Changelog – NTLite

October 12, 2021

2.3.0.8396

New

Unattended: Computer Name %SERIAL% variable, dynamically insert machine’s serial number during install
Settings: Win11 Setup requirement – Storage and RAM bypass option
Settings: Win11 Start – ‘Show most used apps’ option

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Components: Win11 language removal detections for ‘Basque’, ‘Catalan’, ‘Galician’, ‘Indonesian’, ‘Vietnamese’
Components: Win11 removing more for ‘Microsoft Account’, ‘System Guard’, ‘VBS’, ‘Edge Chromium’, ‘Telemetry’, ‘Speech’, ‘Diagnostics’, ‘OCR’
Settings: Win11 TPM requirement disabling option improved
Settings ‘Windows’ section merged with ‘System’ for clarity
UI-Translation: Thanks for Chinese Simplified (Gskening) and German (Cartman586)

Fix

Source: Detected file in use error while saving, if processing Install + Boot + WinRE images in the same session
Components: Win11 ‘DevicesFlow’ removal would cause Settings – Devices closing
Components: Win11 ‘Wired Autoconfig’ removal would cause Settings – Network connections closing
Components: Win11 ‘Zip Folders’ removal was reverting Explorer toolbar to an old ribbon style

October 5, 2021

2.3.0.8375

New

Source: Windows 11 Dev Preview build 22471 Preview preliminary support
Source: Windows Server Next build 22463 Preview preliminary support
Settings: Win11 ‘Taskbar – Chat’ and ‘Widgets’ options
Settings: Win11 ‘Virtualization-based security (VBS)’ disable option (works only without the UEFI lock for now)
Components: ‘Kerberos’ (64-bit), needed for Win11 WiFi tray popup, listing and keeping a component protects it

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Components: Win11 automatic WiFi and Ethernet driver package cleanup
Components: Win11 ‘Connected Devices Platform User Service’ needed for tray popups, warning on Apply and added to OOBE compatibility
Components: ‘Isolated user mode (IUM)’ renamed and upgraded to ‘Virtualization-based security (VBS)’
Components: ‘Microsoft.VCLibs.140.00.UWPDesktop’ renamed to ‘C++ Runtime framework package for Desktop Bridge’
Components: ‘Windows Remote Management’ removal disables ‘Event Collector’ service, clear dependency for that part of Event Viewer
Source: WIM Export – Append support to the same image file, useful to duplicate editions
UI: Status bar completed message contains Windows resulting Windows version for better overview
UI-Translation: Thanks for German (Cartman586), French (tistou77), Polish (KrzysioZ)

Fix

Components: Win11 ‘Insider Hub’ removal was hiding Windows Update settings page
Components: Win11 ‘IPsec Policy Agent’ removal had leftovers
Components: Win11 ‘Snip & Sketch’ now includes the Snipping tool component
Components: Win11 open .TXT service error
Components: LCU folder removal leftovers
Components: ‘Edge Update’ removal was removing DoNotUpdateToEdgeWithChromium reg tweak
Unattended: Disk configuration Expand button would crash UI in some cases
Sources: WinRE missing target after deleting editions in the multiedition session
Settings: ‘Use only latest CLR (.NET version)’ offline/image apply

September 21, 2021

2.3.0.8333

New

Updates: Windows 11 online update list
Updates: Windows Server 2022 online update list
Updates: Support for the new Windows 11 MSU update format
Components: ‘Device Update Center’ removal

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Updates: Online update lists now have Windows Server names on the appropriate versions
Updates: ESD file type support for the Updates page (e.g. certain lang packs)
Components: Win11 ‘Windows Update’ component detection, also enables listing of related Settings
UI-Translation: Thanks for German (Cartman586)

Fix

Source: WinRE parallel processing with its parent install.wim exporting error fixed
Updates: Multiedition parallel integration now filters Dynamic Update for the loaded edition only
(it just needs to update common boot files once)
Updates: Language pack multiedition parallel integration fixed, and better use of its extracted cache

September 14, 2021

2.3.0.8311

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Updates: Win11 update cache folders 11.21h2.x64 and 11.Dev.x64
Updates: Server 2022 KB5005444 Dynamic Update support
UI: Clean dir preparation stage does not hang UI any more
UI-Translation: Thanks for Chinese Traditional (Matt)

Fix

Components: Server 2022 ‘Telemetry Client’ removal was causing a setup hang
Unattended: Server 2022 no product key entered would show a license error during setup
Updates: Server 2022 while also being 21H2, now properly filtered in the update lists from the client version (awaiting public updates)
UI: Prompting reboot now cleans before rebooting, instead on the next session
UI: Potential fix for the old and rare opening Apply page crash

