Kinda offtopic but are there anything for Windows like the MacTex basic package? It's only 90mb and has everything that you need for a minimal install http://www.tug.org/mactex/morepackages.html
You might took into Yihui Xie's TinyTex. It is a stripped-down install of critical packages from TexLive. One can install whatever you really need. See https://yihui.org/tinytex/