WinNTSetup Changelog

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)

  • Fixed bug

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