September 6, 2021

2.3.0.8290

New

Source: Win11 build 22449.1000 Preview unofficial support for testing

Fix

UI: Hanging at cleaning and unloading regression

August 31, 2021

2.3.0.8280

New

Updates: Multi-edition parallel integration from a single tool instance
Unattended: Disk Template move/up down recovery partition option, with specific/non-extended main partition sizes
Unattended: Expand/collapse toolbar buttons
Source: Forget all mounted history context menu option

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Source: Parallel unload when possible, e.g. at the end of processing or Unloading a folder with multiple images
Unattended: Disk wizard extend main partition size option now more visible in a form of a button (or type 0 for size)
Settings: Separate Windows Update disable and download options on Win10 for more clarity
UI: Cleanup popup on exiting the tool for more clarity on the closing delay
UI: Improved text/font readability of the tool UI, in sync with the OS
UI: Re-reads statusbar version of a loaded image immediately after integrating cumulative updates
UI: Renamed ‘Image process queue …’ to ‘Reapply tasks across editions’
Post-setup: Reapply task across editions support for Post-setup
UI-Translation: Thanks for Chinese Simplified (Gskening), German (Cartman586), Ukrainian (Ihor)

Fix

Components: Allow apply if both boot managers missing, e.g. unexpected component structure or an image
UI: Crash on double-close during cleaning

August 11, 2021

2.2.0.8160

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Updates: Update extract cache mode is a tool setting now, instead of per-preset
Components: TeamViewer compatibility option
UI-Translation: Thanks for Farsi (Mona mon), German (Cartman), Hungarian (József), Korean (Redrabbit),
Portugues-Brasil (Igor), Romanian (Coman)

Fix

Updates: Win10 2004-21H1 KB5005260 integration support

August 3, 2021

2.2.0.8152

New

Updates: Multi-threaded pre-extraction option
(uses multiple CPU cores for faster parallel package extraction)
Updates: Permanent cache option for decompressed packages
(~10% faster integration per instance and less wear on SSDs in repeated sessions)
Updates: Delta CAB extraction support
(Win11 PSF previusly and now with Win7-10 deltas)
Source: Windows 11 Preview up to 22000.100 support
Settings: Win11 Taskbar – Size
Settings: Win11 Taskbar – Classic (disables start menu, only only with Start alternatives)
Components: BCD Template Client (needed for image setup, only removable on deployed installs)
Components: CapFrameX component removal compatibility option
UI-Translation: Romanian (thanks Coman)

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General: Cleaning temporary files is now deleting root directories in parallel threads
General: Long (>256 characters) network path support
Updates: Removed placeholder row, deferred post-setup updates always queued first in execution
Settings: Bypass Win11 TMP also includes BypassRAMCheck
Components: Discord compatibility now includes ‘Windows Presentation Foundation Core’
UI-Translation: Thanks for Chinese Traditional (Matt), French (tistou77), German (Cartman), Polish (KrzysioZ)

Fix

Updates: Win7 2533552 integration order fix
Source: Win8.1 boot.wim image title was incorrectly displayed
Source: Loading image without Servicing Stack could stuck on load

July 6, 2021

2.1.2.8074

New

Settings: Win11 ‘TPM and SecureBoot setup requirement’ option
(Make sure to apply to boot.wim, read description)
Updates: Windows 11 Express Update CAB+PSF (Patch Storage File) integration support
Components: ‘Windows Animation Manager’ 32 and 64 bit removals, 64-bit needed on Win8.1 and 10
General: /AppendPreset switch option, to load additional common settings from command-line
General: /ThreadMax switch option, to limit maximum CPU usage from command-line

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Components: ‘Windows PushToInstall Service’ split from Store, removal does not break Store
Components: ‘Cumulative Update cache’ always listed for removal as an placeholder for integration in the same session
Post-setup: CompactOS template moved to User box, and added the LZX option for deeper compression
Updates: Simplified update cache subdirectory names for Win10 (“10.0.”->”10.”). Supports old paths if pre-exist
UI-Translation: Thanks for Chinese Simplified (Gskening), French (tistou77), Italian (gabritb01), Polish (KrzysioZ)

Fix

Components: ‘Microsoft.AAD.BrokerPlugin’ detached from ‘Azure Active Directory’, only former needed for Store sign-in
Components: Telemetry removal hanging setup for older Win10 versions, same like disable tweak was doing
Source: Improved status bar Windows version display for loaded Server editions
Presets: Not lowercasing preset file paths any more, it was a regression since directory subscription feature
Updates: Win10 20H2 update list auto-select

