Changelog 2020

December 8, 2020

2.0.0.7742

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Components-2009: Push Notifications User service split, needed for Settings – Network page
Components: Windows Update components better organized, Windows update is not needed to install updates manually
Downloader: External update packages in update cache split into its own group for better visibility
Settings: ‘Balloon tips’ settings renamed to reflect Explorer namings and Win10 legacy baloon notifications option added
Unattended: AutoLogon count if set to 1, was logging in twice, known Windows limitation, now properly set
UI-Translation: Thanks for Slovak language (‘Brahma’)

Fix

Updater: Check Updates – Host Update button wasn’t enabled in certain appropriate cases
Components: ‘Media Streaming’ removal was breaking Remote Desktop server-side
Components: Servicing Stack compatibility option wasn’t available on boot setup and winpe images

November 16, 2020

2.0.0.7726

Fix

Fix-Components: Defender deployed image/live removal error 5
Fix: Windows 7 KB958830 (RSAT) integration then update cleanup or English(US) removal were breaking feature config
Fix: Cortana is now kept with Shell Search compatibility in Win10 1909 and older images

November 10, 2020

2.0.0.7722

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Preset: Component names can now use wildcards as manual preset entries
UI: Completing longer tasks now has the optional popup for clarity
UI-Translation: Thanks for Chinese Traditional (Matt), Portugues-Brasil (Igor), Turkish (SALiH DRD)

Fix

Components: Image removal of Edge Chromium was not working on a specific Win10 20H2.572 image
Components: Biometric Service removal could break Defender settings UI in Win10 2009
Post-setup: Post-setup adding a file via drag and drop method was causing a crash
Source: Image name could show description even if same as name, looking duplicated

October 27, 2020

2.0.0.7705

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Source: Win10 preview build 20241 support +license date changed
Source: Improved ESD image compression detection for some custom images
Components: ‘Display Policy Service’ moved as a parent to ‘Display Enhancement’ for better clarity what is needed for ‘Night Light’
Components: Reduced the servicing stack compatibility warning scenarios
Components-1809: Supporting removal of legacy Calculator if no modern app detected
UI-Translation: Thanks for Chinese Simplified (Gskening)

Fix

Updates: Downloader UI not remembering checked items on Verify
Components: Turkish character in a temporary path could have disrupted the Start Menu cleanup
Components: Defender empty service leftovers in deployed/live removal
Components-Win7: Enterprise x86 English-US language removal in non-English image could have removed too much
Components-Win7: Windows Component Store removal leftovers if Internet Explorer kept
Components-Win7: wininetplugin.dll setup error if removing Migration Wizard with Servicing Stack compatibility disabled

September 23, 2020

2.0.0.7656

Fix

General: Auto-updating could get stuck on cleanup
(improvement is visible only when updating from this version in the future)

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UI-Translation: Thanks for Turkish (SALiH DRD)

September 22, 2020

2.0.0.7655

New

Components: ‘File Sharing support’ compatibility option

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Updates: Installing updates on the host with the tool now has the ability to queue ‘Remove Returns’ on reboot
Components: Deep removal mode enabling simplified, just disable Servicing Stack compatibility
UI-Translation: Thanks for French (tistou77)

Fix

Updates: Stuck 99% progress on repeat CU integration, cosmetic only
Updates-1803/9: Downloader was unchecking .Net 4.8 installer when selecting newer .NET update for download

September 8, 2020

2.0.0.7640

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Source: Windows 10 21H1 build 20206 support (+license date changed)
Source: Better handling of a non-standard WIM/ESD image names (e.g. using only description instead of the name element will no longer leave ‘NONAME’ prefix)
Updates: Downloader now disables the already integrated update entries to simplify choice
Updates: Downloader now unchecks unnecessary cumulative update on manual selection (e.g. selecting two cumulative updates, leaves only the last one selected)
Components: Components page filter bar for easier browsing (‘Uncheck all’ toolbar button applies to listed, non-filtered only)
General: Improved REFS support for image content storage (Note that temp/mount dir needs NTFS by design)
UI: Faster Components page opening, expanding and collapsing of all items
UI-Translation: Thanks for Chinese Simplified (Gskening)

Fix

Updates: Existing updates could have duplicate entries
UI: Automatic update will now prompt before restarting the tool if image loaded
Components: ‘PeopleExperienceHost’ removal leftovers

August 18, 2020

2.0.0.7618

New

Settings: ‘Phone calls’ privacy option
Parameters: ‘/saveallstates’ – Include currently unchanged states on a preset save
Together with forcing non-existent components, captures most of existing changes

