What's new in NTLite 2024.4.9925
Apr 29, 2024
- Upgrade:
- Components: Improved compatibility with the upcoming Windows 11 24h2
- Updates: ‘Update boot manager’ option added, disabled by default
- Needed on image update if the destination machine has the latest Secure Boot mitigations enforced.
- Supports the new Windows UEFI 2023 CA updates.
New in NTLite 2024.4.9920 Beta (Apr 26, 2024)
- Merged stable version changes
New in NTLite 2024.4.9919 (Apr 26, 2024)
- Upgrade:
- Components: Improved compatibility with the upcoming Windows 11 24h2
New in NTLite 2024.4.9916 (Apr 25, 2024)
- fix:
- Post-setup: Preset handling backwards compatibility with builds before 2024.4.9910
- Post-setup: Powershell script execution
- Components: ‘Application Compatibility’ removal leftovers
New in NTLite 2024.4.9913 (Apr 24, 2024)
- fix:
- Post-setup: Preset handling backwards compatibility with builds before 2024.4.9910
- Components: ‘Application Compatibility’ removal leftovers
New in NTLite 2024.4.9910 (Apr 23, 2024)
- New:
- Image: Windows 11 24h2 support
- Updates: MSIX license file support
- (add license XML to the Updates queue, automatically used if applies to a queued app)
- Post-setup: ‘After logon’ template command ‘Edge WebView2 Update (winget)’
- Upgrade:
- Updates: Improved MSIX integration
- frameworks group-applied with the main app instead of individually
- auto-search of offline license file, including the host
- Post-setup: ‘winget’ commands ‘After logon’ support
- (Windows does not pre-deploy ‘winget’ global access instantly on a new user first logon)
- Updates: Windows 11 24H2 updates integration support
- (see Toolsdeltareadme.txt for more info)
New in NTLite 2024.4.9880 (Apr 16, 2024)
- Upgrade:
- Updates: Support for integrating WOW64 packages into the 64-bit image
- Updates: Allow existing cumulative update to be re-added to the list for reapply purposes
- Settings: ‘Windows Copilot’ setting now also includes the tray button
- Fix:
- UI: Host Refresh wizard crash
- Components: ‘MSHTML Viewer’ removal was blocked if ‘Internet Explorer’ kept
- Components: ‘Spell Checking’ removal was breaking GPEdit search/filtering
- Post-setup: Reapply multiple editions ‘Before Logon’ tasks was not applied to subsequent editions
New in NTLite 2024.4.9879 (Apr 16, 2024)
- Upgrade:
- Updates: Support for integrating WOW64 packages into the 64-bit image
- Updates: Allow existing cumulative update to be re-added to the list for reapply purposes
- Settings: ‘Windows Copilot’ setting now also includes the tray button
- Fix:
- UI: Host Refresh wizard crash
- Components: ‘MSHTML Viewer’ removal was blocked if ‘Internet Explorer’ kept
- Components: ‘Spell Checking’ removal was breaking GPEdit search/filtering
- Post-setup: Reapply multiple editions ‘Before Logon’ tasks was not applied to subsequent editions
New in NTLite 2024.4.9877 (Apr 15, 2024)
- Upgrade:
- Updates: Support for integrating WOW64 packages into the 64-bit image
- Updates: Allow existing cumulative update to be re-added to the list for reapply purposes
- Settings: ‘Windows Copilot’ setting now also includes the tray button
- Fix:
- UI: Host Refresh wizard crash
- Components: ‘MSHTML Viewer’ removal was blocked if ‘Internet Explorer’ kept
- Components: ‘Spell Checking’ removal was breaking GPEdit search/filtering
New in NTLite 2024.4.9860 (Apr 3, 2024)
- Fix:
- Updates: “Missing” error message on Appx/Msix update in the automated download with integrate scenario
- Image: Apply queue could stop before auto-loading next image in certain conditions
- Drivers: Removing Host imported driver, then removing the entire branch would crash
New in NTLite 2024.4.9857 (Apr 2, 2024)
- Fix:
- Updates: “Missing” error message on Appx/Msix update in the automated download with integrate scenario
- Image: Apply queue could stop before auto-loading next image in certain conditions
New in NTLite 2024.4.9853 (Apr 1, 2024)
- Upgrade:
- Post-setup: ‘Before logon – Mode’ toolbar option, upgrades and replaces the Unattended OEM SetupComplete
- Useful for those that want to hide the command-line popup and bypass UI interaction, while solving the OEM key limitation.
- Post-setup: ‘Before logon’ run tasks indicated in a popup during setup (Mode – Default)
- Components: ‘Desired State Configuration (DSC)’ had leftovers if PowerShell kept
- UI-Translation: Thanks for Italian (clarensio)
- New:
- Settings: ‘Windows Copilot’ disable option (standard policy only)
New in NTLite 2024.4.9852 (Apr 1, 2024)
- Upgrade:
- Post-setup: ‘Before logon – Mode’ toolbar option, upgrades and replaces the Unattended OEM SetupComplete
- Useful for those that want to hide the command-line popup and bypass UI interaction, while solving the OEM key limitation.
- Post-setup: ‘Before logon’ run tasks indicated in a popup during setup (Mode – Default)
- Components: ‘Desired State Configuration (DSC)’ had leftovers if PowerShell kept
- UI-Translation: Thanks for Italian (clarensio)
- New:
- Settings: ‘Windows Copilot’ disable option (standard policy only)
New in NTLite 2024.3.9833 (Mar 26, 2024)
- Fix:
- Post-setup: ‘Before logon’ tasks again do not need OEM SetupComplete option, leaving it as an option
- Components: ‘GameInput Service’ component detection
- Upgrade:
- UI-Translation: Thanks for French (tistou77), Portugues-Brasil (Igor), Swedish (1FF)
New in NTLite 2024.3.9832 (Mar 26, 2024)
- Fix:
- Post-setup: ‘Before logon’ tasks again do not need OEM SetupComplete option, leaving it as an option
- Upgrade:
- UI-Translation: Thanks for French (tistou77), Portugues-Brasil (Igor), Swedish (1FF)
New in NTLite 2024.3.9831 (Mar 25, 2024)
- Upgrade:
- Unattended: ‘OEM SetupComplete’ returned as an option for those that need it with OEM machines
- Features: WMIC and Internet Explorer capabilities locked if pending removal
- Updates: Postponed updates (e.g. Win7 KB2533552 and KB2603229) now use post-setup SetupFiles like other files
New in NTLite 2024.3.9828 (Mar 25, 2024)
- Unattended: ‘OEM SetupComplete’ returned as an option for those that need it with OEM machines
- Features: WMIC and Internet Explorer capabilities locked if pending removal
- Updates: Postponed updates (e.g. Win7 KB2533552 and KB2603229) now use post-setup SetupFiles like other files
New in NTLite 2024.3.9819 (Mar 19, 2024)
- Fix:
- Components: InboxApps ‘Bing Search (InboxApp)’, ‘Flipgrid PWA (InboxApp)’, ‘Outlook PWA (InboxApp)’
- merged from beta, as intended
- Updates: Crash on Download updates Enqueue in some situations
New in NTLite 2024.3.9817 (Mar 19, 2024)
- Fix:
- Components: InboxApps ‘Bing Search (InboxApp)’, ‘Flipgrid PWA (InboxApp)’, ‘Outlook PWA (InboxApp)’
- merged from beta, as intended
- Updates: Crash on Download updates Enqueue in some situations
New in NTLite 2024.3.9812 (Mar 18, 2024)
- New:
- Updates: ‘Windows Package Manager (App Installer, WinGet)’ added to the update list
- Updates: ‘Microsoft.UI.Xaml v2.8.6’ added to the update list
- Updates: ‘Microsoft Visual C++ UWP Runtime v14.00 (Microsoft.VCLibs.140.00.UWPDesktop)’ added to the update list
- Upgrade:
- UI-Translation: Thanks for Chinese Traditional (Matt), Italian (clarensio)
- Fix:
- Settings: ‘UScheduler’ duplicate removed from the ‘Windows Update’ group
- Post-setup: Before logon not executing for some
New in NTLite 2024.3.9796 (Mar 17, 2024)
- Fix:
- Presets: Deleting multiple presets at once could crash UI
- Image: Isolated (WIM-only) image detection for Post-setup entries, blocking to Image-only mode as intended
- Image: Image edit folder rename and overwrite existing folder support
- Integrate-Registry: HKCU REG file integration in some cases
- UI: Chinese character width was incorrect in the new hover buttons
- Drivers: Repeated toolbar Host Import command was recreating multiple Add hover buttons
- New:
- Components: ‘Battle.net’ compatibility option
New in NTLite 2024.3.9794 (Mar 15, 2024)
- Fix:
- UI: Chinese character width was incorrect in the new hover buttons
- Drivers: Repeated toolbar Host Import command was recreating multiple Add hover buttons
- Image: Image edit folder rename and overwrite existing folder support
New in NTLite 2024.3.9785 (Mar 14, 2024)
- New:
- Components: ‘Battle.net’ compatibility option
- Fix:
- Presets: Deleting multiple presets at once could crash UI
New in NTLite 2024.3.9783 (Mar 13, 2024)
- Fix
- Image: Isolated (WIM-only) image detection for Post-setup entries, blocking to Image-only mode as intended
- Integrate-Registry: HKCU REG file integration in some cases
New in NTLite 2024.3.9780 (Mar 13, 2024)
- New:
- Post-Setup: Page redesigned, ‘Machine’ box is now ‘Before logon’ group, ‘User’ is ‘After logon’
- Post-Setup: Integrate background photo support (Add – File – change Type to Background after adding to the list)
- Post-Setup: Integrate ‘hosts’ file support (Add – File, destination is automatically set)
- Post-Setup: Integrate directory support
- Post-Setup: Destination path changeable and has auto-complete. For copy and background types. Overwriting a file preserves original permissions
- Post-Setup: Destination mode changeable. Choose ‘Image’, stored inside the WIM/ESD, or ‘ISO’, stored on the ISO
- Post-Setup: Type changeble, files can be just copied or copied and ran. Commands can be switched on the fly from before to after logon
- Post-Setup: Rename support for existing file and directories
- Settings: ‘Dynamic lock’ option
- UI: Page navigation menu now has a number badge indicator of added or changed items for that page
- UI: Added hover buttons to the appropriate pages, quicky and intuitively insert items
- Upgrade:
- Unattended: Default Recovery partition size increased from 499 to 700MB on Win10+
- Images: Disabling image Edit menu while processing previous command
- Images: Support for Unload all mounted per WIM/ESD selection
- Images: Presets list remembers clicked header to sort by name or date
- Updates: Downloading updates if cannot connect will prompt for retry or cancel
- Updates: Defender update ARM64 architecture support (fixes popup on loading ARM64 images)
- Components: Reactive compatibility description of ‘Locked by’ extra info on components
- Components: ‘OneDrive’ removal won’t be setting OneDrive disable policy as well. To set as before, use the Settings page in conjuction
- Components: ‘Shared Experiences’, ‘StartMenu’ and ‘Easy Transfer’ remove more, expanded by the cumulative updates
- Components: ‘File Explorer (Extensions)’ removal support for Windows 11 23H2, does not break Explorer
- Settings: Highlighting changed settings for an easier overview
- UI-Translation: Thanks for Chinese Simplified (Gskening), French (tistou77), German (Cartman586), Italian (clarensio),
- Korean (Redrabbit), Romanian (Coman), Swedish (1FF), Turkish (Just)
- Fix:
- Components: ‘Sounds’ default removed defaults to None in Sound settings
- Components: ‘Text Input Management Service’ removal in a certain scenario could have caused a blank screen on Win11
- Components: ‘RDP Client’ 32-bit removal was blocked if 64-bit version kept
- Components: ‘Telemetry client’ leftover if ‘Application Compatibility’ kept
- Components: ‘Not recommended’ Template disabled, listed for color description only
- Post-Setup: Command prompt popup for ‘Before logon (Machine)’ commands during setup in some cases
- Images: Unloading all at once manually from the folder could keep install image loaded if the WinRE and Boot.wim were mounted as well
- Images: WinRE image handling, should fix rare crashes in processing combinations
- Updates: Check for tool updates default version pre-selection improvements
New in NTLite 2024.3.9759 Beta (Mar 5, 2024)
- New:
- Post-Setup: Page redesigned, ‘Machine’ box is now ‘Before logon’ group, ‘User’ is ‘After logon’
- Post-Setup: Integrate background photo support (Add – File – change Type to Background after adding to the list)
- Post-Setup: Integrate directory support
- Post-Setup: Destination path changeable and has auto-complete. For copy and background types. Overwriting a file preserves original permissions
- Post-Setup: Destination mode changeable. Choose ‘Image’, stored inside the WIM/ESD, or ‘ISO’, stored on the ISO
- Post-Setup: Type changeble, files can be just copied or copied and ran. Commands can be switched on the fly from before to after logon
- Post-Setup: Rename support for existing file and directories
- UI: Page navigation menu now has a number badge indicator of added or changed items for that page
- UI: Added hover buttons to the appropriate pages, quicky and intuitively insert items
- Settings: ‘Dynamic lock’ option
- Upgrade:
- Unattended: Default Recovery partition size increased from 499 to 700MB on Win10+
- Images: Disabling image Edit menu while processing previous command
- Images: Support for Unload all mounted per WIM/ESD selection
- Updates: Downloading updates if cannot connect will prompt for retry or cancel
- Updates: Defender update ARM64 architecture support (fixes popup on loading ARM64 images)
- Components: Reactive compatibility description of ‘Locked by’ extra info on components
- Components: ‘OneDrive’ removal won’t be setting OneDrive disable policy as well. To set as before, use the Settings page in conjuction
- Components: ‘Shared Experiences’, ‘StartMenu’ and ‘Easy Transfer’ remove more, expanded by the cumulative updates
- Components: ‘File Explorer (Extensions)’ removal support for Windows 11 23H2, does not break Explorer
- Fix:
- Components: ‘Sounds’ default removed defaults to None in Sound settings
- Components: ‘Text Input Management Service’ removal in a certain scenario could have caused a blank screen on Win11
- Components: ‘RDP Client’ 32-bit removal was blocked if 64-bit version kept
- Post-Setup: Command prompt popup for ‘Before logon (Machine)’ commands during setup in some cases
- Images: Unloading all at once manually from the folder could keep install image loaded if the WinRE and Boot.wim were mounted as well
- Images: WinRE image handling, should fix rare crashes in processing combinations
- Updates: Check for tool updates default version pre-selection improvements
New in NTLite 2023.12.9553 (Dec 26, 2023)
- New:
- Components: ‘Input View Experience’.
- Components: ‘Application Targeted Feature Database’ (Win11 22621.2215+).
New in NTLite 2023.12.9553 Beta (Dec 26, 2023)
- New:
- Components: ‘Input View Experience’
- Components: ‘Application Targeted Feature Database’ (Win11 22621.2215+)
New in NTLite 2023.12.9525 Beta (Dec 7, 2023)
- New:
- Components: ‘GameInput Service’ (Win11 build 2792+)
- Components: ‘Bing Search (InboxApp)’ (Win11 build 2792+)
- Upgrade:
- Components: ‘Flipgrid PWA (InboxApp)’, split from Edge Chromium
- Components: ‘Outlook PWA (InboxApp)’, split from Edge Chromium
- Fix:
- Settings: Navigation bar – Gallery added ability to delete in images, as disabling did not stick before install[/teaser
New in NTLite 2023.12.9523 Beta (Dec 7, 2023)
- New:
- Components: ‘GameInput Service’ (Win11 build 2792+)
- Components: ‘Bing Search (InboxApp)’ (Win11 build 2792+)
- Upgrade:
- Components: ‘Flipgrid PWA (InboxApp)’, split from Edge Chromium
- Components: ‘Outlook PWA (InboxApp)’, split from Edge Chromium
- Fix:
- Settings: Navigation bar – Gallery added ability to delete in images, as disabling did not stick before install
- [/teaser
New in NTLite 2023.12.9520 Beta (Dec 3, 2023)
- Upgrade:
- Updates: Listing feature packs on the existing package list
- Updates: Detection of existing packages via a version as well, not just comparing identical ones
- This was used before only for cumulative updates, now for all existing packages and features, useful in WinPE OC integrations
- Fix:
- Components: OneNote removal was breaking Snipping Tool, a recent regression
New in NTLite 2023.11.9514 Beta (Nov 28, 2023)
- New:
- Components: ‘Input View Experience’
- Components: ‘Application Targeted Feature Database’ (Win11 22621.2215+)
New in NTLite 2023.11.9510 Beta (Nov 27, 2023)
- New:
- Components: ‘Text Input Management Service’ Win11 22H2+, needed for many things
- Upgrade:
- Unattended: ‘OEM SetupComplete’ option automated on Win10+ with OEM keys and removed the option
- Components: Win10 ‘Windows Feature Experience’ removal made more compatible, like Win11
- Components: ‘On-Screen Keyboard’ not dependent on ‘Windows Feature Experience’ any more
- Components: ‘WebView2 Runtime’ Legacy (non-updatable system version) split removal
- UI-Translation: Thanks for French (tistou77), Swedish (1FF)
New in NTLite 2023.11.9496 Beta (Nov 16, 2023)
- New:
- Updates: OOBE update support, added to update list for Windows 11 22H2, 22H3
- Upgrade:
- Components: Compatibility apps grouped
- Components: ‘Windows Setup’ compatibility split from OOBE
- Fix:
- Components: Search as icon pre-deployment was broken if Windows Feature Experience – Desktop removed
New in NTLite 2023.11.9493 Beta (Nov 12, 2023)
- Upgrade:
- Components: Windows Feature Experience – Desktop removal now keeps Win+Shift+S shortcut if Snip & Sketch app kept
- Components: Snipping tool leftovers and removed from Lite template, detached from Snip & Sketch app
- Components: ‘Sensor Service’ now not needed for Settings – Power Options
New in NTLite 2023.11.9484 Beta (Nov 8, 2023)
- Upgrade:
- Components: ‘Cortana’ removal now won’t break Settings search on Win11 and Win10 2004+
- Fix:
- Components: ‘Azure Arc Setup’ detection, was mistakenly listed in some cases even if not present
New in NTLite 2023.11.9482 Beta (Nov 6, 2023)
- New:
- Settings – Windows Update – Tasks delete option (e.g. DevHomeUpdate, EdgeUpdate, OutlookUpdate)
- Settings – Windows Update – Windows Store – ‘Automatic update install’ option
New in NTLite 2023.11.9477 (Nov 4, 2023)
- New:
- Settings: ‘Explorer – Navigation pane – Gallery’ option for Win11 23H2
- Components: Kaspersky compatibility option
- Fix:
- Updates: Language pack and dynamic update halting parallel integration in certain cases
- Components: ‘Night light’ compatibility now includes ‘Shared Experiences’
- Upgrade:
- Updates: ParallelEditions switch removed, turning it off automatically if Standard Update extraction is chosen from the UI
New in NTLite 2023.10.9472 (Oct 30, 2023)
- New:
- Components: ‘Input View Experience’ (beta test)
- Components: ‘Application Targeted Feature Database’ (beta test Win11 22621.2215+)
New in NTLite 2023.10.9466 (Oct 24, 2023)
- New:
- Settings: ‘Show the lock screen background picture on the sign-in screen’
- Settings: ‘Verbose startup, shutdown, logon, and logoff status messages’
- Components: ‘Azure Arc Setup’ removal on Server 2022
- Upgrade:
- Components: ‘Windows Backup’ (Windows Feature Experience – Desktop) removes more
- Components: ‘Sleep Study’ removes more
- Components: ‘Notepad (Legacy)’ split from the app removal
- Features: ‘Azure Arc Setup’ feature configuration placeholder on unpatched Server 2022 for disabling and integrating in one session
- UI-Translation: Thanks for Chinese Traditional (Matt), French (tistou77), German (Cartman586),Italian (clarensio)
- Fix:
- Updates: Parallel edition update integration improvements
New in NTLite 2023.10.9467 Beta (Oct 24, 2023)
- New:
- Components: ‘Input View Experience’ (beta test)
- Components: ‘Application Targeted Feature Database’ (beta test Win11 22621.2215+)
New in NTLite 2023.10.9447 (Oct 11, 2023)
- New:
- Image: Windows 11 23H2 Beta build 22635 support (ex builds 23XXX)
- Image: Windows Preview build 25967 support
- Components: ‘Sleep Study’ Win11
- Upgrade:
- Components: ‘User Experience for Windows’ split into ‘Windows Feature Experience Pack’ Desktop (Win11 22H2+) and Core
- Win11 23H2+
- Exp-Desktop contains newly added ‘Windows Backup’
- Components: ‘Shell Search’ (Start menu, Explorer and Settings) split from the ‘Windows Feature Experience pack’ removal
- Components: ‘Region and Language control panel’ (keyboard selection tray popup) split from the ‘Windows Feature Experience pack’ removal
- Components: Reduced WinSxS size for OneDrive and Defender signatures removals if keeping Servicing Stack compatibility
- Components: Microsoft Edge (Legacy) detection in Win11 22H2+
- UI-Translation: Thanks for Italian (clarensio), French (tistou77)
- Fix:
- Components: Nested components uncheck propagation, wasn’t unchecking fully in some cases
- Updates: DISM Resetbase Clean Updates wasn’t fully applied since Settings applying was moved after updates handling
New in NTLite 2023.10.9448 Beta (Oct 11, 2023)
- New:
- Components: ‘Input View Experience’ (beta test)
- Components: ‘Application Targeted Feature Database’ (beta test Win11 22621.2215+)
New in NTLite 2023.10.9444 Beta (Oct 11, 2023)
- Upgrade/l
- Image: Windows Preview build 25967 support
- Components: Microsoft Edge (Legacy) detection in Win11 22H2+
New in NTLite 2023.10.9435 Beta (Oct 9, 2023)
- Upgrade:
- Components: ‘Windows Feature Experience pack’ removal support on Windows Preview build 25967
New in NTLite 2023.9.9419 (Sep 18, 2023)
- Fix:
- Components: ‘Windows Insider Program’ removal ‘Just a moment’ hang on Win11 22H2.2359+ and 23H2+
- Components: ‘Biometrics Support’ removal causing Sign out / Login screen crash
- Settings: ‘News and interests’ disabling on image
New in NTLite 2023.8.9408 (Sep 4, 2023)
- Fix:
- Updates: Windows 7 Internet Explorer 11 integration (recent regression)
- Components: Server 2022 ‘Device Management Enrollment Service’ removal Explorer crash
- Upgrade:
- UI-Translation: Thanks for French (tistou77), Italian (clarensio), Swedish (1FF)
New in NTLite 2023.7.9371 (Jul 31, 2023)
- Fix:
- Components: ‘Superfetch’ removal in Server 2022 22H1 was causing blank screen
- Images: Edit name/description of an edition, recent regression
- Upgrade:
- UI-Translation: Thanks for German (Cartman586), Italian (clarensio), Portugues-Brasil (Igor)
New in NTLite 2023.7.9368 (Jul 27, 2023)
- Fix:
- Images: Edit name/description of an edition, recent regression
- Upgrade:
- UI-Translation: Thanks for German, Italian, Portugues-Brasil
New in NTLite 2023.7.9368 (Jul 27, 2023)
- Fix:
- Images: Edit name/description of an edition, recent regression
- Upgrade:
- UI-Translation: Thanks for German (Cartman586), Italian (clarensio), Portugues-Brasil (Igor)
New in NTLite 2023.7.9367 (Jul 26, 2023)
- New
- Updates: Defender update integration support (Platform, Engine, Offline pack)
- Updates: Defender Platform and Engine updates added to the online update lists
- Settings: ‘DumpStack.log’ option, disabling this allows for deletion of C:\DumpStack.log.tmp
- Settings: ‘Global timer resolution requests’
- Settings: ‘Show recommendations for tips, shortcuts, new apps, and more’
- Images: Server 23H2 build 25398.1 load support
- Components: Windows 11 23H2 Dev edition languages:
- Afrikaans, Albanian, Amharic, Armenian, Assamese, Azerbaijani, Belarusian, Bosnian,
- Cherokee, Filipino, Georgian, Irish, Persian, Scottish, Kazakh, Khmer, Konkani,
- Luxembourgish, Lao, Maori, Macedonian, Maltese, Nepali, Odia, Quechua, Tatar, Uyghur,
- Uzbek, Valencian, Welsh
- Upgrade
- Images: Faster edition deletion during processing if only one edition kept
- Components: ‘Sensor Service’ split from Sensors and removes more (make sure to uncheck it in your existing presets if Sensors was removed before)
- Only this service is needed for Settings – System – Power – Energy Recommendations
- Components: Edge Web-View and Memory Diagnostics Win11 23H2 Dev edition support
- Settings: ‘Taskbar Classic’ option removed on Win11 23H2+, problematic and unnecessary
- UI: Autoload preset by default is turned off, enable in Menu – Settings
- UI-Translation: Thanks for Chinese Simplified (Gskening), French (tistou77), German (Cartman586),
- Italian (clarensio), Swedish (1FF)
- Fix
- Images: Delete edition should not be allowed on a loaded image
- Images: WinSxS component was allowing uncheck on free, wasn’t removing, always was licensed only
- Images: Do not add Connect as ref menu option to invalid ISOs
- Images: Partially downloaded ISOs could cause a memory leak, now indicates invalid ISO instead
- Images: Removed assumed ’24H2′ tag on 25XXX builds, presenting as is (23H2)
- Registry: Crash during a REG file integration if no Administrator hive with associated entries in it
- Settings: Option ‘Start – App list – Recently added apps’ was not sticking in images
- Components: ‘Windows Setup EULA Mitigation’ placeholder detection fix, it is Win11 21H2 only
- Components: Auto-unmount winre.wim if removing ‘Windows Recovery’
New in NTLite 2023.6.9292 (Jun 14, 2023)
- New:
- Components: ‘APX speaker and microphone driver’
- Components: ‘Audio Spatializer DSP’
- Components: ‘Background Media Player’ 32 and 64 bit
- Components: ‘Declared Configuration (DC) service’ (split and expanded from Device Management)
- Components: ‘Desired State Configuration (DSC)’ (split and expanded from PowerShell)
- Components: ‘Scripto’
- Components: ‘Sustainability Service’
- Components: ‘Universal Print Management Service’
- Updates: Support for the new MSU update package format of Windows 11 Dev, e.g. KB5027849
- Upgrade:
- Components: ‘Mobile Networking API’ 32-bit split from WLAN removal, needed for some 32-bit applications
- Components: Compatibility option USB – Camera
- Components: ‘QuietHours’ removal enabled on Win11 22h2, but needed for Settings – System – Notifications page
- Components: Windows 11 22H2+ specific removal upgrades:
- – Bluetooth, Diagnostics, Enhanced Storage, HyperV, HyperV Guest, Lang IME Korean, Mixed Reality, Network and Sharing Center,
- – Provisioning, Remote Desktop Server, System Restore, Telemetry, Windows Image Acquisition, Windows Update
- – Extensible Authentication Protocol
- Updates: Update cache extraction performance improvements
- Fix:
- Updates: Windows 11 build 22631 host allowing 22621-based updates, was reporting as older
- Components: Windows Settings – ‘Security center’ was dependent on VBS
New in NTLite 2023.5.9257 (May 28, 2023)
- New:
- Image: Windows 11 22H2 Moment 3 (build 22631) support, same license date as 22H2
- Upgrade:
- UI-Translation: Thanks for Chinese Traditional (Matt), Italian (clarensio), Swedish (1FF)
- Fix:
- Preset: boot.wim was stuck always pre-selected for integration reapply if needed for SecureBoot fix
- Components: ‘Shared Folders UI’ removal was causing Services list empty on non-en-us images
- Components: ‘SMS Router Service’ removal was breaking 32-bit Winget and YogaDNS
New in NTLite 2023.5.9256 (May 27, 2023)
- New:
- Image: Windows 11 22H2 Moment 3 (build 22631) support, same license date as 22H2
- Upgrade:
- UI-Translation: Thanks for Chinese Traditional (Matt), Italian (clarensio), Swedish (1FF)
- Fix:
- Fix-Preset: boot.wim was stuck always pre-selected for integration reapply if needed for SecureBoot fix
- Fix-Components: “Shared Folders UI” removal was causing Services list empty on non-en-us images
New in NTLite 2023.5.9249 (May 17, 2023)
- New:
- Updates: Boot manager update support on cumulative update integration
- Associated with CVE-2023-24932, Boot Manager revocations for Secure Boot changes
- Includes obsolescence detection warnings in the UI. Also requires updating of the boot.wim Setup edition.
