Changelog

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’

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Components: ‘Windows Performance Recorder’ split from ‘Performance Counters’
UI: Preset file operations unlocked during processing and loading
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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%

New

Source: Windows 10 Preview 1903 build 18329 support

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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
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Fix

Components: Various SFC errors after removals
Components: Better cumulative update support after removals for a DISM rebased image

New

Source: Windows 10 Preview 1903 build 18323 support

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Updates: Allowing ‘Get Latest Updates’ on secondary instances of this tool
General: Settings are now applied before Update Cleanup (enables DISM full rebase if set)
Components: ‘Windows Update’ moved under ‘WinSxS Database’, for more flexibility in trimming ‘WinSxS’
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Fix

UI: Host Refresh wizard could stop after making the ISO, before the actual setup initialization
Updates: Update cleanup had leftovers, now improved while maintaining the better cumulative update compatibility
Components: Cumulative Update compatibility improved on refreshed lite ISOs (e.g. 1809.107)
Components: Minor SFC scannow fixes
Components: ‘Spell Checking’ removal was breaking the Group Policy editor filter
Components: ‘Enterprise Data Protection’ removal could hang ‘Preparing Windows’ on Win10 1511

New

Source: Windows Preview build 18309 support

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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
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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

New

UI: Command line parameters support (see ntlite.exe /?)

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Components: ‘Servicing Stack (DISM)’ compatibility option (explicit switch as was keeping the ‘Windows Update’ component)
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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

Fix

Post-setup: Duplicate entries in some situations

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

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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
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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

New

Unattended: Optional ‘Computer name’ prompt during setup, select or type [Prompt] to enable it

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UI: ‘Removed files’ counter and image sizes now show hard links
UI: Max number of tool instances increased to 2x of CPU threads
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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

New

Tweaks: ‘Clipboard History’
UI-Translation: Thanks for Turkish (SALiH)

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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

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Components: ‘Internet Explorer JScript’ split from ‘Internet Explorer Engine’
Components: ‘Internet Explorer Engine’ simplified and renamed to ‘IE HTML Viewer’, rest merged with ‘Internet Explorer’

Fix

Components: Live removal Start Menu tile leftovers on RS5+
Components: Boot.wim ‘Disk Quota’ removal leftovers
Downloader: Enqueue crash if any warnings present
Updates: IE11 manual CAB packages sorting multiple languages (add only those fitting the image languages)

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’

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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+

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

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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

New

Tools: Download Updates
Settings: Erase temporary directory options

Update

Components-x64: Split some 32-bit counterparts
– ‘Browser window frame (IEFrame – 32-bit)’
– ‘Edge HTML core (32-bit)’
– ‘Input Service (32-bit)’
– ‘Internet Explorer (32-bit)’
– ‘Internet Explorer engine (32-bit)’
– ‘Photo codec (32-bit)’
– ‘Photo Viewer (32-bit)’
– ‘Windows Media Codec (32-bit)’
– ‘Windows Media Player (32-bit)’
– ‘WMP Network Sharing Service (32-bit)’
Components: ‘Input Processors’ split from ‘Input Service’
UI: Thanks for French (tistou), Dutch (Rene), Spanish (Oleada), Russian (Den-s), Chinese Traditional (Matt),
Chinese Simplified (Gskening), Portuguese-Brasil (Igor), Greek (Soulimiotis), Farsi (Mona mon)

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)

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

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

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UI: Minor improvements

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

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
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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

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

Fix

Updates-1803: Integration error 32 when combining KB4135051 and .NET CAB
Components: ‘Spell Checking’ and ‘Windows Update’ removals were causing Settings Language Options crash
Components: ‘Mail’ removal could break the time tray Calendar popup
Components: ‘Storage Service’ removal was breaking the Settings Apps list
Components: ‘Skype’ app had no calling sound after some removals
Components: ‘User Data Storage’ removal could crash the Mail app
Components: ‘TPM’ removal could break the Firewall and Defender control panels
Components-1607: ‘Hyper-V Guest’ removal could break a cumulative update install

Update

UI-Translation: Thanks for Arabic (thamermousa) and Chinese Simplified (Gskening and jockeysoft)

New

Settings-1709+: ‘Reopen my apps after an update or restart’
Settings-1803: ‘Fullscreen optimizations’

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UI-Translation: Thanks for French (tistou), Chinese Traditional (Matt), Russian (Den-s)

Fix

Updates: 1803 CU KB4100375 could popup an error after integration if used together with Adobe Flash update
Unattended: Duplicate commands on repeat preset load could cause setup error
Components-1803: Various leftovers
Source: ESD compression now uses a number of cores instead of threads, for stability
General: Multi-instance stability improvements in extreme scenarios

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UI-Translation: Thanks for Arabic (thamermousa), Farsi (Mona mon), Italian (gabritb01)

Fix

Source: 1803 RS4 Enterprise edition crucial package not detected message
UI: Export progress during ESD to WIM conversion

New

Component-RS4: ‘System Guard’
Component-RS4: ‘OpenSSH’
Component-RS4: ‘Task View’
Component: ‘Print Workflow Service’
Settings: ‘Show me suggested content in the Settings app’
Settings: ‘Let Windows collect my activities from this PC (‘Timeline’)’
Settings: Refreshed RS4 privacy options

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Source: Win10 RS4 17133 support
Components: ‘Shell Search’ compatibility (‘Language pack setup’ offline removal unlocked)
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Farsi (Mona mon), Portugues-Brasil (Igor), Spanish (Oleada), Arabic (thamermousa),
Chinese Simplified (Gskening and jockeysoft), Dutch (Rene), Italian (gabritb01)

Fix

Components: ‘Tablet PC’ and ‘Diagnostics’ leftovers
Components: ‘Push Notifications’ removal was causing Edge download crash

New

General: Multi-instance support, run the tool multiple times for session parallelism
Components: ‘Encrypting File System (EFS)’
Components: ‘Browser Brokers’
Components: ‘Face Recognition’
Components: ‘Graphics performance monitor service’
Components: ‘Microsoft GS Wavetable SW Synth (MIDI)’
Components: ‘MMGA MAPI’
Components: ‘Netlogon’
Components: ‘Targeted Content service’

New

Settings: ‘Accent Color (LogonUI)’

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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

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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)

New

Settings: ‘Display the lock screen’
Settings: ‘Display last user name in logon screen’
Settings: ‘Use classic logon’
Components: ‘Volume Shadow Service API’

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Source: Win10 RS4 17093 support
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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

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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

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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

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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
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