Skipping Wireless Setup (still having bloat)

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Supa

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I just finished installing Win11 using Hellbovine's Optimised Image guide, plus I removed some components and edited some features and settings. The problem I have is that on installation, I still had a number of the 3rd party apps that I thought I had removed. In taskmgr, I have 120 processes and i've used 2gb, ram so there is an improvement, but only partially. Now, I am trying to figure out where I went wrong; I did not skip the wireless setup during the install, might Windows have downloaded the apps during that point? Alternatively, in 'Apply', I only clicked save and trim, and did not tell NTLite to reapply tasks across editions, so might that have lost all of my editing?

Any help would be appreciated, thanks.
 
If you attached your preset (after removing any user passwords or license keys), it would be easier to review the changes. As long as you kept the preset, you can reload the clean ISO and apply the changes to all other editions.
 
Err, no. I didn't know that I could do that, but that is all part of learning a new piece of software. I plan to work through it all again tomorrow and try again.
 
When you create a new image, save a copy of your preset from Preset / Save As. Presets are just templates listing all your NTLite changes.
 
Supa, keep in mind too, Windows 11 uses a new start menu and so some of my tweaks that eliminate "junk" may not work on that operating system. It doesn't mean it's useless to use the guide, since a lot of the other tweaks will still work, it just won't give you the intended experience and will require additional efforts on your end to fill in the gaps.

Also, 120 processes and 2 gigs of memory is a far cry from the 90 processes, and 1.0 gigs I get on W10 using the guide, so there's something not right in that situation. If you check the USB drive where you saved your edited files to, it should have an NTLite autosave XML. If not, then you either clicked "do not backup" at the process screen or maybe you didn't copy your edited files to the USB, and are still using the unmodified ones.

When you go to make your next preset, use the "BypassNRO" tweak in NTLite to stop Windows 11 from forcing you to create a Microsoft account. If you are choosing to sign into a MS account because you want to use the feature that's fine, but you will have to accept that it will use more resources overall, especially if the various syncing settings are enabled and/or OneDrive is also installed.
 
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Thank you. I think that I must have run through the first half of the guide, created the new image and then continued to work on the original image and that has screwed things up. I also didn't apply your security registry settings because I would simply prefer to have all of that there.

I only allowed the normal windows initiation because on the previous attempt (not using your guide) I was asked to login to a local account and couldn't get in. I'm taking a step back and using both Chris' and Tech YES' videos to create my own iso (with your power registry settings). I think I am just trying to run before I can walk so it is worth going through these manually and seeing what happens.
 
If can be any help - after load your image in NTL.
On UnAttended tab you can Autofill which carry out settings already implied on your install - on Shell Options you've the opportunity to skip wireless - just set it to "true".
 
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