- Components: ‘Secure Boot updates’, removal includes pending CVE-2023-24932 mitigation
- Do not remove on the already deployed host with enabled revocations
- Image: Preset ‘Extract current image state’ option in the Save As dropdown menu, extracts all supported existing changes
- Upgrade:
- Updates: Pre-checks boot.wim Setup reapply updates of the loaded image if obsolete boot manager detected
- Settings: EventLog service and autologger entries locked for non-deployed images, protecting setup requirements
- UI-Translation: Thanks for French (tistou77)
- Fix:
- Components: Win10 1809 ‘Printing’ removal was breaking game ‘Brawlhalla’ loading
New in NTLite 2023.5.9247 (May 16, 2023)
- New:
- Updates: Boot manager update support on cumulative update integration
- Associated with CVE-2023-24932, Boot Manager revocations for Secure Boot changes
- Includes obsolescence detection warnings in the UI. Also requires updating of the boot.wim Setup edition.
- Components: ‘Secure Boot updates’, removal includes pending CVE-2023-24932 mitigation
- Do not remove on the already deployed host with enabled revocations
- Image: Preset ‘Extract current image state’ option in the Save As dropdown menu, extracts all supported existing changes
- Upgrade:
- Updates: Pre-checks boot.wim Setup reapply updates of the loaded image if obsolete boot manager detected
- Settings: EventLog service and autologger entries locked for non-deployed images, protecting setup requirements
- UI-Translation: Thanks for French (tistou77)
- Fix:
- Components: Win10 1809 ‘Printing’ removal was breaking game ‘Brawlhalla’ loading
New in NTLite 2023.5.9235 (May 11, 2023)
- Fix:
- Updates: Occasional download error 400 for the Win11 22H2 cumulative update
- Upgrade:
- UI-Translation: Thanks for Italian (clarensio), German (Cartman586)
New in NTLite 2023.5.9231 (May 11, 2023)
- Fix:
- Updates: Occasional download error 400 for the Win11 22H2 cumulative update
- Upgrade:
- UI-Translation: Thanks for Italian (clarensio)
New in NTLite 2023.5.9230 (May 11, 2023)
- Fix:
- Updates: Occasional download error 400 for the Win11 22H2 cumulative update
- Upgrade:
- UI-Translation: Thanks for Italian (clarensio)
New in NTLite 2023.5.9228 (May 10, 2023)
- New:
- Components: ‘Cloud Desktop’
- Components: ‘Notification Intelligence Platform’
- Components: ‘SmartAction Platform’
- Settings: ‘Autocorrect misspelled words’
- Settings: ‘Get the latest updates as soon as they’re available’
- Settings: ‘Highlight misspelled words’
- Settings: ‘Network Connectivity Status Indicator – active tests’
- Settings: ‘Search history on this device’
- Settings: ‘Show files from Office.com’
- Upgrade:
- Upgrade-Updates: Integrating APPX system replacement apps, e.g. Windows Notepad, now works on images as well
- Components: Windows Update components branch moved to ‘Remoting and Privacy’
- UI-Translation: Thanks for French (tistou77)
- Fix:
- Components: Windows Update removal had leftovers on Win11 22H2 build 1635+
- Components: ‘Wired Autoconfig’ removal was breaking Network Troubleshooting for those keeping Diagnostics
- Components: ‘Print 3D’ added to OOBE compatibity due to being needed for non-Unattended setup first user logon
- Settings: Detection of already applied user settings. They were applied, just not detected on tool reload
New in NTLite 2023.4.9213 (Apr 28, 2023)
- Fix:
- Unattended: User group was missing from the added local user if wasn’t an administrator
- Updates: Occasional download error 400
New in NTLite 2023.4.9208 (Apr 26, 2023)
- FIX:
- Unattended: User group was missing from the added local user if wasn’t an administrator
New in NTLite 2023.4.9207 (Apr 25, 2023)
- New:
- Unattended: Domain join option for Machine Object OU
- Upgrade:
- Image: Loading an edition from an ESD image ask if keeping one or all editions during conversion, not just the loaded one
- UI-Translation: Thanks for French (tistou77), Romanian (Coman)
- Fix:
- Updates: DISM cleanup under Win11 as a host
- Updates: Load/New edit ISO auto-extracts the selected edition now, was the first on the list
- Components: ‘Windows Insider Program’ removal fix for Win11 23H2 and 24H2 previews
- Post-setup: Detects character casing changes in parameters, e.g. /s -> /S, or removal of it while switching to the Apply page directly
New in NTLite 2023.4.9196 (Apr 11, 2023)
- Fix:
- Components: InsiderHub removal was breaking setup on Windows 11 23H2 and 24H2
- Components: Autotpilot is needed for OOBE/Image setup if machine is connected online during
- Components: LockComponents (settings.xml) fix for uppercased component names, e.g. apps
- UI: Blank toolbar on pressing Alt
- Upgrade:
- UI-Translation: Thanks for Chinese Traditional (Matt), German (Cartman586), Italian (clarensio), Swedish (1FF)
New in NTLite 2023.4.9191 (Apr 5, 2023)
- New:
- Components: ‘Direct Machine Learning (DirectML)’
- Components: ‘Intelligent Passwordless task’
- Components: ‘Print 3D’
- Components: ‘Resilient File System (ReFS)’
- Components: ‘Resume from Hibernate’
- Components: ‘SecureBoot Encode UEFI task’
- Components: ‘Smart Workflows’
- Components: ‘Windows Local Administrator Password Solution (LAPS)’
- Settings: ‘Animation effects’ (Win10/11) Note: on image install requires sign-off or a reboot to apply on freshly created users
- Upgrade:
- Unattended: Disk template set to EFI by default
- Components: ‘Autopilot’ leftovers and removed from OOBE compatibility
- Components: ‘WLAN’ removal leftover
- UI-Translation: Thanks for Chinese Simplified (Gskening), French (tistou77), Swedish (1FF)
- Fix:
- Settings: SearchboxTaskbarMode reapply and includes icon+label option in Win11
- Components: Blank screen on RDP logon if removed with Mixed Reality
- Components: ‘Powershell-ISE’ shortcut leftover
- Components: ‘Serivicing stack’ 64-bit removal BSOD
New in NTLite 2023.3.9171 (Mar 15, 2023)
- New:
- Image: Windows 11 prerelease 23H2 and 24H2 loading support, full support depends on reports
- Unattended: Show product key setup option, to be able to force showing of an empty product key prompt during setup
- Upgrade:
- Components: ‘Windows Media Codecs (Core)’ split from ‘Windows Media Player’ in order to solve game sound dependencies, please report results
- UI-Translation: Thanks for French (tistou77), German (Cartman586), Ukrainian (Ihor)
- Fix:
- Unattended: Unattended prompt computer multi-edition processing support (was applied only to the loaded edition)
- Updates: Multi-edition package integration processing in some situations could skip editions
New in NTLite 2023.3.9160 (Mar 3, 2023)
- New:
- Image: Windows 11 22624 Moment 2 support, same license date
- Image: Mass ‘New edit’ on right-clicking image categories
- Upgrade:
- General: Settings uses volume GUID for drive letter independence, e.g. if a different partition OS-es is booted and sees different drive letters
- Updates: Better displayed version of multi-version cumulative updates
- e.g. 19041 listed as 1904X if no image loaded, otherwise shows the loaded image compatible number (19042/3/4/5)
- UI: ‘Open directory’ now uses a shell call instead of Explorer directly, useful for Directory Opus and similar
- UI: Thanks for Italian (clarensio)
- Fix:
- Components: Cumulative Update install fix if ‘Windows Update’, ‘Live Captions’ or ‘Voice Access’ removed
- Components: ‘Remote FX’ component detection on Win11 22H2
- Components: Minor component removal package leftovers
- UI: Resizing purely horizontaly would hide the left page navigation
New in NTLite 2.3.9.9039 (Jan 17, 2023)
- Upgrade:
- Components: ‘OOBE’ removal leftovers with newer updates
- Components: ‘Windows Media Player’ File Explorer thumbnails generation moved to Codecs removal
- Components: ‘MobilePC Sensors’ not needed for the Xbox app
- Settings: ‘Cloud optimized content’ option includes more policie
- UI-Translation: Thanks for French (tistou77), Chinese Simplified (Gskening), Romanian (Coman)
- Fix:
- Updates: .NET Framework 3.5 enabling on an isolated WIM file (outside of ISO file structure)
- was causing Windows Update redownloading an already integrated cumulative update
- Updates: Retry download updates list after blocked connection without resetting the tool
- UI: Select All button on Updates page wasn’t working without first clicking on a grid
New in NTLite 2.3.9.9018 (Dec 11, 2022)
- New:
- Components: ‘WebView2 Runtime’ in newer cumulative updates (placeholder inserted if not existing yet)
- New-Source: Preliminary Server 2022 22H2 build 20349 support
- Upgrade:
- Drivers: Allow service INF integration (Architecture-neutral drivers)
- Components: WMI – Command line utility (WMIC) split from WMI Core
- Components: Moved ‘WMI Core’ pieces to ‘WMI Service’ to not be needed for a proper File Explorer reset by installers,
- And for ‘taskkill’ functionality
- Components: NCSI removal now does not cause disconnected from internet tray icon
- UI-Translation: Thanks for Italian (clarensio), Chinese Traditional (Matt), French (tistou77), Korean (Redrabbit), Swedish (1FF)
- Fix:
- Components: ‘EFS – Feature’ removal was causing ‘Open with’ crash on Win11 22H2
- Components: ‘Windows Defender’ removal in ‘Remove Reinstalls’ DISM-mode had leftovers
New in NTLite 2.3.9.9017 (Dec 10, 2022)
- New:
- Components: ‘WebView2 Runtime’ in newer cumulative updates (placeholder inserted if not existing yet)
- New-Source: Preliminary Server 2022 22H2 build 20349 support
- Upgrade:
- Drivers: Allow service INF integration (Architecture-neutral drivers)
- Components: WMI – Command line utility (WMIC) split from WMI Core
- Components: Moved ‘WMI Core’ pieces to ‘WMI Service’ to not be needed for a proper File Explorer reset by installers,
- and for ‘taskkill’ functionality
- Components: NCSI removal now does not cause disconnected from internet tray icon
- UI-Translation: Thanks for Italian (clarensio), Chinese Traditional (Matt), French (tistou77), Korean (Redrabbit), Swedish (1FF)
- Fix:
- Components: ‘EFS – Feature’ removal was causing ‘Open with’ crash on Win11 22H2
- Components: ‘Windows Defender’ removal in ‘Remove Reinstalls’ DISM-mode had leftovers
New in NTLite 2.3.9.9016 (Dec 9, 2022)
- New:
- Components: ‘WebView2 Runtime’ in newer cumulative updates (placeholder inserted if not existing yet)
- New-Source: Preliminary Server 2022 22H2 build 20349 support
- Upgrade:
- Drivers: Allow service INF integration (Architecture-neutral drivers)
- Components: WMI – Command line utility (WMIC) split from WMI Core
- Components: Moved ‘WMI Core’ pieces to ‘WMI Service’ to not be needed for a proper File Explorer reset by installers,
- And for ‘taskkill’ functionality
- Components: NCSI removal now does not cause disconnected from internet tray icon
- UI-Translation: Thanks for Italian (clarensio), Chinese Traditional (Matt), French (tistou77), Korean (Redrabbit), Swedish (1FF)
- Fix:
- Components: ‘EFS – Feature’ removal was causing ‘Open with’ crash on Win11 22H2
- Components: ‘Windows Defender’ removal in ‘Remove Reinstalls’ DISM-mode had leftovers
New in NTLite 2.3.9.9002 (Nov 23, 2022)
- New:
- ISO: ‘Prompt for any key before booting’ Apply – Create ISO – suboption, disable to not prompt for any key, always boot directly
- Upgrade:
- Components: Faster live (C:Windows) app removals
- Components: ‘Disk Quota’ 32-bit split, 64-bit version needed for ZoneAlarm installer among other things
- Components: ‘Wi-Fi Direct Services Connection Manager Service’ moved under ‘Bluetooth’, needed for adding devices
- Components: ‘Yubikey’ compatibility renamed and upgraded to ‘Biometric’, now includes Biometric/Fingerprint support and PIN sign-in protections
- Components: ‘Telemetry Client’ and ‘System Guard’ leftovers
- Components: ‘OneSettings Client’ better split from ‘Insider Program’ and added to Store compatibility due to RuntimeBroker dependency
- Settings: ‘Show accent color on Start and taskbar’ setting returned
- UI-Translation: Thanks for German (Cartman586) and Romanian (Coman)
- Fix:
- Components: ‘Event Viewer’ removal was breaking Event Log service startup
- Components: Error 2 on driver removal on rare occasions (confirmed on an Italian Win10 ISO)
- Components: App removal in DISM-only mode was causing error 8007042B during self-upgrade (Host refresh) migration
- Components: ‘Manifest Backup’ removal leftovers in some cases
- Components: ‘Static Font Cache’ detection after removal
- Components: ‘Wallet Service’ split into app ‘Microsoft Pay’ and support ‘Wallet Service’
- (to allow parallel removal for those using DISM mode for app removal instead of removal in two sessions)
- Components: ‘Windows Mail’ split into app ‘Mail and Calendar’ and support ‘Windows Mail’
- (make sure to re-uncheck these if you were deep-removing apps before)
- Components: ‘IKE and AuthIP’ added to SFC compat, to remove confusion why it’s sometimes still on the list
New in NTLite 2.3.9.9001 (Nov 22, 2022)
- New:
- ISO: ‘Prompt for any key before booting’ Apply – Create ISO – suboption, disable to not prompt for any key, always boot directly
- Upgrade:
- Components: Faster live (C:Windows) app removals
- Components: ‘Disk Quota’ 32-bit split, 64-bit version needed for ZoneAlarm installer among other things
- Components: ‘Wi-Fi Direct Services Connection Manager Service’ moved under ‘Bluetooth’, needed for adding devices
- Components: ‘Yubikey’ compatibility renamed and upgraded to ‘Biometric’, now includes Biometric/Fingerprint support and PIN sign-in protections
- Components: ‘Telemetry Client’ and ‘System Guard’ leftovers
- Components: ‘OneSettings Client’ better split from ‘Insider Program’ and added to Store compatibility due to RuntimeBroker dependency
- Settings: ‘Show accent color on Start and taskbar’ setting returned
- UI-Translation: Thanks for German (Cartman586) and Romanian (Coman)
- Fix:
- Components: ‘Event Viewer’ removal was breaking Event Log service startup
- Components: Error 2 on driver removal on rare occasions (confirmed on an Italian Win10 ISO)
- Components: App removal in DISM-only mode was causing error 8007042B during self-upgrade (Host refresh) migration
- Components: ‘Manifest Backup’ removal leftovers in some cases
- Components: ‘Static Font Cache’ detection after removal
- Components: ‘Wallet Service’ split into app ‘Microsoft Pay’ and support ‘Wallet Service’
- (to allow parallel removal for those using DISM mode for app removal instead of removal in two sessions)
- Components: ‘Windows Mail’ split into app ‘Mail and Calendar’ and support ‘Windows Mail’
- (make sure to re-uncheck these if you were deep-removing apps before)
- Components: ‘IKE and AuthIP’ added to SFC compat, to remove confusion why it’s sometimes still on the list
New in NTLite 2.3.8.8978 (Nov 1, 2022)
- Fix:
- Source: Deleting read-only ESD file edition
- Components: Win10 UAC removal was breaking Nvidia driver cpanel, if removed before first driver install, recent regression
- Components: ‘Windows Insider Program’ removal was hiding Windows Update page
- manual fix for existing installs here
- Upgrade:
- UI-Translation: Thanks for Swedish (1FF)
New in NTLite 2.3.8.8974 (Oct 26, 2022)
- New:
- Components: ‘Web Threat Defense Service’
- Components: ‘Windows Recovery – Cloud Restore’
- Components: ‘Device Association Framework – Providers’
- Components: ‘Microsoft Client License Flexible Platform’
- Components: ‘Brokering File System’ (Win11 22H2+)
- Upgrade:
- Components: ‘Media Streaming’ expanded and split to include ‘Transmitter’ and ‘Receiver’ subgroups
- Components: ‘Temporary files and cache’ now includes icon cache
- Components: ‘Language Pack Setup’ removal leftovers
- Components: Emojis popup now works with ‘Touch Service’ kept, not reliant on ‘Snipping tool’ any more
- Components: Win11 build 25217+ ‘System Reset’ component detection
- Components: Win11 22H2 removal leftovers (continuation of adaptation, license date the same):
- Autopilot
- Diagnostics
- Email and accounts (Microsoft.AccountsControl)
- Event Viewer
- Help file support (CHM)
- Provisioning
- Tablet PC
- Windows Update
- Components: Host Refresh compatibility option now listed for deployed target (e.g. C:Windows) as well
- UI-Translation: Thanks for Chinese Traditional (Matt), French (tistou77), German (Cartman586),
- Korean (Redrabbit), Romanian (Coman), Swedish (1FF)
- Fix:
- Components: ‘Accessibility tools’ removal was causing Fortnite and Overwatch 2 issues
- Manual fix on the forum for those not reinstalling or refreshing previous setups
- Components: ‘Application Compatibility’ removal was breaking Bluetooth support
- Components: ‘Appx Deployment Service’ removal was breaking Notepad app opening files
- Components: ‘Biometric Feedback’ removal was causing LogonUI error on sign off in Win11 22h2
- Components: ‘Enterprise Data Protection’ removal was causing ‘Open With’ not opening on a file properties Change button
- Components: ‘Tablet PC On-screen keyboard’ removal was breaking typing in some cases
- Components: ‘Windows Insider Program’ now also removes its Settings page within Windows Update
- Components: ‘Windows Setup’ live removal was causing BSOD in Win11 22h2
- Unattended: Server 2019 evaluation edition empty product key was causing install error
- UI: Various rare UI crash fixes
- Build 8972->8974:
- Components: CTFMon error in some cases after Remove Reinstalls with certain keyboard combinations
New in NTLite 2.3.8.8972 (Oct 25, 2022)
- New:
- Components: ‘Web Threat Defense Service’
- Components: ‘Windows Recovery – Cloud Restore’
- Components: ‘Device Association Framework – Providers’
- Components: ‘Microsoft Client License Flexible Platform’
- Components: ‘Brokering File System’ (Win11 22H2+)
- Upgrade:
- Components: ‘Media Streaming’ expanded and split to include ‘Transmitter’ and ‘Receiver’ subgroups
- Components: ‘Temporary files and cache’ now includes icon cache
- Components: ‘Language Pack Setup’ removal leftovers
- Components: Emojis popup now works with ‘Touch Service’ kept, not reliant on ‘Snipping tool’ any more
- Components: Win11 build 25217+ ‘System Reset’ component detection
- Components: Win11 22H2 removal leftovers (continuation of adaptation, license date the same):
- Autopilot
- Diagnostics
- Email and accounts (Microsoft.AccountsControl)
- Event Viewer
- Help file support (CHM)
- Provisioning
- Tablet PC
- Windows Update
- Components: Host Refresh compatibility option now listed for deployed target (e.g. C:Windows) as well
- UI-Translation: Thanks for Chinese Traditional (Matt), French (tistou77), German (Cartman586),
- Korean (Redrabbit), Romanian (Coman), Swedish (1FF)
- Fix:
- Components: ‘Accessibility tools’ removal was causing Fortnite and Overwatch 2 issues
- +manual fix on the forum for those not reinstalling or refreshing previous setups
- Components: ‘Application Compatibility’ removal was breaking Bluetooth support
- Components: ‘Appx Deployment Service’ removal was breaking Notepad app opening files
- Components: ‘Biometric Feedback’ removal was causing LogonUI error on sign off in Win11 22h2
- Components: ‘Enterprise Data Protection’ removal was causing ‘Open With’ not opening on a file properties Change button
- Components: ‘Tablet PC On-screen keyboard’ removal was breaking typing in some cases
- Components: ‘Windows Insider Program’ now also removes its Settings page within Windows Update
- Components: ‘Windows Setup’ live removal was causing BSOD in Win11 22h2
- Unattended: Server 2019 evaluation edition empty product key was causing install error
- UI: Various rare UI crash fixes
New in NTLite 2.3.8.8945 (Oct 5, 2022)
- New:
- Source: Windows 11 22H2 22623.730 Beta Preview support
- Settings: ‘Start layout’ (More pins or recommendations option)
- Settings: ‘SMB authentication rate limiter’
- Upgrade:
- Updates: boot.wim and ISO Sources folder are now actively synced to have same versions of files needed for setup
- Components: Win11 22H2 ‘Windows Update’ was needed for Store to update apps, now only WU Service is needed
- Components: Win11 22H2 ‘Windows Update’ was needed for Activation, now only WU Service is needed
- Components: Win11 22H2 ‘Application Identity Service’ was needed for Activation, not any more
- Components: ‘Media Foundation’ 32-bit split (64-bit needed for ZuneMusic aka Windows Media Player)
- Components: Win10 ‘Touch Keyboard and Handwriting Panel Service’ split from ‘Tablet PC’, needed for Emoji popups. Not removable on Win11.
- UI-Translation: Thanks for French (tistou77), German (Cartman586), Swedish (1FF)
- Fix:
- Updates: Integrate apps then clean pending changes so all integrations stick in a single session with removals
- Updates: KB5012170 download error 12029
- Updates: Server 2022 cumulative update re-integration missing files at the end of the process
- Components: Win11 22H2 QuietHours merged with PushNotifications as it is needed for Settings-Notifications since Win11 22h2
- Components: ‘Undocked Update Stack’ merged with ‘Windows Update’, too reliant
- Components: Template load was skipping some components in recent updates
- Drivers: Driver hardware list detection fix, all existing drivers were ‘not found’ in recent updates
- UI: Bitlocker re-check crash fix
- UI: User Post-setup selection for non-English UI
New in NTLite 2.3.8.8944 (Oct 4, 2022)
- New:
- Source: Windows 11 22H2 22623.730 Beta Preview support
- Settings: ‘Start layout’ (More pins or recommendations option)
- Settings: ‘SMB authentication rate limiter’
- Upgrade:
- Updates: boot.wim and ISO Sources folder are now actively synced to have same versions of files needed for setup
- Components: Win11 22H2 ‘Windows Update’ was needed for Store to update apps, now only WU Service is needed
- Components: Win11 22H2 ‘Windows Update’ was needed for Activation, now only WU Service is needed
- Components: Win11 22H2 ‘Application Identity Service’ was needed for Activation, not any more
- Components: ‘Media Foundation’ 32-bit split (64-bit needed for ZuneMusic aka Windows Media Player)
- Components: Win10 ‘Touch Keyboard and Handwriting Panel Service’ split from ‘Tablet PC’, needed for Emoji popups. Not removable on Win11.
