gathering all the know how I figured out and collected and putting it in easy to understand steps and will explain why they work or do not work.

Bookmark this page and come back soon for update.

If you have any quick questions before the full instruction is done, you can send me a msg or comment and I'll get back to you hopefully within 24 hours.

Programs I have used that helped in some way or another:
winimage, ultraiso, hdhacker, volumeid (sysinternals), fedora's usb creator, editpad

OSes or Utilities I have installed on my 8Gig flash drive (aka. usb drive, keychain drive, pendrive):
Ubuntu 8.04 - Linux (persistent does not work - not my fault, Ubuntu hasn't fixed it)
Fedora 9 - Linux (great Linux distro that loads much faster than Ubuntu from usb)
Slax - Linux (very small but less ugly and more useful than DSL [damn small linux] and comes with the hawkpe)
hawkpe (a distro of custom built winpe - don't remember who built it, I used version 39)
Acronis True Image Echo with Universal Restore (awesome boot utility to backup or restore full harddrive image or even individual files, one heck of a program to use to backup. I highly recommend this one for your regular backup needs very very highly.)
PowerQuest Partition Magic (copied it from hawkpe iso same as hard drive tester apps listed below)
IBM/Hitachi diagnostic
SeaTools for Seagate drives
WesternDigital diagnostic
Kitchen Sink
QEMU (as a portable app to run under windows to run ubuntu 7.10, even under qemu Ubuntu 8.04's persistent does not work.)
Memtest+ (tests your RAM - if you ever had experience where you bought a brand new computer but right out of the box you started getting reboots or bluescreen, you might want to test your RAM)

All these are launched from 1 single menu. I use syslinux. I do NOT use Grub4Dos (used it before but didn't like having to launch a menu to run dos or windows apps when I could actually do it from syslinux that way I am not running a menu just to run a menu)