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Source: Windows 10 21H1 build 20190 support +license date changed
Components: ‘IPSec’ leftovers
Components: ‘RDP ActiveX Client’ 32-bit split
Components: ‘Remote Desktop Client’ 32-bit split
Components: ‘WMI (Core)’ 32-bit split
Components: ‘WMI (Providers)’ 32-bit split
Components: Replaced Live-Only removal lock with OOBE compatibility
Make sure to keep that compatibility enabled to avoid setup issues

Fix

Updates: Improved cumulative update integration to reduce the chance of WU reoffering already integrated CU
Components: Settings-Privacy-Diagnostics page now removed with Telemetry removal instead of disabled with Error Reporting removals
Components: Slow ‘Preparing data’ at 99% in patched Windows 7

August 4, 2020

2.0.0.7596

New

Settings: ‘Temporary directory (User Accounts)’
Settings: ‘Pointer speed’ and ‘Enhance pointer precision’ options
PostSetup: Compress Windows (Compact OS) template option, unattended version of it is conditional

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Source: Windows 10 21H1 build 20180 support (+license date changed)
UI-Translation: Thanks for Korean (Redrabbit), Farsi (Mona mon)

Fix

Updates: DISM cleanup was blocked by .NET 3.5 integration if in the same session
Updates: If only integrating updates in a session, special runonce-type updates might not install
Components: ‘OneDrive’ removal ‘Automatic file downloads’ settings page leftover
Components: MMC Extended tab was removed with ‘Internet Explorer’, now only with ‘IE HTML Viewer’ as intended
Drivers: Rare UI crash on exporting a certain machine’s hardware list
UI-Tool: Removed legacy Check Updates option in File-Settings

July 21, 2020

2.0.0.7580

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Unattended: Disk partitioning template now pre-fills install size to have recovery partition last
Updates-Win10: DISM update cleanup methods inserted earlier to avoid error 2054 in a single session
Installer: Silently installing NTLite was always starting the tool, now optional with /autorun
Update-Features: ‘Browser.InternetExplorer’ filtered out of FODs as there is already Internet Explorer feature configurable
Components: ISO files .\Sources\replacementmanifest cleanup with removals
UI-Translation: Thanks for Chinese Simplified (Gskening), Chinese Traditional (Matt), Dutch (René), French (tistou77),
Greek (Soulimiotis), Polish (KrzysioZ), Portugues-Brasil (Igor), Russian (Den-s), Spanish (Oleada), Ukrainian (Ihor)

Fix

Components: TPM removal blocking Cryptographic service startup after CU + remove reinstalls
Updates: Uninstalling packages could cause this tool to crash

v2.0b merge

New

General: Automatic update functionality for the tool (File – Check Updates)
Source: Deployed Windows support – now can also edit already deployed non-host Windows, e.g. on mounted virtual drives or other partitions
Components: ‘Disk Cleanup’
Source: ‘Reserved Storage’ enabling/disabling for live C:\Windows on Win10 2004+
(Right-click on Source C:\Windows, or from Settings once loaded)
Components: ‘Authorization Manager’ (separate 64 and 32-bit)
Components: ‘Certificate Manager’ (separate 64 and 32-bit)
Components: ‘Component Services (COM+) management console’ (separate 64 and 32-bit)
Components: ‘Computer Management’ (separate 64 and 32-bit)
Components: ‘Device Manager’ (separate 64 and 32-bit)
Components: ‘Disk Management’ (separate 64 and 32-bit)
Components: ‘Diskpart’
Components: ‘Dolby Atmos codec pack’
Components: ‘IIS management console’ (detected only if installed, separate 64 and 32-bit)
Components: ‘Input Switch’
Components: ‘International Unicode Components’
Components: ‘Local Users and Groups Manager’ (separate 64 and 32-bit)
Components: ‘MBR to GPT conversion tool’
Components: ‘Microsoft Management Console (MMC)’ (separate 64 and 32-bit)
Components: ‘Networked Camera Source’
Components: ‘OLE for Process Control (OPC) library’
Components: ‘OneCore UAP Common Proxy Stub’
Components: ‘Print Management’
Components: ‘Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) ping tool’
Components: ‘Resource Mapping’
Components: ‘Services management console’ (separate 64 and 32-bit)
Components: ‘Shared Folders UI’ (separate 64 and 32-bit)
Components: ‘Task Scheduler management console’ (separate 64 and 32-bit)
Components: ‘TPM management console’ (separate 64 and 32-bit)
Components: ‘Virtual Disk Service’
Components: ‘Windows AI Machine Learning’
Components: ‘Windows Firewall management console’ (separate 64 and 32-bit)

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Components: ‘Auto Time Zone Updater’ split from ‘Windows Time’ and expanded its removal

June 29, 2020

1.9.0.7539

New

Settings: ‘Target release version’ Windows Update option
Settings: ‘Allow pinning Store app to taskbar’ option

