New features, fixes, and upgrades. Full version history from 2014 to present.
17 releases
New
Secure Boot Migration support: Verification, certificate staging, and boot-manager/sector update across the Image, Updates, Apply, and Create-ISO pages(2023 CA migration, optional 2011 revocation, Anti-rollback, Boot sector choice etc)
Secure Boot Host Readiness: Live host Secure Boot migration monitor and Servicing-task controlOption under Image page - C:\Windows row, or load the host as the target - Updates - Secure Boot
Image: 'Sort mounted images first' option for the image list in Menu-Settings
UI: Hover description card for Components and Unattended pages, selectable text and quick access to Compatibility options
Command line: Relay commands into the already-running instanceEnables controlling already running NTLite via ntlite.exe Use /NewInstance to launch an additional instance using CLI operations (premium)
UI: 'New instance' option via main menu instead of a secondary ntlite.exe prompt
Apply: Hide individual Apply-page notes with a per-note dismiss (X), critical excluded
Settings: 'Unsigned RDP file launch warnings' tweak (RDP client), bypassing the April 2026 security-update prompt on RDP connections
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Image: Live OS and deployed image editing now unlocked on free/test licenses, same licensing as images
Image: 'Recompress' option in manual dialog Remove Editions to shrink the WIM in one session
Image: SWM part size set inline on the Apply page and image dialogs, split-size popup retired
Image: Relative 'Last change' dates; editions grouped by build time to reduce noise
Image: 'Forget - Missing' on the Edit-cache menu to mass drop entries whose folder is gone
Components: Root groups reorganized - user-facing groups first, system/critical last
Components: Show filter options to view components by Template or App-type, since Apps are now merged into groups
Presets: Delete confirmation now lists the multi-selected preset names
UI: Design update propagated to the rest of the tool
UI: Filter and search match words in any order and partially, better results filtering Components
Unattended: Input-locale language derives from the user locale, with an independent keyboard picker, enables combinations previously unavailable
Unattended: Input-locale now allows for a user value override
Unattended: Localization OOBE WinPE now can be copied with the new WinPE Copy OOBE localization toggle, enter locale settings once for both stages
Updates: Downloader greys and locks updates the image already carries (hotfix and MSIX)
Updates: Resume interrupted update downloads
Command line: Many upgrades, see /?, now prints help to the console or redirected output
UI-Translation: Finnish language added, also thanks for Chinese Traditional (Matt), French (tistou77), Italian (clarensio), Russian (RDS), Swedish (1FF), Vietnamese (Vu Anh Vu)
Components: Microsoft Account had leftovers when Easy Migrate is kept
Image: Export to an existing WIM improvements, Append renamed to Merge
Image: Improved 26H1 live removal support
Image: No more 'X:\ not accessible' popup for certain drives during image scan
Presets: Manual image refresh picks up presets added/removed outside the app
Tweaks: Disabled visual-effect animations no longer return after first logon on a new profile
Tweaks: Live Visual Effects toggles (animations, drag full windows, font smoothing) now apply correctly
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Settings: Global filters in toolbar across all Settings tabs, also hides tabs without results
Settings: Options now support resetting to preset or image baseline, with indicator on the leftFilled dot when the value matches the loaded preset, hollow ring when it differs, also supported in filters
Command-line: /Save, /Discard, /SaveFormat, /SaveDes, /Forget, and /RemoveEditions verbs and process exit codesCheck Docs or ntlite.exe /? for more info
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Command line: Reworked /? help into a sectioned, themed dialog
UI: Image page and Create ISO improvements
UI: Image-load warning/error prompts merged into one tabbed dialog instead of repeated popups per type
UI-Translation: Thanks for Hungarian (John), Russian (RDS)
Fix
Create ISO: Unchecking 'Prompt for any key before booting' regression
Image: Windows Recovery Environment group listing recovery images on the host, including in hidden partitions
Settings: 'Start menu - All apps' enable/disable options
Settings: 'Start menu - All apps view mode' start menu tweak (Win11 24H2+)
Settings: 'NTFS 8.3 file name creation' option
Settings: 'Visual Effects' with template selection added to the Settings-VisualsGroup of tweaks representing Windows System - Performance Options - Visual Effects
Updates: 'Windows App Runtime 2.0.*' added to the update list
Cmdline: CLI upgraded, ntlite.exe /? for more info
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Settings: Tweaks grouped if depending on the master switch, e.g. All apps list, User tile, Power button, RDP, Storage Sense
Settings: Graphics and rendering tweaks moved to the new Visuals tab
Updates: 'Unload registry failed' retry popup during parallel integration
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UI-Translation: Thanks for French (tistou77), Vietnamese (Vu Anh Vu), Italian (clarensio)
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UI-Translation: Thanks for Chinese Traditional (Matt), French (tistou77), Hungarian (John), Italian (clarensio), Russian (RDS)
Fix
UI: Minor fixes
New
Updates: 'Clean Apps' option, removes obsolete duplicate AppX/MSIX versions, including frameworks/runtimes and unregistered/lost apps
Updates: .NET Language Pack detection and proper sorting, fixes Win10 integration error in combination
Presets: Support for in-file edit ApplyOptions-Commands-PostApply for executing commands on a host after applying, before saving the imageSee commented placeholder in a saved preset with a text editor. Useful for manual additions to the image via scripts before saving
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Updates: Toolbar extraction options split into Parallel and Smart Cache
UI-Translation: Thanks for Chinese Traditional (Matt), French (tistou77), Hungarian (John), Italian (clarensio), Russian (RDS), Vietnamese (Vu Anh Vu)
Fix
Components: 'Live Caption' and 'Voice Access' leftovers if Accessibility kept
Components: .NET WCF removal leftovers
Image: was keeping reg hives loaded after image load while tool is running, blocking other DISM sessions to the same mount
UI: Improved responsiveness, especially during Apply
New
Components: 'AI Component Management' (25H2 CU)
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UI-Translation: Thanks for Hungarian (John), Italian (clarensio), Russian (RDS), Vietnamese (Vu Anh Vu)
Fix
Updates: MSIX integration in certain host-image combinations had error 1781, recent regression
New
Components: 'Accessibility' - Braille (added by 25H2 CU)
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Updates: Faster update extraction utilizing more threads
General: Faster file deletion, most noticeable when deleting large directories
Drivers: Host Import now picks the latest version of the same driver, does not duplicate
Drivers: Hardware list remembers scrolling position on driver changes for easier tracking
UI: Improved cleanup progress on exit, with cancel support
UI-Translation: Thanks for Portugues-Brasil (Igor)
Fix
Updates: MSIX/APPX integration/install error 87 on pre-1903 targets
Components: Recheck/uncheck sub-components form the prompt
Drivers: Improved hardware list matching, detecting compatible drivers previously missed
Drivers: Host Import architecture ARM vs AMD 64-bit on some INFs
UI: Duplicate Remove/Export items in right-click drivers context menu
New
Settings: 26H1+ 'File Explorer - Show Recommended section' option