- UI-Translation: Thanks for French (tistou77), German (Cartman586), Swedish (1FF)
- Fix:
- Updates: Integrate apps then clean pending changes so all integrations stick in a single session with removals
- Updates: KB5012170 download error 12029
- Updates: Server 2022 cumulative update re-integration missing files at the end of the process
- Components: Win11 22H2 QuietHours merged with PushNotifications as it is needed for Settings-Notifications since Win11 22h2
- Components: ‘Undocked Update Stack’ merged with ‘Windows Update’, too reliant
- Components: Template load was skipping some components in recent updates
- Drivers: Driver hardware list detection fix, all existing drivers were ‘not found’ in recent updates
- UI: Bitlocker re-check crash fix
- UI: User Post-setup selection for non-English UI
New in NTLite 2.3.8.8920 (Sep 22, 2022)
- Upgrade:
- Updates: Windows 11 22H2 Dynamic Update (KB5016877 and KB5017590) support
- Fix:
- Updates: Filtering .Net Framework 4.8.1 package on boot.wim, not applicable
New in NTLite 2.3.8.8916 (Sep 20, 2022)
- New:
- Updates: .NET 4.8.1 added to the update lists as an optional upgrade (for Win10 20H1 up to Win11 22H2 versions)
- Fix:
- Source: Various causes 183 errors during loading and unloading mostly of WinRE images
- Components: Win10 1607 SFC error for comctl32.dll.mui post English (en-us) removal
- Post-setup: Passive/non-executable files would be adding empty lines in SetupComplete.cmd
- Presets: If no SFC compatibility entry in an older preset, it would uncheck Servicing Stack compatibility on load
New in NTLite 2.3.8.8890 (Sep 4, 2022)
- Fix-General: Improved NTFS 8.3 short names support on the hosts having it enabled, fixes error 183
- Fix-Components: Edge Chromium excluded from the AppMode removal switch, not truly an app, deep removed by default as before
New in NTLite 2.3.8.8889 (Aug 31, 2022)
- New:
- Components: Undo/Redo functionality on the component selection
- Components: App Removal Mode switch – choice between DISM-only, or DISM + Custom for the previous method with deeper removals
- Components: SFC compatibility option, for those that want SFC /scanfile clean with deeper removals without servicing stack (updating) compatibility
- Upgrade:
- UI: Automatic dark mode if host has apps set to dark
- Updates: Detects older than installed cumulative updates as already existing updates, even if not specifically integrated (they would be ignored during the process anyway)
- Updates: MSIX/APPX (app) integration now done after component removal, in case a replacement of the same app is used in the same session
- Updates: DISM Cleanup now shows progress in the UI on Win11+ hosts
- ISO: Create ISO limited to CPU cores number of instances, for those running multiple editions/instances to limit resources
- UI-Translation: Thanks for French (tistou77), Italian (clarensio), Korean (Redrabbit)
- Fix:
- UI: Target image operations now again also using the tray icon progress indicator
- Updates: OptimizeAppx should not have been available on winre and boot.wim
- Updates: Update integration error reporting in certain cases, not just skip without explanation
- Components: Powershell ISE 32-bit shortcut leftover if 64-bit version kept
New in NTLite 2.3.8.8888 (Aug 30, 2022)
- New:
- Components: Undo/Redo functionality on the component selection
- Components: App Removal Mode switch – choice between DISM-only, or DISM + Custom for the previous method with deeper removals
- Components: SFC compatibility option, for those that want SFC /scanfile clean with deeper removals without servicing stack (updating) compatibility
- Upgrade:
- UI: Automa
- tic dark mode if host has apps set to dark
- Updates: Detects older than installed cumulative updates as already existing updates, even if not specifically integrated (they would be ignored during the process anyway)
- Updates: MSIX/APPX (app) integration now done after component removal, in case a replacement of the same app is used in the same session
- Updates: DISM Cleanup now shows progress in the UI on Win11+ hosts
- ISO: Create ISO limited to CPU cores number of instances, for those running multiple editions/instances to limit resources
- UI-Translation: Thanks for French (tistou77), Italian (clarensio), Korean (Redrabbit)
- Fix:
- UI: Target image operations now again also using the tray icon progress indicator
- Updates: OptimizeAppx should not have been available on winre and boot.wim
- Updates: Update integration error reporting in certain cases, not just skip without explanation
- Components: Powershell ISE 32-bit shortcut leftover if 64-bit version kept
New in NTLite 2.3.7.8826 (Jul 12, 2022)
- New:
- Source: Win11 22H2 (build 22622) support
- Source: Win10 22h2 (build 19045) support
- Updates: Optimize AppX option
- Settings: WU option for ‘Give me updates for other Microsoft products when I update Windows’
- Upgrade:
- Components: Powershell and ISE 32-bit split
- Components: Partially reinstalled Defender detection
- UI-Translation: Thanks for Chinese Simplified (Gskening), French (tistou77), Swedish (1FF)
- Fix:
- Components: Windows Search removal Downloads folder browsing from 32-bit apps
- Components: CEIP leftovers
- Components: Win11 22H2 OSK Tablet removal causing blank screen
- Components: Win11 22H2 image ‘Application Compatiblity’ removal could delay first login
- Components: Win11 22h2 VBS removal breaking CU install
- Components: Win8.1 ‘Stick Notes’ and ‘Webcam Experience’ leftovers
- Updates: CU redownloaded by WU if integrating .NET 3.5 (recent regression)
New in NTLite 2.3.6.8804 (Jun 23, 2022)
- Upgrade:
- Upgrade-Components: Win11 22H2 ‘Undocked Update Stack’ not required for ‘Windows Update Service’ to start
- UI-Translation: Thanks for Chinese Simplified (Gskening), Swedish (1FF)
- Fix:
- Registry: Integrating REG file could skip entries with app removals in the same session (recent regression)
- Components: ‘Cortana’ removal could also remove VCLibs (recent regression)
- Settings: Target Release option now includes ProductVersion of the targeted image
- UI: Downloader parallel extraction progress could stuck with many threads at once
New in NTLite 2.3.6.8792 (Jun 16, 2022)
- Upgrade:
- Components: Win11 22H2 Sounds removal leftovers
- Components: Win11 22H2 Windows Update compatibility needs Delivery Optimization kept and service enabled
- Fix
- Updates: Server 2022 updates list auto-selection
- Updates: Existing app package bundle detection in some cases (e.g. integrated DesktopAppInstaller)
- Settings: ‘Fullscreen optimizations’ option was missing since the Xbox detection changes
- UI: Bulgarian wasn’t listed in the language selection
New in NTLite 2.3.6.8785 (Jun 11, 2022)
- Upgrade:
- UI-Translation: Thanks for German (Cartman586), Italian (clarensio), French (tistou77), Swedish (1FF)
- Fix:
- Components: Windows 7 drivers removal delay, was taking too long
- Components: Crash on older Windows while removing apps (regression in the previous update)
New in NTLite 2.3.6.8783 (Jun 9, 2022)
- Upgrade:
- UI-Translation: Thanks for German (Cartman586), Italian (clarensio), French (tistou77), Swedish (1FF)
- Fix:
- Components: Windows 7 drivers removal delay, was taking too long
- Components: Crash on older Windows while removing apps (regression in the previous update)
New in NTLite 2.3.6.8777 (Jun 8, 2022)
- Upgrade:
- UI-Translation: Thanks for German (Cartman586), Italian (clarensio)
- Fix:
- Components: Crash on older Windows while removing apps (regression in the previous update)
New in NTLite 2.3.6.8775 (Jun 7, 2022)
- New:
- Updates: Appx/Msix (App packages) dependency detection and presentation
- Requirements of a queued app package displayed on the Updates page under it, for easy resolving of dependencies
- Source: Windows 11 Dev build 25131 support
- Settings: Explorer – ‘Preview Pane’ disable option
- Settings: ‘Require Windows Hello sign-in for Microsoft accounts’ option
- UI-Language: Bulgarian (thanks Svetoslav Slavkov)
- Upgrade?:
- Source: Windows 11 22H2 build 22621 support (license date unchanged)
- Components: Windows Apps and app packages now display their real names (package name in the description for reference)
- Components: Store app install not dependent on WU component any more
- Components: ‘Homegroup’ stub detection in Win11
- Updates: App package integration removes previous if needed (solves error 0XC1570118)
- Updates: App package integration handles app framework integration on Win10 1909 and older
- Post-Setup: Powershell script can take parameters
- UI-Translation: Thanks for French (tistou77), German (Cartman586), Romanian (Coman), Swedish (1FF)
- Fix:
- Features: Features on Demand in a certain case would not enable together with other features in a single session
- Components: ‘Language Pack Setup’ and ‘Telemetry Client’ task removal leftovers from the first session
- Components: OneDrive live removal had leftovers
- Components: Win11 22H2 22621 “Task View” removal could cause Explorer hard error (part of the upgrade of support from build 22616 to 22621)
- Settings: Defender disabling wasn’t working if Tamper protection wasn’t disabled as well
- Settings: Removed non-Policy options for the Start folders settings as they are not working if unforced
- UI: Maximized state of the tool remembered on its restart
New in NTLite 2.3.5.8714 (May 11, 2022)
- New:
- Source: Windows 11 22H2 build 22616 support
- Upgrade:
- Updates: Parallel integration to multiple editions improved and supports Server 2022
- UI-Translation: Thanks for Chinese Traditional (Matt), German (Cartman586)
- Fix:
- Components: DeliveryOptimization removal was hiding WU page in Win11
- Components: On-screen keyboard (Accessibility) removal could break CU install
- Updates: Downloader detection of existing updates that did not finish installing, for a possible retry
- Features: Some configurable features were not detected in Server editions, e.g. Windows Server Backup and Bitlocker
New in NTLite 2.3.4.8675 (Apr 21, 2022)
- FIX:
- Components: Apps removal leftovers regression from the previous update
- UPGRADE:
- UI-Translation: Thanks for Swedish (1FF) and Polish (KrzysioZ)
New in NTLite 2.3.4.8674 (Apr 20, 2022)
- New:
- Updates: MSIX/APPX (and bundle) integration support
- Settings: ‘Multicast name resolution (MDNS)’
- Settings: ‘Smart App Control (SAC)’ for Win11 Dev build 22567+
- Settings: ‘Enforce DCOM hardening changes’
- Components: ‘Hardware Requirements Check library’
- Components: ‘Shell App Runtime’
- UI-Translation: Thanks for German (Cartman586), Romanian (Coman), Ukrainian (Ihor), Swedish (1FF)
- Upgrade:
- Components: AppGuard/Containers compatiblity now protects Sandbox as well
- Components: Windows Apps now show a version in the description
- Settings: TPM disabling now also disables hardware requirement banner on pre-Dev Win11
- Source: Win11 can have Win10 description by default, now such description is hidden if otherwise identical to the image name
- UI: Enabled Cancel during Apply exporting an image
New in NTLite 2.3.4.8673 (Apr 20, 2022)
- New:
- Updates: MSIX/APPX (and bundle) integration support
- Settings: ‘Multicast name resolution (MDNS)’
- Settings: ‘Smart App Control (SAC)’ for Win11 Dev build 22567+
- Settings: ‘Enforce DCOM hardening changes’
- Components: ‘Hardware Requirements Check library’
- Components: ‘Shell App Runtime’
- UI-Translation: Thanks for German (Cartman586), Romanian (Coman), Ukrainian (Ihor), Swedish (1FF)
- Upgrade:
- Components: AppGuard/Containers compatiblity now protects Sandbox as well
- Settings: TPM disabling now also disables hardware requirement banner on pre-Dev Win11
- Source: Win11 can have Win10 description by default, now such description is hidden if otherwise identical to the image name
- UI: Enabled Cancel during Apply exporting an image
New in NTLite 2.3.4.8658 (Mar 30, 2022)
- New:
- Components: ‘YubiKey’ compatibility option
- Upgrade:
- Settings: ‘Enable Local User support’ listed for Win11 Home as well
- Components: ‘Setting Sync’ component detection on Win11
- Components: ‘Biometric Service’ split from ‘Biometric’ (needed for Settings Sign-in options delay), and both moved under their dependencies
- Components: ‘Cloud Files’ split from ‘Setting Sync’, needed for iCloud
- Components: ‘Runtime Broker’ added to ‘OOBE’ compatibility, needed for Windows Setup
- Fix:
- Components: ‘Xbox App’ renamed to ‘Xbox Core’ and moved to Media, contains support for all things Xbox
- Components: ‘GamingApp’ renamed to ‘Xbox App’
- Components: ‘Phone Service’ was breaking Roblox App, Lively Wallpaper
- Components: ‘Ease of Access’ removal would break Lock-screen On-Screen keyboard shortcut
- Settings: Telemetry Policy values would not be reflected on reloading the target (actual settings were applied)
New in NTLite 2.3.4.8643 (Mar 4, 2022)
- New:
- UI-Translation: Japanese (by Cabocha)
- UI-Translation: Swedish (by 1FF)
- Upgrade:
- Components: ‘Device Association Broker’ removes more
- Fix:
- ISO: Processing a certain combination of sequenced editions could get stuck on Create ISO
New in NTLite 2.3.4.8641 (Feb 26, 2022)
New in NTLite 2.3.4.8640 (Feb 24, 2022)
- New:
- Source: Windows 11 Preview build 22557 support
- Settings: ‘Local user account setup support’ option for Win11 Preview
- Settings: ‘Taskbar – Alignment’ option for Win11
- Components: ‘Bluetooth’ compatibility option
- Upgrade:
- Components: ‘Task Scheduler’ split APIs from it due to Geforce Experience dependency on the 32-bit API
- Settings: TPM requirement disabling now includes disabling unsupported device warnings on Win11 Preview
- UI-Translation: Thanks
- Fix:
- Updates: Downloader would list Dynamic Update twice, as external, if already downloaded
- Updates: Downloader could crash after downloading updates and verifying
- Settings: Win11 ‘Select the far corner of the taskbar to show the desktop’ fixed and renamed
- (to ‘Select the far corner of the taskbar to show the desktop’)
- Components: Driver classes removal registry leftovers
- Components: WMI Core was removing WMI Service description text file
New in NTLite 2.3.4.8620 (Feb 8, 2022)
- New;
- Components: ‘Processor Microcode Update (MCUpdate)’ and ‘Processor Microcode Update Servicing’
- Components: ‘COM Runtime Broker’
- Components: ‘Registry Editor 32-bi
New in NTLite 2.3.3.8585 (Jan 25, 2022)
- New:
- Source: Windows 11 Insider Preview build 22538 support
- Components: ‘Night light’ and ‘Volume Shadow Copy’ compatibility options
- Settings: ‘Setup Requirement – TPM/CPU – Host’, setting necessary on a Win10/11 host to skip CPU requirements when using the setup.exe method
- Upgrade:
- Components: ‘Quality Windows Audio Video Experience (qWave)’ split from QoS, needed for Nvidia Geforce Experience Overlay and Discord
- Components: ‘Shell Experience Host’ and windows.immersivecontrolpanel (‘Settings’ app) removals unlocked by default, not recommended
- Components: Win7 IIS is needed for MSMQ HTTP Support, so locking that feature config if IIS unchecked for removal (fixes component error during setup)
- Updates: Delta CAB PSF filename pairs now allow for different suffixes (e.g. manually saved from UUP dump)
- UI: Win11 ’21H2′ label returned to the status bar for clarity compared to future versions
- UI-Translation: Thanks for French (tistou77), German (Cartman586), Polish (KrzysioZ)
- Fix:
- Components: ‘Shared Folders UI’ removal was removing Services shortcut from the Computer Management menu
- Components: ‘Device Lockdown (Embedded Experience)’ removal on Server 2016 with Desktop Experience would switch desktop to command-line mode
- Components: ‘Error Reporting’ removal could prompt MicrosoftWindowsFeedback file access error
New in NTLite 2.3.3.8567 (Jan 11, 2022)
- New:
- Components: ’57-bit Linear Addressing’
- Components: ‘Disk Usage utility’
- Components: ‘DiskRAID tool’
- Components: ‘Natural Language – Sorting’
- Components: ‘Now Playing Session Manager’
- Components: ‘Pen Service’
- Settings: ‘Use Print Screen key to launch Snip & Sketch’ option
- Settings: ‘Search – Allow cloud search’ option
- Upgrade:
- Components: ‘Error Reporting’ components refactored, now removes a service as well, while API is split to cover WerFault silent app errors handling
- Components: Network ‘Data Usage service’ moved under ‘Diagnostics’ as its dependee
- Components: Win1X ‘Storage Service’ removes more
- Components: Windows ARM64 support improvements, SysArm32 leftovers
- Components: ‘Telemetry Client’ now also includes Update Aggregators
- Updates: Win7 boot.wim update integration ‘Reapply tasks across editions’ filters known install.wim-only updates
- General: Setting chosen temp directory to the host FilesNotToSnapshot and FilesNotToBackup exclusion keys
- UI-Components: Answering ‘No’ for the prompt to uncheck dependees will proceed with the target uncheck only, instead of cancelling it
- UI-Translation: Thanks for Polish (KrzysioZ), Romanian (Coman), Korean (Redrabbit)
- Fix:
- Components: ‘Battery’ removal was removing Settings – Power page
- Components: ‘Event Viewer’ had repeating 1107 errors if ‘Auditing’ was removed
- Components: ‘HyperV’ had leftovers if keeping ‘Defender’ or ‘Linux Subsystem’
- Components: ‘Shared Experiences’ Win10 removal was needed for Settings – Display
- Components: ‘WAP Push Message Routing Service’ added to OOBE compat, solves missing Power Options in Settings if removed in image
- Components: FamilySafetyTask task removal while removing a Parental Controls app in the same session
- Components: Win7 ‘Minesweeper’ was dependent on ‘Parental Controls’ to open
- Components: Win8.1 ‘Windows Store’ leftovers
- Features: FODs connections to Components, e.g. ‘Steps Recorder’ disabled if its component is pending removal
- UI: Takes less CPU while waiting on external processes
- UI: Cleaning progress popup could stuck at 100% when done
New in NTLite 2.3.2.8526 (Dec 15, 2021)
- NEW:
- Components: iCloud compatibility option
- UPGRADE:
- Components: ‘Other Themes’ renamed to ‘Windows Personalization themes’ and added Win11 detection
- Feature Config: Bolded pending Feature Config changes
- UI-Translation: Thanks for Chinese Traditional (Matt)
- FIX:
- Settings: ‘Temporary directory (User accounts)’ now also pre-creates the directory if missing
- General: Filtering shared duplicate registry WOW64 keys, for better image/offline compatibility
- Updates: Skipping unnecessary error about the unsupported usmt.ppkg on some OEM images
New in NTLite 2.3.2.8519 (Dec 7, 2021)
- New:
- Settings: ‘Teams – Install’ disable option
- Components: ‘Application Guard / Containers’ compatibility option
- Upgrade:
- Components: ‘TPM’ includes HSP addition from new Win11 CUs
- Components: ‘Notepad’ removal for Win7-10 (Win11 already has an app)
- UI-Translation: Thanks for Chinese Simplified (Gskening), Italian (gabritb01)
- Fix:
- Features: ‘Features on Demand’ listing improvements on specific images
- Components: ‘Assigned Access’ or ‘Edge Legacy’ removal could break UWP apps print dialog
- Components: ‘Scanner’ and ‘Notepad’ Settings features entry removal leftovers
- Components: ‘Setting Sync’ removal unnecessary error about busy file MicrosoftWindowsLive
- Settings: Taskbar button grouping option removed from Win11 as it’s not supported
- UI: Task Scheduler page not listed if no Task Scheduler component
- UI: Source page toolbar Presets tab was taking focus when handling images (e.g. add to the list, forget from list etc)
New in NTLite 2.3.2.8502 (Nov 25, 2021)
- Fix:
- UI: Saving window location if closed minimized, it would restore invisible
- Components: Cancelling component removal would hang UI at cleaning
- Components: Edge Chromium removed from Lite template
- Source: Exporting an edition to the same WIM file (duplicating an edition) would hang UI at cleaning
New in NTLite 2.3.2.8500 (Nov 23, 2021)
- New:
- UI: ‘Scheduled Tasks’ removal page, remove existing scheduled tasks
- Settings: Added ‘Disk Quota’ disabling option
- Settings: ‘Automatic App Archiving’ option
- Components: ‘Windows Setup EM’ added by Win11 22000.318+, undocumented component
- Components: ‘Scanner’ compatibility option
- Upgrade:
- updates: Improved new updates integration compatibility running on an older host, pre Win10 1809 editions
- Source: Win11 new Preview build 22504.1010 load support
- Source: Improved Host Refresh migration compatibility in the full(er) to lite scenarios (error 0x8007042b)
- Source: Host Refresh automatically agrees to EULA on Win11 images
- Settings: CPU check bypass added to TPM requirement option
- Settings: Application Compatibility section options merged into other groups
- Components: ‘MS Audit Tools’ split, needed for ‘Windows Firewall Control’ by Binisoft
- Components: ‘Modern App’ compatibility option split from ‘Windows Store’ compatibility
- Components: ‘PowerShell ISE’ split from ‘PowerShell’
- Components: ‘WWAN AutoConfig’ removes more
- Components: ‘Speech API’ moved from Gaming to Lite, needed for Farcry 6
- Components: ‘Disk Quota’ needed for WMI volume provider ‘wmic volume’, moved from Privacy to Lite
- Components: ‘Bind Filter Driver’ split from Containers, needed for many things
- Components: Win11 ‘Network Location Awareness’ component detection
- Components: ‘Zip folder’ removal improved to support Host Refresh return
- UI: Sorted pages on the left to reflect the actual sequence of processing
- UI-Translation: Thanks for French (tistou77), German (Cartman586)
- Fix:
- features: FOD duplicates removed
- Updates: Downloader could crash with corrupted files without a loaded image
- Updates: Skip icb.ppkg loading, to not have unnecessary popup on certain images
- UI: Remember tool’s window size and position
New in NTLite 2.3.1.8454 (Nov 5, 2021)
- New:
- Settings: Foreground lock timeout
- Settings: Mouse menu delay option
- Upgrade:
- Components: Win11 ‘Other Themes’ split from ‘On-Screen Keyboard’
- Settings: Various privacy settings expanded to cover more, e.g. pre-installed apps disabling if not already removing ‘Content Delivery Manager’
- Settings: ‘Windows Spotlight (Tips and suggestions)’ unified with Windows Tips and expanded
- UI-Translation: Thanks for French (tistou77), Chinese Traditional (Matt)
- Fix:
- Updates: Dynamic Update regression, it could skip boot.wim if not applying other actions, causing setup prompting missing driver on boot
- Source: WIM Split would be skipped if using boot.wim/winre in the same session
- UI: Host refresh image list supporting Win11
New in NTLite 2.3.1.8444 (Nov 2, 2021)
- New:
- Components: Built-in removal presets in a form of ‘Template’ unchecks from the toolbar (Privacy, Gaming, Lite)
- Components: ‘Shared Experiences’
- Components: ‘OneSettings Client’
- Components: ‘Microsoft Cloud Identity Service’
- Components: ‘Undocked Update Stack’
- Settings: ‘Alt-Tab style’ classic option (Win11)
- Settings: ‘Classic context menu’ (Win11)
- Settings: ‘Decrease space between items (compact view)’ (Win11)
- Settings: ‘Shared Experiences’
- Settings: ‘Show most used apps’
- Source: Windows 11 Dev build 22489 preliminary support
- Upgrade:
- Components: ‘Wallpapers (Themes)’ detection on Win11
- Components: ‘Near Field Communication (NFC)’ and ‘Payments’ split
- Components: ‘Devices Flow’ split subcomponents ‘Device Picker’, ‘Consent UX’ and ‘Device Flow 32-bit’
- Components: ‘WaaS Assessment’ renamed to ‘Windows Update Medic Service’
- Components: ‘Task View’ removal under Win11 now switches to classic Alt-Tab style, as it is required for the new one
- Components: ‘Scanner support’, ‘On-screen Touch Keyboard’, ‘Windows Update’, ‘International Unicode Components’ remove more in Win11
- Components: Few Windows Apps display names improved for clarity
- Settings: Disable Widget and Chat options now also hide or disable them in the Windows Settings
- Updates: Extraction cache autocleanup enabled, deletes unused extracted updates (14 days+) on exit
- UI-Translation: Thanks for Chinese Traditional (Matt), French (tistou77), German (Cartman586), Polish (KrzysioZ)
- Fix:
- Updates: Language pack integration in case of an exe package format or standard extraction integration option
- Components: Win10 1803 HyperV removal causing BSOD during image setup
- Components: ‘Capability Access’ deployed removal was causing MSCTF Taskhost error
New in NTLite 2.3.0.8394 (Oct 12, 2021)
- New:
- Unattended: Computer Name %SERIAL% variable, dynamically insert machine’s serial number during install
- Settings: Win11 Start – ‘Show most used apps’ option
- Upgrade:
- Settings: Win11 TPM requirement disabling option improved
- Components: Win11 language removal detections for ‘Basque’, ‘Catalan’, ‘Galician’, ‘Indonesian’, ‘Vietnamese’
- Components: Win11 removing more for ‘Microsoft Account’, ‘System Guard’, ‘VBS’, ‘Edge Chromium’, ‘Telemetry’, ‘Speech’, ‘Diagnostics’, ‘OCR’
- UI-Translation: Thanks for Chinese Simplified (Gskening) and German (Cartman586)
- Fix:
- Source: Detected file in use error while saving, if processing Install + Boot + WinRE images in the same session
- Components: Win11 ‘DevicesFlow’ removal would cause Settings – Devices closing
- Components: Win11 ‘Wired Autoconfig’ removal would cause Settings – Network connections closing
- Components: Win11 ‘Zip Folders’ removal was reverting Explorer toolbar to an old ribbon style
New in NTLite 2.3.0.8375 (Oct 5, 2021)
- New:
- Source: Windows 11 Dev Preview build 22471 Preview preliminary support
- Source: Windows Server Next build 22463 Preview preliminary support
- Settings: Win11 ‘Taskbar – Chat’ and ‘Widgets’ options
- Settings: Win11 ‘Virtualization-based security (VBS)’ disable option (works only without the UEFI lock for now)
- Components: ‘Kerberos’ (64-bit), needed for Win11 WiFi tray popup, listing and keeping a component protects it
- Upgrade:
- Components: Win11 automatic WiFi and Ethernet driver package cleanup
- Components: Win11 ‘Connected Devices Platform User Service’ needed for tray popups, warning on Apply and added to OOBE compatibility
- Components: ‘Isolated user mode (IUM)’ renamed and upgraded to ‘Virtualization-based security (VBS)’
- Components: ‘Microsoft.VCLibs.140.00.UWPDesktop’ renamed to ‘C++ Runtime framework package for Desktop Bridge’
- Components: ‘Windows Remote Management’ removal disables ‘Event Collector’ service, clear dependency for that part of Event Viewer
- Source: WIM Export – Append support to the same image file, useful to duplicate editions
- UI: Status bar completed message contains Windows resulting Windows version for better overview
- UI-Translation: Thanks for German (Cartman586), French (tistou77), Polish (KrzysioZ)
- Fix:
- Components: Win11 ‘Insider Hub’ removal was hiding Windows Update settings page
- Components: Win11 ‘IPsec Policy Agent’ removal had leftovers
- Components: Win11 ‘Snip & Sketch’ now includes the Snipping tool component
- Components: Win11 open .TXT service error
- Components: LCU folder removal leftovers
- Components: ‘Edge Update’ removal was removing DoNotUpdateToEdgeWithChromium reg tweak
- Unattended: Disk configuration Expand button would crash UI in some cases
- Sources: WinRE missing target after deleting editions in the multiedition session
- Settings: ‘Use only latest CLR (.NET version)’ offline/image apply
New in NTLite 2.3.0.8333 (Sep 23, 2021)
- New:
- Updates: Windows 11 online update list
- Updates: Windows Server 2022 online update list
- Updates: Support for the new Windows 11 MSU update format
- Components: ‘Device Update Center’ removal
- Upgrade:
- Updates: Online update lists now have Windows Server names on the appropriate versions
- Updates: ESD file type support for the Updates page (e.g. certain lang packs)
- Components: Win11 ‘Windows Update’ component detection, also enables listing of related Settings
- UI-Translation: Thanks for German (Cartman586)
- Fix:
- Source: WinRE parallel processing with its parent install.wim exporting error fixed
- Updates: Multiedition parallel integration now filters Dynamic Update for the loaded edition only
- (it just needs to update common boot files once)
- Updates: Language pack multiedition parallel integration fixed, and better use of its extracted cache
New in NTLite 2.3.0.8330 (Sep 21, 2021)
- New:
- Updates: Windows 11 online update list
- Updates: Windows Server 2022 online update list
- Updates: Support for the new Windows 11 MSU update format
- Components: ‘Device Update Center’ removal
- Upgrade:
- Updates: Online update lists now have Windows Server names on the appropriate versions
- Updates: ESD file type support for the Updates page (e.g. certain lang packs)
- Components: Win11 ‘Windows Update’ component detection, also enables listing of related Settings
- UI-Translation: Thanks for German (Cartman586)
- Fix:
- Source: WinRE parallel processing with its parent install.wim exporting error fixed
- Updates: Multiedition parallel integration now filters Dynamic Update for the loaded edition only (it just needs to update common boot files once)
- Updates: Language pack multiedition parallel integration fixed, and better use of its extracted cache
New in NTLite 2.3.0.8309 (Sep 15, 2021)
- Upgrade:
