Quote Originally Posted by Nick View Post
I installed Windows 7 in 15 minutes. Pulling out a few hundred MB of various programs (IE, WMP, WMM, etc.) isn't going to speed that up significantly. It's not like it has to compile each application during installation, it's a simple copy operation for the most part.

Nick
Uh, he said that having the programs added in from the get go makes it quicker.

And it does. Having Windows installed with IE, WMP, and WMM means that I don't need to stop working, find the discs, go out and buy them if I don't have them, and then wait for each of those to install.