Changelog – NTLite

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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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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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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June 3, 2025

2025.06.10456

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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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)
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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

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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
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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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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
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Fix

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

December 19, 2024

2024.12.10221

Fix

Image: 24H2 Boot.wim non-checkpoint cumulative update was skipped
Components: Cleaned SFC warnings up to the Lite template
Features: DISM ResetBase RPC error caused by Sandbox enabling

December 13, 2024

2024.12.10216

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New-Settings: DNS – Discovery of Network-designated Resolvers (DNR)

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Components: Split ‘DHCP’ and ‘DNS’ 32-bit parts in a separate component
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Fix

Components: ‘Start Menu’ removal could break tray on 26100.2605
UI: Dism Cleanup progress visually stopping at 70%

December 8, 2024

2024.12.10210

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Image: Windows 11 Preview Canary build 27758 support
Components: ‘Content Delivery Manager’ now cleans pinned promotional Start tiles during ‘Remove Reinstalls’ after Windows Update
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Fix

UI: Rare processing stop after integration and data reload
Updates: Server connection error 32 on some machines

December 3, 2024

2024.12.10200

New

Components: ‘Improved Inter-Integrated Circuit (I3C)’
Components: ‘Protected Environment Authorization Service’

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Updates: Downloadable updates organized into categories for a better overview
Updates: Faster directory cleanup of cache and temp files
Components: ‘Windows Copilot (User Experience)’ detection if no system app
Components: Hyper-V VM compatibility protects Hyper-V Integration Services
Components: ‘Nvidia’ compatibility includes ‘ICM’, ‘Battle.net’ compatibility includes Curl/Curl32, and added ‘Easy Anti-Cheat’ compatibility option
UI: Tool’s settings page size reduction to accomodate higher display scaling factors or lower resolutions
UI-Translation: Thanks for German (Cartman586), Russian (RDS)

Fix

Components: Win10 ‘Snipping Tool’ highlighting fix if ‘Tablet PC’ removed
Components: ‘WinSxS Component Store’ removal was breaking ‘Print To Pdf’ if kept
Components: Hyper-V Guest VM had an install error if Hyper-V removed from the image (should only need ‘Hyper-V Integration Services’)
Image: 24H2 setup error if editing WinRE in the same session and temp folder is on a different partition than the image

November 17, 2024

2024.11.10169

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Components: ‘User Choice Protection’ placeholder for unpatched Win10 (to be able to integrate and remove in one session)
Components: ‘Docker’ and ‘Remote Desktop’ compatibility options
UI-Translation: Thanks for Portugues-Brasil (Igor)

Fix

Components: ‘Mobile Device Management’ removal was breaking Windows Preview 26100.2448 taskbar
Updates: Servicing stack integration could be skipped for parallel integrations to other images

November 13, 2024

2024.11.10166

New

Unattended: Change ‘Users’ (Profiles) directory deployment option
Setting: ‘Limit print driver installation to Administrators’ option
Setting: ‘ReadyBoost’ option
Setting: ‘Sticky Keys’ option
Settings: ‘Explorer – Navigation pane – Home link’ removal option (re-save Gallery setting to preset, changed tag)
Settings: ‘SMB Server – Digitally sign communications (Always)’

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Components: ‘Network Profile’ component is an expansion and merger of:
‘Network List Service’, ‘Network Location Awareness (NLA)’ and ‘Network Connectivity Status Indicator (NCSI)’
Components: Improved ‘Windows Defender’ removal in certain cases, remains disabled if returned by a cumulative update
Components: ‘OOBE – FOD Setup’ split from ‘OOBE’
Components: ‘ReadyBoost’ split from ‘SuperFetch’
Components: ‘Encrypting File System (EFS) – Service’ removes more
Components: Improved Win11 24H2 DISM RestoreHealth and update cleanup compatibility after removals
Features: WMIC enabling on Win11 24H2 images requires removal of ‘OOBEFodSetup’ scheduled task, or ‘OOBE – FOD Setup’ component
Updates: Dism Cleanup with UI progress for Windows 11 hosts
Updates: On integration of multiple cumulative updates, picks latest servicing stack first and indicates visually
Updates: ‘Safe OS Dynamic Update for WinRE’ update type support. Integrated after Servicing stack, before Cumulative updates
Updates: .WIM update extension support for integration
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Spanish (Plátano_RD), Swedish (1FF), Turkish (Just), Chinese Traditional (Matt)

Fix

Components: ‘MIDI’ component removed from Win7 as it was not removable anyway
Components: ‘OneDrive’ removal was breaking 24H2 setup in some configurations
Components: ‘WMI Providers’ removal was breaking Settings – Network adapter list in Win11 24H2
UI: Fixed silent closing of the tool during removals, was a crash in rare cases

