Multiple questions - lack of knowledge on my part

[lauren94]

Hello, this is me trying for the first time making a custom iso to deploy
Thanks for taking your time to answer these:
Please answer with number format such as 1,2,3 so i dont get confused as to what answer goes to which question

1. Any way to have these removed or uninstalled(if option is available) so i dont have to do it manually ? I mention that i disabled One drive entry from NTlite


2. I want to skip post install turning off all the windows features im being asked about ( you know the blue screen ater you set your language, where you have to disable tracking, sending info and some other enable disable options) so to my understanding all I had to do is set PICTURE A to FALSE right ?
Picture A

Well apparently doing this will result in not being able to log into windows, because of OTHER USER screen prompt that you cant do anything about.

No matter if i added a local account, as a main admin or not, setting Picture A MachineOOBE and UserOOBE to true, will block you out from login

Now, because I was forced to set picture A to False/default, this following screen is a mandatory prompt that i want to skip/auto decline.
So i guess main question of point 2 is,
Is it possible to completelly skip/decline Picture B if MachineOOBE+UserOOBE is mandatory on?
Picture B:


3. Any way to have this options automatic turned off in Windows Defender ?













4. Is it possible/how would i go about pre-installing Chrome, winrar and other .exe files without user interraction ?
Is this possible ?

5. Maibe related to question 1, but why the heck is this still here ? I had it disabled


6. Is it possible to add multiple keyboard languages to be ready when pressing alt+shift ? How would i go about this ?


I must mention that i spent more than 6 hours yesterday with some of this things + flashing the iso
But my hope came back when i realised there might be a community forum that i can address these to
I am sorry if some of these sound ridiculous, but im curious and thinking about how can i proceed better for example, one scenario is a non profit foundation received 50 computers that needs setup, and they asked me if i can come over and install windows + setup, for free since they dont got anything in this damned country.

Here is my config XML preset
Google Drive link since i didnt know how else to upload it

 

[SM03]

Hi,
6. No Idea, never done anything related that, maybe others can help.

1. Delete OfficeOneNote & OfficeHub from Component/Windows Apps/Apps.
For OneDrive-> goto Configure/Settings/System & DISABLE OneDrive. More on Point No 5 below as in my use of couple of years, I've seen & experienced that disabling OD from here via NTLite isn't enough. You've to delete six perticuler files manually from the source ISO, maybe the Developer nuhi can look into this matter & add a method to clean up those six files via NTlite while any user selecting this option to disabled OD completely.

2. I keep the 1st option 'Skip Get going Fast (PRivacy Option' enabled (true) as I've configured all the privecy related settings via the privecy TAB, but never tested those other two options i.e. Skip Machine OOBE & Skip User OOBE as for me it is not clear the deferences & I've never tried & tested although. Maybe nuhi or others can explain this better.

BTW, as you referred in your text '...you know the blue screen ater you set your language, where you have to disable tracking, sending info and some other enable disable options...', that screen/section is called OOBE (Out of Box experience) where the user customize the experince.

About the 2nd part of your point number 2, I didn't understand it clearly, maybe you should rephrase your question in a proper structure & precisely & briefly.

3. While I don't know about exactly how to disable those particular Windows Defender options, I can suggest you that if you're someone like me who either don't want to use defender or have any other purchased A/V suite (like me, I use ESET), then you can completely delete Windows Defender as I do from Component/Windows Apps/System Apps & unchecking Windows Defender (3rd option from the last)

A. Then go to the source mounted Win ISO, & select the loaded/active install.wim
B. R'click on it & select explore mounted DIR, then under the DIR, goto these sub-DIR
Location 1: NTlite Temp Dir\NLTmpMount01Windows\System32
Location 2: NTlite Temp Dir\NLTmpMount01 Windows\WinSxS\amd64_windows-securityhealth-sso_31bf3856ad364e35_10.0.19041.1_none_753cc0191556f0a2

& delete 'SecurityHealthSystray.exe' (2) from those two locations

Like I said earlier for OneDrive, same goes for this WindowsDefender, unchecking WD from Component/Windows Apps/System Apps don't delete these files so a proper cleanup of these files like should've been implemented in NTLite so that we don't have to manually delete all these, requesting nuhi to take a note regarding this.

4. Download latest Chrome offline installer file from here & add that under the NTLite post-setup section

5. Just like step 3, as I told, there are six files that need to be deleted from the mounted ISO's install.wim in order to completely remove the OneDrive, so just follow the steps
A. Same as I wrote earlier in point 3.
B. R'click on it & select explore mounted DIR, then search specifically for these six mentioned files I am listing under here & delete those six files.