- Updates: Win11 update cache folders 11.21h2.x64 and 11.Dev.x64
- Updates: Server 2022 KB5005444 Dynamic Update support
- UI: Clean dir preparation stage does not hang UI any more
- UI-Translation: Thanks for
- Fix:
- Components: Server 2022 ‘Telemetry Client’ removal was causing a setup hang
- Unattended: Server 2022 no product key entered would show a license error during setup
- Updates: Server 2022 while also being 21H2, now properly filtered in the update lists from the client version (awaiting public updates)
- UI: Prompting reboot now cleans before rebooting, instead on the next session
- UI: Potential fix for the old and rare opening Apply page crash
New in NTLite 2.3.0.8307 (Sep 14, 2021)
- Upgrade:
- Updates: Win11 update cache folders 11.21h2.x64 and 11.Dev.x64
- Updates: Server 2022 KB5005444 Dynamic Update support
- UI: Clean dir preparation stage does not hang UI any more
- UI-Translation: Thanks for
- Fix:
- Components: Server 2022 ‘Telemetry Client’ removal was causing a setup hang
- Unattended: Server 2022 no product key entered would show a license error during setup
- Updates: Server 2022 while also being 21H2, now properly filtered in the update lists from the client version (awaiting public updates)
- UI: Prompting reboot now cleans before rebooting, instead on the next session
- UI: Potential fix for the old and rare opening Apply page crash
New in NTLite 2.3.0.8290 (Sep 6, 2021)
- New:
- Source: Win11 build 22449.1000 Preview unofficial support for testing
- Fix:
- UI: Hanging at cleaning and unloading regression
New in NTLite 2.3.0.8287 (Sep 5, 2021)
- Fix:
- UI: Hanging at Cleaning regression
New in NTLite 2.3.0.8285 (Sep 3, 2021)
- Fix:
- UI: Hanging at Cleaning regression
New in NTLite 2.3.0.8282 (Sep 2, 2021)
- Fix:
- UI: Source – Tools Wizards hanging at Cleaning regression
New in NTLite 2.3.0.8280 (Aug 31, 2021)
- New:
- Updates: Multi-edition parallel integration from a single tool instance
- Unattended: Disk Template move/up down recovery partition option, with specific/non-extended main partition sizes
- Unattended: Expand/collapse toolbar buttons
- Source: Forget all mounted history context menu option
- Upgrade:
- Source: Parallel unload when possible, e.g. at the end of processing or Unloading a folder with multiple images
- Unattended: Disk wizard extend main partition size option now more visible in a form of a button (or type 0 for size)
- Settings: Separate Windows Update disable and download options on Win10 for more clarity
- UI: Cleanup popup on exiting the tool for more clarity on the closing delay
- UI: Improved text/font readability of the tool UI, in sync with the OS
- UI: Re-reads statusbar version of a loaded image immediately after integrating cumulative updates
- UI: Renamed ‘Image process queue …’ to ‘Reapply tasks across editions’
- Post-setup: Reapply task across editions support for Post-setup
- UI-Translation: Thanks for Chinese Simplified (Gskening), German (Cartman586), Ukrainian (Ihor)
- Fix:
- Components: Allow apply if both boot managers missing, e.g. unexpected component structure or an image
- UI: Crash on double-close during cleaning
New in NTLite 2.2.0.8160 (Aug 11, 2021)
- Upgrade:
- Updates: Update extract cache mode is a tool setting now, instead of per-preset
- Components: TeamViewer compatibility option
- UI-Translation: Thanks for Farsi (Mona mon), German (Cartman), Hungarian (József), Korean (Redrabbit),
- Portugues-Brasil (Igor), Romanian (Coman)
- Fix:
- Updates: Win10 2004-21H1 KB5005260 integration support
New in NTLite 2.2.0.8152 (Aug 3, 2021)
- New:
- Updates: Multi-threaded pre-extraction option
- (uses multiple CPU cores for faster parallel package extraction)
- Updates: Permanent cache option for decompressed packages
- (~10% faster integration per instance and less wear on SSDs in repeated sessions)
- Updates: Delta CAB extraction support
- (Win11 PSF previusly and now with Win7-10 deltas)
- Source: Windows 11 Preview build 22000.100 support
- Settings: Win11 Taskbar – Size
- Settings: Win11 Taskbar – Classic (disables start menu, only only with Start alternatives)
- Components: BCD Template Client (needed for image setup, only removable on deployed installs)
- Components: CapFrameX component removal compatibility option
- UI-Translation: Romanian (thanks Coman)
- Upgrade:
- General: Cleaning temporary files is now deleting root directories in parallel threads
- General: Long (>256 characters) network path support
- Updates: Removed placeholder row, deferred post-setup updates always queued first in execution
- Settings: Bypass Win11 TMP also includes BypassRAMCheck
- Components: Discord compatibility now includes ‘Windows Presentation Foundation Core’
- UI-Translation: Thanks for Chinese Traditional (Matt), French (tistou77), German (Cartman), Polish (KrzysioZ)
- Fix:
- Updates: Win7 2533552 integration order fix
- Source: Win8.1 boot.wim image title was incorrectly displayed
- Source: Loading image without Servicing Stack could stuck on load
New in NTLite 2.1.2.8074 (Jul 6, 2021)
- New:
- Settings: Win11 ‘TPM and SecureBoot setup requirement’ option
- (Make sure to apply to boot.wim, read description)
- Updates: Windows 11 Express Update CAB+PSF (Patch Storage File) integration support
- Components: ‘Windows Animation Manager’ 32 and 64 bit removals, 64-bit needed on Win8.1 and 10
- General: /AppendPreset switch option, to load additional common settings from command-line
- General: /ThreadMax switch option, to limit maximum CPU usage from command-line
- Upgrade:
- Components: ‘Windows PushToInstall Service’ split from Store, removal does not break Store
- Components: ‘Cumulative Update cache’ always listed for removal as an placeholder for integration in the same session
- Post-setup: CompactOS template moved to User box, and added the LZX option for deeper compression
- Updates: Simplified update cache subdirectory names for Win10 (“10.0.”->”10.”). Supports old paths if pre-exist
- UI-Translation: Thanks for Chinese Simplified (Gskening), French (tistou77), Italian (gabritb01), Polish (KrzysioZ)
- Fix:
- Components: ‘Microsoft.AAD.BrokerPlugin’ detached from ‘Azure Active Directory’, only former needed for Store sign-in
- Components: Telemetry removal hanging setup for older Win10 versions, same like disable tweak was doing
- Source: Improved status bar Windows version display for loaded Server editions
- Presets: Not lowercasing preset file paths any more, it was a regression since directory subscription feature
- Updates: Win10 20H2 update list auto-select
New in NTLite 2.1.2.8047 (Jun 27, 2021)
- Fix:
- Settings: ‘News and interests – Taskbar widget’ setting would not stick on images
- Settings: Win10 1903 and older Telemetry Security/Disable option was hanging ‘Getting ready’ setup stage
- Components: Boot.wim removal of ‘Windows Component Database’ could prompt a locked file error
- Components: WMI Core 32-bit was not removable if 64-bit version kept
New in NTLite 2.1.2.8041 (Jun 24, 2021)
- Fix:
- Components: Boot.wim removal of ‘Windows Component Database’ could prompt a locked file error
- Settings: Win10 1903 and older Telemetry Security/Disable option was hanging ‘Getting ready’ setup stage
New in NTLite 2.1.2.8033 (Jun 23, 2021)
- New:
- Source: ‘Mounted Images’ grouping right-click Unload option for parallel unload of all mounted images at once
- Source: Preliminary Windows 11 build 21996 support, nothing official for now
- Source: Windows 10 21H2 build 21390 support
- Source: Windows 10 build 19044 as 21H2 support
- Source: Server 2022 20348 support
- Components: ‘Projected File System (ProjFS)’
- Settings: ‘I/O request packet stack size’
- Settings: ‘Meet Now – taskbar widget’
- Settings: ‘News And Interests – taskbar widget’
- Settings: ‘Launch folder windows in a separate process’
- Upgrade:
- Source: Automatic boot.wim tasks now separated in its own thread to not hang UI
- Source: Shortened auto-saved preset name
- Components: Win7 Natural Language 32-bit split
- Components: ‘Servicing Stack’ removal now includes pkgmgr
- Settings: Telemetry – Security setting expanded to include Disabling settings
- UI: Source page now auto-scrolls to loaded image folder
- UI: Improved multi-instancing of NTLite, processing 10 or more at once without conflicts
- UI-Translation: Thanks for French (tistou77), Polish (KrzysioZ), German (Cartman)
- Fix:
- UI: Apply list was sometimes unclickable during feature config and integration
- UI: Automatic update checking could pause source load for a bit
- UI: Components state Reset from toolbar in some cases could leave stuck components
- UI: Post-cancel, e.g. mounting, Source page editions were not refreshed automatically
- Source: Better unmount support for stuck images
- Components: WinUSB service needed reinstallation after removing deployed Portable Devices or SmartCard
- Components: Win10 1709 Scanner removal was breaking MMC Task Scheduler window
- Components: Win10 1709 now lists Mail if just Address book found
- Components: MMC snappins components registry leftovers cleaned
- Components: Cleaning of WindowsMicrosoft.NETassemblyGAC_MSIL empty directories
- Components: Remove Reinstalls leftovers
- Updates: Enqueued (download and integrate in a single session) cumulative+servicing combo pack integration could have failed
- Updates: NTLite_DISM log is restarted per session, not on each integration
- Updates: Downloader now recognizes and separates unsupported Windows versions, instead of selecting the first available
New in NTLite 2.1.1.7912 (May 18, 2021)
- New:
- Integrate: Package, Driver and Registry directory subscription functionality (Add – Directory – Subscribe)
- (Useful for a more dynamic presets, directory location dictates which items to queue on refresh)
- Components: ‘Microsoft Edge WebView’ (currently present on Win10 21H2)
- Components: ‘Microsoft Edge Update’ split from ‘Edge (Chromium)’
- (Note for presets with existing Edge Chromium removal to uncheck this new component)
- Source: Server 2022 Preview support
- Upgrade:
- Post-Setup-User: Automatic pure runonce switch for images without Internet Explorer (no runonceex, e.g. Server Core)
- Registry: Registry page got a simple add Directory option to align with other pages, this is in addition to the new Subscribe
- Updates: PPKG remove option, from Hotfix page Existing list
- Components: Search includes component description
- UI-Translation: Thanks for French (tistou77), Italian (gabritb01), Polish (KrzysioZ)
- Fix:
- Post-Setup: User tasks preset loading might prompt non-existing file
- Post-Setup: Powershell script integration
- Udpates: PPKG integration regression fix (missing file error)
- Updates: .NET 3.5 language part existing annoying message removed on Add – Template – .NET 3.5 insertion
- UI: Apply page crash on opening
- UI: Update Host from Check Updates enqueue could loop
New in NTLite 2.1.0.7862 (Apr 27, 2021)
- Upgrade:
- Source: Win10 21H2 build 21364 support (license date updated)
- Components: Improved Server 2019 cumulative updates compatibility after component removals
- (removals on Server still not officially supported, but please do report any issues)
- UI-Translation: Thanks for Farsi (Mona mon), Polish (KrzysioZ)
- Fix:
- General: Crypto-Pro was causing a tool crash on network connection
- Updates: Integrating latest (CU+SSU bundle) updates into the Win10 19042.572 image was failing in a certain situation
- Components: ‘Manual feature repository’ removal had external ISO files leftovers in certain newer images
New in NTLite 2.1.0.7845 (Apr 4, 2021)
- New:
- Components: Compatibility option for Discord, no need to keep QoS, protects small inactive 32-bit portion
- Fix:
- Post-setup: VMWare Tools template regression
- UI: Version had a beta tag leftover from the merge
New in NTLite 2.1.0.7840 (Mar 31, 2021)
- Upgrade:
- Source: Win10 21H2 build 21343 support (license date updated)
- Components: Edge Chromium removal now also supports pre-deployed versions in newer Win10 images
- Registry: Supporting Components path in integrated REG files
- UI-Translation: Thanks for Arabic (thamermousa), Chinese Traditional (Matt), Dutch (René), French (tistou77),
- Greek (Soulimiotis), Hungarian (József), Portugues-Brasil (Igor), Russian (Den-s), Spanish (Oleada), Ukrainian (Ihor)
- Fix:
- Components: Improved cumulative update compatibility after removals for Win10 1709->1809
New in NTLite 2.1.0.7820 Beta (Mar 9, 2021)
- New:
- Components: Collaboration Data Objects for Windows (CDOSYS)
- Components: File Explorer 32-bit
- Components: Font Previewer 32 bit
- Components: Kerberos Client 32 bit
- Components: OpenGL API 32 and 64 bit
- Components: Rick Text Edit Control (MsftEdit) 32-bit
- Components: Share Host 32 bit
- Components: Task Manager 32 bit
- Components: Windows Web App (WWA) Host 32 and 64 bit
- Upgrade:
- Components: TwinUI component now also removes TwinAPI
New in NTLite 2.0.0.7820 (Mar 9, 2021)
- New:
- Updates: Cumulative Update multi-pack with integrated servicing stack support
- (no need to add servicing stacks on 2004/9 and 21H1 from KB46013825000802 CU onwards)
- Upgrade:
- Components: Split 32-bit versions of Wordpad and Paint
- Components: Renamed IE HTML Viewer to HTML Viewer (Legacy) and moved to System components
- Components: Renamed Edge HTML Viewer to HTML Viewer and moved to System components
- UI-Translation: Thanks for Portugues-Brasil (Igor)
- Fix:
- Components: Tasks Sheduler 32 bit added to Office compatibility option
- Components: Win8.1 wininetplugin.dll missing if removing ‘Easy Transfer’
- Components: Remote Desktop Server removal leftovers
- Updates: Dynamic updates should not be listed for deployed images
- Updates: Dynamic Update architecture detection independent from filename (except Win10 1607)
New in NTLite 2.0.0.7797 (Feb 19, 2021)
- New:
- Updates: Dynamic Update for Windows Setup (Sources) integration and update list support
- Upgrade:
- Source: Recognize Win10 21H1 as build 19043
- Fix:
- Source: Windows 10 Enterprise 2009 could have been displayed as Professional in status bar
- Features: Enabled features haven’t been colored properly in all cases
- Components-Win7: Performance Counters removal would break setup if IIS kept
- Components-Win7: WinSAT was removing Control Panel shortcut to Disk Cleanup
- Public release
New in NTLite 2.1.0.7770 Beta (Jan 24, 2021)
- Upgrade:
- Stable branch maintenance merge
New in NTLite 2.0.0.7770 (Jan 23, 2021)
- Upgrade:
- Components: HyperV now can be removed in a HyperV Guest virtual machine
- UI-Translation: Thanks for Hungarian (József)
- Fix:
- Components: ‘Internet Explorer’ removal in Windows 7 and 8.1 was breaking MMC/MSC pages
- Components-2004: RDP Server removal leftovers
- Components-21H1: Telemetry Client removal breaking Internet Explorer in Win10 21H1 Preview
- Unattended: The new edition prompt autoselection method needed an adjustment if removing editions in the same session
New in NTLite 2.1.0.7760 Beta (Jan 15, 2021)
- Upgrade:
- Stable branch maintenance merge
New in NTLite 2.0.0.7760 (Jan 15, 2021)
- Fix:
- Unattended: The new edition prompt autoselection method needed an adjustment if removing editions in the same session
- Components-21H1: Telemetry Client removal breaking Internet Explorer in Win10 21H1 Preview
New in NTLite 2.0.0.7756 (Jan 12, 2021)
- New:
- Source: Windows 10 Insider Preview 21286 21H2 (and 20279 21H1) support
- Unattended: Prompt edition selection option (Dual Architecture not used for this any longer, and auto partitioning works if prompted)
- Tweaks: Feature Updates safeguards (Upgrade block)
- Upgrade:
- Unattended: Automatic edition selection of the loaded image switched to a more compatible method
- UI-Translation: Thanks for French (tistou77)
- Fix:
- Fix: Improved handling of existing image driver duplicates (Win7 load image prompts for existing drivers without names)
- Fix: ‘Manual setup’ ISO files leftovers in latest Win10 versions
New in NTLite 2.0.0.7742 (Dec 8, 2020)
- Upgrade:
- Components-2009: Push Notifications User service split, needed for Settings – Network page
- Components: Windows Update components better organized, Windows update is not needed to install updates manually
- Downloader: External update packages in update cache split into its own group for better visibility
- Settings: ‘Balloon tips’ settings renamed to reflect Explorer namings and Win10 legacy baloon notifications option added
- Unattended: AutoLogon count if set to 1, was logging in twice, known Windows limitation, now properly set
- UI-Translation: Thanks for Slovak language (‘Brahma’)
- Fix:
- Updater: Check Updates – Host Update button wasn’t enabled in certain appropriate cases
- Components: ‘Media Streaming’ removal was breaking Remote Desktop server-side
- Components: Servicing Stack compatibility option wasn’t available on boot setup and winpe images
New in NTLite 2.0.0.7726 (Nov 16, 2020)
- Fix: Fix-Components: Defender deployed image/live removal error 5
- Fix: Windows 7 KB958830 (RSAT) integration then update cleanup or English(US) removal were breaking feature config
- Fix: Cortana is now kept with Shell Search compatibility in Win10 1909 and older images
New in NTLite 2.0.0.7722 (Nov 11, 2020)
- Upgrade
- Preset: Component names can now use wildcards as manual preset entries
- UI: Completing longer tasks now has the optional popup for clarity
- UI-Translation: Thanks for Chinese Traditional (Matt), Portugues-Brasil (Igor), Turkish (SALiH DRD)
- Fix
- Components: Image removal of Edge Chromium was not working on a specific Win10 20H2.572 image
- Components: Biometric Service removal could break Defender settings UI in Win10 2009
- Post-setup: Post-setup adding a file via drag and drop method was causing a crash
- Source: Image name could show description even if same as name, looking duplicated
New in NTLite 2.0.0.7720 (Nov 10, 2020)
- UPGRADE:
- Preset: Component names can now use wildcards as manual preset entries
- UI: Completing longer tasks now has the optional popup for clarity
- UI-Translation: Thanks for Chinese Traditional (Matt), Portugues-Brasil (Igor), Turkish (SALiH DRD)
- FIX:
- Components: Image removal of Edge Chromium was not working on a specific Win10 20H2.572 image
- Components: Biometric Service removal could break Defender settings UI in Win10 2009
- Post-setup: Post-setup adding a file via drag and drop method was causing a crash
- Source: Image name could show description even if same as name, looking duplicated
New in NTLite 2.0.0.7705 (Oct 28, 2020)
- Upgrade:
- Source: Win10 preview build 20241 support +license date changed
- Source: Improved ESD image compression detection for some custom images
- Components: ‘Display Policy Service’ moved as a parent to ‘Display Enhancement’ for better clarity what is needed for ‘Night Light’
- Components: Reduced the servicing stack compatibility warning scenarios
- Components-1809: Supporting removal of legacy Calculator if no modern app detected
- UI-Translation: Thanks for Chinese Simplified (Gskening)
- Fix:
- Updates: Downloader UI not remembering checked items on Verify
- Components: Turkish character in a temporary path could have disrupted the Start Menu cleanup
- Components: Defender empty service leftovers in deployed/live removal
- Components-Win7: Enterprise x86 English-US language removal in non-English image could have removed too much
- Components-Win7: Windows Component Store removal leftovers if Internet Explorer kept
- Components-Win7: wininetplugin.dll setup error if removing Migration Wizard with Servicing Stack compatibility disabled
New in NTLite 2.1.0.7656 Beta (Sep 23, 2020)
- Fix:
- General: Auto-updating could get stuck on cleanup
- (improvement is visible only when updating from this version in the future)
- Upgrade:
- UI-Translation: Thanks for Turkish (SALiH DRD)
New in NTLite 2.0.0.7656 (Sep 23, 2020)
- Fix:
- General: Auto-updating could get stuck on cleanup
- (improvement is visible only when updating from this version in the future)
- Upgrade:
- UI-Translation: Thanks for Turkish (SALiH DRD)
New in NTLite 2.0.0.7655 (Sep 22, 2020)
- New:
- Components: ‘File Sharing support’ compatibility option
- Upgrade:
- Updates: Installing updates on the host with the tool now has the ability to queue ‘Remove Returns’ on reboot
- Components: Deep removal mode enabling simplified, just disable Servicing Stack compatibility
- UI-Translation: Thanks for French (tistou77)
- Fix:
- Updates: Stuck 99% progress on repeat CU integration, cosmetic only
- Updates-1803/9: Downloader was unchecking .Net 4.8 installer when selecting newer .NET update for download
New in NTLite 2.0.0.7640 (Sep 8, 2020)
- Upgrade:
- Source: Windows 10 21H1 build 20206 support (+license date changed)
- Source: Better handling of a non-standard WIM/ESD image names (e.g. using only description instead of the name element will no longer leave ‘NONAME’ prefix)
- Updates: Downloader now disables the already integrated update entries to simplify choice
- Updates: Downloader now unchecks unnecessary cumulative update on manual selection (e.g. selecting two cumulative updates, leaves only the last one selected)
- Components: Components page filter bar for easier browsing (‘Uncheck all’ toolbar button applies to listed, non-filtered only)
- General: Improved REFS support for image content storage (Note that temp/mount dir needs NTFS by design)
- UI: Faster Components page opening, expanding and collapsing of all items
- UI-Translation: Thanks for Chinese Simplified (Gskening)
- Fix:
- Updates: Existing updates could have duplicate entries
- UI: Automatic update will now prompt before restarting the tool if image loaded
- Components: ‘PeopleExperienceHost’ removal leftovers
New in NTLite 2.0.0.7618 (Aug 18, 2020)
- New:
- Settings: ‘Phone calls’ privacy option
- Parameters: ‘/saveallstates’ – Include currently unchanged states on a preset save
- Together with forcing non-existent components, captures most of existing changes
- Upgrade:
- Source: Windows 10 21H1 build 20190 support +license date changed
- Components: ‘IPSec’ leftovers
- Components: ‘RDP ActiveX Client’ 32-bit split
- Components: ‘Remote Desktop Client’ 32-bit split
- Components: ‘WMI (Core)’ 32-bit split
- Components: ‘WMI (Providers)’ 32-bit split
- Components: Replaced Live-Only removal lock with OOBE compatibility
- Make sure to keep that compatibility enabled to avoid setup issues
- Fix:
- Updates: Improved cumulative update integration to reduce the chance of WU reoffering already integrated CU
- Components: Settings-Privacy-Diagnostics page now removed with Telemetry removal instead of disabled with Error Reporting removals
- Components: Slow ‘Preparing data’ at 99% in patched Windows 7
New in NTLite 2.0.0.7596 (Aug 4, 2020)
- New:
- Settings: ‘Temporary directory (User Accounts)’
- Settings: ‘Pointer speed’ and ‘Enhance pointer precision’ options
- PostSetup: Compress Windows (Compact OS) template option, unattended version of it is conditional
- Upgrade:
- Source: Windows 10 21H1 build 20180 support (+license date changed)
- UI-Translation: Thanks for Korean (Redrabbit), Farsi (Mona mon)
- Fix:
- Updates: DISM cleanup was blocked by .NET 3.5 integration if in the same session
- Updates: If only integrating updates in a session, special runonce-type updates might not install
- Components: ‘OneDrive’ removal ‘Automatic file downloads’ settings page leftover
- Components: MMC Extended tab was removed with ‘Internet Explorer’, now only with ‘IE HTML Viewer’ as intended
- Drivers: Rare UI crash on exporting a certain machine’s hardware list
- UI-Tool: Removed legacy Check Updates option in File-Settings
New in NTLite 2.0.0.7580 (Jul 21, 2020)
- Upgrade:
- Unattended: Disk partitioning template now pre-fills install size to have recovery partition last
- Updates-Win10: DISM update cleanup methods inserted earlier to avoid error 2054 in a single session
- Installer: Silently installing NTLite was always starting the tool, now optional with /autorun
- Update-Features: ‘Browser.InternetExplorer’ filtered out of FODs as there is already Internet Explorer feature configurable
- Components: ISO files .Sourcesreplacementmanifest cleanup with removals
- UI-Translation: Thanks for Chinese Simplified (Gskening), Chinese Traditional (Matt), Dutch (René), French (tistou77),
- Greek (Soulimiotis), Polish (KrzysioZ), Portugues-Brasil (Igor), Russian (Den-s), Spanish (Oleada), Ukrainian (Ihor)
- Fix:
- Components: TPM removal blocking Cryptographic service startup after CU + remove reinstalls
- Updates: Uninstalling packages could cause this tool to crash
New in NTLite 2.0.0.7539 Beta (Jun 29, 2020)
- Upgrade:
- Stable branch maintenance merge
New in NTLite 1.9.0.7539 (Jun 29, 2020)
- New:
- Settings: ‘Target release version’ Windows Update option
- Settings: ‘Allow pinning Store app to taskbar’ option
- Upgrade:
- UI: Spend less CPU cycles waiting on external processes like DISM cleanup
- UI-Translation: Thanks for Chinese Traditional (Matt), Ukrainian (Ihor)
New in NTLite 1.9.0.7530 (Jun 28, 2020)
- New:
- Settings: ‘Fast Startup’ option
- Settings: ‘Fast User Switching’ option
- Settings: ‘Hardware-accelerated GPU scheduling’ option
- Settings: ‘Shutdown menu’ options
- Settings: ‘Variable refresh rate’ option
- Fix:
- Apply: ‘Read updated data’ after updating progress stuck at 0% (cosmetic only), regression fixed
- Apply: ‘Image process queue’ missing updates on subsequent tasks, regression fixed
New in NTLite 1.9.0.7517 (Jun 23, 2020)
- New:
- Source: Win10 21H1 build 20150 support
- Components: ‘Microsoft Edge (Chromium)’ removal
- Components: ‘Region and Language control panel’
- Settings: ‘Show drive letters’ Explorer options
- Upgrade:
- Source: Win10 20H2 (2009) build 19042 support, same license date as 19041
- Components: ‘Snip & Sketch’ was dependant on ‘Encrypting File System (EFS)’ removal
- Components: Removed ‘Cortana’ compatibility option
- UI-Translation: Thanks for Ukrainian (Ihor), Chinese Simplified (Gskening), French (tistou77),
- Polish (KrzysioZ), Turkish (SALiH DRD)
- Fix:
- Components: Search tray popup various dependencies resolved
- Components: ‘Sync Host’ and ‘CDPUserSvc’ removals were breaking Control Panel – Region
- Components: ‘Cortana’ removal was making Settings-Search not showing states
- Components: ‘Delivery Optimization’ removal settings page leftover
- Components-Win10_2004/9: Cortana removal was breaking Start file search
- Components-Win7: ‘English US’ removal was breaking Chinese IE11 install
New in NTLite 2.0.0.7501 Beta (Jun 9, 2020)
- New:
- Stable branch maintenance merge
New in NTLite 1.9.0.7501 (Jun 9, 2020)
- New:
- Setting: ‘Online speech recognition services’
- Upgrade:
- Components: ‘SmartScreen’ no longer needed for Windows Store compatibility (do not disable SmartScreen if removing)
- Source: Better handling of manual unloading install.wim with still mounted winre.wim inside it
- UI-Translation: Thanks for Chinese Simplified (Gskening), Polish (KrzysioZ)
- Fix:
- Source: Loading winre.wim outside of install.wim was not supported
New in NTLite 2.0.0.7490 Beta (Jun 2, 2020)
- New:
- Source: Deployed Windows support – now can also edit already deployed non-host Windows, e.g. on mounted virtual drives or other partitions
- Components: ‘Disk Cleanup’
New in NTLite 1.9.0.7490 (Jun 2, 2020)
- New:
- Settings: ‘Display locked user name in logon screen’
- Settings: ‘Feedback frequency’
- Settings: ‘Notifications network usage’
- Settings: ‘SMB Bandwidth Throttling’
- Settings: ‘Storage Sense’ settings
- Upgrade:
- Features: Features page filter row added, type to filter the list
- Presets: Listing unsupported files inside the Presets folder
- UI-Translation: Thanks for French (tistou77), Chinese Traditional (Matt)
- Fix:
- Components: ‘Connected Devices Platform User Service’ removal shutdown task waiting message if ‘Sync Host’ kept
- Components: ‘Connected Devices Platform User Service’ added to OOBE compatibility
- Components: Removing ‘Internet Printing Client’ was not disabling its deployed feature state if Printing kept
- Settings: ‘Use Peek to preview the desktop at the end of the taskbar’ offline fix
- Post-Setup: SetupComplete.cmd written only if changed
New in NTLite 2.0.0.7455 Beta (Apr 29, 2020)
- New:
- Source: ‘Reserved Storage’ enabling/disabling for live C:Windows on Win10 2004+ (Right-click on Source C:Windows, or from Settings once loaded)
- Upgrade:
- Components: ‘Auto Time Zone Updater’ split from ‘Windows Time’ and expanded its removal
- Fix:
- Components: Shared Folders management console was needed for Services
New in NTLite 1.9.0.7455 (Apr 29, 2020)
- New:
- Settings: ‘Restart PC as soon as possible when required to install an update’
- Settings: ‘Show a notification when your PC requires a restart to finish updating’
- Settings: ‘Use Peek to preview the desktop at the end of the taskbar’
- Upgrade:
- Components: ‘Internet Explorer Engine’ pieces moved to IE UI component removal
- UI-Translation: Thanks for Chinese Simplified (Gskening), French (tistou77), Polish (KrzysioZ)
- Fix:
- Unattended: ‘Dual architecture’ wasn’t generating both entries on 32-bit sources
