Anyone Experiment with WES7, POSReady7, Thin Client 7

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Anyone Experiment with WES7, POSReady7, Thin Client 7

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I am curious to see if anyone has ever used any one of these Windows versions to create or use as a every day OS? What was your experience?
I am using a custom image of WES7 on my Getac V-200X (removed all unwanted items from the deployed image) and so far it has proven light on RAM usage.
I have tried Thin Client, although it has more limitations regarding features.
POSReady 7 has proven not to be of any more benefit than your regular Windows 7 operating system and also had a large foot print.

My goal was for the ideal operating system (not including addon software) is to have a wallpaper, paint, notepad, aero theme, run command, CMD prompt, windows media player without the bloated media center, wifi connection and use less than 350mb of RAM at idle. I have no need for any remote features/crap or recovery/system restore (I use 3rd party image back software).

I love to hear other's experiences with these unique operating systems.

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Re: Anyone Experiment with WES7, POSReady7, Thin Client 7

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I ran a modified install of POSReady7 on my old Thinkpad for 2 years, it worked pretty well and i didn't really have to modify it too much.

oh btw can you shoot me a direct message here or on discord (AngelHoney#0069) because i'm really interested to know how you did those customized builds

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Re: Anyone Experiment with WES7, POSReady7, Thin Client 7

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I use POSReady 7 on a PC on a daily basis and it is pretty much everything you could wish for - Windows 7 experience without all the bloat (e.g. the Media Center). It also has the advantage of being easily installable, unlike the WES7.

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Re: Anyone Experiment with WES7, POSReady7, Thin Client 7

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I'd rather go with ThinPC (no need to build any deploy images, installs like Win7 does). NTLite could allow you to free up some RAM and drive space if needed
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Re: Anyone Experiment with WES7, POSReady7, Thin Client 7

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Will try experimenting with POSReady 7 and Thin Client images with NTLite. My goal is a small foot print and low RAM demands without any bloated features.

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