October 8, 2024

2024.10.10089

New

Components: ‘Microsoft Privacy Engine’
Components: ‘QUIC Transport Protocol’
Components: ‘Unexpected Codepath’
Components: ‘Zero Trust DNS’
Updates: Cumulative update baseline type support (e.g. KB5043080 for 24H2)

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Italian (clarensio), Swedish (1FF), Turkish (Just)

Fix

Settings: Disabling ‘Taskbar – Widgets’ could have access denied error 5
UI: Image and Updates pages resizing removes columns sooner for better visibility on smaller resolutions
Components: ‘Error Reporting’ removal was breaking ‘Containers’ (Sandbox feature) only before image install

September 17, 2024

2024.9.10073

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Services: Templates for services, if not removing components
Located in the Services page toolbar, mimics Component’s list, disables per levels Privacy < Gaming < Lite
Component Compatibility options are taken into account

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Components: Improved Win11 24H2 cumulative update compatibility after removals
(recommended to Host Refresh with this version or newer)
Settings: Re-enabled ‘Taskbar – Combine buttons and hide labels’ on Win11 23H2+
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Fix

Components: Copilot (User Experience Aix) removal was breaking new explorer tabs
UI: Text size scaling improvements

August 29, 2024

2024.8.10045

New

Component: ‘Email accounts support’ (needed for Microsoft Account)

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Image: Win11 24H2 26100.1591 support, cumulative update changed a few important bits
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Fix

UI: ‘Check Update’ displaying ‘The parameter is incorrect’ on second open
Components: ‘Email and accounts’ app removal was breaking Photos app in Win10 22H2

August 19, 2024

2024.8.10026

New

Image: Windows 11 Canary 27686 build support

Fix

Components: ‘Shell Search’ removal was breaking ‘File Explorer Extensions’ Gallery
Components: ‘Windows Feature Experience Pack – Desktop’ removal was breaking ‘On-Screen keyboard’
Apply: If removing the WinRE component, block Reapply image operations to it on the Apply page

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August 15, 2024

2024.8.10014

Fix

Updates: Allow to integrate older and confirm to overwrite existing newer app version
Components: Compatibility options could reset the Components page, causing UI glitches on next click
Components: ‘Routing and Remote Access Service’ removal was breaking 24H2 update install
Make sure to use NTLite – Tools – Install Updates wizard to autofix the problem if removed with an older version

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Upgrade-Components: Text input components rearranged and upgraded, Win11 24H2 26100.1301 needs CTFMon and Text Input Management for typing in modern UI
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July 27, 2024

2024.7.10001

Fix

7-zip library update, rare crash on extraction

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July 16, 2024

2024.7.9999

Fix

SDK Update, solves a recently introduced 32-bit tool crash

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July 1, 2024

2024.7.9997

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Components: ‘Refs’, ‘Microsoft Passport’ and ‘Windows Update’ Win11 24H2 leftovers
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Swedish (1FF), Turkish (Just)

Fix

Settings: ‘Navigation pane – Gallery’ disabling in offline/image
Components: ‘Web Account Manager’ removal was breaking Win10 Settings
Components: TabletPC removal was breaking Snipping Tool in Win11 24H2
Components: Tool could silently close while removing drivers
PostSetup: Reapply multi-edition sequencing improvements for ‘Before logon’ tasks

June 11, 2024

2024.6.9976

New

Image: Server 2025 support, license support date same as Windows 11 24H2
Components:
‘Sudo’
‘Voice Clarity (Apo)’
‘Composite Image File System (CimFS)’
‘Boot-time FsTx update recovery utility (AutoFsTx)’
‘Microsoft Copilot’ app/inboxapp removal (24H2)
‘Start Experiences’ (InboxApp)
Settings:
‘Windows Copilot+ Recall’ disabling
‘Allow your controller to open Game Bar’
‘Show me notifications in the Settings app’
‘SMB Server – Enable insecure guest logons’
‘SMB Server – Digitally sign communications’
Components merged from beta:
‘Boot-time File System Verification Utility (Autochk)’ 32-bit
‘COM OLE 2.x Legacy’ 32-bit
‘Client URL tool (cURL)’ 32 and 64-bit
‘Driver Verifier Manager (verifier.exe)’ 32 and 64-bit
‘Extensible Storage Engine (ESENT)’ 32-bit
‘Extensible Storage Engine Utilities’ 32 and 64-bit
‘JScript9 Legacy’
‘Natural Language Legacy’
‘Windows Globalization’ 32-bit

