7-Zip nLite Addon

If you want to reduce the time needed for installing your OS you can use nLite addons to create your own bootable image of Windows.

Add-ons are third-party applications developed by other producers than the nLite developers, designed to be included in nLite as add-ons. They are specially customized so that they can be added to nLite in order to create a preinstall image of Windows to ease a user's work when reinstalling Window on their computer.

You just add these add-ons, create your image and when you reinstall your Windows all your favorite programs will be there just like they were before. It's a fast and easy way to keep a backup especially if you have a lot of programs installed on your computer. 7-Zip is the file archiver with the highest compression ratio. 7-Zip is free software distributed under the GNU LGPL (except for the RAR plugin).

nLite is a GUI that will enable you to permanently remove Windows components by your choice. You can add a series of addons to this application so it best fits your needs and desires.