Version history for NTLite (64-bit)
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Changes for v1.9.0.7290 - v1.9.0.7330
- 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)
Changes for v1.8.0.7095 - v1.8.0.7137
- 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
Changes for v1.8.0.7080 - v1.8.0.7095
- NEW
- Settings-20H1: ‘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)
Changes for v1.7.6.6912 - v1.8.0.6962
- 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
Changes for v1.7.5.6842 - v1.7.6.6912
- NEW
- Source: Win10 1903 18362 support
- Settings-1903: Defender ‘Tamper Protection’
- Settings-1903: ‘Reserved storage’ (image only)
- UPGRADE
- Components: Better cumulative update and DISM compatibility after removals
- Updates: Better update cleanup ‘Complete’ compatibility, removed ‘Compatible’ option
- UI-Translation: Thanks for Chinese Simplified (Gskening), Russian (Den-s)
- FIX
- Unattended: German ISO selected Timezone value could be wrongly set
- Components: Chinese ISO taskhostw crash on sysprep after removing all keyboards
- Source: Online image listed non-existing “windows.wim” on unload
Changes for v1.7.4.6790 - v1.7.5.6842
- 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
Changes for v1.7.3.6761 - v1.7.4.6790
- 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
Changes for v1.7.2.6717 - v1.7.3.6761
- General: Temporarily removed expired tool certificate (blocked by admin popup)
- 1.7.3.6760
- NEW
- Source: Windows 10 Preview 20H1 build 18836 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%
Changes for v1.7.2.6703 - v1.7.2.6717
- 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
Changes for v1.7.2.6650 - v1.7.2.6680
- NEW
- Source: Windows Preview build 18309 support
- 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
Changes for v1.7.1.6630 - v1.7.2.6650
- 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
Changes for v1.7.1.6623 - v1.7.1.6627
- FIX
- Post-setup: Duplicate entries in some situations
Changes for v1.7.1.6593 - v1.7.1.6623
- 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
Changes for v1.7.1.6572 - v1.7.1.6593
- 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
Changes for v1.7.0.6545 - v1.7.1.6572
- 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
Changes for v1.7.0.6510 - v1.7.0.6545
- 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
Changes for v1.7.0.6500 - v1.7.0.6510
- 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+
Changes for v1.6.3.6440 - v1.7.0.6500
- 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
Changes for v1.6.3.6400 - v1.6.3.6440
- 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)
Changes for v1.6.3.6373 - v1.6.3.6400
- 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
Changes for v1.6.3.6240 - v1.6.3.6373
- 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), Greek (Soulimiotis), Dutch (Rene), Portugues-Brasil (Igor), Chinese Traditional (Matt), Chinese Simplified (Gskening and jockeysoft), Russian (Den-s), Korean (Redrabbit), Farsi (Mona mon), Spanish (Oleada), German (KrX), Arabic (thamermousa)
- UI: Minor improvements
Changes for v1.6.2.6220 - v1.6.3.6240
- 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
Changes for v1.6.1.6190 - v1.6.2.6220
- 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
Changes for v1.6.0.6174 - v1.6.1.6190
- 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
Changes for v1.5.0.6080 - v1.5.0.6105
- 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
Changes for v1.5.0.6025 - v1.5.0.6080
- 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)
Changes for v1.5.0.5955 - v1.5.0.6025
- 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
Changes for v1.5.0.5950 - v1.5.0.5955
- 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
Changes for v1.5.0.5930 - v1.5.0.5950
- 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
- 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
Changes for v1.5.0.5855 - v1.5.0.5930
- UPGRADE
- Source: Win10 RS4 17074 support
- Components: ‘Recovery Agent’ split from ‘Windows Recovery’ (needed for Bitlocker/TPM and UEFI/dual boot menus)
- Components: ISO image components, those outside of a WIM, grouped in their own section
- Components: Improved Feature configuration support after removals, use Windows Update compatibility option
- Components: Improved cumulative update component removal cleanup
- FIX
- Components-Win10: ‘MicrosoftStickyNotes’ removal was breaking ‘Edge’ PDF functionality
- Components-Win10: ‘Mixed Reality’ and ‘Media Streaming’ detection in N-editions
- Components: ‘IE Engine’ removal was breaking some portable apps
- Components-Win7: ‘Accessibility’ removal was breaking ‘Accessibility On-Screen Keyboard’
- Unattended-Win7: Localized images Administrator enabling
- UI-Translation: Thanks for French (tistou), Russian (Den-s), Italian (gabritb01), Dutch (Rene), Spanish (Oleada), Farsi (Mona mon), Arabic (thamermousa), Chinese Simplified (Gskening and jockeysoft), Chinese Traditional (Matt), Portugues-Brasil (Igor)
Changes for v1.5.0.5840 - v1.5.0.5855
- 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
Changes for v1.4.1.5741 - v1.5.0.5840
- 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
Changes for v1.4.1.5675 - v1.4.1.5741
- 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’
- Components: Build 5740 issue removing services on Win8.1, recommended update for all OS versions
Changes for v1.4.1.5632 - v1.4.1.5675
- 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
Changes for v1.4.1.5625 - v1.4.1.5632
- 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)
Changes for v1.4.1.5590 - v1.4.1.5625
- 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
Changes for v1.4.1.5565 - v1.4.1.5590
- 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
Changes for v1.4.0.5537 - v1.4.1.5565
- 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
Changes for v1.3.1.5060 - v1.4.0.5537
- UPDATE