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Components: Removing more with ‘Sustainability Service’, ‘OOBE’, ‘Microcode Update – AMD’, ‘WLAN’, ‘Optional Features’,
‘Device Association Framework Providers’, ‘Proximity’ (includes Wi-Fi Direct’)
Win11 24H2 removal improved for ‘Direct Access Connection’, ‘ReFS’, ‘Bluetooth’, ‘APX speaker and microphone driver’,
‘WLAN’, ‘Device Association Framework’ and ‘Dolby Atmos codec pack’, ‘Mixed Reality’
Components split: ‘Print 3D’ 32-bit, ‘Processor microcode update’ to Intel and AMD (careful: removing Intel one breaks OS since 24h2),
‘Language MTF’ from ‘Input Processors’
‘Sensor Service’ added to OOBE compatibility
Features: Win11 24H2 “WMIC” feature enabling support
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Fix

Components: Com Plus MSC had a start menu link leftover
Settings: Disable ‘Remote Desktop’ should had no enable option

May 20, 2024

2024.5.9946

Fix

Updates: Windows 7 Post-setup ‘Before logon’ delayed update tasks could skip saving when combined with component removals

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Updates: Downloader mitigation for error 12175 under Win7 and 8.1 hosts due to non-default TLS 1.1/1/2
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May 17, 2024

2024.5.9944

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Settings: ‘Automatic device encryption’ disable option

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Components: ‘International Unicode Components’ split 32-bit, the 64-bit is needed for the new Notepad app update
Components: ‘Windows Feature Experience Pack – LKG’ placeholder if Win11 23H2 image older than revision 3527
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May 8, 2024

2024.5.9931

Fix

Updates: KBKB5036980 integration to Win11 under Win10 host, error 0x8007007e

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May 6, 2024

2024.5.9929

Fix

Updates: Enqueued MSIX dependencies weren’t auto-downloaded during processing (error 2)
Settings: ‘Select the far corner of the taskbar to show the desktop’ now listed on Win11 23H2+
Components: ‘Manual setup’ removal temporarily disabled on Win11 24H2 as the new Windows setup heavily depends on it

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April 26, 2024

2024.4.9925

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Components: Improved compatibility with the upcoming Windows 11 24h2
Updates: ‘Update boot manager’ option added, disabled by default
Needed on image update if the destination machine has the latest Secure Boot mitigations enforced.
Supports the new Windows UEFI 2023 CA updates.

April 24, 2024

2024.4.9916

fix

Post-setup: Preset handling backwards compatibility with builds before 2024.4.9910
Post-setup: Powershell script execution
Components: ‘Application Compatibility’ removal leftovers

April 22, 2024

2024.4.9910

New

Image: Windows 11 24h2 support
Updates: MSIX license file support
(add license XML to the Updates queue, automatically used if applies to a queued app)
Post-setup: ‘After logon’ template command ‘Edge WebView2 Update (winget)’

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Updates: Improved MSIX integration
frameworks group-applied with the main app instead of individually
auto-search of offline license file, including the host
Post-setup: ‘winget’ commands ‘After logon’ support
(Windows does not pre-deploy ‘winget’ global access instantly on a new user first logon)
Updates: Windows 11 24H2 updates integration support
(see \Tools\delta\readme.txt for more info)

April 15, 2024

2024.4.9880

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Updates: Support for integrating WOW64 packages into the 64-bit image
Updates: Allow existing cumulative update to be re-added to the list for reapply purposes
Settings: ‘Windows Copilot’ setting now also includes the tray button

Fix

UI: Host Refresh wizard crash
Components: ‘MSHTML Viewer’ removal was blocked if ‘Internet Explorer’ kept
Components: ‘Spell Checking’ removal was breaking GPEdit search/filtering
Post-setup: Reapply multiple editions ‘Before Logon’ tasks was not applied to subsequent editions

April 3, 2024

2024.4.9860

Fix

Updates: “Missing” error message on Appx/Msix update in the automated download with integrate scenario
Image: Apply queue could stop before auto-loading next image in certain conditions
Drivers: Removing Host imported driver, then removing the entire branch would crash

April 1, 2024

2024.4.9853

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Post-setup: ‘Before logon – Mode’ toolbar option, upgrades and replaces the Unattended OEM SetupComplete
Useful for those that want to hide the command-line popup and bypass UI interaction, while solving the OEM key limitation.
Post-setup: ‘Before logon’ run tasks indicated in a popup during setup (Mode – Default)
Components: ‘Desired State Configuration (DSC)’ had leftovers if PowerShell kept
UI-Translation: Thanks for Italian (clarensio)

New

Settings: ‘Windows Copilot’ disable option (standard policy only)

