Does anybody have a .config file for some latest version of kernel 2.6 with as few options as possible. I've tried to do it myself but it didn't work (probably some important options were stricken out), so may be someone else has done it successfully. Hardware or any other stuff doesn't matter, I just want to see what can be done. Thanks in advance.

Hardware does matter - removing support for something means you can't access it. You really need to know what hardware is in your PC, all of it, and what it is being used for. As an example, you may have a parallel port, but if nothing gets plugged in, why compile support for it.

Make a list of hardware that you can see that needs kernel support (drives, peripherals, PCI cards, USB ports, etc.) and use tools like lspci and lsusb to report on hardware that you can't see. Then it's trial and error...

I said 'hardware doesn't matter' because I wanted just to have a look, not directly use others' config.

The first time I tried to compile my own kernels, it didn't work. In the end, it took me about 5 or 6 tries to get it right. Now that I know what I need, it takes maybe 15 minutes to update the kernel.

The moral is - keep trying, it will come.

I understand what deardron wants and I don't agreee with the sentence "The moral is - keep trying, it will come."
Of course, hardware is important and so on... but a desktop computer works in a same way from one distribution to another.
I'm a happy LFS user from few month and I rebuild the kernel one time a week, at least. I'm looking for the "optimal" config, too, and everything looks working good. But I'm not sure my kernel is really good. How can I be sure ?
How can a simple user, even a "stuff" compiler or a system admin claim he has the "right" configuration ?
Maybe that's why it's so hard to find some personnal .config file on the net ?
When configuring the kernel, there is many option I still don't know if I need it or not.
There's many people looking for a good, minimal and hardware independant .config and I've planed to read the "linux kernel in a nutshell" book, to be better aware of all the kernel stuff...
Maybe, then, I'll post my .config in some time, but you have to be patient...

@ alaskazimm:
Faith is believing that something which doesn't exist in the three-dimensional reality, now, could become real.
Faith is believing in the power of the "thing" that lies behind (in fact, below) the appearances.
Faith is believing that everything is always perfect.