I've tried using NTLite before and decided to give it another go to build two new Win 10 ISO's for a couple of new machines
I find the interface very confusing and I'm sure I'm doing something really stupid. I expected to be able to create projects from the Home menu but it doesn't seem to work like that. I wanted to create two projects. One for a new laptop and another for a new desktop. Both will run Win 10 so I wanted to have NTLite read a WIN 10 ISO I downloaded from Microsoft. Eventually I realized that I need to extract (not sure if that is the right term) to a directory. Not sure why NTLite can't do that but okay.
My monitor is very large and despite increasing the size of everything in Windows (currently running Win 8.1 Pro) everything in NTLite is really small. I'm partially sighted which doesn't help! Muddling trough I got a new ISO but it would not boot on the laptop. I got a light blue screen and nothing more. It then just sat there. Does this mean something serious failed in creating the ISO? The laptop boots with a standard ISO.
Today I have tried again. Not sure if I missed something yesterday but today I get messages from NTLite saying "skipped" against a number of things. This includes all the features I wanted to enable and disable. For example, i wanted to disable Internet Explorer and wanted to enable Hyper-V.
I'm not sure if "skipped" is a subtle way of saying I haven't bought a license?
I would happily buy a license if I had a clue what I was doing and if the program told me what some of the things mean. For example, it would be great to have an option to choose recommended settings instead of just enable/disable. It will also be great to be able to choose something like security level so you could have all the options set automatically to stop Microsoft spying! With some of the things I know what they mean but others are completely meaningless to me.
Yesterday I got error messages saying "invalid parameter" but I haven't input any parameters!?
So, my questions are:
1. Any idea why the ISO did not boot on the laptop? Is this likely to be because I enabled/disabled something I shouldn't have?
2. Why is NTLite saying skipped on the features I want to enable/disable?
3. Is there a PDF guide with a complete explanation of what everything means?
4. How do I create a project for the laptop and another for the desktop? The only difference between these is the machine name, Microsoft Key and the drivers.
5. What editions should I choose? Not sure if that is the right term but there are things like the PE environment. I've no idea what I should be selecting or how to select it.
When/if I can get this to work I wanted to repeat the whole process for Win11. But at the moment it seems easier to just run the standard Microsoft ISO, run something like O&O shutup and then just back it up. What am I missing?
Thanks.
I find the interface very confusing and I'm sure I'm doing something really stupid. I expected to be able to create projects from the Home menu but it doesn't seem to work like that. I wanted to create two projects. One for a new laptop and another for a new desktop. Both will run Win 10 so I wanted to have NTLite read a WIN 10 ISO I downloaded from Microsoft. Eventually I realized that I need to extract (not sure if that is the right term) to a directory. Not sure why NTLite can't do that but okay.
My monitor is very large and despite increasing the size of everything in Windows (currently running Win 8.1 Pro) everything in NTLite is really small. I'm partially sighted which doesn't help! Muddling trough I got a new ISO but it would not boot on the laptop. I got a light blue screen and nothing more. It then just sat there. Does this mean something serious failed in creating the ISO? The laptop boots with a standard ISO.
Today I have tried again. Not sure if I missed something yesterday but today I get messages from NTLite saying "skipped" against a number of things. This includes all the features I wanted to enable and disable. For example, i wanted to disable Internet Explorer and wanted to enable Hyper-V.
I'm not sure if "skipped" is a subtle way of saying I haven't bought a license?
I would happily buy a license if I had a clue what I was doing and if the program told me what some of the things mean. For example, it would be great to have an option to choose recommended settings instead of just enable/disable. It will also be great to be able to choose something like security level so you could have all the options set automatically to stop Microsoft spying! With some of the things I know what they mean but others are completely meaningless to me.
Yesterday I got error messages saying "invalid parameter" but I haven't input any parameters!?
So, my questions are:
1. Any idea why the ISO did not boot on the laptop? Is this likely to be because I enabled/disabled something I shouldn't have?
2. Why is NTLite saying skipped on the features I want to enable/disable?
3. Is there a PDF guide with a complete explanation of what everything means?
4. How do I create a project for the laptop and another for the desktop? The only difference between these is the machine name, Microsoft Key and the drivers.
5. What editions should I choose? Not sure if that is the right term but there are things like the PE environment. I've no idea what I should be selecting or how to select it.
When/if I can get this to work I wanted to repeat the whole process for Win11. But at the moment it seems easier to just run the standard Microsoft ISO, run something like O&O shutup and then just back it up. What am I missing?
Thanks.