March 26, 2024

2024.3.9833

Fix

Post-setup: ‘Before logon’ tasks again do not need OEM SetupComplete option, leaving it as an option
Components: ‘GameInput Service’ component detection

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March 25, 2024

2024.3.9831

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Unattended: ‘OEM SetupComplete’ returned as an option for those that need it with OEM machines
Features: WMIC and Internet Explorer capabilities locked if pending removal
Updates: Postponed updates (e.g. Win7 KB2533552 and KB2603229) now use post-setup Setup\Files like other files

March 19, 2024

2024.3.9819

Fix

Components: InboxApps ‘Bing Search (InboxApp)’, ‘Flipgrid PWA (InboxApp)’, ‘Outlook PWA (InboxApp)’
merged from beta, as intended
Updates: Crash on Download updates Enqueue in some situations

March 18, 2024

2024.3.9812

New

Updates: ‘Windows Package Manager (App Installer, WinGet)’ added to the update list
Updates: ‘Microsoft.UI.Xaml v2.8.6’ added to the update list
Updates: ‘Microsoft Visual C++ UWP Runtime v14.00 (Microsoft.VCLibs.140.00.UWPDesktop)’ added to the update list

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UI-Translation: Thanks for Chinese Traditional (Matt), Italian (clarensio)

Fix

Settings: ‘UScheduler’ duplicate removed from the ‘Windows Update’ group
Post-setup: Before logon not executing for some

March 16, 2024

2024.3.9796

Fix

Presets: Deleting multiple presets at once could crash UI
Image: Isolated (WIM-only) image detection for Post-setup entries, blocking to Image-only mode as intended
Image: Image edit folder rename and overwrite existing folder support
Integrate-Registry: HKCU REG file integration in some cases
UI: Chinese character width was incorrect in the new hover buttons
Drivers: Repeated toolbar Host Import command was recreating multiple Add hover buttons

New

Components: ‘Battle.net’ compatibility option

March 12, 2024

2024.3.9780

New

Post-Setup: Page redesigned, ‘Machine’ box is now ‘Before logon’ group, ‘User’ is ‘After logon’
Post-Setup: Integrate background photo support (Add – File – change Type to Background after adding to the list)
Post-Setup: Integrate ‘hosts’ file support (Add – File, destination is automatically set)
Post-Setup: Integrate directory support
Post-Setup: Destination path changeable and has auto-complete. For copy and background types. Overwriting a file preserves original permissions
Post-Setup: Destination mode changeable. Choose ‘Image’, stored inside the WIM/ESD, or ‘ISO’, stored on the ISO
Post-Setup: Type changeble, files can be just copied or copied and ran. Commands can be switched on the fly from before to after logon
Post-Setup: Rename support for existing file and directories
Settings: ‘Dynamic lock’ option
UI: Page navigation menu now has a number badge indicator of added or changed items for that page
UI: Added hover buttons to the appropriate pages, quicky and intuitively insert items

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Unattended: Default Recovery partition size increased from 499 to 700MB on Win10+
Images: Disabling image Edit menu while processing previous command
Images: Support for Unload all mounted per WIM/ESD selection
Images: Presets list remembers clicked header to sort by name or date
Updates: Downloading updates if cannot connect will prompt for retry or cancel
Updates: Defender update ARM64 architecture support (fixes popup on loading ARM64 images)
Components: Reactive compatibility description of ‘Locked by’ extra info on components
Components: ‘OneDrive’ removal won’t be setting OneDrive disable policy as well. To set as before, use the Settings page in conjuction
Components: ‘Shared Experiences’, ‘StartMenu’ and ‘Easy Transfer’ remove more, expanded by the cumulative updates
Components: ‘File Explorer (Extensions)’ removal support for Windows 11 23H2, does not break Explorer
Settings: Highlighting changed settings for an easier overview
UI-Translation: Thanks for Chinese Simplified (Gskening), French (tistou77), German (Cartman586), Italian (clarensio),
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Fix

Components: ‘Sounds’ default removed defaults to None in Sound settings
Components: ‘Text Input Management Service’ removal in a certain scenario could have caused a blank screen on Win11
Components: ‘RDP Client’ 32-bit removal was blocked if 64-bit version kept
Components: ‘Telemetry client’ leftover if ‘Application Compatibility’ kept
Components: ‘Not recommended’ Template disabled, listed for color description only
Post-Setup: Command prompt popup for ‘Before logon (Machine)’ commands during setup in some cases
Images: Unloading all at once manually from the folder could keep install image loaded if the WinRE and Boot.wim were mounted as well
Images: WinRE image handling, should fix rare crashes in processing combinations
Updates: Check for tool updates default version pre-selection improvements