Changelog – NTLite

October 24, 2025

2025.10.10649

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Settings: ‘Local user support (BypassNRO)’ improved support for some UUP 25H2 images
Updates: Servicing Stack is now applied to WinRE as well, if CU and SafeOS are in the queue
Components: OneNote compatibility option

Fix

Components: Preset Compatibility loading, e.g. ‘USB Modem’ loaded checked even if saved unchecked

October 16, 2025

2025.10.10644

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Image: Host Refresh compatibility improved, image will upgrade more combinations with the host

Fix

Updates: ‘Feature on Demand’ package states, sometimes would not read already disabled
Image: While having a loaded session unloading another image before starting could crash on apply
UI: Crash on Apply 24H2/25H2 update decompression (recent regression)

October 6, 2025

2025.10.10631

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Apply: ‘Reapply tasks across editions’ reduced clutter by not showing global/non-selectable groups like Unattended and Post-setup
UI-Translation: Thanks for Hungarian (John), Russian (RDS), Swedish (1FF)

Fix

Preset: Unnecessary resaving of the presets, changing last file change dates on no change
Updates: WinRE SafeOS update was triggering MSIX reapply checkbox, MSIX was appropriately skipped anyway

October 3, 2025

2025.10.10625

New

Components: Win11 26X00.6725+:
‘Edit’
‘MIDI 2.0’
‘Microsoft Usage and Quality Insights’

Preset: Option for ‘Presets save history in user overwritten presets’
(Now history is saved only in auto-saved presets by default,
enabling the option above will enable it on user save-overwrite as well)

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UI-Translation: Thanks for Chinese Traditional (Matt), French (tistou77), Hungarian (John), Italian (clarensio), Russian (RDS)

Fix

Preset: Saving of Compatibilities

October 1, 2025

2025.10.10620

New

Preset: Presets now present content as expandable subpages for selective loading, instead of loading a complete preset only
Preset: Presets now save history data on overwrite, selectable dates on expand
Components: ‘Enterprise Feature Controls’ (26100.5074+)
Components: ‘SoundWire’ (26100.5074+)
Components: ‘Taskbar’, remove only if using StartAllBack or similar
Components: ‘Volume Mixer’ (32 and 64-bit, legacy for Win11+)
Components: ‘VBScript’ (32 and 64-bit)

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Updates: Automatically selects cleanup ‘DISM Compatible’ by default, if adding cumulative updates
Updates: Custom cleanup now also runs DISM Compatible in the same session, for extra cleanup during integration
Updates: Language packs now list dependency for a 24H2/25H2 checkpoint update
Updates: Dism Compatible cleanup enabled by default if CU added
Components: ‘Windows Firewall Control (Binisoft)’ compatibility option
Components: ‘Certificate tools’ 32-bit split
Components: ‘Game Mode’ includes Settings page now, was looking like always disabled if Xbox removed
Not recommended for removal on 24H2 or 25H2, warning added
Components: App removals now remove more leftovers with ‘Servicing stack’ compatibility enabled
Components: Extra update files removed when disabling servicing stack compatibility
UI-Translation: Thanks for French (tistou77), Romanian (Coman), Spanish (Plátano_RD)

Fix

Updates: 26200 vs 26100 existing update detection
Updates: DISM cleanup progress could stuck before 100%
Updates: Windows 10 1607 Custom cleanup setup error
Components: ‘Performance recorder’ was removed by ‘Telemetry’
Components: ‘Windows Audit’ split to ‘Audit Mode’ and ‘Windows Auditing’
Components: ‘Backup and Restore’ removal was breaking ‘System Restore’
Components: ‘ASP.NET’ leftovers when disabling servicing stack compatibility
Components: ‘OneSettings Client’ stuck fix if keeping some other components
Components: Windows 7 ‘WinSxS’ removal was breaking setup
Components: ‘Dynamic Lighting’ removal breaking CTFMon/typing on some machines
Image: Unmount multiple editions at once could crash if one was currently loaded
Image: Split WIM UI progress was stuck unfinished
Unattended: Computer name %SERIAL% prefix support

August 3, 2025

2025.08.10552

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Components: ‘Game Mode’ split from ‘Xbox Core’ removal (not removable on 25H2 Preview, solves setup error)
UI-Translation: Thanks for Swedish (1FF), French (tistou77), Italian (clarensio)