June 27, 2021

2.1.2.8047

Fix

Settings: ‘News and interests – Taskbar widget’ setting would not stick on images
Settings: Win10 1903 and older Telemetry Security/Disable option was hanging ‘Getting ready’ setup stage
Components: Boot.wim removal of ‘Windows Component Database’ could prompt a locked file error
Components: WMI Core 32-bit was not removable if 64-bit version kept

June 22, 2021

2.1.2.8033

New

Source: ‘Mounted Images’ grouping right-click Unload option for parallel unload of all mounted images at once
Source: Preliminary Windows 11 build 21996 support, nothing official for now
Source: Windows 10 21H2 build 21390 support
Source: Windows 10 build 19044 as 21H2 support
Source: Server 2022 20348 support
Components: ‘Projected File System (ProjFS)’
Settings: ‘I/O request packet stack size’
Settings: ‘Meet Now – taskbar widget’
Settings: ‘News And Interests – taskbar widget’
Settings: ‘Launch folder windows in a separate process’

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Source: Automatic boot.wim tasks now separated in its own thread to not hang UI
Source: Shortened auto-saved preset name
Components: Win7 Natural Language 32-bit split
Components: ‘Servicing Stack’ removal now includes pkgmgr
Settings: Telemetry – Security setting expanded to include Disabling settings
UI: Source page now auto-scrolls to loaded image folder
UI: Improved multi-instancing of NTLite, processing 10 or more at once without conflicts
UI-Translation: Thanks for French (tistou77), Polish (KrzysioZ), German (Cartman)

Fix

UI: Apply list was sometimes unclickable during feature config and integration
UI: Automatic update checking could pause source load for a bit
UI: Components state Reset from toolbar in some cases could leave stuck components
UI: Post-cancel, e.g. mounting, Source page editions were not refreshed automatically
Source: Better unmount support for stuck images
Components: WinUSB service needed reinstallation after removing deployed Portable Devices or SmartCard
Components: Win10 1709 Scanner removal was breaking MMC Task Scheduler window
Components: Win10 1709 now lists Mail if just Address book found
Components: MMC snappins components registry leftovers cleaned
Components: Cleaning of Windows\Microsoft.NET\assembly\GAC_MSIL empty directories
Components: Remove Reinstalls leftovers
Updates: Enqueued (download and integrate in a single session) cumulative+servicing combo pack integration could have failed
Updates: NTLite_DISM log is restarted per session, not on each integration
Updates: Downloader now recognizes and separates unsupported Windows versions, instead of selecting the first available

May 20, 2021

2.1.1.7917

New

Integrate: Package, Driver and Registry directory subscription functionality (Add – Directory – Subscribe)
(Useful for a more dynamic presets, directory location dictates which items to queue on refresh)
Components: ‘Microsoft Edge WebView’ (currently present on Win10 21H2)
Components: ‘Microsoft Edge Update’ split from ‘Edge (Chromium)’
(Note for presets with existing Edge Chromium removal to uncheck this new component)
Source: Server 2022 Preview support

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Post-Setup-User: Automatic pure runonce switch for images without Internet Explorer (no runonceex, e.g. Server Core)
Registry: Registry page got a simple add Directory option to align with other pages, this is in addition to the new Subscribe
Updates: PPKG remove option, from Hotfix page Existing list
Components: Search includes component description
UI-Translation: Thanks for French (tistou77), Italian (gabritb01), Polish (KrzysioZ)

Fix

Post-Setup: User tasks preset loading might prompt non-existing file
Post-Setup: Powershell script integration
Udpates: PPKG integration regression fix (missing file error)
Updates: .NET 3.5 language part existing annoying message removed on Add – Template – .NET 3.5 insertion
UI: Apply page crash on opening
UI: Update Host from Check Updates enqueue could loop

April 27, 2021

2.1.0.7862

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Source: Win10 21H2 build 21364 support (license date updated)
Components: Improved Server 2019 cumulative updates compatibility after component removals
(removals on Server still not officially supported, but please do report any issues)
UI-Translation: Thanks for Farsi (Mona mon), Polish (KrzysioZ)

Fix

General: Crypto-Pro was causing a tool crash on network connection
Updates: Integrating latest (CU+SSU bundle) updates into the Win10 19042.572 image was failing in a certain situation
Components: ‘Manual feature repository’ removal had external ISO files leftovers in certain newer images

April 3, 2021

2.1.0.7845

New

Components: Compatibility option for Discord, no need to keep QoS, protects small inactive 32-bit portion

Fix

Post-setup: VMWare Tools template regression
UI: Version had a beta tag leftover from the merge

