Changelog – NTLite

August 10, 2022

2.3.7.8850

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Components: ‘Easy Transfer’ is needed for in-place upgrade migration, thus now protected with Manual Setup/Host refresh compatibility
Components: ‘Manual setup’ had leftovers on Win11 22H2 ISO files
UI-Translation: Thanks for Chinese Traditional (Matt), German (Cartman586), Italian (clarensio), Swedish (1FF)

Fix

Updates: KB5012170 integration sorting order fix
Updates: Custom Clean Updates could break Win10 1809 update install
Updates: DISM update cleanup error was reported as an empty Appx Optimization error by mistake
(To avoid DISM’s limitation, clean while integrating updates into RTM.1 images, not with pre-added .NET updates or preconfigured features)
UI: NVDA screen reader compatibility, was crashing
Components: ‘Windows Update Medic Service’ removal error 5 on captured images
Components: Disk Usage and Disk Raid detections (were dependent on DiskPart existence)
Components: SpellChecking was removing Settings Typing, now keeps that page due to other options on it being useful
Settings: Storage and RAM setup bypass requirements just RAM bypass now, as Storage Bypass tweak did not work and is unnecessary

July 12, 2022

2.3.7.8826

New

Source: Win11 22H2 (build 22622) support
Source: Win10 22h2 (build 19045) support
Updates: Optimize AppX option
Settings: WU option for ‘Give me updates for other Microsoft products when I update Windows’

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Components: Powershell and ISE 32-bit split
Components: Partially reinstalled Defender detection
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Fix

Components: Windows Search removal Downloads folder browsing from 32-bit apps
Components: CEIP leftovers
Components: Win11 22H2 OSK Tablet removal causing blank screen
Components: Win11 22H2 image ‘Application Compatiblity’ removal could delay first login
Components: Win11 22h2 VBS removal breaking CU install
Components: Win8.1 ‘Stick Notes’ and ‘Webcam Experience’ leftovers
Updates: CU redownloaded by WU if integrating .NET 3.5 (recent regression)

June 23, 2022

2.3.6.8804

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Upgrade-Components: Win11 22H2 ‘Undocked Update Stack’ not required for ‘Windows Update Service’ to start
UI-Translation: Thanks for Chinese Simplified (Gskening), Swedish (1FF)

Fix

Registry: Integrating REG file could skip entries with app removals in the same session (recent regression)
Components: ‘Cortana’ removal could also remove VCLibs (recent regression)
Settings: Target Release option now includes ProductVersion of the targeted image
UI: Downloader parallel extraction progress could stuck with many threads at once

June 16, 2022

2.3.6.8792

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Components: Win11 22H2 Sounds removal leftovers
Components: Win11 22H2 Windows Update compatibility needs Delivery Optimization kept and service enabled

Fix

Updates: Server 2022 updates list auto-selection
Updates: Existing app package bundle detection in some cases (e.g. integrated DesktopAppInstaller)
Settings: ‘Fullscreen optimizations’ option was missing since the Xbox detection changes
UI: Bulgarian wasn’t listed in the language selection

June 11, 2022

2.3.6.8785

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UI-Translation: Thanks for German (Cartman586), Italian (clarensio), French (tistou77), Swedish (1FF)

Fix

Components: Windows 7 drivers removal delay, was taking too long
Components: Crash on older Windows while removing apps (regression in the previous update)

June 7, 2022

2.3.6.8775

New

Updates: Appx/Msix (App packages) dependency detection and presentation
Requirements of a queued app package displayed on the Updates page under it, for easy resolving of dependencies
Source: Windows 11 Dev build 25131 support
Settings: Explorer – ‘Preview Pane’ disable option
Settings: ‘Require Windows Hello sign-in for Microsoft accounts’ option
UI-Language: Bulgarian (thanks Svetoslav Slavkov)

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Source: Windows 11 22H2 build 22621 support (license date unchanged)
Components: Windows Apps and app packages now display their real names (package name in the description for reference)
Components: Store app install not dependent on WU component any more
Components: ‘Homegroup’ stub detection in Win11
Updates: App package integration removes previous if needed (solves error 0XC1570118)
Updates: App package integration handles app framework integration on Win10 1909 and older
Post-Setup: Powershell script can take parameters
UI-Translation: Thanks for French (tistou77), German (Cartman586), Romanian (Coman), Swedish (1FF)