Fix

Components: Windows 10 Cortana removal had inactive leftovers
Components: mdmzyxlg.inf was removing ‘usbser’ service

July 31, 2025

2025.07.10548

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UI: Accessibility improvements, e.g. ribbon and page refocusing on Alt, status readout
UI-Translation: Thanks for Hungarian (John), Italian (clarensio), Russian (RDS)

Fix

UI: Certain older version of a screen reader crashing the tool
Components: Edge Canary initial start crash after removing WLAN and Autopilot together

July 24, 2025

2025.07.10534

New

Components: ‘Dynamic Lighting’
Components: ‘USB networking support (USBNet)’

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Components: ‘Edition change support – 32bit’ split and expanded
Components: Host refresh/migration compatibility improvement
UI-Translation: Thanks for Portugues-Brasil (Igor), French (tistou77), Turkish (Salih DURDU)

Fix

Drivers: Windows 7 Host import
Updates: Downloader progress for bigger files

July 12, 2025

2025.07.10526

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Image: Apply-Reapply semi-checked Boot.wim Settings mode for exclusive options only, e.g. ‘Legacy setup’

Fix

UI: Crash starting under Windows 7
Image: WinRE Live image listing made more consistent with images
Components: Containers live removal could have blocked the UI

July 6, 2025

2025.07.10512

Fix

Updates: ‘Standard extraction’ WinRE error 183

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UI-Translation: Thanks for Chinese Traditional (Matt), Hungarian (John), Italian (clarensio), Russian (RDS),
Swedish (1FF), Turkish (Salih DURDU)

New

Settings: ‘Hibernate (Default)’ option

July 1, 2025

2025.07.10509

New

Components-24H2+:

‘Account Health’
‘Device Region Maintenance’
‘Mobile Connectivity Management – Service’
‘Reusable UX Interaction Manager (RUXIM)’
‘Windows Health and Optimized Experiences’

Components: ‘Edition change support’
Settings: ‘Win32 long paths’ option

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UI-Translation: Thanks for Czech (Anonymous)

Fix

Registry: ‘Open file location’ context menu command
Image: Split UI crash when done directly from the Image page instead of Apply
Post-setup: PathConstructorError loading live after deployed post-setup folders
Updates: Integrating MSIX package in certain situations would mark UWP runtime as red even if that version is present

June 19, 2025

2025.06.10482

Fix

Image: Image optimization would be skipped if both boot.wim and install.wim would keep only one edition
Image: Crash after exporting unloaded image in certain situations

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UI-Translation: Thanks for Turkish (Salih DURDU), Georgian (Anonymous)

June 11, 2025

2025.06.10473

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UI: Text size now set as host, more readable on some systems
Post-setup: Loading progress improvement for the 99% delay
Components: ‘Snipping tool’ compatibility option
UI-Translation: Thanks for Romanian (Coman)

Fix

Updates: Parallel WinRE integration getting stuck
Updates: Download overwrite previous Defender updates
Settings: Win10 News widget disabling

June 6, 2025

2025.06.10460

Fix

Image: Starting a new session without resetting the tool could have locked after loading data
Image: Deleting editions recent optimization could have kept only one edition when not intended

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UI-Translation: Thanks for French (tistou77), Hungarian (John), Italian (clarensio), Russian (RDS), Turkish (Salih DURDU), Swedish (1FF)

June 3, 2025

2025.06.10456

New

Image: Windows 11 24H2 Preview build 26120 support
Components: ‘Microsoft Platform Thermal Framework (MPTF)’
Components: ‘Inter-Integrated Circuit (I2C)’
Components: ‘Windows Hotpatching’
Settings: ‘Share any window from my taskbar’

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Image: Faster removal of editions if only one kept for a given image
Components: ‘Windows Feature Experience Pack – SXS’ is a merger of new 24H2 components: Taskbar, Filons, Voiess, Speion, Livtop and InpApp
Features: Win11 24H2 image shows a few more Features on Demand, including .NET 3.5
UI-Translation: Thanks for Chinese Traditional (Matt), French (tistou77), Hungarian (John), Italian (clarensio), Russian (RDS), Turkish (Salih DURDU)

Fix

Components: ‘Internet printing’ is needed for Host Refresh if Printing kept (investigating, cannot even just disable it)
Settings: Wallpaper Style value fixes