Location 1: NTlite Temp Dir\NLTmpMount01\Windows\SysWOW64
Delete: OneDrive.ico & OneDriveSetup.exe

Location 2: NTlite Temp Dir\NLTmpMount01\Windows\WinSxS\wow64_microsoft-windows-onedrive setup_31bf3856ad364e35_10.0.19041.1_none_e585f901f9ce93e6

Delete all three files from here: OneDrive.ico, OneDriveSetup.exe & OneDrive Shortcut

Location 2: NLTmpMount01\Users\Default\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs
Delete: OneDrive Shortcut only

NOTE: Location 2 DIR can be different as per the Windows ISO that you're modding, as you can see the highlighted part here, I'm using the 20H1 19041 ISO so my location is according to that, so as the version of ISO changes, the sub-DIR will be different

IMPORTANT: Only delete thse six files from the respective locations & Don't delete any other one drive of Sync related files except those six, or else other functionalities will be affected. I've learned all these things by doing many mistakes & going through many trial & error.

Good luck & if you find any answer for your point 2, kindly share with me/us here as I too wanna know about that as I wrote earlier in my reply here.

 

[garlin]

2. Skipping OOBE requires creating an autounattend.xml to replace the answers.

This is available from licensed copy of NTLite, or answer file created by Windows ADK WSIM or Windows Answer File Generator. Copy this file to the top level of the image folder.

6. Read this thread (look for abbodi86's comments)

Language Packs

Make sure the final link from the referenced site is pointing to a CAB file from the Microsoft's site "download.windowsupdate.com". Please report any discrepancies. They are separated into 'x86' (32-bit) and 'x64' (64-bit) groups so make sure you download the correct one. After downloading the...

www.ntlite.com

 

[SM03]

garlin

"I keep the 1st option 'Skip Get going Fast (PRivacy Option' enabled (true) as I've configured all the privecy related settings via the privecy TAB, but never tested those other two options i.e. Skip Machine OOBE & Skip User OOBE as for me it is not clear the deferences & I've never tried & tested although. "

Can you explain the usage of these both & the differences of these two in simple language?

Also, I've covered almost all OOBE input via NTLite settings tweak, but there are four OOBE options for which I didn't find any
there are those options
1. Setup PC=Personal use



2. Setup Your Phone=NO (Do it Later)


3. Backup your file with OneDrive= NO (Select Only save to this PC)

* This option still show during OOBE even after disabling OD completely from NTLite & deleting all the OD related files. Don't know how to get rid of it.

4. Setup Free Office 365 Home Trial= NO


Let me know, if you want my preset to check, let me know

 

[garlin]

I don't believe MSFT has allowed skipping all those screens by OOBE. There's released docs for OEM's and system integrators which detail what is supported.

Automate OOBE

Use Unattend to prevent some or all of the user interface (UI) pages from appearing in Windows Out of Box Experience (OOBE).

docs.microsoft.com

Setting	Configuration pass	Description	Applies to
Microsoft-Windows-International-Core settings: InputLocale, SystemLocale, UILanguage, and UserLocale.	oobeSystem	Specifies the region-specific defaults of the Windows installation.	Windows 10 for desktop editions (Home, Pro, Enterprise, and Education) and Windows Server 2016
Microsoft-Windows-Shell-Setup/UserAccounts	oobeSystem	Specifies the user accounts, and passwords, to create on the Windows installation. The account can be a user account, a domain account, or the default administrator account.	Windows 10 for desktop editions and Windows Server 2016
Microsoft-Windows-Shell-Setup/OOBE settings: HideEULAPage, HideOEMRegistrationScreen, HideOnlineAccountScreens, HideWirelessSetupInOOBE, and HideLocalAccountScreen.	oobeSystem	Specifies whether certain OOBE screens will be hidden.	Windows 10 for desktop editions and Windows Server 2016
Microsoft-Windows-Shell-Setup/OOBE/ProtectYourPC	oobeSystem	Specifies whether your device is configured with Express settings, such as sending data to Microsoft, letting Windows and apps request the user's localization, and turning on protection against malicious web content.	Windows 10 for desktop editions and Windows Server 2016

Get going fast is Express Settings.

Customize OOBE

Customize the Windows 10 Out of Box experience

docs.microsoft.com

MSFT doesn't want you hiding the retail presentation for online services, as much as Google wants to hide from an Android device. To avoid those screens would require switching to unattended. Also, remember OOBE is a standalone part of Windows. It doesn't bother to check if you've removed OneDrive behind it's back using a custom image.

Online services is the cash cow for both Amazon (AWS) and MSFT (Azure, O365, XBL). Windows is no longer the king of MSFT divisions, so they're not gonna remove the upsell for you