Fix

Features: Features on Demand in a certain case would not enable together with other features in a single session
Components: ‘Language Pack Setup’ and ‘Telemetry Client’ task removal leftovers from the first session
Components: OneDrive live removal had leftovers
Components: Win11 22H2 22621 “Task View” removal could cause Explorer hard error (part of the upgrade of support from build 22616 to 22621)
Settings: Defender disabling wasn’t working if Tamper protection wasn’t disabled as well
Settings: Removed non-Policy options for the Start folders settings as they are not working if unforced
UI: Maximized state of the tool remembered on its restart

May 10, 2022

2.3.5.8714

New

Source: Windows 11 22H2 build 22616 support

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Updates: Parallel integration to multiple editions improved and supports Server 2022
UI-Translation: Thanks for Chinese Traditional (Matt), German (Cartman586)

Fix

Components: DeliveryOptimization removal was hiding WU page in Win11
Components: On-screen keyboard (Accessibility) removal could break CU install
Updates: Downloader detection of existing updates that did not finish installing, for a possible retry
Features: Some configurable features were not detected in Server editions, e.g. Windows Server Backup and Bitlocker

April 21, 2022

2.3.4.8675

Fix

Components: Apps removal leftovers regression from the previous update

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UI-Translation: Thanks for Swedish (1FF) and Polish (KrzysioZ)

April 19, 2022

2.3.4.8674

New

Updates: MSIX/APPX (and bundle) integration support
Settings: ‘Multicast name resolution (MDNS)’
Settings: ‘Smart App Control (SAC)’ for Win11 Dev build 22567+
Settings: ‘Enforce DCOM hardening changes’
Components: ‘Hardware Requirements Check library’
Components: ‘Shell App Runtime’
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Components: AppGuard/Containers compatiblity now protects Sandbox as well
Components: Windows Apps now show a version in the description
Settings: TPM disabling now also disables hardware requirement banner on pre-Dev Win11
Source: Win11 can have Win10 description by default, now such description is hidden if otherwise identical to the image name
UI: Enabled Cancel during Apply exporting an image

March 29, 2022

2.3.4.8658

New

Components: ‘YubiKey’ compatibility option

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Settings: ‘Enable Local User support’ listed for Win11 Home as well
Components: ‘Setting Sync’ component detection on Win11
Components: ‘Biometric Service’ split from ‘Biometric’ (needed for Settings Sign-in options delay), and both moved under their dependencies
Components: ‘Cloud Files’ split from ‘Setting Sync’, needed for iCloud
Components: ‘Runtime Broker’ added to ‘OOBE’ compatibility, needed for Windows Setup

Fix

Components: ‘Xbox App’ renamed to ‘Xbox Core’ and moved to Media, contains support for all things Xbox
Components: ‘GamingApp’ renamed to ‘Xbox App’
Components: ‘Phone Service’ was breaking Roblox App, Lively Wallpaper
Components: ‘Ease of Access’ removal would break Lock-screen On-Screen keyboard shortcut
Settings: Telemetry Policy values would not be reflected on reloading the target (actual settings were applied)

March 4, 2022

2.3.4.8643

New

UI-Translation: Japanese (by Cabocha)
UI-Translation: Swedish (by 1FF)

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Components: ‘Device Association Broker’ removes more

Fix

ISO: Processing a certain combination of sequenced editions could get stuck on Create ISO

February 26, 2022

2.3.4.8641

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UI-Translation: Thanks for Chinese Traditional (Matt), French (tistou77), Portugues-Brasil (Igor)

February 24, 2022

2.3.4.8640

New

Source: Windows 11 Preview build 22557 support
Settings: ‘Local user account setup support’ option for Win11 Preview
Settings: ‘Taskbar – Alignment’ option for Win11
Components: ‘Bluetooth’ compatibility option

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Components: ‘Task Scheduler’ split APIs from it due to Geforce Experience dependency on the 32-bit API
Settings: TPM requirement disabling now includes disabling unsupported device warnings on Win11 Preview

Fix

Updates: Downloader would list Dynamic Update twice, as external, if already downloaded
Updates: Downloader could crash after downloading updates and verifying
Settings: Win11 ‘Select the far corner of the taskbar to show the desktop’ fixed and renamed
(to ‘Select the far corner of the taskbar to show the desktop’)
Components: Driver classes removal registry leftovers
Components: WMI Core was removing WMI Service description text file

