Autounattend problem (WinReducer)

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I can't create a local account after accepting EULA and hiding boot image selection, cortana setup and online account options. This happens after I used WinReducer EX-100. After I install Windows 10 it's asked an "other user" password and not the password from the user I created since that OOBE step was skipped.

Is it possible to copy NTLite's autounattend configuration (which doesn't have this problem) to WinReducer's? But if I do that I'll mess with WinReducer's autounattend which despite not being ok has one option that can't be configured in NTLite. Also, I'd like to skip the password hint OOBE step.

EDIT: I tried adding some paragraphs from WinReducer's autounattend to NTLite's and copy it to the ISO and it looks like it is ok although I maybe should've copy more paragraphs to have the right configuration and now I have a new "Something went wrong You can try again, or skip for now." error message showing up on the OOBE but I can still proceed, anyway. I still want to have NTLite's autounattend configuration and the important parts from WinReducer's.
 
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I think that winreducer is a scam.

And i prefer to help you if you don't mix tools to slim down images because is easier to spot an issue (whenever it comes up),

Why do you say that? Ok, but if I use WinReducer I'll spare disk space and like I told you if I only use NTLite I have problems.

It looks like WinReducer removed my languages and keyboard and instead of having portuguese (Portugal) I have portuguese and japanese (!) and regarding the keyboard I have two portuguese (Brazil) instead of portuguese (Portugal) and I used NTLite's autounnatend (if that affects something). I don't know what I did wrong. I had a problem regarding the kayboard in NTLite but I finally solved it so do you think I can use NTLite first to set it the right way, keep its autounnatend and afterwards use WinReducer and save NTLite's autounnatend in WinReducer's ISO with a program like UltraISO? Will I have any problems or is it possible to fix this problem without using NTLite?

EDIT: I now have for some reason two brazilian keyboards (ABNT1 and ABNT2, whatever that is) and japanese language. I also have Pseudo-locale (according to NTLite), whatever that is (I don't know if I should remove it). I only want to have Portuguese (Portugal) language and Portuguese (Portugal) keyboard. I didn't change a thing in Unattend (and now I tried without NTLite's and I had the same results) and I removed every language and keyboard (except the Portuguese (P) regarding the latter).

EDIT 2: I left "Skip 'Get going fast' page" blank and nothing happened (no page or additional step showed up on the OOBE). Can you tell me which page is it?

EDIT 3: In spite of having removed all languages and keyboards but the Portuguese (Portugal) ones with NTLite they still show up in WinReducer (I used NTLite's autounattend). I also configured some things in Users and Local Machine since for some reason they weren't the way I wanted after using WinReducer. I removed the languages and keyboards with WinReducer and now I can't type my desired account name (is it because I messed with some settings in Users and Local Machine?). Nothing happens when I press a key. I'll remove all languages and keyboards but the Portuguese (Portugal) ones with NTLite, use its Unattend, not remove the languages and keyboards with WinReducer (it will cost disk space but I don't have a choice) as well as configure Users and Local Machine with NTLite to see what happens.

EDIT 4: Now it says it can't read the product key definition when I boot the ISO in Hyper-V and it restarts forever. I'll use NTLite's autounattend, use WinReducer to remove all languages and keyboard except the Portuguese (Portugal) and then configure Users and Local Machine in NTLite. If that doesn't work I'll do the same thing except removing the languages and keyboards in WinReducer. Finally, if that doesn't work either I'll try both ways (removing or not the languages and keyboards) and not configuring Local Machine and Users.

EDIT 5: I have the same product key definition problem even without having used NTLite to configure Users and Local Machine.

EDIT 6: Now I deleted NTLite's autounattend and I didn't have this problem but I need it since I don't want to fulfill all those steps. Is it normal to only have inside the sources folder boot.wim, ei.cfg.bk, install.wim, lang.ini and setup.exe files and not the support folder, autorun.inf and setup.exe after using WinReducer? Can you tell me what sysprep is and if I should set it true, what is OOBE mode and what does OOBE and Audit inside it do?
 
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Try this attached preset, use the latest NTLite only, don't make any change, it is set to your language.

Just load the image, load the preset & apply.
 
Try this attached preset, use the latest NTLite only, don't make any change, it is set to your language.

Just load the image, load the preset & apply.

I don't know why I didn't give up. I'm trying different combinations for months and taking lots of hours with this. Can you tell me what sysprep is and if I should set it true, what is OOBE mode and what OOBE and Audit inside it do? The thing is, it looks like WinReducer has other things NTLite doesn't have (and vice versa, I think) and makes the ISO smaller than NTLite and I'm not being able to combine both.

EDIT: I'm trying something and afterwards I'll test your preset. Sorry, but how can I know that you removed the things I wanted and left others I wanted?
 