- Components: ‘English’ language pack removal on non-English ISOs had leftovers
- Components: ‘Windows Time’ removal was breaking manual time setup
New in NTLite 2.0.0.7428 Beta (Apr 15, 2020)
- New:
- Components: ‘Diskpart’
- Components: ‘Input Switch’
- Components: ‘International Unicode Components’
- Components: ‘Networked Camera Source’
- Components: ‘OneCore UAP Common Proxy Stub’
- Components: ‘Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) ping tool’
- Components: ‘Resource Mapping’
- Components: ‘Virtual Disk Service’
New in NTLite 1.9.0.7428 (Apr 15, 2020)
- Upgrade:
- Components: ‘AppCompatibility’, ‘Device Guard’, ‘Provisioning’ leftovers
- Components-Win10_2004: ‘Shell Services’ removal finished and unlocked
- UI-Translation: Thanks for Farsi (Mona mon), French (tistou77), Italian (gabritb01), Korean (Redrabbit), Polish (KrzysioZ), Russian (Den-s)
- Fix:
- Components: .NET GAC cleanup of removed components had minor leftovers
- Components: ‘COM+’ removal was causing an Event Viewer error (thx tistou77)
- Components: ‘Modern App 32-bit’ could break weblink opening from 32-bit native apps
- Components-Win10_2004: ‘Data Usage service’ component was removing Network Status page
- Components-Win10_2004: ‘VHD’ component detection and leftovers
- Components-Win10_2004: ‘Windows Performance Recorder’ leftover
New in NTLite 2.0.0.7407 Beta (Apr 8, 2020)
- New:
- General: Automatic update functionality for the tool (File – Check Updates)
- Components: ‘Dolby Atmos codec pack’
- Components: ‘MBR to GPT conversion tool’
- Components: ‘OLE for Process Control (OPC) library’
- Components: ‘Windows AI Machine Learning’
- Components: ‘Authorization Manager’ (separate 64 and 32-bit)
- Components: ‘Certificate Manager’ (separate 64 and 32-bit)
- Components: ‘Component Services (COM+) management console’ (separate 64 and 32-bit)
- Components: ‘Computer Management’ (separate 64 and 32-bit)
- Components: ‘Device Manager’ (separate 64 and 32-bit)
- Components: ‘Disk Management’ (separate 64 and 32-bit)
- Components: ‘IIS management console’ (detected only if installed, separate 64 and 32-bit)
- Components: ‘Local Users and Groups Manager’ (separate 64 and 32-bit)
- Components: ‘Microsoft Management Console (MMC)’ (separate 64 and 32-bit)
- Components: ‘Print Management’
- Components: ‘Services management console’ (separate 64 and 32-bit)
- Components: ‘Shared Folders UI’ (separate 64 and 32-bit)
- Components: ‘Task Scheduler management console’ (separate 64 and 32-bit)
- Components: ‘TPM management console’ (separate 64 and 32-bit)
- Components: ‘Windows Firewall management console’ (separate 64 and 32-bit)
New in NTLite 1.9.0.7407 (Apr 8, 2020)
- New:
- Settings: ‘ShellBags’ disabling option
- Settings: ‘Search Suggestions’ disabling option
- Settings: ‘SMBv3 server-side compression’
- Settings: Explorer – ‘Network in navigation pane’
- Upgrade:
- Components: ‘Capture Service’ split from Xbox app (needed for Screen Sketch)
- Components-Win10_2004: ‘Error Reporting’ and ‘CDPUserSvc’ components unlocked for offline removal
- Components-Win10_2004: Linked ‘Search App’ to Start Menu Experience Host component
- Updates: Cleanup after DISM (%temp%TS_*.TMP files)
- UI-Features: Feature names now have green text if enabled by default
- UI-Translation: Thanks for Arabic (thamermousa), Chinese Simplified (Gskening), Chinese Traditional (Matt), Dutch (René),
- French (tistou77), Greek (Soulimiotis), Polish (KrzysioZ), Portugues-Brasil (Igor), Russian (Den-s), Spanish (Oleada)
- Fix:
- Components: VSS API 32-bit was not removed if 64-bit version is kept
- Components-Win10_2004: WPF Core Kaspersky 2020 compatibility
- Components-Win10_2004: ‘Windows To Go’ component detection
- Components-Win10_2004: Leftovers and removes more in ‘HIDService’, ‘Delivery Optimization’, ‘Map Control’, ‘Network Diagnostics’,
- ‘Data Usage service’, ‘HyperV’, ‘Printing’, ‘DHCP’, ‘Modern App Support 32-bit’, ‘Lang IME’, ‘Devices Flows’
- PostSetup: UI was duplicating the % sign in commands on preset load
- Settings: ‘Classic logon’ removed as it’s an obsolete setting, instead disable ‘Display last user name in logon screen’
- Source: UI crash when pressing F5 to refresh images during image operation
New in NTLite 1.9.0.7330 (Feb 25, 2020)
- Fix:
- Source: Crash after processing with a certain combination of WinRE and Delete editions tasks
- Source: WinRE on live install (C:Windows) handling
- Settings: Event Viewer channel settings weren’t fully saved to preset for session reload (now needs resaving)
- Components-Win10_2004: ‘Kernel Debugger’ leftovers
- Components-Win10_2004: ‘Cortana’ removal Start menu popup delay
- Upgrade:
- UI-Translation: Thanks for Korean (Redrabbit)
New in NTLite 1.9.0.7290 (Jan 21, 2020)
- New:
- Components-Win7: ‘End of Service notifier (EOSNotify)’
- Settings: ‘Remote Desktop listening port’
- Settings-Server: ‘Shutdown Event Tracker’
- Settings-Win7: ‘End of Service notifier (EOSNotify)’
- Upgrade:
- UI-Translation: Thanks for French (tistou77), Portugues-Brasil (Igor), Chinese Simplified (Gskening)
- Fix:
- Source: Improved WinRE image mounting handling in task sequences
- Updates: Potential crash could happen when queuing existing updates
New in NTLite 1.9.0.7276 (Jan 15, 2020)
- New:
- New-Settings: ‘Chromium-based Microsoft Edge web browser automatic install’
- Upgrade:
- Upgrade-Components-20H2: “User Experience for Windows” (MicrosoftWindows.Client.CBS) renamed and expanded
- UI-Translation: Thanks for French (tistou77)
- Fix:
- Source: Preset loading was removing image loaded indicator
- Components: ‘Internet Explorer’ removal was resetting ‘Internet Browser’ .URL association
- Components: ‘Steps Recorder’, ‘Paint’, ‘WordPad’ and ‘PowerShell’ package leftovers
- Components: EventLog channel leftovers for some components
New in NTLite 1.9.0.7275 (Jan 14, 2020)
- New:
- New-Settings: ‘Chromium-based Microsoft Edge web browser automatic install’
- Upgrade:
- Upgrade-Components-20H2: “User Experience for Windows” (MicrosoftWindows.Client.CBS) renamed and expanded
- UI-Translation: Thanks for French (tistou77)
- Fix:
- Source: Preset loading was removing image loaded indicator
- Components: ‘Internet Explorer’ removal was resetting ‘Internet Browser’ .URL association
- Components: ‘Steps Recorder’, ‘Paint’, ‘WordPad’ and ‘PowerShell’ package leftovers
- Components: EventLog channel leftovers for some components
New in NTLite 1.9.0.7261 Beta (Dec 18, 2019)
- New:
- Settings: AutoLogger tracing sessions settings list
- Settings: Event Viewer channels settings list
New in NTLite 1.8.0.7240 (Nov 26, 2019)
- New:
- Settings: Cortana tray button
- Settings-20H1: ‘Automatically save my restartable apps when I sign out and restart them after I sign’
- Upgrade:
- Post-setup: setupcomplete.cmd save location kept inside an image if already existed
- Settings: ‘Allow Telemetry – Locked’ policy suboptions inside the existing setting
- Settings: Renamed ‘Reopen my apps after an update or restart’ to ‘Use my sign in info to automatically finish setting up my device’
- UI-Translation: Thanks for Polish (KrzysioZ) and Chinese Simplified (Gskening)
- Fix:
- Registry: Integration of REG file with reg key deletion ‘-[REGKEY]’ permission error
- Components: Internet Explorer removal XML open with leftover “IE ActiveX Interface Marshaling Library”
- Components: Notification Center was disabled with Action Center instead of Push Notifications removal
- Source: Exporting/Converting ESD into a new location, without overwriting the source, would error out
- Source: ESD exporting would duplicate the full edition name in its description
- Updates-Win7: KB2532531/2552343 integration order fix
- UI-Translation: File-Settings-Proxy translation support
- UI-Translation: Chinese installer custom checkbox names
New in NTLite 1.9.0.7230 Beta (Nov 15, 2019)
- Upgrade:
- Components: ‘Task Scheduler’ 32-bit split
New in NTLite 1.8.0.7230 (Nov 15, 2019)
- Upgrade:
- Settings: ‘Use checkboxes to select items’ Explorer option
- UI-Translation: Thanks for Portugues-Brasil (Igor)
- Fix:
- Settings: ‘Use only latest CLR’ was breaking SQL Express 2014 setup if set on image, due to explicit .NET 3.5 dependency
- Updates: Crash after processing language packs over multiple images
New in NTLite 1.8.0.7217 (Nov 3, 2019)
- Upgrade:
- UI-Translation: Thanks for Polish (KrzysioZ), Italian (gabritb01), Turkish (SALiH DRD)
- Fix:
- UI: Was crashing in certain situations after processing
New in NTLite 1.8.0.7216 (Oct 31, 2019)
- New:
- Source: Win10 20H1 build 19008 support
- Components: ‘ntlite.exe /forcelistcomponents’ switch for listing undetected components
- Useful for repeating removals of partially removed or reinstalled components
- Upgrade:
- Components: ‘Event Viewer’ split 32-bit component
- Updates: ‘Display Enhancement Service’ moved under CDPSvc, needed for ‘Night Light’
- UI-Translation: Thanks for French (tistou77), Polish (KrzysioZ)
- Fix:
- Settings: ‘Tamper Protection’ and ‘Reserved storage’ options were listed only on 1903, now for newer builds as well
- Components: Win10 1909 Cortana added to ‘Shell Search’ compatibility, disable instead until the Search/Cortana split in 20H1
- Components: ‘Group Policy’ removal leftovers in 1903
New in NTLite 1.9.0.7215 Beta (Oct 30, 2019)
- New:
- Source: Windows Recovery Environment (WinRE) image handling support
- WinRE is listed next to the mounted image on the Source page if found inside it, and on the Apply page image process queue
- Updates: Package removal support on the Updates – Existing updates list
- Useful with unwanted or superseded packages. Some are not allowed to be removed
New in NTLite 1.8.0.7215 (Oct 30, 2019)
- New:
- Source: Win10 20H1 build 19008 support
- Components: ‘ntlite.exe /forcelistcomponents’ switch for listing undetected components
- Useful for repeating removals of partially removed or reinstalled components
- Upgrade:
- Components: ‘Event Viewer’ split 32-bit component
- Updates: ‘Display Enhancement Service’ moved under CDPSvc, needed for ‘Night Light’
- UI-Translation: Thanks for French (tistou77)
- Fix:
- Settings: ‘Tamper Protection’ and ‘Reserved storage’ options were listed only on 1903, now for newer builds as well
- Components: Win10 1909 Cortana added to ‘Shell Search’ compatibility, disable instead until the Search/Cortana split in 20H1
- Components: ‘Group Policy’ removal leftovers in 1903
New in NTLite 1.8.0.7182 (Oct 11, 2019)
- Fix:
- Source: 1903 to 1909 build (18362->18363) image version reading
- Components: Disabling Compatibility options would not refresh the UI (regression in last update)
- Upgrade:
- UI-Translation: Thanks for Polish (KrzysioZ), Turkish (SALiH DRD)
New in NTLite 1.9.0.7182 Beta (Oct 11, 2019)
- Change:
- Components: Removed ‘Intel Power Engine Plug-in’, use ‘intelpep.inf’ removal instead
New in NTLite 1.9.0.7180 Beta (Oct 9, 2019)
- New:
- Components-Win10:
- ‘Background Activity Moderator (BAM)’
- ‘Desktop Activity Moderator (DAM)’
- ‘File Trace MiniFilter’
- ‘Identity Protection Technology (Intel IPT)’
- ‘Intel Power Engine Plug-in’
- ‘IP Translation Configuration Service’
- ‘Unix socket (AF_UNIX)’
New in NTLite 1.8.0.7180 (Oct 9, 2019)
- Fix:
- Components: Internet Explorer removal, even with IE Frame kept, WWW shortcut could not be created
- Components: ForceShowComponents settings flag could crash UI after processing
- Upgrade:
- UI-Translation: Thanks for French (tistou77), Polish (KrzysioZ)
New in NTLite 1.8.0.7165 (Sep 26, 2019)
- New:
- Settings: Win10 RS3+ (Win10 Pro and above)
- Start Menu ‘Choose which folders appear’ options
- Start Menu ‘App list’ and suboptions
- Start Menu ‘User tile’ and suboptions
- Start Menu ‘Power button’ and suboptions
- ‘Recently opened items in Jump Lists’ option
- ‘People bar’ option
- ‘Pinning to taskbar’ policy option
- Upgrade:
- UI-Translation: Thanks for Chinese Simplified (Gskening), Chinese Traditional (Matt), Dutch (René), Farsi (Mona mon), French (tistou77), German (KrX), Greek (Soulimiotis), Korean (Redrabbit), Polish (KrzysioZ), Portugues-Brasil (Igor), Spanish (Oleada), Turkish (SALiH DRD)
New in NTLite 1.8.0.7137 (Sep 18, 2019)
- New:
- Settings: ‘Desktop icon size’ option
- Settings: Search ‘Find My Files’ (Enhanced search) option
- Settings: Security Center ‘All notifications’ and ‘Non-critical notifications’ options
- Upgrade:
- Registry: REG file integration now can apply to protected keys
- Fix:
- Settings: Win7 ‘Navigation Pane’ settings not remembered in preset
- Settings: Search ‘Finish setting up my device online’ was not working for certain Win10 versions
- Settings: ‘Notifications’, ‘Radios’ and ‘Diagnostics app access’ options were not working for certain Win10 versions
- Components: ‘Web Account Manager’ now removes Settings – Sign-in Options
- UI: Crash after finishing certain combination of tasks
New in NTLite 1.8.0.7120 (Sep 12, 2019)
- Fix:
- Updates: Windows 7 Servicing Stack SHA-2 dependency integration order
- Components: Windows 7 ‘Component Store’ removal breaking Internet Explorer deployment
- Upgrade:
- UI-Translation: Thanks for Polish (KrzysioZ), Chinese Traditional (Matt)
New in NTLite 1.9.0.7120 Beta (Sep 12, 2019)
- Stable branch maintenance merge
New in NTLite 1.8.0.7115 (Sep 6, 2019)
- New:
- Source Windows 10 1909 (19H2) support
- Settings ‘Search includes Bing web results’
- Upgrade:
- Source Windows 10 20H1 build 18970 support
- Unattended Computer Name unattended prompt improvements (thx freMea)
- Components Windows 7 and 8.1 smaller image size after removals with Windows Update compatibility
- Features Allow Windows Update online usage if missing image files for enabling a feature
- UI-Translation Thanks for German (KrX), Turkish (SALiH DRD), Polish (KrzysioZ)
- Fix:
- Updates .NET Framework 4.8 integration order when using core, lang pack and update
- Features Preset saving of sub-component states if default-enabled by the parent
- Features Configuring Hyper-V in Win10 image from Win7 host is locked to protect image integrity
New in NTLite 1.9.0.7115 Beta (Sep 3, 2019)
- Stable branch maintenance merge
New in NTLite 1.8.0.7095 (Aug 14, 2019)
- New:
- Settings: ‘Suggest ways I can finish setting up my device online’ option
- Upgrade:
- General: Windows 10 build 18956 Insider Preview support
- Downloader: State column split
- UI-Translation: Thanks for Chinese Simplified (Gskening), Portugues-Brasil (Igor)
- Fix:
- Components-Win7: Driver integration might fail after driver removals
- Components-Win7: ‘Shell Search’ removal leftovers (first disable Feature for UI removal)
New in NTLite 1.9.0.7080 Beta (Aug 7, 2019)
- Stable branch maintenance merge
New in NTLite 1.9.0.7070 Beta (Jul 16, 2019)
- Stable branch maintenance merge
New in NTLite 1.8.0.7070 (Jul 16, 2019)
- Upgrade:
- Upgrade-Components: ‘Adobe Flash’ 32-bit component split
- Upgrade-Components: OOBE and Autopilot unlocked for image removal in a fully unattended scenario
- Fix:
- Components: ‘OneNote’ app removal had a start menu shortcut leftover
- Components: ‘Internet Explorer’ removal could cause iernonce.dll popup on login
- Components: ‘Telemetry Client’ removal was breaking the online .NET 3.5 install without the CAB package
- Components-Win7: ‘Windows Firewall’ removal could break folder sharing
- Components-Win7: ‘Remote Desktop Server’ removal could cause black screen on logon
- Components-Win7: Driver removals could cause driver reinstall prompt after logon
- Components-Win8.1: ‘Sami Extended Norway’ keyboard removal
- Settings: Disabling ‘Automatic installation of sponsored apps’ could break some GPOs
New in NTLite 1.8.0.7034 (Jul 4, 2019)
- Upgrade:
- Updates: Update cache directory location now supports relative folder [NTLITEDIR]
- UI-Translation: Thanks for French (tistou77), Turkish (SALiH DRD)
- Fix:
- Updates: Improved 1903 cumulative update support after removing disabled features
- Features: Features if upgraded might have been missing from the configuration list
New in NTLite 1.9.0.7025 Beta (Jul 3, 2019)
- New:
- New-Components: ‘Autopilot’
- New-Components: ‘Multiple UNC Provider (MUP)’
New in NTLite 1.8.0.7025 (Jul 3, 2019)
- Upgrade:
- Components: ‘COM+ API’ 32 and 64 bit split from ‘COM+’
- Components: ‘Virtual WiFi’ split from ‘WLAN’
- Updates: Clean updates method ‘DISM (ResetBase)’ split from ‘DISM (Compatible)’
- UI-Translation: Thanks for French (tistou77), Turkish (SALiH DRD), Chinese Simplified (Gskening), Farsi (Mona mon)
- Fix:
- Components: ‘Azure Active Directory’ removal causing OOBEIDPS error in Win10 1809
- Components: ‘Mobile Device Management (MDM)’ removal was crashing Settings-Accounts-Access work
- Components: ‘Telemetry Client’ removal was breaking Troubleshooting wizards
- Components: ‘Insider Hub’ removal breaking Win10 1903 Search tray popup
- Components: ‘Fax’ removal could break Win10 1903 CU install
- Components: Live removals and ‘Remove Returns’ could have leftover start menu icons
- Components-Win8.1: ‘Text Prediction’ removal breaking Explorer Search box
- Components-Win8.1: ‘Telemetry Client’ removal breaking Windows setup
- Components-Win8.1: IEFrame 64 bit component detection
- Components-Win8.1: removal compatibility improvements
- Components-Win7: Non-English language pack causing removal crash
- Components-Win7: Win7 Embedded removal compatibility improvements
- General-Win7: Extreme memory usage during ‘Preparing Data’ on 99%
- Source: Potential crash on Forget image
New in NTLite 1.9.0.6996 Beta (Jun 19, 2019)
- New:
- Components: ‘Component Package Support’
- Components: ‘Device Setup Manager’
- Components: ‘File Picker UI Host’
- Components: ‘Recommended Troubleshooting service’
New in NTLite 1.8.0.6996 (Jun 19, 2019)
- Upgrade:
- Components: ‘Speech API’ split from ‘Speech Recognition’
- Components: ‘Push Notifications System Service’ split from ‘Push Notifications’
- Components: ‘Cloud Notifications’ split from ‘Push Notifications’
- Components: ‘Start Menu Experience Host’ removal unlocked
- UI-Translation: Thanks for Turkish (SALiH DRD)
- Fix:
- Components: ‘OpenSSH’ leftovers
- Components: Improved cumulative update compatibility after removals
- Updates: ‘Clean updates (Complete)’ Flash update handling
New in NTLite 1.8.0.6976 (Jun 12, 2019)
- New:
- Source: Windows 10 20H1 18912 support
- Settings: Search (Taskbar) option
- Settings: ‘Dark mode for Windows’ option
- Unattended: ‘Full Name’ entry, can be used with Computer Name * for prefixed random computer name
- Upgrade:
- UI-Translation: Thanks for Chinese Traditional (Matt), Turkish (SALiH DRD)
- Fix:
- Components: App live removal could cause default app change Settings crash in 1903 (TWINUI entry)
- Components: ‘Accessibility tools’ removal could break cumulative update for 1903 Home image
- Components: Certain app removals could break Search tray popup in 1903
- Unattended: Disk template default EFI size increased to 260 MB due to 4KB-sector drives
- Features: Non-English image ‘Feature on Demand’ names could be missing in certain situations
New in NTLite 1.8.0.6962 (Jun 5, 2019)
- New:
- Source: ‘Remove Reinstalls’ tool, useful for cleaning Win10 1903 cumulative update-returned component parts
- Upgrade:
- Installer: Chinese Simplified translation
- Components: ‘Unified Telemetry Client (Asimov)’ renamed to ‘Telemetry Client’
- UI-Translation: Thanks for French (tistou77)
- Fix:
- Components: ‘Windows Media Player 32-bit’ removal could cause errors when WMP 64 is opening videos from File Explorer
- Components: ‘Unified Telemetry Client’ removal could break Search tray UI in Win10 1903 image
- Components: ‘Unified Telemetry Client’ removal could break ‘Program Compatibility Assistant Service’ in Win10 1903 image
New in NTLite 1.8.0.6942 (May 22, 2019)
- Upgrade:
- Update-Installer: Binaries signed by the official certificate
- Fix:
- Components: Windows Remote Management (WS-Management) breaking 1903 CU install on reboot 98%
- Components: 1809 removed components were returning on CU install (1903 still does, by Windows design, post-cleanup will be implemented)
- Updates: 1903(.30) Clean Updates (Complete) could break CU install (same for DISM full reset base, that one is by Windows design)
- Updates: 1809v2(.379) Clean Updates (Complete) could cause BSOD on latest CU install
- Features: Already installed Feature On Demand uncheck/recheck was unnecessarily prompting for packages
New in NTLite 1.8.0.6930 (May 15, 2019)
- New:
- Features: ‘Features On Demand (Capabilities)’ adding and removing support on the Features page
- Upgrade:
- UI-Translation: Thanks for Chinese Simplified (Gskening), Turkish (SALiH DRD)
- Fix:
- Components: ‘Internet Explorer’ removal could break setting the default browser
- Components: ‘Windows Media Player’ feature disabling would make it undetectable for removal
- Components: ‘RDP Client’ removal in Win10 1903 Home could break a cumulative update install
New in NTLite 1.7.5.6842 (Apr 5, 2019)
- New:
- Source: Windows RT (ARM 32-bit) basic loading support (no official support)
- Components: ‘Netflix’ compatibility option
- Upgrade:
- Settings: Toggling Settings and Unattended page values with a single click, with color state indicators
- Source: AOMEI Backupper load boot.wim support
- Components-1903: CDPUser and Error Reporting services removal does not need live lock any more
- UI-Translation: Thanks for Dutch (René), Turkish (SALiH DRD)
- Fix:
- UI: Checking for updates no longer blocks UI
- UI: Source page UI lists weren’t properly refreshing in certain multimonitor scaling situations
- Updates: update.mum (extracted CAB) integration handling
- Components: ‘Gaming Peripherals’ and ‘Input Processors’ leftovers
- Components: Win8.1 ‘Unified Telemetry Client’ leftovers after the latest rollups
- Source: Export/image file structure optimization was skipped if only non-deletable editions were on the image
New in NTLite 1.8.0.6842 Beta (Apr 5, 2019)
- New:
- Components-1903: ‘Agent Activation Runtime’
- Components-1903: ‘Cellular Time’
- Components-1903: ‘Credential Enrollment Manager’
- Components-1903: ‘Device Association Broker’
New in NTLite 1.8.0.6840 Beta (Apr 3, 2019)
- New:
- Components-1903: ‘Agent Activation Runtime’
- Components-1903: ‘Cellular Time’
- Components-1903: ‘Credential Enrollment Manager’
- Components-1903: ‘Device Association Broker’
New in NTLite 1.7.5.6840 (Apr 3, 2019)
- New:
- Source: Windows RT (ARM 32-bit) basic loading support (no official support)
- Components: ‘Netflix’ compatibility option
- Upgrade:
- Settings: Toggling Settings and Unattended page values with a single click, with color state indicators
- Source: AOMEI Backupper load boot.wim support
- Components-1903: CDPUser and Error Reporting services removal does not need live lock any more
- UI-Translation: Thanks for Dutch (René)
- Fix:
- UI: Checking for updates no longer blocks UI
- UI: Source page UI lists weren’t properly refreshing in certain multimonitor scaling situations
- Updates: update.mum (extracted CAB) integration handling
- Components: ‘Gaming Peripherals’ and ‘Input Processors’ leftovers
- Components: Win8.1 ‘Unified Telemetry Client’ leftovers after the latest rollups
- Source: Export/image file structure optimization was skipped if only non-deletable editions were on the image
New in NTLite 1.7.4.6790 (Mar 20, 2019)
- NEW:
- Downloader: Proxy support, enter credentials in File-Settings
- UPGRADE:
- Source: Architecture handling rewritten, enables test ARM64 support preview
- Source: Loading image edition directly that needs to be converted will keep all editions
- UI: Yes and No to all options for components checking prompts (instead of just Skip all)
- UI-Translation: Thanks for Korean (Redrabbit), Farsi (Mona mon)
- FIX:
- Source: Propagating tasks from boot.wim to install.esd could crash the tool
- Source: Expand state remembered for unmounted install images
- Components: ‘Diagnostics’ removal was breaking directory ownership popup in Explorer
- Components: ‘Media Player’ preset loading could recheck it
- Components: TaskHostW could be crashing after a specific removal combination
- Unattended: Autofill selects first available image language if the host language is absent
- Post-setup: Error messages with % sign could cause a crash
New in NTLite 1.8.0.6790 Beta (Mar 20, 2019)
- Stable branch maintenance merge
New in NTLite 1.8.0.6761 Beta (Mar 12, 2019)
- Stable branch maintenance merge
New in NTLite 1.7.3.6761 (Mar 11, 2019)
- General: Temporarily removed expired tool certificate (blocked by admin popup)
New in NTLite 1.8.0.6760 Beta (Feb 19, 2019)
- New:
- Components: ‘Cumulative Update cache’
- Components: ‘Desktop image downloader’
- Components: ‘Packet Monitor (PktMon)’
- Components: ‘PIN sign-in support’
- Components: ‘System Reset for Windows’
New in NTLite 1.7.3.6760 (Feb 19, 2019)
- New:
- Source: Windows 10 Preview 20H1 build 18336 support
- Source: Unload all mounted images in a folder option
- Unattended: Disable mode, to remove any unattended settings from the image
- Unattended: Autofill ‘Windows PE’ sub-option, sets only the boot segment with host choices
- Components: ‘Text Services Framework (MSCTF)’ – 64 and 32 bit
- Components: ‘Microsoft Edge’ compatibility option
- Settings: ‘Action Center’
- Settings: ‘Typing insights’
- Upgrade:
- Components: ‘Windows Performance Recorder’ split from ‘Performance Counters’
- UI: Preset file operations unlocked during processing and loading
- UI-Translation: Thanks for Turkish (SALiH DRD), Spanish (Oleada), Russian (Den-s),
- Portuguese-Brasil (Igor), Italian (gabritb01), French (tistou77), Dutch (René),
- Chinese Traditional (Matt), Chinese Simplified (Gskening), Arabic (thamermousa)
- Fix:
- Source: Host Refresh crash if using ESD image
- Components: Win10 1803 IE removal breaking ms-settings shortcuts after a CU update
- Components: Win10 1903 ‘Display Policy Service’ removal Settings – Display crash
- Components: DISM full Rebase had issues after some removals
- Components: ‘UAC’ and ‘Input Service’ 64 bit removal could break 1809 setup
- Components: VMware Guest compatibility removed (not necessary at this point)
- Updates: .NET 3.5 template 32 bit detection
- UI: boot.wim Settings applying in certain situations not going to 100%
New in NTLite 1.8.0.6717 Beta (Feb 5, 2019)
- New:
- Components: Text Services Framework (MSCTF)
- Components-1903: ‘Display Policy Service’
- Upgrade:
- Components: ‘Input Service’ removes more
New in NTLite 1.7.2.6717 (Feb 5, 2019)
- New:
- Source: Windows 10 Preview 1903 build 18329 support
- Upgrade:
- Components: ‘VMware Guest’ compatibility option
- Components: ‘Push Notifications Service’ removes more
- Components: Removed ‘UAC’ from ‘Store’ and ‘OOBE’ compatibilities
- Components: Removed ‘Radio Management’ from ‘WLAN’ compatibility
- UI-Translation: Thanks for French (tistou77), Turkish (SALiH DRD)
- Fix:
- Components: Various SFC errors after removals
- Components: Better cumulative update support after removals for a DISM rebased image
New in NTLite 1.7.2.6703 (Jan 29, 2019)
- New:
- Source: Windows 10 Preview 1903 build 18323 support
- Upgrade:
- Updates: Allowing ‘Get Latest Updates’ on secondary instances of this tool
- General: Settings are now applied before Update Cleanup (enables DISM full rebase if set)
- Components: ‘Windows Update’ moved under ‘WinSxS Database’, for more flexibility in trimming ‘WinSxS’
- UI-Translation: Thanks for French (tistou77), Turkish (SALiH)
- Fix:
- UI: Host Refresh wizard could stop after making the ISO, before the actual setup initialization
- Updates: Update cleanup had leftovers, now improved while maintaining the better cumulative update compatibility
- Components: Cumulative Update compatibility improved on refreshed lite ISOs (e.g. 1809.107)
- Components: Minor SFC scannow fixes
- Components: ‘Spell Checking’ removal was breaking the Group Policy editor filter
- Components: ‘Enterprise Data Protection’ removal could hang ‘Preparing Windows’ on Win10 1511
New in NTLite 1.7.2.6680 (Jan 14, 2019)
- UPGRADE:
- Components: ‘Connected Devices Platform User Service’ split from ‘CDPSVC’
- Components: ‘Problem Reports and Solutions Control Panel Support’ split from ‘Windows Error Reporting’
- UI: Existing ISO file overwrite warning added to the Apply preview
- UI: Allowing adding latest online updates during a Host Refresh session
- UI-Translation: Thanks for French (tistou77), Russian (Den-s), Arabic (thamermousa), Chinese Simplified (Gskening), Greek (Soulimiotis)
- FIX:
- Components: RuntimeBroker errors after some removals (mostly 19H1 Preview)
- Components: ‘People’ app removal wasn’t hiding the tray option
- Components: ‘Store’ live removal was leaving an empty stuck taskbar shortcut
- Components: ‘Remote Desktop Server’ removal breaking live cumulative update post-reboot
- Components: Apps could be crashing if IE and Edge both were removed
- Source: boot.wim loading could hang
- Registry: Integration of a unicode REG file support
New in NTLite 1.8.0.6650 Beta (Dec 12, 2018)
- Stable branch maintenance merge
New in NTLite 1.7.1.6650 (Dec 12, 2018)
- NEW:
- UI: Command line parameters support (see ntlite.exe /?)
