What's new in WinNTSetup 5.3.3
Oct 19, 2023
- Fixed wim capture regressions
- Fixed trusted installer could not access temporary drive letters
- Automatically switch to wimlib, for non solid ESD (fix wimgapi crash)
- Wincopy commandline volume mode can use filemode as fallback
- Vhd drives can be saved and loaded from ini file
New in WinNTSetup 5.3.2 (Oct 5, 2023)
- Native ARM64 code for WIM apply and capture
- WIM apply and capture will be executed as "trusted installer"
- WIM capture UI adds compression level, defaults to wimlib's LZX Fast
- Wimlib wimboot apply - changed overlay type to WIM_BOOT_OS_WIM
- Wimlib capture WIM - deletes incomplete WIM after operation cancel
- Wimlib smooth progress bar for appending operation
- Using customized wimlib.dll (do not update!)
- Automatically switch to wimlib, if wimgapi can not load WIM file
- Fixed cancel setup was ignored during DISM operations
- Fixed WinCopy Volume mode problems
- Fixed some issues with ARM64 sources
- Added advanced VHD creation options
- Respect NTFS indexing option on target partition
- No longer downloads ADK files on Win10/11 Host
New in WinNTSetup 4.6.5 (Aug 30, 2021)
- Features:
- Install Windows 2k/XP/2003/2008/2012/Vista/7/8.x/10 x86/x64
- Practically runs even on the most minimalistic WinPE
- Choose able drive letter for the new Windows installation
- Install Windows also if nlite/vlite has remove winnt32.exe/setup.exe
- Integrate Drivers: normal PNP and Textmode Drivers also
- Patch uxtheme to allow unsigned Themes
- Some tweaks
- Support "Windows to Go" for Windows 7 and later installs
- Supports WimBoot option for Windows 8.1 Update 1
- Supports all current WIM files: WIM/SWM (XPRESS / LZX / XPRESS HUFFMAN = Wimboot compression)
- Supports unencrypted ESD files (LZMS compressed WIM)
- Not Supported:
- No Windows embedded version (this includes WinFLP)
- No Installation onto USB disk *New* only Windows 7 and later
- No upgrades of existing installations
New in WinNTSetup 4.6.2 (May 6, 2021)
- Fixed a crash on Windows 7 with MSDM key in BIOS/UEFI
- WinRE driver integration uses fallback RecoveryWindowsREWinRe.wim
- WinRE option for Windows 7 USB 3 driver integration
- CAPTURE command line did not respect "-min" switch
- CAPTURE command line may not set taskbar progress to indeterminate while scanning
- Some fixes for custom WinPE
New in WinNTSetup 4.6.1 (May 3, 2021)
- Fixed wofcompress process did not start
- New driver mode option to integrate into WinRE
- Driver mode option saved to ini
- Wimlib capture appends date time in case to avoid duplicate image name
- Ini option WimCaptureAddTimeStamp added
New in WinNTSetup 4.6.0 (Apr 8, 2021)
- Fixed vhd detection regression
- Fixed dism dowload was missing logprovider.dll
- Fixed possible freeze caused by PathCompactPath
- Fixed possible freeze with "-noapply" mode
- Fixed some High DPI issues
- Fixed commandline iso attach did not return errorlevel for driveletter
- Dismount of vhd with hidden bootpart will force remove all it's drive letters
- Driver integration now uses dismapi, trys to avoid adding drivers of different architecture
- Driver export now sorts by driver class
- Move ToolsWimBootCompress.ini to ToolsCompact
- Logging content of internal VHD BCD store
- Added Win7USB3 driver integration / post install fix option (see ToolsWin7USB3ReadMe.txt)
- Added wofcompress option
- Added remove autocheck option
New in WinNTSetup 4.5.1 (Feb 23, 2021)
- VHD GUI will be saved to ini
- Ini option BootMountExclude supports DiskID
- Fixes listview font on non darkmode
New in WinNTSetup 4.5.0 (Feb 17, 2021)
- Dropped 32-Bit version, system requirements are now Windows 7x64 +
- VHD functions no longer uses diskpart.exe
- VHD Attach / Detach supports ISO files
- VHD Creation supports GPT Partitionsttyle
- VHD Install will always create internal boot files depending on partition style
- New default VHD creation type MBR - BIOS/UEFI
- Added VHD command line options /gpt and /mbr
- Fixed instant VHD creation cylinder bug
- Fixed iso mount does not select install.swm
- Fixed open file dialog pattern not working on default WinPE 3.x +
- Fixed wimgapi capture build number on H2 Systems (19041 instead 19042)
- Support multiple "-regtweaks" cmdline switches
- Workaround Win10 MessageBox Font bug
- Added ini option [vhd] bootpartsize
- New ini option "RemoveBootMountsOnExit"
- Ini option BootMountExclude supports Vendor name
- Rewrote all file and registry recursion functions to use iteration
- Command line VHD creation uses expandable by default
- Command line VHD ignores disk size for expandable type
- Removed NT5 uxtheme patch
- DPI-Awareness for Imdisk
- Darkmode and DPI-Awareness for Bootice
- ARM64 password reset
- Fixed ARM64 uxtheme patch
New in WinNTSetup 3.9.1 (Aug 14, 2018)
New in WinNTSetup 3.9.0 (May 31, 2018)
- You now can exclude devices that should not be mounted.
New in WinNTSetup 3.8.6 (Jan 22, 2016)
- fix boot partition mounted as A: or B: wasn't recognized
- fixed Windows 10 installing from Windows XP host
- minor improvements
New in WinNTSetup 3.8.5.3 (Oct 20, 2015)
- fixed wimgapi loading bug running on windows 8.x
- added GUI option for compact mode
- downloads WofAdk and makes volatile driver install
- offline windows tools will attach WofAdk
- adding WofAdk driver to new installations, if compact or wimboot made is set
- using exclusion filter to enable wimboot/compact mode for all Win7 sources and later
- fixed esd files could not be applied in compact mode
- support compact mode with wimlib v.1.8.2
- win10 with XPREES4K compact mode does not use additional compression exclusions
- resized tweaks window
- fixed bug in commandline options
- fixed command line oem switch did not support relative pathes
- default folder for file and folder browse dialogs can be defined in the ini file
- fixed download command line option did not end WinNTSetup