February 8, 2022

2.3.4.8620

New

Components: ‘Processor Microcode Update (MCUpdate)’ and ‘Processor Microcode Update Servicing’
Components: ‘COM Runtime Broker’
Components: ‘Registry Editor 32-bit’

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Licensing: Online activation backup and easier renewals
Components: Registry defragmented after removals to reduce its size on an image
Components: ‘Narrator’ ‘Screen Magnifier’ and ‘Cursors’ split from ‘Accessibility’, ‘On-screen keyboard’ moved
Components: ‘Event log’ tracing-related parts moved to ‘Event Tracing’ and expanded
Components: ‘Bluetooth Audio Gateway Service’ was dependent on ‘User Data Access’, ‘User Data Storage’ and ‘Telephony’
UI-Translation: Thanks for French (tistou77), Romanian (Coman)

Fix

Components: Win11 ‘Wired AutoConfig’ removal fix for Settings-Network-Ethernet crash

January 25, 2022

2.3.3.8585

New

Source: Windows 11 Insider Preview build 22538 support
Components: ‘Night light’ and ‘Volume Shadow Copy’ compatibility options
Settings: ‘Setup Requirement – TPM/CPU – Host’, setting necessary on a Win10/11 host to skip CPU requirements when using the setup.exe method

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Components: ‘Quality Windows Audio Video Experience (qWave)’ split from QoS, needed for Nvidia Geforce Experience Overlay and Discord
Components: ‘Shell Experience Host’ and windows.immersivecontrolpanel (‘Settings’ app) removals unlocked by default, not recommended
Components: Win7 IIS is needed for MSMQ HTTP Support, so locking that feature config if IIS unchecked for removal (fixes component error during setup)
Updates: Delta CAB PSF filename pairs now allow for different suffixes (e.g. manually saved from UUP dump)
UI: Win11 ’21H2′ label returned to the status bar for clarity compared to future versions
UI-Translation: Thanks for French (tistou77), German (Cartman586), Polish (KrzysioZ)

Fix

Components: ‘Shared Folders UI’ removal was removing Services shortcut from the Computer Management menu
Components: ‘Device Lockdown (Embedded Experience)’ removal on Server 2016 with Desktop Experience would switch desktop to command-line mode
Components: ‘Error Reporting’ removal could prompt Microsoft\Windows\Feedback file access error

January 11, 2022

2.3.3.8567

New

Components: ’57-bit Linear Addressing’
Components: ‘Disk Usage utility’
Components: ‘DiskRAID tool’
Components: ‘Natural Language – Sorting’
Components: ‘Now Playing Session Manager’
Components: ‘Pen Service’
Settings: ‘Use Print Screen key to launch Snip & Sketch’ option
Settings: ‘Search – Allow cloud search’ option

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Components: ‘Error Reporting’ components refactored, now removes a service as well, while API is split to cover WerFault silent app errors handling
Components: Network ‘Data Usage service’ moved under ‘Diagnostics’ as its dependee
Components: Win1X ‘Storage Service’ removes more
Components: Windows ARM64 support improvements, SysArm32 leftovers
Components: ‘Telemetry Client’ now also includes Update Aggregators
Updates: Win7 boot.wim update integration ‘Reapply tasks across editions’ filters known install.wim-only updates
General: Setting chosen temp directory to the host FilesNotToSnapshot and FilesNotToBackup exclusion keys
UI-Components: Answering ‘No’ for the prompt to uncheck dependees will proceed with the target uncheck only, instead of cancelling it
UI-Translation: Thanks for Polish (KrzysioZ), Romanian (Coman), Korean (Redrabbit)

Fix

Components: ‘Battery’ removal was removing Settings – Power page
Components: ‘Event Viewer’ had repeating 1107 errors if ‘Auditing’ was removed
Components: ‘HyperV’ had leftovers if keeping ‘Defender’ or ‘Linux Subsystem’
Components: ‘Shared Experiences’ Win10 removal was needed for Settings – Display
Components: ‘WAP Push Message Routing Service’ added to OOBE compat, solves missing Power Options in Settings if removed in image
Components: FamilySafetyTask task removal while removing a Parental Controls app in the same session
Components: Win7 ‘Minesweeper’ was dependent on ‘Parental Controls’ to open
Components: Win8.1 ‘Windows Store’ leftovers
Features: FODs connections to Components, e.g. ‘Steps Recorder’ disabled if its component is pending removal
UI: Takes less CPU while waiting on external processes
UI: Cleaning progress popup could stuck at 100% when done