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UI: Spend less CPU cycles waiting on external processes like DISM cleanup
UI-Translation: Thanks for Chinese Traditional (Matt), Ukrainian (Ihor)

June 27, 2020

1.9.0.7530

New

Settings: ‘Fast Startup’ option
Settings: ‘Fast User Switching’ option
Settings: ‘Hardware-accelerated GPU scheduling’ option
Settings: ‘Shutdown menu’ options
Settings: ‘Variable refresh rate’ option

Fix

Apply: ‘Read updated data’ after updating progress stuck at 0% (cosmetic only), regression fixed
Apply: ‘Image process queue’ missing updates on subsequent tasks, regression fixed

June 23, 2020

1.9.0.7517

New

Source: Win10 21H1 build 20150 support
Components: ‘Microsoft Edge (Chromium)’ removal
Components: ‘Region and Language control panel’
Settings: ‘Show drive letters’ Explorer options

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Source: Win10 20H2 (2009) build 19042 support, same license date as 19041
Components: ‘Snip & Sketch’ was dependant on ‘Encrypting File System (EFS)’ removal
Components: Removed ‘Cortana’ compatibility option
UI-Translation: Thanks for Ukrainian (Ihor), Chinese Simplified (Gskening), French (tistou77),
Polish (KrzysioZ), Turkish (SALiH DRD)

Fix

Components: Search tray popup various dependencies resolved
Components: ‘Sync Host’ and ‘CDPUserSvc’ removals were breaking Control Panel – Region
Components: ‘Cortana’ removal was making Settings-Search not showing states
Components: ‘Delivery Optimization’ removal settings page leftover
Components-Win10_2004/9: Cortana removal was breaking Start file search
Components-Win7: ‘English US’ removal was breaking Chinese IE11 install

June 9, 2020

1.9.0.7501

New

Setting: ‘Online speech recognition services’

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Components: ‘SmartScreen’ no longer needed for Windows Store compatibility (do not disable SmartScreen if removing)
Source: Better handling of manual unloading install.wim with still mounted winre.wim inside it
UI-Translation: Thanks for Chinese Simplified (Gskening), Polish (KrzysioZ)

Fix

Source: Loading winre.wim outside of install.wim was not supported

June 2, 2020

1.9.0.7490

New

Settings: ‘Display locked user name in logon screen’
Settings: ‘Feedback frequency’
Settings: ‘Notifications network usage’
Settings: ‘SMB Bandwidth Throttling’
Settings: ‘Storage Sense’ settings

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Features: Features page filter row added, type to filter the list
Presets: Listing unsupported files inside the Presets folder
UI-Translation: Thanks for French (tistou77), Chinese Traditional (Matt)

Fix

Components: ‘Connected Devices Platform User Service’ removal shutdown task waiting message if ‘Sync Host’ kept
Components: ‘Connected Devices Platform User Service’ added to OOBE compatibility
Components: Removing ‘Internet Printing Client’ was not disabling its deployed feature state if Printing kept
Settings: ‘Use Peek to preview the desktop at the end of the taskbar’ offline fix
Post-Setup: SetupComplete.cmd written only if changed

April 28, 2020

1.9.0.7455

New

Settings: ‘Restart PC as soon as possible when required to install an update’
Settings: ‘Show a notification when your PC requires a restart to finish updating’
Settings: ‘Use Peek to preview the desktop at the end of the taskbar’

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Components: ‘Internet Explorer Engine’ pieces moved to IE UI component removal
UI-Translation: Thanks for Chinese Simplified (Gskening), French (tistou77), Polish (KrzysioZ)

Fix

Unattended: ‘Dual architecture’ wasn’t generating both entries on 32-bit sources
Components: ‘English’ language pack removal on non-English ISOs had leftovers
Components: ‘Windows Time’ removal was breaking manual time setup

April 14, 2020

1.9.0.7428

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Components: ‘AppCompatibility’, ‘Device Guard’, ‘Provisioning’ leftovers
Components-Win10_2004: ‘Shell Services’ removal finished and unlocked
UI-Translation: Thanks for Farsi (Mona mon), French (tistou77), Italian (gabritb01),
Korean (Redrabbit), Polish (KrzysioZ), Russian (Den-s)

Fix

Components: .NET GAC cleanup of removed components had minor leftovers
Components: ‘COM+’ removal was causing an Event Viewer error (thx tistou77)
Components: ‘Modern App 32-bit’ could break weblink opening from 32-bit native apps
Components-Win10_2004: ‘Data Usage service’ component was removing Network Status page
Components-Win10_2004: ‘VHD’ component detection and leftovers
Components-Win10_2004: ‘Windows Performance Recorder’ leftover