- UPGRADE:
- Components: ‘Servicing Stack (DISM)’ compatibility option (explicit switch as was keeping the ‘Windows Update’ component)
- UI-Translation: Thanks for Italian (gabritb01), Korean (Redrabbit), Farsi (Mona mon), Chinese Traditional (Matt), Dutch (René),
- French (tistou77), Portuguese-Brasil (Igor), Turkish (SALiH)
- FIX:
- Components: Win7 ‘Accessibility Tools’ removal breaking ‘On-Screen Keyboard’
- Components: Win7 ‘Human Interface Service’ removal Hid.dll error
- Downloader: Checking updates was resetting the filter row
- UI-Source: Preset name sorting was disabling Preset toolbar buttons
New in NTLite 1.7.1.6630 (Dec 3, 2018)
- Post-setup: Duplicate entries in some situations
New in NTLite 1.8.0.6630 Beta (Dec 3, 2018)
- Stable branch maintenance merge
New in NTLite 1.7.1.6623 (Nov 29, 2018)
- Fix:
- Components: Improved 1809 Windows Update compatibility after removals
- Components: .NET Cache component removal leftovers
- Components: ‘Printing’ removal in some cases breaking image installation
- Components: ‘Internet Explorer’ removal breaking Edge
- Components: ‘Photo Codec’ removal breaking desktop and tray icons
- Components: ‘Windows Connection Manager’ breaking Settings – Network Center
- Components: Win7 ‘Sound Themes’ removal if default sounds kept
- Unattended: Post-setup page and SetupComplete are now allowing duplicate lines
- UI: File-Settings was disabled after processing
New in NTLite 1.8.0.6623 Beta (Nov 29, 2018)
- New:
- Components: ‘Device Guard’
New in NTLite 1.8.0.6593 Beta (Nov 14, 2018)
- FIX:
- Components: ‘COM+ Services’ removal was breaking VMWare setup and network adapter properties UI
New in NTLite 1.7.1.6593 (Nov 14, 2018)
- UPGRADE:
- Components: Win 8.1 ‘Windows Store’ split from ‘Core Metro Support’
- Components: ‘Remote Desktop Services ActiveX Client’ split back from ‘Remote Desktop Client’, needed for HyperV
- UI-Translation: Thanks for German (KrX), Italian (gabritb01), Arabic (thamermousa), Chinese Simplified (Gskening), Korean (Redrabbit)
- FIX:
- Components: ‘Mobile PC’ removal breaking ‘Windows Connection Manager’
- Components: ‘SMB Server Common’ removal was breaking ‘HyperV’
- Components: ‘Telemetry Client’ removal was breaking Store-updated ‘Mail’
- Components: ‘HyperV’ removal could break Visual Studio setup
- Components: Win 8.1 ‘Windows Search’ removal was breaking ‘Shell Search’
- UI: Blue text more readable in a dark theme
New in NTLite 1.8.0.6582 Beta (Oct 24, 2018)
- NEW:
- Components: ‘Component Services (COM+)’
- Components: ‘COM+ Event System’
- Components: ‘COM+ System Application’
- Components: ‘Corruption Verifier’
- Components: ‘Display Enhancement Service’
- Components: ‘Distributed Transaction Coordinator (DTC)’
- Components: ‘System Event Notification Service (SENS)’
- Components: ‘File Revocation Manager (32-bit)’
- Components: ‘Human Interface Device Service’
- Components: ‘WiFi Sync Provider’
- Components-RS5: ‘Clipboard User Service’
- Components-RS5: ‘USB UCSI driver’
- Components-RS5: ‘Time Travel Debugger (TTD)’
- Components-RS5: ‘Targeted Content service (32-bit)’
- Components-RS5: ‘Web Account Manager’
- UPGRADE:
- Components: ‘Time Broker’ service now removed with ‘Task Scheduler’
- Components: ‘Firewall’ moved outside of ‘Internet Connection Sharing’
- UI-Translation: Thanks for Chinese Traditional (Matt), Dutch (Rene), Farsi (Mohammad), French (tistou), Greek (Soulimiotis),
- Portuguese-Brasil (Igor), Russian (Den-s), Spanish (Oleada), Turkish (SALiH)
- FIX:
- Components: ‘Push Notifications’ detection in LTSB
- Components: ‘Store’ detection in 1809 LTSC
New in NTLite 1.7.1.6572 (Oct 18, 2018)
- New:
- Unattended: Optional ‘Computer name’ prompt during setup, select or type [Prompt] to enable it
- Upgrade:
- UI: ‘Removed files’ counter and image sizes now show hard links
- UI: Max number of tool instances increased to 2x of CPU threads
- UI-Translation: Thanks for French (tistou), Turkish (SALiH)
- Fix:
- Components: 1809’s new PSFX update format compatibility after removals (error 0x800f0982)
- Components: ‘Bitlocker’ removal breaking 1809 Cumulative Update install
- UI: Startup delay while checking temp folder permissions
- UI: Various minor UI fixes
New in NTLite 1.7.0.6545 (Oct 10, 2018)
- NEW:
- Tweaks: ‘Clipboard History’
- UI-Translation: Thanks for Turkish (SALiH)
- UPGRADE:
- Updates: 1809 Cumulative Update MSU support
- Components: ‘Map Control’ split from ‘Windows Maps’
- Components: Driver INFs without hardware IDs are now listed
- UI-Translation: Thanks for Chinese Simplified (Gskening)
- FIX:
- Components: ‘PDF Reader’ removal could cause ‘Edge’ crashing
- Components: ‘Passport’ removal was breaking ‘Security Center’
- Components: ‘RemoteFX’ still listed after removal if ‘HyperV Guest’ not removed
- Components-1809: ‘SNMP’ detection
- Components-1809: ‘Scanners’ detection
- Components-1809: Various removal leftovers
- Updates: Occational crash after updating, before Feature Config
- Downloader: Incomplete download could cause a crash
New in NTLite 1.7.0.6510 (Sep 19, 2018)
- NEW:
- Source: Win10 RS5 (1809) Build 17763 support (also many existing components were not detected)
- Source: Win10 Preview Build 18237 support
- Components: ‘Remote Desktop Licensing’
- UPGRADE:
- Components: ‘Encrypting File System (EFS)’ Feature split from the service (needed for RS5)
- UI-Language: Thanks for Korean (Redrabbit)
- FIX:
- Components: Unchecking ‘EVR’ fixed and reduced popups for tied components
- Components-Win10: ‘MobilePC Location’ component detection on RS4+
New in NTLite 1.7.0.6500 (Sep 12, 2018)
- New:
- Tweaks: Cortana – Activity recommendations when switching devices
- Tweaks: Cortana – Use my signed-in devices history
- Components: ‘Recovery Reset support’ compatibility option
- Components: ‘Nvidia driver setup installer’ compatibility option
- Components: ‘Spotify’ compatibility option
- Upgrade:
- Source: Windows 10 build 17755 RS5 preview support
- Components: Dynamic depenency linking among Apps
- Components: SMBv2 split into the Client and Server
- UI-Components: Unchecking master component will prompt before unchecking far dependees
- Fix:
- Components: ‘Mixed Reality’ removal was breaking ‘Sensor Data Service’
- Components: ‘Store’ removal was breaking ‘Sticky Notes’
- Components: ‘LockApp’ removal could break Start menu
- UI: Unattended-Join network could select both radio buttons at once
- UI: Minimized error prompt blocking view
New in NTLite 1.7.0.6440 Beta (Aug 16, 2018)
- Components: ‘Remote Desktop Services ActiveX Client’ split from ‘RDP Client’
- Components: ‘Input Processors’ split from ‘Input Service’
- Downloader: Now has a filter row for easier searching
- UI: Thanks for French (tistou), Dutch (Rene), Spanish (Oleada), Russian (Den-s), Chinese Traditional (Matt),
- Chinese Simplified (Gskening), Portuguese-Brasil (Igor), Greek (Soulimiotis), Farsi (Mona mon)
- Components-x64: Split some 32-bit counterparts
- ‘Browser window frame (IEFrame – 32-bit)’
- ‘Edge HTML core (32-bit)’
- ‘Input Service (32-bit)’
- ‘Internet Explorer (32-bit)’
- ‘Internet Explorer engine (32-bit)’
- ‘Photo codec (32-bit)’
- ‘Photo Viewer (32-bit)’
- ‘Windows Media Codec (32-bit)’
- ‘Windows Media Player (32-bit)’
- ‘WMP Network Sharing Service (32-bit)’
New in NTLite 1.6.3.6440 (Aug 16, 2018)
- New:
- Tweaks: ‘Recycle Bin – Display delete confirmation dialog’
- Tweaks-RS4: ‘Edge Desktop shortcut creation’
- Tweaks-RS4: ‘Defender Account Protection warning to use an MS Account’
- Fix:
- Components: ‘Containers’ removal was breaking an app download from the ‘Store’
- Updates: IE11 spelling and hyphenation CAB integration sorting (‘not applicable’ error)
New in NTLite 1.6.3.6400 (Aug 7, 2018)
- NEW:
- Tweaks: ‘Command Prompt in directory context menus’
- Tweaks: ‘Remote access to administrative shares’
- Tweaks: ‘Show People on the taskbar’
- Components: Manual option to permanently protect components in the settings.xml ‘LockComponents’
- UPDATE:
- Components: Disabling the Explorer warning “Indexing service not running” if Search is removed
- UI: Thanks for French (tistou), Chinese Simplified (Gskening)
- FIX:
- Components: ‘Tablet PC’ and ‘Telemetry Client’ removals were breaking the ‘Sticky Notes’ app
- Components: Driver removal better separates multiple versions of the same driver
New in NTLite 1.6.3.6373 (Jul 24, 2018)
- FIX:
- Updates-Win8.1: .NET 4.7.2 language pack sorting fix
- Components: ‘ICS’ removal was breaking Edge deployment
- Components: ‘Xbox App’ removal was breaking Solitaire
- ISO: KB4339277 extracted into the image folder would error out the ISO creation
- UPDATE:
- UI-Translation: Thanks for French (tistou), UI: Greek translation
- UI: Minor improvements
New in NTLite 1.7.0.6373 Beta (Jul 23, 2018)
- Tools: Download Updates
- Components: ‘Remote Desktop Licensing’
- Settings: Erase temporary directory options
New in NTLite 1.6.3.6240 (Jun 12, 2018)
- New:
- Source: Win10 RS5 17686 support
- Source: Load preset Overwrite/Append options
- Update:
- UI-Translation: Thanks for French (tistou)
- Fix:
- UI: Cancelling a second instance of the tool would crash on closing
New in NTLite 1.6.2.6220 (Jun 4, 2018)
- NEW:
- Updates: ‘Clean update backup’ split into modes (DISM, Compatible and Complete)
- Components: VPN support compatibility option
- UPDATE:
- UI: Light theme updated for more contrast
- UI-Translation: Thanks for French (tistou), Italian (gabritb01)
- FIX:
- Updates-1803: Error 87 could happen in some environments when integrating a cumulative update with configuring Features
- Updates-Win7: Platform update integration order improvement, solves some extra Windows Update detection
- Components-1083: ‘ICS’ removal could cause OOBE setup reboot
- Components-Win7: ‘DWM’ removal could cause a ‘dwmapi.dll’ setup error
- Components-Win7: Search removal was breaking Shell search
New in NTLite 1.6.1.6190 (May 14, 2018)
- New:
- Source: Edit image edition Name and Description in the context menu
- Updates: .NET Framework 3.5 template option (Add-Template)
- Update:
- UI-Translation: Thanks for Italian Installer (bovirus)
- Fix:
- Source: Delete edition was temporarily hanging the UI
- Components: Defender removal could remove the empty Run key, now protected for compatibility
New in NTLite 1.6.0.6174 (May 2, 2018)
- Fix:
- Updates-1803: Integration error 32 when combining KB4135051 and .NET CAB
- Components: ‘Spell Checking’ and ‘Windows Update’ removals were causing Settings Language Options crash
- Components: ‘Mail’ removal could break the time tray Calendar popup
- Components: ‘Storage Service’ removal was breaking the Settings Apps list
- Components: ‘Skype’ app had no calling sound after some removals
- Components: ‘User Data Storage’ removal could crash the Mail app
- Components: ‘TPM’ removal could break the Firewall and Defender control panels
- Components-1607: ‘Hyper-V Guest’ removal could break a cumulative update install
- Update:
- UI-Translation: Arabic and Chinese Simplified
New in NTLite 1.6.0.6146 (Apr 15, 2018)
- New:
- Settings-1709+: ‘Reopen my apps after an update or restart’
- Settings-1803: ‘Fullscreen optimizations’
- Upgrade:
- UI-Translation: Thanks for French (tistou), Chinese Traditional (Matt), Russian (Den-s)
- Fix:
- Updates: 1803 CU KB4100375 could popup an error after integration if used together with Adobe Flash update
- Unattended: Duplicate commands on repeat preset load could cause setup error
- Components-1803: Various leftovers
- Source: ESD compression now uses a number of cores instead of threads, for stability
- General: Multi-instance stability improvements in extreme scenarios
New in NTLite 1.6.0.6122 (Apr 4, 2018)
- Upgrade:
- UI-Translation: Thanks for Arabic (thamermousa), Farsi (Mona mon), Italian (gabritb01)
- Fix:
- Source: 1803 RS4 Enterprise edition crucial package not detected message
- UI: Export progress during ESD to WIM conversion
New in NTLite 1.6.0.6120 (Apr 3, 2018)
- New:
- Component-RS4: ‘System Guard’
- Component-RS4: ‘OpenSSH’
- Component-RS4: ‘Task View’
- Component: ‘Print Workflow Service’
- Settings: ‘Show me suggested content in the Settings app’
- Settings: ‘Let Windows collect my activities from this PC (‘Timeline’)’
- Settings: Refreshed RS4 privacy options
- Upgrade:
- Source: Win10 RS4 17133 support
- Components: ‘Shell Search’ compatibility (‘Language pack setup’ offline removal unlocked)
- UI-Translation: Thanks for German (KrX), French (tistou), Korean (Redrabbit), Chinese Traditional (Matt),
- Farsi (Mona mon), Portugues-Brasil (Igor), Spanish (Oleada), Arabic (thamermousa),
- Chinese Simplified (Gskening and jockeysoft), Dutch (Rene), Italian (gabritb01)
- Fix:
- Components: ‘Tablet PC’ and ‘Diagnostics’ leftovers
- Components: ‘Push Notifications’ removal was causing Edge download crash
New in NTLite 1.6.0.6105 Beta (Mar 27, 2018)
- NEW:
- Component: ‘Encrypting File System (EFS)’
New in NTLite 1.5.0.6105 (Mar 27, 2018)
- NEW:
- Settings: ‘Accent Color (LogonUI)’
- UPGRADE:
- Source: Win10 RS4 17128 support
- Components: ‘Storage Service’ in Win10 polished and unlocked as safer to remove
- FIX:
- Components: Photos could autoclose after being removed and reinstalled from Store
- Components: LTSB image Windows Store detection
- Components: SFC removal was breaking VC-runtimes in Windows 7
- Components: EventLog removal could cause an OOBE loop in Win10 14393
- Components: ‘Language Pack setup’ removal made live only, breaks Settings-search if removed from image
- Components: Scanner drivers were protected from removal if Printing kept
- Settings: ‘Accent Color’ on images, Windows setup resets the value
- UI: Export progress bar could show incorrect values when multiple images were processed in sequence
- UI: Image Tasks checkboxes were not set correctly initially
New in NTLite 1.5.0.6080 (Mar 5, 2018)
- Upgrade:
- UI: Preset list header clickable for sorting by name
- UI: Better progress bar behavior when exporting multiple editions and preparing data
- Fix:
- Post-setup: There could be command reordering mismatches after reloading previously edited image
- Components: Snapping tool removal was breaking OneNote (Desktop Experience missing message)
- Components: Removing Maps or Printing were breaking the Photos app
- Components: MiracastView removal could cause a long lasting blank screen on logon after 1607 CU install
- Components: Now allowing printer drivers removal if Printing and Windows Update kept (updating support balancing)
- Components: Containers removal could break Sysprep
- UI: Windows versions listed like before, in pre-RS4 (e.g. Windows 10 Pro instead of Windows Professional)
New in NTLite 1.6.0.6080 Beta (Mar 5, 2018)
New in NTLite 1.5.0.6025 (Feb 12, 2018)
- New:
- Settings: ‘Display the lock screen’
- Settings: ‘Display last user name in logon screen’
- Settings: ‘Use classic logon’
- Components: ‘Volume Shadow Service API’
- Upgrade:
- Source: Win10 RS4 17093 support
- UI-Translation: Thanks for French (tistou), Korean (Redrabbit), Chinese Traditional (Matt), Farsi (Mona mon),
- Portugues-Brasil (Igor), Spanish (Oleada), Arabic (thamermousa), Chinese Simplified (Gskening and jockeysoft),
- Dutch (Rene), Italian (gabritb01)
- Fix:
- Components: Bluetooth removal was breaking Windows Mobile Hotspot Service
- Components: Bitlocker removal could break cumulative update in some cases
- Unattended: CopyProfile option was set in the wrong stage, non-functional
- Source: Crash could happen after saving the image
New in NTLite 1.5.0.5955 (Jan 24, 2018)
- Upgrade:
- UI-Translation: Thanks for Italian (gabritb01), Czech (Tom)
- Fix:
- Updates: Language package integration wasn’t applied to boot.wim
- Source: boot.wim image edition deletion protection with ‘Manual setup’ kept unlocked for optional removal
New in NTLite 1.5.0.5950 (Jan 22, 2018)
- Upgrade:
- Components: Split ‘Anti-Malware Scan Interface’ from ‘Defender’
- Components: Split ‘Windows NAT Driver’ from ‘HyperV’
- Fix:
- Drivers: Driver page selected Hardware List was not saved in a preset
- General: Multi-instance support improvements
- Components: TPM removal was breaking UEFI Shift+Reset boot menu
- Components: Dependency notes might contain listed duplicates
- Components: ‘Memory Diagnostic’ removal was breaking 1607 CU install
- Components: ‘IE Engine’ instead of ‘Internet Explorer UI’ is needed for MMC Extended View
- Components: ‘Search Shell’ removal could break OOBE at the end of Windows setup
New in NTLite 1.5.0.5855 (Dec 27, 2017)
- UPGRADE:
- Settings: Added Expand/Collapse buttons
- FIX:
- Components: Win7 Shell Search removal was breaking Libraries
- Components: Loading preset after opening compatibilities was crashing
- Drivers: Inserting drivers from a directory named windows* would not show anything
- Post-setup: Adding second Command through the UI would do nothing, false duplicate detection
- UI: Tool visual style was not properly saved between restarts
New in NTLite 1.5.0.5840 (Dec 18, 2017)
- Upgrade:
- Source: Windows 10 RS4 17046 support
- Source: O&O Bluecon v15 boot.wim support
- Components: WinSxS Component Store removal includes update packages
- Fix:
- Post-Setup: Command sorting could be mixed on some preset loads
- Post-Setup: Command applying would not indicate progress in identical commands with different parameters
- Components: Win10 1607 ‘Firewall’ and ‘Performance counters’ removals were breaking Metro UI
- Components: Win7 Search removal was breaking library shortcuts
New in NTLite 1.5.0.5790 (Nov 27, 2017)
- New:
- Components-Win10: ‘Data Sharing Service’
- Components-Win10: ‘Local Profile Assistant Service’
- Components-Win10: ‘Network Data Usage Monitoring Driver’
- UI-Settings: Local Machine and Users merged into a single Settings page
- Settings: ‘Accent color’
- Settings: ‘Accent color on inactive title bars’
- Settings: ‘Always show more details in a file copy dialog’
- Settings: ‘Dark theme for apps’
- Settings: ‘Show accent color on Start, taskbark and action center’
- Settings: ‘Show accent color on title bars’
- Settings: ‘Immersive context menu’
- Upgrade:
- Components: ‘Portable Device Enumerator Service’ split from ‘Portable Devices’
- Components: ‘Windows Mail Communications DLL’ moved outside of ‘Sync Host’ to preserve MHT compat
- Components: Activation KMS compatibility split
- Components: ‘Appx Deployment Service’ unlocked for removal, does not break start menu any more
- Components: ‘Firewall Service’ split for Win7 too, live removal only, fixes setup error in certain situations
- UI-Components: service names can be used to find the underlying component
- UI: Translator name and email added to the File – Settings
- UI-Translation: Thanks for French (tistou), Dutch (Rene), Spanish (Oleada), Farsi (Mona mon), Arabic (thamermousa), Chinese Simplified (Gskening and jockeysoft), Chinese Traditional (Matt), Portugues-Brasil (Igor)
- Fix:
- Components: ‘SNMP’ leftovers
- Components: ‘TPM’ removal, cumulative update install fix
New in NTLite 1.4.1.5741 (Nov 14, 2017)
- Components: Build 5740 issue removing services on Win8.1, recommended update for all OS versions
New in NTLite 1.5.0.5740 Beta (Nov 14, 2017)
- NEW:
- Components: “NetBIOS over TCP transport”
- Components: “TCP/IP NetBIOS Helper”
- Components: ‘Battery’
- Components: ‘Universal Notification Platform (UNP)’
- Config: ‘Extra Services’ page added, shows and edits hidden and driver services
- UPGRADE:
- UI: nicer dialogs and page transitions
New in NTLite 1.4.1.5740 (Nov 14, 2017)
- Upgrade:
- Unattended: Localized ‘Administrator’ account enabling support
- Components: ‘Sync Host – Additional languages’ split from ‘Sync Host’
- Post-setup: All file types allowed as non-executables, passive type (copied only)
- UI-Updates: Better displayed name for some updates, like the Adobe Flash update
- UI-Components: Prompt for rechecking sub-components now has a ‘Skip all’ option
- UI-Translation: Thanks for Chinese Simplified (Gskening and jockeysoft), Chinese Traditional (Matt), German (KrX), Arabic (thamermousa), Portugues-Brasil (Igor), Farsi (Mona mon), French (tistou), Russian (Den-s), Spanish (Oleada), Italian (gabritb01), Dutch (Rene)
- Fix:
- Source: ESD conversion setup.wim.wim error
- Config: ‘Restore Photo Viewer’ preset saving
- Components: ‘Sticky Notes’ removal was breaking ‘Maps’ app
- Components: ‘Store’ sign-in requirement for ‘AAD Broker Plugin’ removed
- Components: ‘Speech Recognition’ removal was breaking ‘On-Screen Keyboard’
- Components: Driver class automatically protected if a driver of that class is protected
- Components-RS3: Leftovers for ‘User Data Access service’, ‘Containers’, ‘Windows Media Codec’, ‘Defender’, ‘Zip folder’
New in NTLite 1.5.0.5675 Beta (Oct 25, 2017)
- New:
- Components-Win10: ‘Assigned Access’
- Components-Win10: ‘Enterprise Data Protection (EDP/WIP)’
- Components-Win10: ‘Input Service’
- Components-Win10: ‘Phone Service’
- Components-Win10: ‘Spell Checking’
- Components-Win10RS2: ‘Payments and NFC/SE Manager’
- Components-Win10RS2: ‘WaaS Assessment’
- Components-Win10RS3: ‘Capability Access’
- Components-Win10RS3: ‘DirectX Warp JIT Service’
New in NTLite 1.4.1.5675 (Oct 25, 2017)
- Upgrade:
- Components: Auto-cleanup of pending Windows file renames in Live edit
- Components-Win10: ‘Edge’ removal could break setting default browser
- Components-Win10RS3: ‘Diagnostics’ removes ‘Diagnostic Execution Service’
- Components-Win10RS3: ‘Sounds’ removes more
- Components-Win10RS3: ‘Windows Mail/CommunicationApps’ leftovers
- Components-Win10RS3: ‘.NET WPF’ leftovers
- Components: ‘.NET WPF Core’ split for Kaspersky UI and potentially others
- Components-Win8.1: ‘HyperV’ leftovers
- Presets: Right-click Open file location for presets
- UI-Translation: Thanks for Spanish (Oleada), Dutch (Rene), Farsi (Mona mon), French (tistou), Arabic (thamermousa), Chinese Simplified (Gskening), Chinese Traditional (Matt), Portugues-Brasil (Igor), Spanish International (Eduardo), Italian (gabritb01)
- Fix:
- Components-Win10RS3: ‘Fax’ and ‘Internet Printing Client’ detection fixed
- Components-Win10RS3: ‘Edge Html’ removal could slow down MSC opening
- Components-Win10: ‘Containers’ removal could cause app start filter error
- Components-Win10: ‘Insider hub’ removal could break Store app download
- Updates-Win7: SP1 existing package detection fixed
- Sources: Expired feature subscription could cause skipped image saving
New in NTLite 1.4.1.5632 (Oct 4, 2017)
- Components-Win10RS3: ‘Wallet Service’ removal with “Wallet” app
- Components-Win10RS3 detection of components:
- ‘Push Notifications’
- ‘Application compatibility’
- ‘Device Association Service’
- ‘Windows Insider Hub’
- ‘Location Service’
- Missing Features like ‘Fax’ and ‘Internet Printing Client’
- Components: ‘SMB Server v1 & v2’ merged with ‘SMB v1 & v2’
- UI-Translation: Thanks for Spanish (Oleada)
New in NTLite 1.5.0.5625 Beta (Oct 2, 2017)
- New:
- Components: ‘System File Check (SFC)’
- Components: ‘Servicing Stack’
- Components: ‘Servicing Stack (WOW64)’
New in NTLite 1.4.1.5624 (Oct 2, 2017)
- New:
- Source: Win10RS3 build 16299 support
- Components-Win10RS3: ‘Guarded Host’
- Update:
- Components: ‘Windows Update’ leftovers
- Components: ‘EventLog Service’ added to Windows Update compatibility
- UI-Translation: Thanks for French (tistou)
- Fix:
- Components: Improved Win7 update compatibility after removals
New in NTLite 1.4.1.5590 (Sep 19, 2017)
- Update:
- UI-Translation: Thanks for French (tistou), German (KrX), Chinese Simplified (Gskening), Spanish (Oleada)
- Fix:
- Components: Improved cumulative update compatibility after removals
- Components: Win10 .NET WPF component detection
- Components: ‘Mixed Reality’ removal was breaking Edge Settings
- Components: ‘Printing’ removal was breaking 15063.608 CU install
New in NTLite 1.4.1.5565 (Sep 12, 2017)
- New:
- Post-setup: ‘Install VMware Tools’ template if VMWare detected on the host
- Unattended: Boot to Audit mode Reseal option for easier base image auditing
- Components-Win10: ‘Azure Active Directory’
- Update:
- Components: Defrag does not need Bitlocker for partition Shrink operation
- Components: ‘Microsoft Account’ and ‘Mixed Reality’ remove more
- Source: List mounted images even if parent directory is removed for easier cleanup using unload
- UI: Tooltips are displayed for a longer period of time
- UI: Showing elapsed processing time in the complete message
- UI-Translation: Thanks for Italian (gabritb01), Portugues-Brasil (Igor), French (tistou), Arabic (thamermousa)
- Fix:
- Components: Win7 components detection was missing ‘Dvd Maker’ and ‘Games’
- Components: ‘User Device Registration’ removal was breaking CU install on 1703 RTM
- Components: Fix for 14393 blank screen on logon after some removals
New in NTLite 1.4.0.5537 (Aug 28, 2017)
- Update:
- Source: More flexible ISO boot sector handling, support for Acronis and similar WinPE images
- UI-Translation: Thanks for Chinese Simplified (Gskening), Chinese Traditional
- Fix:
- Components-Win10: ClouldExperience removal, or Update Cleanup could cause WIFI settings page crash
- Components-Win10: Removing WWAN while keeping Provision would stuck setup on ‘Getting Ready’
New in NTLite 1.4.0.5525 (Aug 22, 2017)
- New:
- General: Win10 RS3 16257 build support
- Components: Windows Updates install support after removals
- Components: Win10 and 8.1 SFC scannow support after removals
- Components: Win10 and 8.1 DISM ScanHealth support after removals
- Components: ‘Picture password’
- Components-Win10: ‘Natural Authentication’
- Components-Win10: ‘Spatial Sound (3D Audio)’
- Components-Win10: ‘Isolated user mode’
- Tweaks: ‘DNS multi-homed name resolution’
- Tweaks: ‘DNS parallel name resolution’
- Tweaks: ‘DISM ResetBase functionality’
- Tweaks: IE ‘Enable Enhanced Protected Mode’
- Tweaks: IE ‘Enable 64-bit processes for Enhanced Protected Mode’
- Tweaks: Nvidia ‘Allow experience improvement program’
- Update:
- Updates: Win7 update cleanup now does ‘Seal Features’-like level of cleanup by default without breaking features config
- Components: Many components moved around due to Windows Update compatibility requirements
- Components: Auto-detection of pending file operations in Live editing (e.g. feature config prior to removals)
