hey, I can help you do this. the simpler it is, the easier it is! I would of course recommend my kitchen, it is pretty basic, but with extras that can be easily removed.
dcd's is like mine but not as versatile.. but it is based on the same stuff.
download mine (get the build from last night in my nightly kitchen link in my sig) and basically just delete everything in EXT\baseline except 1_system. you will get an error when the rom boots at this point because all the stuff I run at autorun is referenced in a file in 6_end\rz_basleine\baseline.txt. you could get around by this by removing all autorun functionality, which for you purposes might be a good idea. just remove 1_system\runCC.
Leave everything in SYS and OEM, and ROM. this is needed. (the sys elements I talk about below can be deleted if you want)
my kitchen will remove most of the fluff that comes with windows itself. the following things are skipped:
ADC (not sure what it even is)
Adobe Flash (we all know what this is)
Windows Update - useless
All east-asian content - useless just takes up space
entertainment - all games
IRDA - infrared, out devices do not even have IR ports
mstag reader - useful but useless to most, reads barcodes using the camera
live search - we know what this is too
oneNote - part of office, see no reason for it, the notes app is much faster
sample music
skybox - this is MS my phone. I keep this in my EXT's in 4_rz_apps\juggalo_x MS MyPhone (great version by juggalo_x)
skymarket - ms marketplace.. useless for me, it went by the wayside
welcome center - If we are flashing roms we know how to use our phones lol
windows Live - I dont use it, it takes up space.
MS Widgets - ms money, weather. useless
if there are any of these things you want to keep simply delete the line in start kitchen.cmd: (0409 are the enlgish localization files for the package - if you want to keep it remove its line too)
Code:
echo > SYS\%buildver%\ADC\_skip
echo > SYS\%buildver%\ADC_lang_0409\_skip
echo > SYS\%buildver%\AdobeFlash\_skip
echo > SYS\%buildver%\AdobeFlash_Lang_0409\_skip
echo > SYS\%buildver%\AdobeFlashCodecs\_skip
echo > SYS\%buildver%\AUTOUPDATE\_skip
echo > SYS\%buildver%\Autoupdate_lang_0409\_skip
echo > SYS\%buildver%\BronzeEA\_skip
echo > SYS\%buildver%\CommonEA\_skip
echo > SYS\%buildver%\Entertainment\_skip
echo > SYS\%buildver%\Entertainment_DPI_192\_skip
echo > SYS\%buildver%\Entertainment_Lang_0409\_skip
echo > SYS\%buildver%\Entertainment_lang_0409_DPI_192\_skip
echo > SYS\%buildver%\IRDA\_skip
echo > SYS\%buildver%\IRDA_Lang_0409\_skip
echo > SYS\%buildver%\MSTag\_skip
echo > SYS\%buildver%\MSTag_Lang_0409\_skip
echo > SYS\%buildver%\Livesearch\_skip
echo > SYS\%buildver%\LockScreenEA\_skip
echo > SYS\%buildver%\OneNote\_skip
echo > SYS\%buildver%\OneNote_Lang_0409\_skip
echo > SYS\%buildver%\SampleMusic\_skip
echo > SYS\%buildver%\Skybox\_skip
echo > SYS\%buildver%\Skybox_Lang_0409\_skip
echo > SYS\%buildver%\Skymarket\_skip
echo > SYS\%buildver%\Skymarket_Lang_0409\_skip
echo > SYS\%buildver%\WelcomeCenter\_skip
echo > SYS\%buildver%\WelcomeCenter_Lang_0409\_skip
echo > SYS\%buildver%\WindowsLive\_skip
echo > SYS\%buildver%\WindowsLive_Lang_0409\_skip
echo > SYS\%buildver%\WindowsLive_DPI_192\_skip
echo > SYS\%buildver%\WindowsLiveIM\_skip
echo > SYS\%buildver%\WMWidgets_Lang_0409\_skip
echo > SYS\%buildver%\WMMoneyWidget\_skip
echo > SYS\%buildver%\WMWeatherWidget\_skip
echo > SYS\%buildver%\WMWidgets\_skip
hope it helps
oh yeah, you might want to keep EXT\baseline\9_registry as a tweaked registry is a happy registry
another thing you need to know, to run my kitchen on vista or windows 7 you must have User Account control
disabled. Also you must be an administrator on whatever version of Windows you're using since the kitchen changes the system bits on files in the kitchen and then rewrites them when the rom is cooked