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Can you tell me what is sysprep and if I should set it true and what is OOBE mode and what OOBE and Audit inside it do?
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/manufacture/desktop/sysprep-process-overview

Sorry, but how can I know that you removed some things I wanted?
You will see that isn't there but, while you don't know, test it and tell me if that works ok or somehow ok because you are missing something.
 
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/manufacture/desktop/sysprep-process-overview


You will see that isn't there but, while you don't know, test it and tell me if that works ok or somehow ok because you are missing something.

But after or before using WinReducer? Don't forget that I have to use it anyway. So, I should set sysprep true and choose audit mode (or at least only choose audit mode) since I don't want to go through all those annoying steps, right (audit mode, at least, if I understood well, is related to that)? What does "Skip 'Get going fast' page" do if I set it false? I didn't get it.
 
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But after or before using WinReducer?
Well, i think it is really clear:
Try this attached preset, use the latest NTLite only, don't make any change, it is set to your language.

Just load the image, load the preset & apply.

After you have tested the preset i have uploaded, edit, mix, split or do whatever you want to do with winreducer. For sysprep or audit mode, read the link in my previous reply.

What does "Ignorar a página 'Obter rápido'" do if set false? I didn't get it.
When is set to False it shows the screen with buttons to choose what settings you want to keep on.
Set it to true when those components are removed or disabled in tweaks in NTLite.
 
Well, i think it is really clear:


After you have tested the preset i have uploaded, edit, mix, split or do whatever you want to do with winreducer. For sysprep or audit mode, read the link in my previous reply.


When is set to False it shows the screen with buttons to choose what settings you want to keep on.
Set it to true when those components are removed or disabled in tweaks in NTLite.

Well, but after all should I do nothing, i.e., load the image and the preset and apply or should I only load the image and the preset? I don't understand since I tested NTLite's previous version, they didn't have "Skip 'Get going fast' page" and on the OOBE I didn't get an additional step (as well as after I set it false after testing the latest NTLite versions). I think that what caused those steps to show up were other options and not this one.
 
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then test in a virtual environment.

that's it.

What about WinReducer and after or before using the setting sysprep and/or audit mode in NTLite's Unattend? And I mustn't forget to do those things in Users and Local machine in NTLite before or after using WinReducer (before or after setting NTLite's Unattend).

Like I said before, I always test in Hyper-V first but there are times that I think that all's fine because I didn't have problems with in it and when I'm going to install in the host I somehow have problems (before, during or after the install) so in the end of the day I installed it two times and lost extra time for nothing.

WinReducer's Unattend mentions a Skip Cortana Setup option. What is it? I've never seen it. It also mentions an Express Settings for OOBE option. What is that? Should I set it false or leave it blank? And it looks like WinReducer's Unattend's "WinSXS DISM Cleanup" option makes the install slower by doing things in cmd just like the "WinSXS Folder Compression" option out of WinReducer's Unattend's tab. What happens if I close the cmd window?
 
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WinReducer's unattend mentions a Skip Cortana Setup option. What is it? I've never seen it. It also mentions an Express Settings for OOBE. What is that? Should I set it false or leave it blank (talking about that, what's the difference between setting it false or blank in this case and others)? And it looks like WinReducer's unattend's "WinSXS DISM Cleanup" option makes the install slower by doing things in cmd just like the "WinSXS Folder Compression" option out of WinReducer's unattend's section. What happens if I close the cmd window?

As all your questions seems that are related to winreducer, ask the developer, you have a paid license and you deserve his support regarding his tool.
 
As all your questions seems that are related to winreducer, ask the developer, you have a paid license and you deserve his support regarding his tool.

I don't have a paid license and no one answers my questions there. Anyway, after another test I'll have to use NTLite's autounattend (I couldn't start the install again with WinReducer's) but I'm not seeing how since it causes problems when initially it didn't.

EDIT: I tried your preset and it didn't work. Even before the install began it said that a needed multimedia driver wasn't available and I didn't even use WinReducer.
 
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I don't have a paid license and no one answers my questions there.

Sorry about the mistake, it was Brutser, i test that winreducer crap once and i didn't saw options that Brutser said because that is available for licensed users only.