- Components: ‘Device Management Enrollment Service’ split, needed for OOBE
- Components: ‘Gaming Peripherals (Xbox GIP)’ split from ‘Xbox App’, needed for the controller
- Components: ‘PowerShell 2’ (legacy) split from ‘PowerShell’
- Components: ‘Shared Protection Point (SPP)’ and ‘BLB’ merged into ‘Windows Backup’ for simpler use
- Components: ‘ShellExperienceHost’ and ‘immersivecontrolpanel’ components listed, protected by default
- Unattended-Win10: ProtectYourPC changed to Skip ‘Get going fast’ page (Privacy options)
- Drivers: Better class + driver connections, now more classes are automatically tied as dependencies
- UI: Apply page Process button prompt has the option to skip the confirmation
- UI-Translation: Thanks for French, Chinese Simplified, Spanish, Russian and Ukrainian, Farsi
- Fix:
- Components: slmgr.vbs was dependent on ‘WMI Providers’
- Components: HotspotAuth leftovers for WLAN
- Components: ASP Net 4.7 name correction
- Components-Win8.1: Languages removal could cause black screen on logon
New in NTLite 1.4.0.5500 beta (Aug 8, 2017)
- New:
- Components: ‘Picture password’
- Components-Win10: ‘Natural Authentication’
- Components-Win10: ‘Spatial Sound (3D Audio)’
- Tweaks: ‘DISM ResetBase functionality’
- Update:
- Components-Win10: ‘VPN’, ‘Mixed reality’ and ‘Media Streaming’ leftovers
- Components-Win10RS3: Xbox GIP, POS and VPN detection
- UI-Translation: Thanks for Chinese Simplified (Gskening), French (tistou)
- Fix:
- Components: Language removals, SFC error
- Source: Win7 status bar updated version, was always showing SP1 build
New in NTLite 1.4.0.5484 beta (Aug 4, 2017)
- Components-Win8.1: Languages removal could cause setup error
- Components-Win8.1: ‘Core Metro Services’ removal caused setup error
New in NTLite 1.3.1.5060 (May 27, 2017)
- NEW:
- Unattended: Skip Welcome Center (SkipUserOOBE), Skip Windows Welcome (SkipMachineOOBE)
- Tweaks: ‘Quick access’
- Tweaks: ‘Show frequently used folders in Quick access’
- Tweaks: ‘Show recently used files in Quick access’
- Tweaks: ‘Open File Explorer to’
- Tweaks: ‘Hide folder merge conflicts’
- Tweaks: ‘Use Sharing Wizard’
- Tweaks: ‘Show recently opened items in Jump Lists on Start or the taskbar’
- Tweaks: ‘Let Microsoft provide more tailored experiences with relevant tips and recommendations by using your diagnostic data’
- Tweaks: ‘Include drivers with Windows Updates’
- Tweaks: Prompt ‘Windows Update is on its way’ message
- Components-Compatibility: ‘Samsung Switch’ protection option
- UI-Translation: Thanks for Czech (Tom)
- UPDATE:
- Components: ‘Edge HTML core’ split from ‘IE Engine’
- Components: Moved ‘Windows Update’ under ‘Windows Component Store’
- UI-Translation: Thanks for Arabic (thamermousa), Chinese Traditional (Matt), Farsi (Mona mon), French (tistou),
- Italian (gabritb01), Spanish (Oleada)
- FIX:
- Components-Win8.1: ‘Core Metro Services’ removal login issue
- Components-Win10: Sysprep generalize error after some app removals
- Components-Win10: Skip error prompt if connected online while installing
- Components-Win10.1703.332: ‘Bitlocker’ causing WinSetup.dll error during install
- Source: Server 2008 R1 Core image loading
New in NTLite 1.3.0.5024 (Apr 27, 2017)
- Upgrade:
- Components-Win10RS2: ‘Paint 3D’ split from ‘Paint’
- Fix:
- Components-Win10RS2: ‘Windows Search’ removal was having the ‘sihost.exe’ logon error
- Features: Auto-saved preset was saving all features as enabled when using ‘Install Updates wizard’
New in NTLite 1.3.0.5020 (Apr 25, 2017)
- New:
- Components-Win10RS2: ‘Devices Flow’
- Components-Win10RS2: ‘Wi-Fi Direct Services Connection Manager Service’
- Components-Win10RS2: ‘Windows Mixed Reality’
- Tweaks-Win10RS2: ‘Replace Command Prompt with Windows PowerShell in the start button right-click menu’
- Tweaks-Win10RS2: ‘Use Hotspot 2.0 Online Sign-Up to get connected’
- Upgrade:
- Components-Win10RS2: Associated Settings pages of the removed components are now hidden upon removal
- Components-Win10: ‘User Data Storage and Access services’ was split into ‘User Data Access’, ‘User Data Storage’ and ‘Contact Data’
- Components: gpedit.msc does not need ‘WMI Core’ any more
- UI-Translation: Thanks for French (tistou), Chinese Simplified (Gskening and jockeysoft), Arabic (thamermousa), Spanish (Oleada), Portugues-Brasil (Igor)
- Fix:
- Components-Win10RS2: Live app removal was breaking Sysprep Generalize
- Components-Win10: ‘User Data Storage and Access services’ was breaking notifications
- Components-Win10: ‘Windows Reader’ is renamed to ‘Windows PDF Engine’
- Components: Leftovers for ‘Mobile Device Management’, ‘Media Streaming’, ‘Xbox App’, ‘Miracast’, ‘Paint’, ‘Point Of Service’
New in NTLite 1.2.2.4984 (Apr 11, 2017)
- NEW:
- Tweaks-Win10RS2: ‘Automatically install suggested apps’
- Tweaks-Win10RS2: ‘Get fun facts, tips, tricks, and more on your lock screen”
- Tweaks-Win10RS2: ‘Get tips, tricks, and suggestions as you use Windows’
- Tweaks-Win10RS2: ‘Occasionally show suggestions in Start’
- Tweaks-Win10RS2: ‘Pre-installed apps’
- Tweaks-Win10RS2: ‘Pre-installed OEM apps’
- Tweaks-Win10RS2: ‘Show me Windows welcome experience after updates’
- Tweaks-Win10RS2: ‘Windows lock screen spotlight’
- UPGRADE:
- Components-Win10RS2: ‘System Resource Usage Monitoring’ removes more and renamed to ‘Data Usage service’
- UI-Translation: Thanks for French (tistou), Spanish (Oleada), Arabic (thamermousa)
- FIX:
- Components-Win10RS2: ‘Camera Framework Server’ removal was breaking ‘Voice Recorder’
- Components-Win10RS2: ‘Radio Management’ added to WLAN Compatibility
- Components-Win10RS2: ‘Tablet PC’ removal was breaking ‘Sticky Notes’
- Components-Win10RS2: ‘WindowsMaps’ removal was crashing Settings ‘Change where new content is saved’
New in NTLite 1.3.0.4984 Beta (Apr 11, 2017)
- FIX:
- Components-Win10RS2: ‘Insiders Hub’ removal was breaking Store download
- Source: ‘Host Refresh wizard’ continue button was disabled in a certain situation
New in NTLite 1.2.1.4970 (Apr 3, 2017)
- NEW:
- General: Windows 10 1703 (10.0.15063 – Redstone 2) ‘Creators Update’ support
- Tweaks-Win10RS2: ‘Let Windows track app launches to improve Start and search results’
- Tweaks-Win10RS2: ‘Let apps use Tasks’
- Tweaks-Win10RS2: ‘Let apps access diagnostic information’
- Tweaks-Win10RS2: ‘Let apps run in the background’
- UPGRADE:
- UI-Translation: Thanks for Spanish, Chinese Simplified
- FIX:
- Components-Win7: ‘prnms001.inf’ removal fix (now lists both versions of the file)
- Components-Win10: ‘Task Scheduler’ leftovers
- Components-Win10: ‘Windows Store’ removal was breaking Edge (autoclosed itself)
- Components-Win10RS2: ‘App Readiness’ locked to Live only
New in NTLite 1.3.0.4944 Beta (Mar 21, 2017)
- New:
- Components: “Windows Management Instrumentation” Providers, Core and Service
- Components: “Optional Features”
- Components: “VPN Support”
- Upgrade:
- Components: “EAP” leftovers, removed from WLAN compatibility
- Fix:
- Components: “EAP” removal was breaking Settings-Network
New in NTLite 1.2.1.4944 (Mar 21, 2017)
- New:
- Tweaks-Win10RS2: “Show sync provider notifications”
- Upgrade:
- UI-Translation: Thanks for Farsi (Mona mon), French (tistou), Italian (gabritb01), Arabic (thamermousa)
- Fix:
- Components-Win7: Disk cleanup updates, was stuck after some removals
- Tweaks: “On resume, display logon screen” type fixed
New in NTLite 1.2.1.4916 (Mar 8, 2017)
- NEW:
- General: Win10 Insider Preview 15048 support
- Tweaks: ‘Privacy’ options for OOBE and Settings, Users and Machine (helpful for fully unattended scenarios)
- Tweaks: ‘Automatic update of the root certificate trust list’
- Tweaks: ‘Automatic update of the speech models’
- Tweaks: ‘Collect application inventory’
- Tweaks: ‘Delivery Optimization’
- Tweaks: ‘Include Malicious Software Removal Tool updates’
- Tweaks: ‘OneDrive’ enable/disable
- Tweaks: ‘Windows Defender’ enable/disable
- UPGRADE:
- Components: Moved ‘Windows Apps’ to a dedicated branch
- Components: ‘Proximity’ added to Store compatibility
- UI-Translation: Thanks for French (tistou), German (KrX and Sebastian), Dutch (Rene), Farsi (Mona mon), Chinese Simplified (Gskening and jockeysoft), Portugues-Brasil (Igor), Chinese Traditional (Matt)
- FIX:
- Fix: Telephony removal was breaking People and Calendar apps
New in NTLite 1.3.0.4916 Beta (Mar 8, 2017)
- NEW:
- Components: ‘Active Directory’
- Components: ‘App Readiness’
- Components: ‘Browser window frame (IEFrame)’ split from IE Engine
- Components: ‘Device Association Service’
- Components: ‘DevQuery Background Discovery Broker’
- Components: ‘Event Tracing for Windows (ETW)’
- Components: ‘Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP)’
- Components: ‘Interactive Services Detection’
- Components: ‘Network Connected Devices Auto-Setup’
- Components: ‘Performance Counters’
- Components: ‘Performance Logs and Alerts’
New in NTLite 1.3.0.4830 Beta (Feb 13, 2017)
- New:
- Apply: Image Tasks (easily automate tasks across other editions)
- Source: Delete edition context menu option
- Drivers: Live driver install
- Components: ‘IKE and AuthIP IPsec Keying Modules’
- Components: ‘Windows Image Resource (SysWOW64)’
- Components-Win10: ‘Storage Tiers Management’
- Components-Win10: ‘KMS Connection Broker’
- Components-Win10: ‘Windows Insider Hub’
- Upgrade:
- Apply: Page redesigned to accomodate Image Tasks, toolbar options moved to Updates and Drivers
New in NTLite 1.2.0.4830 (Feb 13, 2017)
- Upgrade:
- UI-Translation: German, Dutch, French, Italian, Chinese Traditional, Portugues-Brasil, Chinese Simplified, Polish
- Fix:
- Source: ESD conversion from Win7 as a host
- Components: ‘Accessibility OSK’ SystemWOW64 leftovers
- Components: ‘Help Wizard’ leftovers
- Components: Driver removal in a second session after ‘Component Store’ removal
- Components: Moved ‘Windows Defender’ in live removal as last to reduce slowdown after
- Components-Win10: ‘Windows Reader’ detection
- Components-Win10-LTSB2016: ‘Hyper-V’ removals was breaking OOBE
New in NTLite 1.2.0.4755 (Jan 27, 2017)
- UPGRADE:
- Components-Win7: UAC removal enabled, live only
- Updates: new KBs support, Win7 recommended stack to KB3177467 only
- UI-Translation: Thanks for Dutch (Rene)
- FIX:
- Components: big delay at the end of removals in certain combinations
- Components-Win10: OneDrive leftover with 14393.726 cumulative
New in NTLite 1.2.0.4750 (Jan 24, 2017)
- NEW:
- Source: Server 2016 support (integration, config and automation)
- UPGRADE:
- Source: Win10 Insider build 15014 support
- Features: Win10 image Hyper-V feature can be configured on Win7 as a host
- Updates-Win7: WMF 5.1 (KB3191566) integration support
- UI-Translation: French, Italian, Ukranian
- FIX:
- Source: Exporting from a read-only mounted ISO was causing error 5
- Post-Setup: MSI parameter was locked to /passive
- Components-Win7-HomeBasic: Wallpapers were not detected
- Components-Win10: MSAccount removal was breaking start menu
- Components: Custom file protection now includes WinSxS folder as well
New in NTLite 1.2.0.4680 (Jan 2, 2017)
- Upgrade:
- Source: Flags ‘none’ image load support
- Source: Error 18 mount error auto-fix prompt
- Presets: Component-saved XML entries now have display name next to it
- Fix:
- Win7-Chinese: ‘Market Themes’ was not detected
New in NTLite 1.2.0.4660 (Dec 19, 2016)
- New:
- General: Win10 Preview build 14986 support
- Config-Machine: ‘Allow Telemetry’
- Config-Machine-Win10: ‘Allow Experimentation’
- Config-Machine-Win10: ‘Allow Location’
- Components: ‘Windows Activation’ compatibility option
- Update:
- Components: ‘Windows Store’ compatibility option includes more components
- UI-Translation: Thanks for French (tistou), Russian (Den-s), Portugues-Brasil (Igor), Chinese Simplified (Gskening and jockeysoft)
- Fix:
- Components: ‘Hyper-V’ removal was blocking Netlogon service start
- Components: ‘WWAN’ removal could cause Store app crash
- Components: ‘WCN’ removal was causing Settings crash on accessing WPS-enabled WLAN
- Components: ‘Mobile Device Management’ removal was breaking ‘netsh wlan’ command
- Components: ‘SMB witness’ leftovers
New in NTLite 1.2.0.4550 (Nov 21, 2016)
- New:
- Tweaks: ‘Restore Windows Photo Viewer’ option
- Upgrade:
- Tweaks-Win10: Disabling of Consumer Experience now works post the 1607 upgrade
- Fix:
- Source: listing of some custom captured WIMs wasn’t working
- Source: now also listing moved, previously mounted images, unloading solves stuck image directories
- Components: removal of some previously integrated drivers was not working, e.g. Intel NVMe
New in NTLite 1.2.0.4510 (Nov 7, 2016)
- Upgrade:
- Updates: Automatic boot.wim setup.exe refresh on update
- UI-Translation: Thanks for Chinese Simplified (Gskening and jockeysoft), Chinese Traditional (Matt), French (tistou), German (KrX), Dutch (Rene), Portugues-Brasil (Igor), Italian (gabritb01)
- Fix:
- Updates-Win7: 32-bit servicing stack detection
- Components: Moved ‘Paint’ and ‘Wordpad’ under ‘UI Ribbon’ (dependency)
- Components-Win7: aepic.dll setup error on Telemetry removal
New in NTLite 1.2.0.4500 (Oct 31, 2016)
- NEW:
- Updates: Autodetection of Servicing Stack updates (important for auto-sort future compatibility)
- Source: ‘Verify image files’ option in File-Settings (speed or safety when it comes to WIM handling)
- Components: ‘USB 3G Modem’ and ‘Video Playback’ compatibility options
- UPGRADE:
- General: File handling is now more resilliant to antivirus interference during editing, and prompts on locked files
- General-Win10: Preview RS2 build 14955 support
- FIX:
- Source: Network share image fresh Mount + Load access error popup
- Components: Applying a Compatibility option was also re-checking sub-components of the protected parent
- Components-Win7: KB3185330 update was causing some leftovers
- Updates-Win7: KB943790 MSU now can be added to the list
New in NTLite 1.2.0.4453 (Oct 17, 2016)
- UPGRADE:
- Config-Services: Descriptions show related components
- Components: Internet Explorer Engine added to OOBE compatibility
- FIX:
- General: Load crash tied to duplicate drivers
- General: Temporary directory on a Ram Drive was not deleting some files
- Components: Group Policy Client removal could cause logon and UI delay
New in NTLite 1.2.0.4433 (Oct 11, 2016)
- Upgrade:
- General: Win10 ‘Preview’ build 14942 (RS2) support
- Fix:
- Components-Win10LTSB: ‘Xbox’ services removal detection
- Components-Win8.1: ‘Windows Update’ removal was blanking language list
- Components-Win7: Setup was aborting with certain removals and KB3102429-v2 integrated
New in NTLite 1.2.0.4400 (Oct 10, 2016)
- NEW:
- UI: Host Refresh wizard – easily update or change Windows 10 lite without re-installation
- UI: Install Updates wizard – quickly install already downloaded MSU and CAB updates
- Components: ‘SmartScreen’
- Components: ‘SMB Direct (RDMA)’
- Components: ‘Data Center Bridging (DCB)’
- Tweaks: ‘Show Task View button’
- CreateISO: SkipNonStdWimInISO settings.xml option to skip non-standard WIMs
- UI-Translation: Thanks for French, Italian, Dutch, German, Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional, Portugues-Brasil, Polish
- UPGRADE:
- Drivers: Existing driver detected on queue insertion
- Drivers: Integrated or installed 3rd-party drivers split into component per version
- UI: Source page toolbar split into tabs per category
- Components: Voice codec wmspdmod removed with ‘Media Codecs’
- Components-Win10: ‘Skype ORTC’ split from ‘Skype App’
- Components-Win10: Game bar removed with ‘Xbox App’
- Components-Win8: ‘Windows Store’
- Components-Win7: ‘Search shell’ split from ‘Windows Search’
- Components: Accessories components merged to other sections
- FIX:
- General: Image handling from a network share
- General: Crash on saving image
- Updates: Update Cleanup had driver leftovers
- Updates-Win8: Update Cleanup error 234
- Components: ‘Remote Desktop Server’ was breaking WMI Service dependency listing
- Components-Win7: ‘Cache and temp files’ detection
- Components-Win7: ‘IPsec Policy Agent’ removal was breaking netsh AdvFirewall
- Features-Win7: Desktop Gadget Platform state
New in NTLite 1.2.0.4210 Beta (Aug 25, 2016)
- NEW:
- Components: ‘Application Virtualization (App-V)’
- Components: ‘Camera Frame Server’
- Components: ‘Messaging Service’
- Components: ‘Microsoft Passport’
- Components: ‘NDIS User Mode I/O driver’
- Components: ‘Radio Management and Airplane Mode Service’
- Components: ‘Shared PC mode’
- Components: ‘SMS Router Service’
- Components: ‘Sync Host’
- Components: ‘UI Ribbon’
- Components: ‘User Data Access and Storage Services’
- Components: ‘User Experience Virtualization (UE-V)’
- Components: ‘Windows Subsystem for Linux’
New in NTLite 1.1.0.4210 (Aug 25, 2016)
- NEW:
- General: Win10 RS2 build 14905 support
- Unattended: ‘Compact’ destination OS option
- Components: ‘Containers’
- Tweaks: ‘On resume, display logon screen’
- UPGRADE:
- Updates: Update integration now processed before Features configuration
- Unattended: Product key split into setup and activation entries
- Components: ‘Windows Components Database and Store’ enabled for images as well
- Components: ‘Remote FX’ split from Remote Desktop Server and Client
- Components: ‘NDIS Packet Capturing (NDISCAP)’ split from Diagnostics
- Components-Win10-1607: ‘Shell Launcher’ leftovers. And merged to ‘Device Lockdown (Embedded Experience)’
- Components-Win10-1607: ‘Windows Time’ now also includes Auto Time Zone Updater service
- Components-Win10-1607: ‘Windows Defender’ leftovers
- Components-Win10-1607: ‘Telephony’ now also includes Phone Service
- Tweaks-Win10-1607: More service types displayed on the list
- UI-Translation: Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional, French, Ukranian, Dutch, Portugues-Brasil, German, Russian, Polish
- FIX:
- Updates: KB3133719 (Media Pack) MSU integration support
- Components-Win10-1607: ‘Workplace Join’ wasn’t listed
- Components-Win10-1607: Hyper-V start and switch creation fix depending on other removals
- Components-Win10-1607: Hyper-V guest removal was blocking Windows Time service startup
- Post-Setup: UI was crashing if adding and removing an empty command
New in NTLite 1.1.0 Build 4135 (Aug 9, 2016)
- New:
- Tweaks: ‘Automatic activation tweak’
- Tweaks-WIN10: ‘Automatically download device apps and icons’
- Tweaks-WIN10: ‘Update device drivers’
- Tweaks-WIN10-ENT: ‘Automatic installation of sponsored apps (Consumer Features)’
- Fix:
- Updates: IE11 dependency detection
- Components: ‘Windows Store’ removal could prevent activation
New in NTLite 1.1.0 Build 4115 (Aug 5, 2016)
- Fix:
- Components-Win10.1607: Hyper-V removal was causing setup failure
New in NTLite 1.1.0 Build 4105 (Aug 2, 2016)
- Upgrade:
- UI: Italian
- Fix:
- Updates-Win8.1: KB3173424 sorting
- Components-Win8.1: Windows Appx support removal loop at 99%
- Unattended: Autofill Computer Name was always in capital letters
New in NTLite 1.2.0 Build 4100 Beta (Jul 26, 2016)
- NEW:
- Components: ‘Boot Manager (PXE)’ boot.wim only
- Components: ‘Link-Layer Topology Discovery (LLTD)’
- Components: ‘Network Adapter Multiplexor Protocol’
- Components: ‘Quality of Service Packet Scheduler (QoS)’
- Components: ‘Remote Procedure Call (RPC) Locator’
- Components: ‘Shell Hardware Detection’
- Components: ‘User Device Registration’
- Components: ‘Windows Componentization Database’ (boot.wim and Live only)
- Components: ‘Windows Componentization Store (WinSxS)’ (boot.wim and Live only)
- Components: ‘Windows Symbolic Debugger Engine’
- Components-Win10: ‘Device Management’
- Components-Win10: ‘Mobile Device Management (MDM)’
- Components-Win10: ‘Storage Quality of Service (Storage QoS)’
- Components-Win10: ‘WAP Push Message Routing Service (dmwappushsvc)’
- Components-Win10: ‘Windows Provisioning’
- Components-Win10: ‘Windows Push Notifications’
- UPGRADE:
- Licensing: Registration upgraded to the License Manager
New in NTLite 1.1.0 Build 4100 (Jul 26, 2016)
- UPGRADED:
- General: Windows 10 1607 (build 14393) support
- Components-Win10: ‘Shell Search’ split from ‘Search’
- Components-Win10: ‘Xbox Support’ listed on LTSB (it doesn’t have the app)
- Components-Win10: ‘Windows Mobile Hotspot Service’ removed with ‘Internet Connection Sharing’
- Components: Live-only removals allowed on boot.wim, smaller boot image
- UI-Translations: Thanks for Polish (Macio), French (tistou), Dutch (Rene),
- Chinese Simplified (Gskening), Chinese Traditional (Matt),
- German (KrX), Portugues-Brasil (Igor)
- FIXED:
- Components: ‘Application Compatibility’ was needed for Samsung Magician Rapid mode
- Components-Win7: ‘IE Engine’ removal was causing Explorer to opening each folder separately
- Components-Win7: ‘Updates cleanup’ could have leftovers on second pass
- Components-Win10: ‘Xbox app’ leftovers
- Components-Win10: ‘IE Engine’ was needed for ms-settings shortcuts
- CHANGED:
- Components-Win10: ‘Internet Explorer’ removal not Live-only any more
- Components: XPS merged into Printing, too many dependencies
New in NTLite 1.1.0 Build 3985 (Jun 15, 2016)
- Upgrade:
- Updates-Win10: KB3163018 and KB3149135 support
- Components: Split ‘On-Screen Keyboard’ to the Accessories and Tablet versions
- Components-Win10: Now can remove all Metro Apps, no need to keep one
- Fix:
- Components-Win7: faster removal of built-in printer drivers
- ISO-Win7: ISO crash with too long file paths on Win7 hosts, now warns
- Post-setup: processing crash in a certain situation
New in NTLite 1.1.0 Build 3960 (Jun 6, 2016)
- NEW:
- General: Win10 RS1 14352 support
- UI: 4k resolution resizing support
- UPGRADE:
- Updates-Win7: Better KB2592687(RDP 8.0) and KB2830477(RDP 8.1) integration support (not using Runonce any more)
- Drivers: Host Import/Export enabled for 3rd party drivers only (ensures proper driver signing and less bloat)
- FIX:
- Drivers: Intel Chipset 32-bit driver architecture detection
- Components: Terminal Services USB fixed and merged back with RDP Client (was breaking USB3 on Win10RS1)
- Components-Win7: Journal, Telemetry and Indian keyboard removal fix after rollup update integration
- Updates-Win7: KB2533552 integration
- CHANGE:
- Components: HW Support – Xbox Support merged into existing Metro apps
New in NTLite 1.1.0 Build 3933 (May 21, 2016)
- Upgrade:
- Updates-Win7: Analysis updates (simpler IE11 and Convenience Rollup WU scan fix)
- Fix:
- Registry: REG integration reports on key permission errors (was silent)
- Change:
- Components: “Credential Manager” added to the “Windows Store and Apps support” compatibility
New in NTLite 1.1.0 Build 3925 (May 18, 2016)
- Upgrade:
- Updates-Win7: KB3125574 integration support (check Analyze for dependencies if enabled/any)
- Fix:
- Updates: Detect existing invisible updates, solves KB2849696 and KB2849697 detection
- Change:
- Components: Storage Service removal disabled in Win10, crucial component
New in NTLite 1.1.0 Build 3910 (May 11, 2016)
- New:
- General: Win10 Preview RS1 14342 support
- Updates-Win7SP1: Windows Update Agent 7.6 EXE integration support
- Upgrade:
- Updates-Win7: Win10 cumulative update warning (Win7 host cannot integrate those)
- Updates: Servicing stack KB3140741 detection and recommendation on Win10 1511 image
- Updates: Some update names are better displayed
- Components: Storage Spaces, Diagnostics, Biometrics and Internet Explorer remove more
- Fix:
- General: Load preset was crashing with specific post-setup situation
- Change:
- Components: Natural Language moved to System
- Components: Windows Recovery moved under System-SPP
New in NTLite 1.1.0 Build 3860 (May 11, 2016)
- Fix:
- Crash on startup when using Windows 7 RTM as a host
- Crash when creating ISO from NTFS drive root
- Upgrade:
- Components: Search faster, and F3 key for Find Next if list focused
- Features: Select All/None toolbar options
- Change:
- Components: Do not expand on preset load
New in NTLite 1.1.0 Build 3850 (Apr 27, 2016)
- New:
- General: Win10 RS1.14328 support
- General: Tool crashdump support, helpful in debugging
- General: Long path support during process, more than 260 characters
- Drivers: INF architecture (32/64-bit) detection
- Components: Fonts
- Components: ‘Default fonts’ compatibility option
- Components: ‘Previous install (Windows.old)’
- Components: ‘Language Panel’
- Unattended: Reset toolbar option
- Upgrade:
- Components: ‘On-Screen Keyboard’ split from ‘Tablet PC’/’Accessibility tools’
- Components: ‘Windows Journal’ split from ‘Tablet PC’
- Components: ‘Terminal Services USB Redirector’ split from ‘Remote Desktop Client’
- Components: ‘Firewall’ merged with ‘Firewall Service’ in pre-Win10
- Components: ‘Reporting and Telemetry’ group restructured to ‘Remoting and Privacy’
- Fix:
- Components: ‘WWAN AutoConfig’ removal was crashing ‘Windows Mail’ account setup
- Components: ‘Task Scheduler’ blank icon
New in NTLite 1.0.0 Build 3690 (Mar 19, 2016)
- NEW:
- Unattended: Dual architecture mode (useful for AIO with 32 and 64-bit)
- Components: Manual Setup and Network Map compatibility options
- UPGRADE:
- General: Win10 RS1 build 14279 support
- General: Isolated WIM image Post-Setup and runonce update install support
- Components: EVR split from Media Foundation
- Post-Setup: VBS and MSP file support
- FIX:
- Components: Proximity was needed for Windows Store
- Components-Win7: Mail was needed for People Near Me
- Components-Win10: WiFi Sense was crashing Manage Wireless Networks
- Unattended: Server edition UI language wasn’t being detected
- Updates-Win7: Post-SP1 language pack integration was being skipped
- Tweaks-Win7: Hide libraries wasn’t working on Win7
- Features: Save full checklist in the preset
New in NTLite 1.1.0 Build 3690 Beta (Mar 19, 2016)
- NEW:
- Registry page (integrate REG files and edit image hives)
New in NTLite 1.1.0 Build 3600 Beta (Feb 16, 2016)
- New:
- Unattended: Disk Config Wizard (partitioning templates)
- Config-Machine: Pagefile setup (disabling, drive and sizes)
- Config-Machine: Hibernation size option (size only, disable in Post-Setup)
- Components: ‘System Resource Usage Monitoring Service’
New in NTLite 1.0.0 Build 3600 (Feb 16, 2016)
- New:
- General: Win10 Redstone support (RS1 14257.1000)
- Components: Network Discovery compatibility option
- UI: Ukrainian translation.