March 30, 2021

2.1.0.7840

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Source: Win10 21H2 build 21343 support (license date updated)
Components: Edge Chromium removal now also supports pre-deployed versions in newer Win10 images
Registry: Supporting Components path in integrated REG files
UI-Translation: Thanks for Arabic (thamermousa), Chinese Traditional (Matt), Dutch (René), French (tistou77),
Greek (Soulimiotis), Hungarian (József), Portugues-Brasil (Igor), Russian (Den-s), Spanish (Oleada), Ukrainian (Ihor)

Fix

Components: Improved cumulative update compatibility after removals for Win10 1709->1809

v2.1b merge

New

Post-setup: First user logon actions support, a separate box for the user-dependent post-setup entries
Updates: Provisioning Package (PPKG) integration support
Components: ‘Collaboration Data Objects for Windows (CDOSYS)’
Components: ‘Device Center (Devices and Printers)’
Components: ‘Extensible wizard (XWizards Framework)’
Components: ‘File Explorer 32-bit’
Components: ‘Folder Redirection’
Components: ‘Font Previewer 32 bit’
Components: ‘Function Discovery’
Components: ‘Host Bus Adapter (HBA) API’
Components: ‘Kerberos Client 32 bit’
Components: ‘Network Explorer’
Components: ‘OpenGL API 32 and 64 bit’
Components: ‘Rich Text Edit Control (MsftEdit) 32-bit’
Components: ‘Share Host 32 bit’
Components: ‘Task Manager 32 bit’
Components: ‘Taskbar popups (PC Shell Tray Flyouts)’
Components: ‘Windows Audit’
Components: ‘Windows Internet (WinINet)’ 32-bit and partial 64-bit
Components: ‘Windows Web App (WWA) Host 32 and 64 bit’

March 9, 2021

2.0.0.7820

New

Updates: Cumulative Update multi-pack with integrated servicing stack support
(no need to add servicing stacks on 2004/9 and 21H1 from KB4601382\5000802 CU onwards)

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Components: Split 32-bit versions of Wordpad and Paint
Components: Renamed IE HTML Viewer to HTML Viewer (Legacy) and moved to System components
Components: Renamed Edge HTML Viewer to HTML Viewer and moved to System components
UI-Translation: Thanks for Portugues-Brasil (Igor)

Fix

Components: Tasks Sheduler 32 bit added to Office compatibility option
Components: Win8.1 wininetplugin.dll missing if removing ‘Easy Transfer’
Components: Remote Desktop Server removal leftovers
Updates: Dynamic updates should not be listed for deployed images
Updates: Dynamic Update architecture detection independent from filename (except Win10 1607)

February 18, 2021

2.0.0.7797

New

Updates: Dynamic Update for Windows Setup (Sources) integration and update list support

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Source: Recognize Win10 21H1 as build 19043

Fix

Source: Windows 10 Enterprise 2009 could have been displayed as Professional in status bar
Features: Enabled features haven’t been colored properly in all cases
Components-Win7: Performance Counters removal would break setup if IIS kept
Components-Win7: WinSAT was removing Control Panel shortcut to Disk Cleanup

February 2, 2021

2.0.0.7784

Fix

Settings: Automatic driver update mode when set to Never
Source: Loading deployed image registry access error
Components: SFC fix if removing Printing and keeping Remote Desktop
Components-20H2: Edge Chromium removal in certain combinations, component now merged with Edge.Stable app

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UI-Translation: Thanks for Polish (KrzysioZ)

January 23, 2021

2.0.0.7770

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Components: HyperV now can be removed in a HyperV Guest virtual machine
UI-Translation: Thanks for Hungarian (József)

Fix

Components: ‘Internet Explorer’ removal in Windows 7 and 8.1 was breaking MMC/MSC pages
Components-2004: RDP Server removal leftovers
Components-21H1: Telemetry Client removal breaking Internet Explorer in Win10 21H1 Preview
Unattended: The new edition prompt autoselection method needed an adjustment if removing editions in the same session

January 12, 2021

2.0.0.7756

New

Source: Windows 10 Insider Preview 21286 21H2 (and 20279 21H1) support
Unattended: Prompt edition selection option (Dual Architecture not used for this any longer, and auto partitioning works if prompted)
Tweaks: Feature Updates safeguards (Upgrade block)

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Unattended: Automatic edition selection of the loaded image switched to a more compatible method
UI-Translation: Thanks for French (tistou77)

Fix

Drivers: Improved handling of existing image driver duplicates (Win7 load image prompts for existing drivers without names)
Components: ‘Manual setup’ ISO files leftovers in latest Win10 versions