- Source: More flexible ISO boot sector handling, support for Acronis and similar WinPE images
- UI-Translation: Thanks for Chinese Simplified (Gskening), Chinese Traditional (Matt)
- 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’
Changes for v1.3.1.5060 - v1.4.0.5500 Beta
- 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
Changes for v1.3.0.5024 - v1.3.1.5060
- 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
Changes for v1.3.0.5020 - v1.3.0.5024
- UPGRADE
- Components-Win10RS2: ‘Paint 3D’ split from ‘Paint’
- FIX
- Components-Win10.15063.250: ‘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’
Changes for v1.2.2.4984 - v1.3.0.5020
- 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’
Changes for v1.2.1.4944 - v1.2.2.4984
- 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’
Changes for v1.2.1.4916 - v1.2.1.4944
- 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
Changes for v1.2.0.4861 - v1.2.1.4916
- 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
Changes for v1.2.0.4830 - v1.2.0.4861
- UPGRADE
- Components: “Help file support (CHM)” split from “Windows Help Content”
- FIX
- Components-Win7: IKE service leftovers
- General: Various minor fixes merged from 1.3 beta
- Updates: build 4860-4861 fixed crash while integrating in certain situations
Changes for v1.2.0.4755 - v1.2.0.4830
- UPGRADE
- UI-Translation: Thanks for German (KrX), Dutch (Rene), French (tistou), Italian (gabritb01), Chinese Traditional (Matt), Portugues-Brasil (Igor), Chinese Simplified (Gskening and jockeysoft), Polish (Macio)
- 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
Changes for v1.2.0.4680 - v1.2.0.4755
- 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
Changes for v1.2.0.4550 - v1.2.0.4680
- 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
Changes for v1.2.0.4500 - v1.2.0.4550
- 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
Changes for v1.2.0.4453 - v1.2.0.4500
- 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
Changes for v1.2.0.4433 - v1.2.0.4453
- 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
Changes for v1.2.0.4400 - v1.2.0.4433
- 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
Changes for v1.1.0.4210 - v1.2.0.4400
- 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 (tistou), Italian (gabritb01), Dutch (Rene), German (KrX),
- Chinese Simplified (Gskening and jockeysoft), Chinese Traditional (Matt), Portugues-Brasil (Igor),
- Polish (Macio)
- 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
Changes for v1.1.0.4135 - v1.1.0.4210
- 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: Thanks for Chinese Simplified (Gskening and jockeysoft), Chinese Traditional (Matt), French (tistou), Ukranian (MrHelgi), Dutch (Rene), Portugues-Brasil (Igor), German (KrX), Russian (Den-s), Polish (Macio)
- 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
Changes for v1.1.0.4115 - v1.1.0.4135
- 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
Changes for v1.1.0.4105 - v1.1.0.4115
- FIX
- Components-Win10.1607: Hyper-V removal was causing setup failure
Changes for v1.1.0.4100 - v1.1.0.4105
- UPGRADE
- UI: Italian (thx gabritb01)
- 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
Changes for v1.1.0.3990 - v1.1.0.4100
- UPGRADE
- 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), Russian (Den-s)
- FIX
- 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
- CHANGE
- Components-Win10: ‘Internet Explorer’ removal not Live-only any more
- Components: XPS merged into Printing, too many dependencies
Changes for v1.1.0.3985 - v1.1.0.3990
- UPGRADE
- Post-Setup: DisableSetupCompleteCleanup settings.xml option
- FIX
- Source: ESD conversion was broken with the previous update
- Drivers: Some non-standard INFs 32-bit architecture was not detected
- Unattended: double-clicking Autologon Username would bug the UI
- UI: Now using user-defined short date format
Changes for v1.1.0.3960 - v1.1.0.3985
- 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
Changes for v1.1.0.3933 - v1.1.0.3960
- 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
Changes for v1.1.0.3910 - v1.1.0.3933
- 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
Changes for v1.1.0.3860 - v1.1.0.3910
- 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
Changes for v1.1.0.3850 - v1.1.0.3860
- 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
Changes for v1.0.0.3690 - v1.1.0.3850
- 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
Changes for v1.0.0.3600 - v1.0.0.3690
- 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
Changes for v1.0.0.3477 - v1.0.0.3600
- NEW
- General: Win10 Redstone support (RS1 14257.1000)
- Components: Network Discovery compatibility option
- UI: Ukrainian translation. Thx MrHelgi!
- 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
Changes for v1.0.0.3442 - v1.0.0.3464
- 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
Changes for v1.0.0.3400 - v1.0.0.3442
- 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
Changes for v1.0.0.3363 beta - v1.0.0.3400
- General: Windows 10 Threshold 2 (10586) support
- Components: “Video Compression Manager (VCM) codecs”
- Components-Win10: “Point of Service (POS)”
- UI: Italian translation, thx Gabriele!
- 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”
Changes for v1.0.0.3339 beta - v1.0.0.3363 beta
- 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
Changes for v1.0.0.3333 - v1.0.0.3339 beta
- Source: Windows 10 build 10547 loading support
Changes for v1.0.0.3250 - v1.0.0.3333
- 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
Changes for v1.0.0.3210 - v1.0.0.3250
- NEW
- Source: AIO (multi-architecture) folder support
- Source: Convert-Recompress option
- Removals: Network Discovery
- Tweaks: CrashDump settings
- UI: Dutch translation (thx René!)
- 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
Changes for v1.0 build 2753 - v1.0 build 2986
- 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)