- Upgrade:
- Components: Event Viewer and Event Log Service split
- Components: IME languages split
- Components: Chinese split into Simplified and Traditional
- Components: French (Canadian) split
- Components: Keyboard removal for kept languages unlocked
- Components: Showing all referenced compatibilities in component description
- Components: Wildcard support for the compatibility file protection
- Unattended: Product key now also used on Welcome screen
- Unattended: Added ‘Recovery’ partition type
- UI: Individual removed MB size per component on Apply removal progress
- Fix:
- Components: ‘Disk Management’ was dependent on ‘Virtual Disk Support’
- Components: ‘Media Player’ removal was causing IE Flash playback crash
- Components: ‘US Dvorak’ keyboards added to Recommended compatibility (breaks cpanel input)
- Components: ‘On Screen Keyboard’ was dependent on ‘Tablet PC’
- Components: ‘Internet Explorer Engine’ error 5 during removal
- Components: ‘Windows Store’ was causing OOBE reboot loop if not autologged-in
- Components-Win7: ‘Network Access Protection’ was needed for ‘Network Center’
- Unattended: ‘Join Domain’ was not automatically logging in
- UI: Unattended page filter crash
New in NTLite 1.0.0 Build 3477 (Feb 16, 2016)
- Fix:
- Tool: “Check your date and time settings” connection issue
- Tool: Chinese host log file was missing entries
- Updates: Chinese TW-CN IE11 integration language was English
- Components: WLAN was breaking Diagnostics wizard
- Post-Setup: Rows could be loaded in wrong order
- UI: Russian (thx Den-s!)
- New:
- Tweaks-Machine: Microsoft Account policy
New in NTLite 1.1.0 Build 3475 Beta (Dec 23, 2015)
- New:
- Post-Setup: [Toolbar-Add] Templates (User password expiration, disable Hibernate and Pagefile)
New in NTLite 1.0.0 Build 3475 (Dec 23, 2015)
- Fix:
- Tool: “Check your date and time settings” connection issue
- Tool: Chinese host log file was missing entries
- Updates: Chinese TW-CN IE11 integration language was English
- Components: WLAN was breaking Diagnostics wizard
- Post-Setup: Rows could be loaded in wrong order
- UI: Russian
- New:
- Tweaks-Machine: Microsoft Account policy
New in NTLite 1.1.0 Build 3464 Beta (Dec 11, 2015)
- New:
- Components: Wallet Service
New in NTLite 1.0.0 Build 3464 (Dec 11, 2015)
- Upgrade:
- Services: Filter list also by internal service name
- Components: Event Collector removal included in Windows Remote Management
- Components: Network Connectivity Assistant removal included in Direct Access Connection
- Components: Defrag was dependant on Virtual Disk support
- Components: Moved Firewall service below ICS for more flexibility
- Components-Win10: Telemetry client removes more
- Components-Win10: Windows Update Service split from Windows Update (needed for slmgr.vbs)
- Fix:
- Components: slmgr.vbs support fixes for Windows Store and IE Engine removals
- ISO: Label limited to 32 characters
New in NTLite 1.1.0 Build 3442 Beta (Dec 2, 2015)
- New:
- UI: Page navigation redesigned
- Components: Certificate Tools
- Components: Display Switch
- Components: Exchange ActiveSync (EAS)
- Components: Font Cache Service
- Components: IPsec Policy Agent
- Components: Language Pack Setup
- Components: Network Access Protection (NAP)
- Components: Networking Background Transfer
- Components: Performance CMD Tools for Tracing
- Components: Rights Management support
- Components: Windows Management Instrumentation Tools
- Components: Windows Setup and Deployment
- Components-Win10: AllJoyn Router Service
- Components-Win10: Embedded Mode
- Components-Win10: Delivery Optimization
- Components-Win10: Connected Device Platform Service (CDPSvc)
- Components-Win10: Client License Service (ClipSVC)
New in NTLite 1.0.0 Build 3442 (Dec 1, 2015)
- Fix:
- Updates: Non-English IE11 EXE integration could crash
- Updates-Win7: Existing non-English language packs were not detected
- Components-Win10: RetailDemo now detected also under Win10 LTSB
- Components-Win10: Maps leftovers
- Components-Win10: Firewall was needed for some apps like StartMenuIsBack
- Components-Win10: Location Service was breaking image deployment and network
- Components-Win7-Chinese: Partial Games removal was breaking Games links translation
- Components-Win7-Chinese: Keeping of img0.jpg wallpaper
- UI: Tweaks pages after reset were ignoring changed values
- General: Temp and Scratch dir volume root location support
- Upgrade:
- Unattended: Computer Name allowed characters check
New in NTLite 1.0.0 Build 3400 (Nov 7, 2015)
- New:
- General: Windows 10 Threshold 2 (10586) support
- Components: “Video Compression Manager (VCM) codecs”
- Components-Win10: “Point of Service (POS)”
- UI: Italian translation.
- Fix:
- Components-Win7: Keep “No Sounds” scheme with “Default sounds” removed
- Components-Win7: “Backup” and “Diagnostics” needed parts of “Error Reporting”
- Components-Win10: “Event Viewer” needed parts of “.NET 4.6”
New in NTLite 1.0.0 Build 3363 Beta (Oct 9, 2015)
- New:
- Components-ENT: ‘Windows To Go’
- Components-Win10: ‘Server-Initiated Healing Client’
- Change:
- Components: Moved ‘Hyper-V’ under ‘Hyper-V Guest’ to reflect dependency
- Fix:
- Components: ‘File Sharing’ was needed for Rufus and causing VirtualBox Guest additions BSOD
- Components-Win10: ‘File Server Resource Manager’ Control Panel leftover
- Components-Win10: ‘Zip Folders’ Explorer ribbon leftover
- Components-Win10: Moved ‘Xbox Support’ to Hardware Support and fixed black screen in Win10 10547
- Components-Win10: ‘Kernel Debugger’ was causing a BSOD on some real machines
- Components-Win10: ‘AD LDS’ was breaking user permission selection (e.g. Folder sharing)
- Components-Win10: Language list fixed better
- Components-Win7: ‘Windows Search’ was breaking Libraries
- Components-Win7: ‘Telemetry Client’ and ‘System Restore’ were breaking the updated image
- Components-Win7: ‘Windows Media Services Remote Tools’ moved under ‘Firewall’, fixes setup crash
- Unattended: Win10 Enterprise empty key causing license error popup on setup boot
- UI: Scratch dir was not saved without changes to the Temp dir location
New in NTLite 1.0.0 Build 3339 Beta (Sep 20, 2015)
- Source: Windows 10 build 10547 loading support
New in NTLite 1.0.0 Build 3333 Beta (Sep 10, 2015)
- New:
- Unattended: Copy answer file to boot.wim option
- Updates: Placeholder row for potentially deferred updates
- Components: Windows Defender host protection detection (recommends temp disable)
- Components: ‘Disk Quota’
- Components: ‘Lockscreen Backgrounds’
- Components-Win10: OOBE compatibility
- Components-Win10: ‘Location Services’
- Components-Win10: ‘AppxDeployment’ (Live only, protects Start Menu)
- Components-Win10ENT: ‘Windows Maps’
- Source: Image modified date displayed (if enough width to show)
- Source: Image size displayed (if enough width to show)
- Upgrade:
- Components: Separated and grouped Telemetry and Reporting components
- Components: ‘Steps Recorder’ split from ‘Application Compatibility’
- Components: ‘Firewall Service’ split from ‘Firewall’ (Live only, protects Start Menu)
- Post-Setup: .config extension to passive type support
- Change:
- Components: ‘Ease Of Access Themes’ unlocked in the Free version
- Fix:
- Components: ‘.NET 4.5/6’ was breaking ‘Event Viewer’
- Components: ‘Unified Telemetry Client’, netsh.exe and ‘Wired AutoConfig’ leftovers
- Components-Win7: ‘Search’ was breaking GPedit filter
- Components-Win10: ‘Computer Browser’ was breaking Edge
- Components-Win10: ‘DNS Cache’ was breaking network
- Components-Win10: ‘Windows Update’ was breaking language list
- Components-Win10: ‘Credential Manager’ was breaking Settings-Accounts
- Components-Win10: ‘Storage Service’ was breaking Apps and Features list in Settings
- Components-Win10: ‘Media Center Update’ merged with ‘Media Center’, fixes hypervisor enabled boot hang
- Components-Win10: Various component leftovers, Win10 image should be smaller
- Components-Win10: Locked ‘Network List’ and ‘Network Location Awareness’, needed for network
- Updates: IE11 from EXE language pack was missing
- Source: Unload boot.wim automatically if not autocreating ISO
- General: 64-bit version could not start for some
- General: Register button was disabled when using the Free version
- Source: Preset date was empty for some locales, should be fixed for newly saved presets
- Tweaks: Services long descriptions were cut
New in NTLite 1.0.0 Build 3250 Beta (Aug 8, 2015)
- New:
- Source: AIO (multi-architecture) folder support
- Source: Convert-Recompress option
- Removals: Network Discovery
- Tweaks: CrashDump settings
- UI: Dutch translation
- Upgrade:
- Components: Metro System Apps split
- Components: Mail Communications DLL (MHT support) split
- Components: NTVDM removes more and detected on x64 as well
- Fix:
- Updates: KB3081424 CAB integration, not runonce
- Components: Firewall breaking Computer Browser
- Components: Cache Files breaking MSDTC service
- Components: Mail breaking Fax
- Components-Win10: Retail Demo Content breaking Store
- Components-Win10: Telemetry Client breaking Bluetooth
New in NTLite 1.0.0 Build 3210 Beta (Aug 3, 2015)
- New:
- General: Windows 10 10240 support
- UI: German and Portuguese (Brazil) translations. Thx KrX and Igor!
- Components-Win10: Wi-Fi Network Manager (Wi-Fi Sense)
- Components-Win10: OneDrive
- Components-Win10: Retail Demo Content
- Components-Win10: Xbox Support
- Components-Win10: PrintToPdf
- Components-Win10: PlayReady
- Components: SMB Witness Client API
- Components: Pseudo-locale
- Fix:
- Source: Unload with Save error after manually copying a file to the mount dir
New in NTLite 1.0.0 Build 3158 Beta (Jul 20, 2015)
- New:
- General: Scratch (Extract) directory split and configurable in File-Settings
- UI: Chinese (Traditional) translation
- Fix:
- Updates: Post-setup/runonce list was skipped in certain situations
New in NTLite 1.0.0 Build 3148 Beta (Jul 17, 2015)
- New:
- Tweaks-Win8+: Adobe Type Manager Font Driver (ATMFD)
- Upgrade:
- General: Detecting temp folder from a share (Error 18 on mounting)
- Fix:
- Updates: Crash on integrating updates under Windows 7 as a host
- UI: Stuck Apply page refresh and crash for some
New in NTLite 1.0.0 Build 3135 Beta (Jul 15, 2015)
- New:
- Updates: Update Analysis for KB prerequisites and recommendations
- Updates: IE11 and Language pack EXE support
- Post-Setup: Move rows
- Post-Setup: MSU file type support
- Tweaks: Windows Update settings
- Removals: Windows Disc Image Burning Tool
- Removals-Win7: Virtual PC (added via updates)
- Removals-Win7: Windows Media Services Remote Server Administration (added as updates)
- Source: Cancel support for Load, Export, Split and Create ISO (right-click)
- UI: Croatian translation
- UI: Light theme
- Drivers: Filtered some software devices from HW checks
- Upgrade:
- Removals: Windows Media Player Network Sharing split
- Post-Setup: INI file type added to passive
- UI: Better naming of updates on the lists
- UI: Space key can be use to toggle checkboxes
- UI: Errors and warnings popup now has copyable content
- Fix:
- Source: Junction points were corrupted on image save
- Source: Forget missing folder
- Features-Win7: SP1 slipstreamed had a blank feature list
- Removals-Win10: Hyper-V was causing black screen
- Removals-Win10: Firewall had leftovers
New in NTLite 1.0.0 Build 3059 Beta (Jun 29, 2015)
- New:
- UI: All browse paths now remembered individually across sessions
- UI: All pages support drag and drop of files from Explorer
- UI: All lists contain a filtering row for fast list search
- UI: All lists support the keyboard Del key
- Translation: Arabic, Chinese (Simplified), French, Romanian
- Post-Setup: Passive files support (mst, txt and inf)
- Unattended: ‘Copy to image’ option (Panther\Unattended.xml location)
- Upgrade:
- Tweaks: Page split into tabs
- Tweaks: Driver services filtered-out from Services list
- Tweaks: Services connected to components (pending removal disables related)
- Translation: Automatic language usage if locale detected
- Translation: RTL support
- Components: ‘Previous Versions’ tab removed with Volume Shadow Service
- Fix:
- Components-Win7: Action Center was breaking WinSAT UI
- Components: Remote Desktop Server was breaking Hyper-V Management
- Components: English(US) removal under the English(UK) image
- Components: Memory Diagnostic leftover (scheduler)
- Source: ‘Forget’ moved image now does not hang the UI
- Source: Preset save/load of Metro apps
- UI: Tab ordering of some controls
New in NTLite 1.0.0 Build 2986 Beta (Jun 9, 2015)
- New:
- General: Translation support (see .\Lang\readme.txt)
- Components: Keyboard Layouts
- Components: MSConfig
- Components: ASP.NET 2 and 4.5
- Components: Network Center
- Components: Video For Windows
- Upgrade:
- Components: Portuguese (Brazilian) split from Portuguese
- Fix:
- Source: Export error 2 in some cases
- Source: ISO filenames missing first character if folder in volume root
- Components: Rename folder issue after some KB installs
- Components: Appx Support removal breaking Sysprep
- Components: Windows Mail removal file sharing users not listed
- Drivers-Win7: Driver integration error 30 (0x0000001E)
New in NTLite 1.0.0 Build 2861 Beta (Apr 16, 2015)
- Removals: Tool auto-closing itself at the start of ‘Preparing data’ in rare situations
New in NTLite 1.0.0 Build 2856 Beta (Apr 16, 2015)
- New:
- Source: Split WIM (SWM) support
- Source: Merge WIM (SWM) support
- General: Digitally signed binaries
- Updates: Windows 7 SP1 slipstream support
- Unattended: User passwords automatically encrypted
- Unattended: OEM SetupComplete option
- Removals: Performance Monitor
- Removals: Virtual disk support
- Compatibility: Parallels VM hardware list
- Tweaks: Display tray items and Show clock options
- Upgrade:
- Removals: Preparing data optimized, now faster and uses less memory
- Removals: Sounds split to Default and Themes
- Fix:
- Removals: Diagnostics – Explorer folder elevation popup wasn’t working
- Removals: Error Reporting – Marvel Heroes 2015 and TuneUp Utilities
- Removals: Hyper-V – Windows Time service could not start
- Removals: Sounds – Control Panel sound theme options were removed
- Removals: WebClient – Word 2013 export pdf/xps would crash
- Removals 32-bit: Natural Language – Outlook 2013 search wasn’t working
- Change:
- Removals: Remote Desktop Services merged with Remote Desktop Server
- Source: Convert image, grouped options for WIM, ESD and SWM formats
New in NTLite 1.0.0 Build 2753 Beta (Mar 23, 2015)
- Upgrade:
- Source: Win10 10041 support
- Updates: KB3012199 smart sort (solves Update 1 integration error 122)
- Removals: Fax doesn’t need Windows Mail
- Removals: IE Print Preview doesn’t need XPS
- Fix:
- Removals: ‘Prepare data’ tool crash in some cases
- Removals: Win7 ‘Desktop Window Manager’ removal was breaking some services
- Source: Win7 image loading crash for some custom updated ISOs
- Change:
- General: Removed multi-instance experimental option from Settings
New in NTLite 1.0.0 Build 2706 Beta (Mar 14, 2015)
- Fix:
- Components: Internet Connection Sharing removal error 1332
- Components: ‘NTVDM 16-bit subsystem’ (32-bit only) ‘vdmdbg.dll’ kept
- Compatibility: Printing compatibility expanded to cover more
- Source: ESD compression crash (32-bit issue)
- Upgrade:
- WLAN Autoconfig renamed to WLAN support and includes Wi-Fi Display
- Change:
- Components Win7: Moved Firewall under ICS in (offline) image edit
New in NTLite 1.0.0 Build 2701 Beta (Mar 10, 2015)
- New:
- Drivers: Export host driver
- Components-UI: Export image driver
- Components: Distributed Link Tracking Client
- Components: Application Layer Gateway Service
- Components: Internet Connection Sharing (ICS)
- Components: Send To Mail and Desktop
- Components: Mouse Pointers
- Components: Memory Diagnostic
- Components: Boot Manager (EFI)
- Components: Boot Manager (PCAT)
- Components: .NET 4 Setup Cache
- Components: Ease Of Access Themes
- Components-Win7: Other Themes
- Compatibility: Printing
- Tweaks: UAC tweaks
- Tweaks: Enable linked connections
- Upgrade:
- Components: Fax and Internet printing split from Printing
- Components: OEM inf drivers now also show original INF name
- Compatibility: Unified VMWare Machine compatibility list
- Source: Showing WIM Flags on the image list
- Change:
- Components: Speech Recognizer merged with Speech Common
- Components-Win7: Gadget platform unlocked in free version
- UI: Removals renamed to Components, Target to Source
- Fix:
- Components: Group Policy Editor Filter functionality after removals
- Components: English (US) removal fixed and unlocked for other languages
New in NTLite 1.0.0 Build 2525 Beta (Feb 11, 2015)
- New:
- Target: ESD ISO support (decrypted only)
- Target: Windows 10 build 9926 support
- Target: Convert option to and from ESD image format
- Target: ISO images are now UEFI bootable
- Target: Explore here option for image and mount directories
- Target: Image architecture displayed on the list
- Tweaks: MSI patch cache size and Explorer CD burning features
- Unattended: Registered Owner and Organization entries
- Upgrade:
- General: Error messages more verbal
- Unattended: Autofill uses pid.txt key
- Removals: Temp cache and files component now includes font cache
- UI: MSAA support for screen readers, toolbar accessible with Alt+T
- Fix:
- Target: Forget image when target was mounted and manually deleted
- Drivers: Win7 driver integration error 5
- Removals: Group Policy leftovers from various components if GP kept
- Removals: French language was removing Belgian (Period) keyboard
New in NTLite 1.0.0 Build 2420 Beta (Jan 14, 2015)
- New:
- Unattended: Configure Disk Partition wizard
- Apply: Reuse driver cache option
- Removals: Windows Update
- Removals: Background Intelligent Transfer Service (BITS)
- Tweaks: Few TCP-IP settings
- Fix:
- Target: ESD image detection message
- Removals: Various leftovers
- Change:
- Removals: Storage drivers removal unlocked in the free version
- Removals: Services dispersed to other sections for better grouping
- Removals: ‘Secure Startup’ renamed to Bitlocker
- Removals: ‘English-US’ language removal locked until fixed
New in NTLite 1.0.0 Build 2362 Beta (Jan 3, 2015)
- New:
- Unattended: Network Join (Workgroup/Domain, Auto-fill supported)
- Removals: System Preparation tool (Sysprep)
- Removals: Keyboard Filter AppShim
- Removals: MPEG-2 Splitter
- Tweaks: Taskbar settings in ‘All Users’
- Fix:
- Removals: Sysprep Generalize issues
- Removals: Share Server disabling Control Panel Users
- Removals: Cardspace leftovers
- Live Editing: registry loading issues
- Change:
- Removals: TvTuner moved to Multimedia
- Removals: WinSAT moved to Multimedia, detached from Diagnostics dependency
New in NTLite 1.0.0 Build 2331 Beta (Dec 23, 2014)
- New:
- Removals: Briefcase
- Upgrade:
- Removals: Sample Media now also removes sample pictures
- Fix:
- Removals: Languages were breaking Font Cache service
- Removals: Sample Media was breaking WinSAT
- Removals: MobilePC and TaskScheduler leftovers
New in NTLite 1.0.0 Build 2322 Beta (Dec 19, 2014)
- Upgrade:
- Integration: Detection of corrupted update files on insertion
- Removals: Portable Devices removes more, not needed for USB storage
- Fix:
- Removals: ‘Device Experience’ causing USB disconnect missing
- Removals: DISM ResetBase error 14098 after Metro app removals
- Removals: Bulgarian language NLS protection
- Removals Win7: ‘JhengHei and YaHei Font’ detection
- Removals Win7: ‘Games’ empty folder leftovers *switched to Free
New in NTLite 1.0.0 Build 2298 Beta (Dec 11, 2014)
- New:
- Removals: Office Compatibility
- Removals Win10: Rest of languages
- Upgrade:
- Features: Server feature list readout
- Cleanup Win7: Seal Features option (Win7 Update Cleanup tradeoff)
- Removals: MobilePC split to Network projection, Location notification and SideShow
- Fix:
- Cleanup: Some Features states could not be changed after Update Cleanup
- Target: Export was unavailable on a single-edition boot.wim image
- Drivers: “Other” devices were not taken into account for hardware checklist
- Removals: File Share Server removal leftovers (e.g. Share context menu)
- UI: Tool’s post-Activation restart would make image forgetting or adding have no effect
New in NTLite 1.0.0 Build 2253 Beta (Nov 27, 2014)
- New – Removals: DNS Client
- New – Removals: DHCP Client
- New – Removals: Credential Manager
- Upgrade – Removals: Sensors split from MobilePC
- Upgrade – Removals: Snipping tool split from TabletPC
- Fix – Removals: Start search was broken even if Search kept
New in NTLite 1.0.0 Build 2241 Beta (Nov 23, 2014)
- Upgrade – Removals Win10: ‘Manual Setup’ leftovers in new build 9879
- Fix – Unattended: Direct WIM unattended file creation crash
- Fix – New hardware list import wasn’t checking against already added drivers on the queue
New in NTLite 1.0.0 Build 2236 Beta (Nov 22, 2014)
- New – ‘Post-Setup’ page for executing Installers, Commands, Registry and PowerShell files
- New – Target: Windows Embedded ThinPC and Industrial edition support
- New – Unattended: Autologon logon count
- New – Removals Win7: DVD Maker *free
- Upgrade – Target: Automatic cleanup of previously stuck mounted folder on Unload
- Upgrade – Removals Win7: Network Center does not need WLAN any more
- Change – Automation: Automation page renamed to Unattended
- Change – UI: Page navigation menu dynamically filling, instead of enabling pages
- Change – Apply: Experimental option SxS Cleanup removed, Update Cleanup upgraded
- Fix – Apply: Crash on Save image without any operations
- Fix – Removals: error 2 at oem.inf removal
- Fix – Presets: ‘New preset’ in some cases did not reset all components
- Fix – Features: Sometimes features would get re-enabled after toggling component removal