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I know that Win10 no longer has Windows Media Center in it. But some clever fellows created a way to side-loaded it back into Windows. And I use it. After my adventures two weeks ago (trying to Host Refresh my current Win10), I restorted my previous working Win10, but removed more items from my...

Tnx for the quick reply. I think I'm done dinking around for this year.

Okay, not an NTLite question, per se. But I figure someone here knows the answer. And to make it applicable to NLite, which of two different multiple Product Key would one use in, say, unattended install? After my latest attempt to Host Refresh my ancient Dell-installed Win10 resulted in an...

Tnx. I'm tempted to use the old setup.exe method to install the Refreshed iso to see if that makes any difference. There were so many things that didn't transfer over when I did the Refresh this time. It's worked fine in the past with the old way of refreshing. No hardware changes. Just...

My two new posts above were moved here by the Moderator. So my Observation about Host Refresh being able to keep an old Win10 alive might not be seen now. Anyway, I gave up and restored my previous Win10. In addition to all the problems above, most which I was able to solve, my Refreshed Win10...

Yes. So I moved on to Host Refresh.

Thanks. I suppose that the diligent Liter orders their Presets and appends from the first to the last so that there's a final Preset for every OS. I'm not very diligent. So I didn't have a previous, final preset that I could use. But the Extract feature seemed to work well enough.

I just now tonight managed to update my "ancient" (5 year old) Win10 with the latest Cumulative Update. (it's now 3 am, once again another 'Lite All-niter Sprint to the finish.) I had to use Host Refresh because - apparently - my highly Lite/tweaked Win10 isn't compatible anymore with...

As per this thread, I was trying to integrate a cumulative update into my existing, deployed Lite'd Win10. But patching failed due to a missing file. Okay, I moved on and did a Host Refresh. But every time that I load my deployed image, I receive an warning that "This image had a previously...

It said that I should send two logs. (attached.) I was trying another Host Refresh again. The first time, the tool completed. But the second time, with a slightly different Preset, it crashed.

So I can't simply select my Current Preset in the Host Refresh dialogue? I don't want to put back what's missing. (At least, I don't think that I do.) I want to remove from the vanilla wim what I have removed from my current wim. (I made screen recordings to try to make a video to show others...

This is not as automated as I had hoped. I began by loading a vanilla wim from Windows 22H2 iso. So I began by extracting the current image state from the vinally wim and saved the Preset as "Vanilla." As an aside, interestingly, there are already some things removed from the Vanilla host...

Am about to try Host Refresh. It sounds like I'm going to have to hand craft a preset using WinMerge. Has anyone made a video about this process of making a What's Missing Preset?

Thanks for looking into this. I removed Defender a long time ago and I do not have any AV. Looks like I'm going to have to do a Host Refresh. (Where I just posted in another thread about the new "automatic?" /forcelistcomponents feature.)

Glad to see that the /forcelistcompents switch has been automated into NTLite now. I might be trying it soon. But I'm a little confused about the process. It sounds like I have to use WinMerge to figure out the differences to generate a "what's missing" Preset? Is there documentation on...