Somewhat offtopic and my own "point of view":
If i'm not mistaken, winreducer is a buggy attempt to copy NTLite features by the same people who stole all about vLite as nuhi stated here:

nuhi @ msfn said:
Why I don't go open source? Because a tool called RT7lite stole everything from my previous tool and bloated it up so it looks to noobs even better (was semi-open source, .NET C#).
So I decided to at least make it a bit more difficult for those kinds of scum. Granted over the years they collapsed under the maintenance weight and gave up, but I have no time for that kind of turmoil, nor I want to upgrade competition for free.

http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/176...e-source-code/?do=findComment&comment=1134222

I'm winterstorm2050, I'm the creator and developer of the WinReducer Project.
In 2010, I started developing Windows Operating Systems customization solutions, with "RT7-Booster" ... In October 2012, The "WinReducer Project" began providing standalone "WinReducer Software", with the idea to propose a new complete experience for Windows Users, like me, by improving operational speed to enjoy even more their Windows System.
winreducer.net/information.html

rt7lite is around the web and it's behavior looks like winreducer crap:
Every click you do everywhere in rt7lite it will open a window loading adware that uses the domain ww1.rt7lite.com (not www).
Every click you do everywhere in winreducer it will open a popup asking to buy a license, i have seen their changelog, winreducer is too buggy.

I tried your preset and it didn't work. Even before the install began it said that a needed multimedia driver wasn't available.
It's time to install and try into a virtual machine, download the repack (thanks to -=4lfre1re=-) that includes the extension pack from here:
https://mega.co.nz/#!igYHXQjZ!AAAAAAAAAADP0SfZzZ77dgAAAAAAAAAAz9En2c2e-3Y

or download it from here:
https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads
and try the ISO created with my preset.
 
Sorry about the mistake, it was Brutser, i test that winreducer crap once and i didn't saw options that Brutser said because that is available for licensed users only.

Somewhat offtopic and my own "point of view":
If i'm not mistaken, winreducer is a buggy attempt to copy NTLite features by the same people who stole all about vLite as nuhi stated here:





rt7lite is around the web and it's behavior looks like winreducer crap:
Every click you do everywhere in rt7lite it will open a window loading adware that uses the domain ww1.rt7lite.com (not www).
Every click you do everywhere in winreducer it will open a popup asking to buy a license, i have seen their changelog, winreducer is too buggy.


It's time to install and try into a virtual machine, download the repack (thanks to -=4lfre1re=-) that includes the extension pack from here:
https://mega.co.nz/#!igYHXQjZ!AAAAAAAAAADP0SfZzZ77dgAAAAAAAAAAz9En2c2e-3Y

or download it from here:
https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads
and try the ISO created with my preset.

Ok. The thing is, I have to use it since it looks like it does things that NTLite doesn't, I have problems if I only use NTLite and it spares more disk space than NTLite (although this may be my fault).

Again, I always try first in Hyper-V. Isn't it a virtual machine? Anyway, there were many times I didn't have problems in VirtualBox but had in the host so I lost a lot of time for nothing (just like in Hyper-V like I told you before). I tried older NTLite versions and they didn't have that OOBE mode option and I didn't have additional steps.
 
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Again, I always try first in . Isn't it a virtual machine?

Anyway, there were many times I didn't have problems in VirtualBox but had in host so I lost a lot of time for nothing (just like in Hyper-V like I told you before)!

Hyper-V replaced Ms VirtualPC but is not a 100% a virtual machine.

When, why and how you wasted your time with VirtualBox?
 
Hyper-V replaced Ms VirtualPC but is not a 100% a virtual machine.

When, why and how you wasted your time with VirtualBox?

Why do you say that?

Because I thought that something worked in the host after sucessfully tried it in VirtualBox and even in VMware Workstation and after all it didn't work so I lost time for nothing twice instead of only once! Maybe I should try directly in the host!

EDIT: Even after removing languages and keyboards with NTLite they still show up in WinReducer and if I remove them I have the same error. Sometimes, when WinReducer is creating the ISO, the mouse cursor freezes.

EDIT 2: It's even more serious than I thought. Now I didn't remove a language or keyboard with WinReducer and I have the same problem!
 
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Why do you say that?
Hyper-v does not virtualizes all, i read somewhere already.
A few weeks ago i read an official statement from Ms recommending to use 3rd party tools for recovery and backup & restore, that makes me think that Windows Millenium or ME had a lot better backup (until XP, you can recover a damaged registry by recovering only the registry files in about 15 minutes or 5 if you have a very fast system only runing a live CD/DVD), with vista and later you are sold.

Why do you say that?
Because I thought that something worked in the host after sucessfully tried it in VirtualBox and even in VMware Workstation and after all it didn't work so I lost time for nothing twice instead of only once! Maybe I should try directly in the host!
I made that kind of mistake about 3 or 4 times already.

EDIT: Even after removing languages and keyboards with NTLite they still appear in WinReducer and if I remove them I have the same error. Some times, when WinReducer is creating the ISO, the mouse cursor freezes.

EDIT 2: It's even more serious than I thought. Now I didn't remove a language or keyboard with WinReducer and I have the same problem!

No comments about winreducer.

If you want to success with something in a not too far day, use one or the other, do not mix anything if you do not have succeded with nothing yet becuase you are wasting your time this way. Work with one only, after you have succeded, use anything else and when you have succeded with the other tool (msmg could be better, never seen it in action), start mixing.