May 24, 2025

2025.05.10429

Fix

Components: ‘Remove Reinstalls’ crash

May 19, 2025

2025.05.10428

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Updates: SafeOS WinRE updates added to the online list
Updates: WinRE now skips CU, as SafeOS updates do not support it and is like that per Microsoft practices
Updates: Existing updates list now includes languages under the individual packs
Setings: ‘Boot/Setup – Legacy’ option now compatible with Ventoy
Components: ‘Disk Quota’ added to Backup/VSS compatibility
UI-Translation: Thanks for Chinese Simplified (Gskening), French (tistou77), Hungarian (John),
Italian (clarensio), Russian (RDS), Swedish (1FF)

Fix

Components: ‘Memory Diagnostics’ removal was breaking CU install in certain combinations
Components: ‘Windows Reader (PDF)’ removal was breaking ‘Print to PDF’ feature

April 29, 2025

2025.04.10406

New

Registry: ‘Power plan’ integration support
Integrate or export a power plan on the Registry page.
All direct registry operations without extra tools, including:
– Integration of a powercfg POW file
– Direct host import on the fly (premium feature), optional overwrite existing plan/GUID
– Changing active plan
– Renaming or deleting plans
– Export a plan to a file
More information

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Components: Windows 11 24H2 26100.3915+ adaptations for various components
Components: Compatibility list now has a clickable root
UI-Translation: Thanks for Hungarian (John), French (tistou77), Turkish (Salih DURDU),
Italian (clarensio), Chinese Simplified (Gskening)

Fix

Image: Preset delete during an image load could have crashed

April 11, 2025

2025.04.10375

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fix for CU if no WU
UI-Translation: Thanks for Hungarian (John), Italian (clarensio)

Fix

Updates: New Win11 24H2 update format (e.g. KB5055627) boot/winre.wim integration

April 9, 2025

2025.04.10373

New

Image: Windows 11 25H2 preview build 26200 support

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fix for CU if no WU
Components: ‘Windows update’ removal also removes the Windows Update banner from Settings
UI-Translation: Thanks for French (tistou77), German (Cartman586)

Fix

Components: Windows 11 24H2 cumulative update install without ‘Windows Update’ component, using NTLite – Install Updates
Recommended to Host Refresh using this version, if previously removed ‘Windows Update’ and want to live install updates
Components: Windows 10 ‘Proximity – Wi-Fi Direct’ removal was breaking Windows Store UI

March 17, 2025

2025.03.10351

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Image: Create ISO now uses ‘Windows UEFI CA 2023’ boot sector only when Update boot managers option is enabled
UI-Translation: Thanks for Portugues-Brasil (Igor) and Italian (clarensio)

March 14, 2025

2025.03.10349

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Updates: Downloader listing and support for latest:
Microsoft.UI.Xaml v2.8 v8.2501.31001.0+
Microsoft.VCLibs.140.00.UWPDesktop v14.0.33728.0+
Microsoft.DesktopAppInstaller (winget) v2025.228.315.0+
Components: Improved cumulative update compatibility after removals for Windows 11 24H2

March 12, 2025

2025.03.10345

New

Components: ‘Image Mastering API (IMAPIv2)’ 32 and 64-bit (used by NTLite Create ISO)
Components: ‘InstallShield WOW64’
Components: ‘Microsoft Pluton security processor’
Components: ‘Net Command Line Tools (net.exe) – 32-bit’
Components: ‘Network Shell (netsh.exe) – 32-bit’
Components: ‘Profile Quota’
Components: ‘Share Targets’ 64 and 32-Bit
Components: ‘Widgets Platform Runtime (InboxApp)’

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Components: ‘Windows Feature Experience Pack – Core’ now removable
Components: ‘Windows Feature Experience Pack – LKG’ components merged into one (readd it to preset if needed)
Components: ‘Network Profile’ 32-bit split, and removes more if SFC compatibility disabled
Components: ‘USB UCSI driver’ upgraded to ‘USB Connector Manager’ and removes more
Unattended: ‘Product Key (Activation)’ option returned due to demand, make sure not to put generic keys into it
Image: ‘Update boot managers’ and ‘Create ISO’ now support ‘Windows UEFI CA 2023’ Secure Boot certificate
Image: ‘Host refresh’ wizard autosaved preset name now has a suffix added to not overwrite the ‘normal’ preset
UI-Translation: Thanks for Turkish (Just), Swedish (1FF), Russian (RDS), Italian (clarensio), Hungarian (John),
French (tistou77), Chinese Traditional (Matt)

