Some basic questions

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Snowleopard

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I am new to NTLite and have watched the beginner, intermediate and advanced video guides and I have been able to successfully edit some ISO's for Win 10 and 11 and have them load correctly in VM's.

What I haven't seen in any of the videos is once I "process" the changes and create an ISO, is it to late to go back and make more edits if I want to change anything without starting completely over.

I know there are presets and I can export and import presets, but once I have processed the changes, I don't know how to go back to the screen and edit the changes I made so I can export them.
 
What's not obvious from NTLite's user interface is you can "layer" presets together.

1. Create your master image from a clean ISO, only adding updates, enabling Features or integrating .NET. Keep this preset.
2. Clone your master image, and set the original aside. Now do some component removals. Save this preset.
3. If the previous image worked fine (no apparent issues), then make this image the new master image.
4. Clone your master image. Now do more component removals. Save this preset if you're happy. If this test was unsuccessful, then roll back to the previous master image, and do a different set of removals.
5. Repeat removals until you're happy.

6. Load the clean ISO from where you started. Load the preset that only contained updates, Features and .NET.
7. From the Presets tab, select another preset from the removals and right-menu Load. NTLite will ask if you want to Overwrite or Append? When you choose Append, anything not already defined in the current preset is merged in.
8. Continue loading all the other intermediate presets, with Append.
9. Now you have a single, merged preset. Save this under a different filename.

This strategy assumes several actions:
- You save work-in-progress images as checkpoints. If you make a mistake, roll back to the last checkpoint and resume from there. Don't restart all the way from the beginning, because it's too much work.
- You save the work-in-progress presets, and give them good names to identify what you were doing.

Obviously following this guide means you're using more disk space, but it keeps you better organized and leads to less confusion.

Many users get over excited and try editing too many things at the same time, and can't figure out which one broke their image. Do a few changes, test your image, and continue. The tortoise is faster than the (mistake prone) hare.
 
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