In my case, i'll "downgrade" from v1709 to v1703 because Ms screwed the screen keyboard (instead of splitting the keyboard in 1709, it is being ultracompacted to a vetical 5" móvil phone keyboard size right in the middle of the screen).
 
Hyper-v does not virtualizes all, i read somewhere already.
A few weeks ago i read an official statement from Ms recommending to use 3rd party tools for recovery and backup & restore, that makes me think that Windows Millenium or ME had a lot better backup (until XP, you can recover a damaged registry by recovering only the registry files in about 15 minutes or 5 if you have a very fast system only runing a live CD/DVD), with vista and later you are sold.


I made that kind of mistake about 3 or 4 times already.



No comments about winreducer.

If you want to success with something in a not too far day, use one or the other, do not mix anything if you do not have succeded with nothing yet becuase you are wasting your time this way. Work with one only, after you have succeded, use anything else and when you have succeded with the other tool (msmg could be better, never seen it in action), start mixing.

In my case, i'll "downgrade" from v1709 to v1703 because Ms screwed the screen keyboard (instead of splitting the keyboard in 1709, it is being ultracompacted to a vetical 5" móvil phone keyboard size right in the middle of the screen).

If you made then why do you recommend that I use VirtualBox? Anyway, I tested it in VirtualBox and nothing changed. I still have problems with it. But like I told you, I have problems if I only use NTLite and one has some options the other doesn't. What do you mean by that? Is it a different build inside Fall Creators Update? What happens if I have two NTLite's autounattends in the same ISO and I want to load the most recent next time? Will it only have the second things that were removed (in the second preset) or both (also the things who were removed with the first)?

EDIT: Now I used first WinReducer and then NTLite and apart from the "Something went wrong You can try again, or skip for now." error message on the OOBE all's fine, although this was a partial test (I only removed the calculator app with WinReducer and configured the Local Machine, Users and Unattend with NTLite and didn't remove the languages and keyboards with the latter) to not take too much time. What caused this "something went wrong" error message to show up? I don't have it if I only use NTLite.
 
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If you made then why do you recommend that I use VirtualBox?
I do recommend VirtualBox because i had "issues" due to component removals not due to VirtualBox, a couple weeks ago i used the v1703 preset for v1709 component removal and had some undesired behavior.

I tested it in VirtualBox and nothing changed. I still have problems with it.
You need to be very specific with that.

What do you mean with that? Is it a different build inside Fall Creators Update?
If you mean v1703 vs v1709, yes that is different, Ms is making progressive changes to windows in every release, it will be a windows phone environment after all, the components are becoming cr"Apps".

What happens if I have two NTLite's autounattends in the same ISO and I want to load the most recent next time? Will it only have the second things that were removed (in the second preset) or both (also the things who were removed with the first)?
Nothing will happen, the right named will be used.

EDIT: Now I used first WinReducer and then NTLite and apart from the "an error occurred" notice all's fine, although this was a partial test (I only removed some apps with WinReducer and configured the Local Machine, Users and Unattend with NTLite) to not take too much time. What caused this "an error occurred" notice? I don't have it if I only use NTLite.

How did you got your windows image?
Was it a clean ISO?
 
I do recommend VirtualBox because i had "issues" due to component removals not due to VirtualBox, a couple weeks ago i used the v1703 preset for v1709 component removal and had some undesired behavior.


You need to be very specific with that.


If you mean v1703 vs v1709, yes that is different, Ms is making progressive changes to windows in every release, it will be a windows phone environment after all, the components are becoming cr"Apps".


Nothing will happen, the right named will be used.



How did you got your windows image?
Was it a clean ISO?

So, what is VirtualBox (or other virtual machine software) for if I don't have problems when installing an OS or after the install but I have them in the host?

It still says that it can't read the product key definition (I translated to english so I don't know if this error in english is said like this).

What are cr"apps"?

What do you mean with the right named being used?

No, like I said, I used WinReducer to remove the calculator app only.

Can you tell me in NTLite what is the telemetry option which gaves the least or even not at all amount of information to Microsoft? Is it security or complete?

EDIT: I changed the two SkipOOBE and the Local Account options in Unattend and now the "Something went wrong You can try again, or skip for now." error message no longer shows up during Windows 10's OOBE. Now I'll test changing things in Components, Resources and Services to see what happens.
 
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VirtualBox is useful for testing NTLited ISOs before installing in a real environment.

Where is the product key to be read?

useles apps is the "new" windows platform

Setup will read only one xml file, if it is named autounattend.xml.

NTLite removes the calculator app located in Windows Apps - Apps

Unified telemetry client (asimov) and CEIP SQM (customer experience improvement program)located at remote and privacy
 
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