Fix

Updates: Update downloader existing checkpoint update installation detection
Updates: .Net 3.5 language integration was interrupting the process
Unattended: Keyboard selection in rare host/image combinations could have generated a wrong ID
Post-setup: Post-setup updates, e.g. Win7 KB2603229, now processed in order as on screen, instead of updates first

February 5, 2025

2025.02.10293

New

Components: ‘Client License Platform’
Renamed and moved around it ‘Microsoft Client License Flexible Platform’ and ‘Client License Service (ClipSVC)’

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Image: Host Refresh compatibility improved, more host vs image combinations work with migration
Components: ‘Storage Management’ 64 and 32-bit split from ‘Storage Spaces’
Components: ‘Enterprise App Management Service’ split from ‘Device Management’
Components: ‘WinSxS Component Store’ added to SFC compatibility, make sure to uncheck SFC in Components – Compatibility if removing
Components: App removal automatically switched to DISM+Custom if Servicing Stack compatibility is disabled
Components: Win11 24H2 ‘Bing Search (InboxApp)’ placeholder since update adds it later in the process
Components: Win11 24H2 ‘Windows Update’ removal had minor leftovers with the 26100.3037 update
Components: Win11 24H2 ‘Windows Feature Experience Pack – Desktop’ removal support for 26100.3037+
Components: ‘WMI Core 32-bit’ removes more
Unattended: Removed Product Key (Activation) entry to avoid confusion, it is sufficient to use the Product Key (Setup)
(Contact support if your deployment scenario requires both product keys, to re-evaluate the change)
UI-Translation: Thanks for French (tistou77)

Fix

Image: ISO and dir sync are now case-sensitive (was copying lowercased)
Components: ‘Microsoft Passport’ removal was breaking adding of other accounts in Settings – Accounts
Unattended: Filtered unsupported locale choices (e.g. selecting just ‘en’ was causing setup error)
Scheduled tasks: Filtering list of cumulative update removed tasks leftovers, like ‘pwdless’

January 29, 2025

2025.01.10275

Fix

Components: Few software driver removals, e.g. wvid.inf, had registry leftovers causing listing of unknown devices
Settings: Boot/Setup Legacy option was mistakenly applied to install.wim if batch-applied from the main image, causing an image deployment reboot loop
Settings: Pagefile disabling wasn’t deleting C:\pagefile.sys on image deployment (recent regression)
Updates: Downloading updates speed progress more precise

January 25, 2025

2025.01.10271

New

Settings: ‘Boot/Setup – Legacy’ 24H2 option to automatically switch to the legacy Boot.wim setup (instead of modern WinRE.wim)

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Settings: Auto-enable Boot.wim – Reapply Settings if setting a boot only option on install.wim
e.g. ‘Boot/Setup – Legacy’ or ‘TPM System requirements’
Updates: Auto-enable WinRE.wim – Reapply Updates if update queue contains SafeOS Dynamic Update
UI-Translation: Thanks for Swedish (1FF)

Fix

Image: WinRE.wim listing on the Image page if not contained inside the Install.wim

January 20, 2025

2025.01.10263

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UI-Translation: Thanks for Italian (clarensio), Hungarian (John), Chinese Traditional (Matt), Turkish (Just)

Fix

Image: Host Refresh wizard skipping preset if selected
Components: QoS removal breaking VMWare network adapter (recent regression)

January 14, 2025

2025.01.10258

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Image: Host Refresh compatibility and wizard improved
Now have less ‘replicate’ and ‘migrate’ errors in certain host-image combinations
Updates: File count included in the Extracted Updates Cache checks, it will recreate older cache
Components: Store compatibility now includes Network Profile for connection detection
Components: Custom update cleanup forced if WinSxS store removal detected
Components: Host Refresh compatibility split from Manual Setup
Components: ‘WinRE.wim’ and ‘WinRE’ merged on pre-24H2 images to avoid size difference in older presets
UI-Translation: Thanks for French (tistou77), Spanish (Plátano_RD)

Fix

Image: WinRE.wim saving was pulling install.wim as well, if both mounted