Live removal vs Offline mode

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Is there any difference between removing a component in live mode or in offline mode? Do they both do the exact same thing? Are they both as thorough? Is there any advantage to creating an ntlite modified iso as opposed to taking the preset from the modified iso and applying it to an untouched installation? Will they both produce the same results? Can I use this method instead of remove reinstalls?
 
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In Win 10 (19h1) Online offline removal difference is the modifying you can do to the offline mounted image, ie. regtweaks, postinstalls and other stuff not covered by NTlite. I think you obtain the same result with the online image - it just take more time. Another advantage with offline, it keep the Apps updating removed, but it’ll come back first time you use Apps updating online. From time to time – mostly after Windows update i run my (master) preset again online instead of remove reinstalls coz remove reinstalls not function 100% with NTLite for the moment with Windows 10 (19h1).
It’s funny tho, that MSMG (MDL forum) found a way to avoid removed components in Win 10 (1809) get reinstalled after montly updating.
I know we all look forward to a solution to avoid removed components not get reinstalled - rumors said that MS is well aware of the problem and tend to do something about it. Time will show!?!
 
I had asked nuhi this question a long time ago. But I can't find it now. (I searched for "ergodic" because I had asked him if Live Removals vs. Offline was an ergodic process. But I can't find a hit to my question in this, or the old archived, forum.)

I used to do offline removals. Advantage - a smaller wim, Windows installs marginally faster. The installation might be marginally smaller too. (But see my post about "You CAN be too thin." While it's cool to have a small install size, I prefer leaving a little meat on the bones if it helps the OS to run better.)

This last time I changed my workflow. I now do oifline Updates first. Then offline Font, Keyboard, Language Removals. Then off line add - AND remove - drivers for my AMD RAID install. Then install. And then after Windows is installed and running, then Live Removals.

My thinking for changing the order is to minimize dependencies in Windows as it installs. To get everything working with each other. And then perform surgery.

I ended up with virtually the same final size. Nuhi told me that there might be some empty directories left over. If there are, they are no big deal.

So far Win8.1 Pro is running very well. (After tweaking with AutoRuns.)
 
Win8.1 Pro is running very well. (After tweaking with AutoRuns.)

Autoruns can give you some small but decent gains, toggle its settings and tons of stuff can be found. It stores what you tweak in its own section in the registry(sniff its output with RegFromApp) but you should be able to find out their original locations and create appropriate reg/bat/cmd files to use everytime.
 
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