April 7, 2020

1.9.0.7407

New

Settings: ‘ShellBags’ disabling option
Settings: ‘Search Suggestions’ disabling option
Settings: ‘SMBv3 server-side compression’
Settings: Explorer – ‘Network in navigation pane’

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Components: ‘Capture Service’ split from Xbox app (needed for Screen Sketch)
Components-Win10_2004: ‘Error Reporting’ and ‘CDPUserSvc’ components unlocked for offline removal
Components-Win10_2004: Linked ‘Search App’ to Start Menu Experience Host component
Updates: Cleanup after DISM (%temp%\TS_*.TMP files)
UI-Features: Feature names now have green text if enabled by default
UI-Translation: Thanks for Arabic (thamermousa), Chinese Simplified (Gskening), Chinese Traditional (Matt), Dutch (René),
French (tistou77), Greek (Soulimiotis), Polish (KrzysioZ), Portugues-Brasil (Igor), Russian (Den-s), Spanish (Oleada)

Fix

Components: VSS API 32-bit was not removed if 64-bit version is kept
Components-Win10_2004: WPF Core Kaspersky 2020 compatibility
Components-Win10_2004: ‘Windows To Go’ component detection
Components-Win10_2004: Leftovers and removes more in ‘HIDService’, ‘Delivery Optimization’, ‘Map Control’, ‘Network Diagnostics’,
‘Data Usage service’, ‘HyperV’, ‘Printing’, ‘DHCP’, ‘Modern App Support 32-bit’, ‘Lang IME’, ‘Devices Flows’
PostSetup: UI was duplicating the % sign in commands on preset load
Settings: ‘Classic logon’ removed as it’s an obsolete setting, instead disable ‘Display last user name in logon screen’
Source: UI crash when pressing F5 to refresh images during image operation

February 25, 2020

1.9.0.7330

Fix

Source: Crash after processing with a certain combination of WinRE and Delete editions tasks
Source: WinRE on live install (C:\Windows) handling
Settings: Event Viewer channel settings weren’t fully saved to preset for session reload (now needs resaving)
Components-Win10_2004: ‘Kernel Debugger’ leftovers
Components-Win10_2004: ‘Cortana’ removal Start menu popup delay

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UI-Translation: Thanks for Korean (Redrabbit)

February 4, 2020

1.9.0.7304

New

Source: Edit Flags on a WIM image on a right-click
Settings: ‘Remote Desktop’ and ‘Require Network Level Authentication to connect’ options (does not edit Firewall rules)

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UI-Translation: Thanks for Polish (KrzysioZ)

Fix

Updates: .NET 3.5 existing package detection regression
Components: ‘Homegroup’ removal was breaking ‘Network Center’ Sharing settings
Source: Edit WIM Name/Description UI disabled if edition is mounted or is in an ESD format
Source: Server 2012R2 update downloader detection (Windows 8.1 base pre-selection)
Unattended: ComputerName wasn’t allowing a prefixed generated ‘name-*’, a regression with stricter checks
UI: Source page image Delete edition and Edit Name/Description was not disabled while image task is processing

January 21, 2020

1.9.0.7290

New

Components-Win7: ‘End of Service notifier (EOSNotify)’
Settings: ‘Remote Desktop listening port’
Settings-Server: ‘Shutdown Event Tracker’
Settings-Win7: ‘End of Service notifier (EOSNotify)’

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UI-Translation: Thanks for French (tistou77), Portugues-Brasil (Igor), Chinese Simplified (Gskening)

Fix

Source: Improved WinRE image mounting handling in task sequences
Updates: Potential crash could happen when queuing existing updates

January 14, 2020

1.9.0.7276

New

New-Settings: ‘Chromium-based Microsoft Edge web browser automatic install’

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Upgrade-Components-20H2: “User Experience for Windows” (MicrosoftWindows.Client.CBS) renamed and expanded
UI-Translation: Thanks for French (tistou77)

Fix

Source: Preset loading was removing image loaded indicator
Components: ‘Internet Explorer’ removal was resetting ‘Internet Browser’ .URL association
Components: ‘Steps Recorder’, ‘Paint’, ‘WordPad’ and ‘PowerShell’ package leftovers
Components: EventLog channel leftovers for some components

v1.9b merge

New

Source: Windows Recovery Environment (WinRE) image handling support
WinRE is listed next to the mounted image on the Source page if found inside it, and on the Apply page image process queue
Updates: Package removal support on the Updates – Existing updates list
Useful with unwanted or superseded packages. Some are not allowed to be removed
Settings: AutoLogger tracing sessions settings list
Settings: Event Viewer channels settings list
Components:
– ‘Autopilot’
– ‘Background Activity Moderator (BAM)’
– ‘Component Package Support’
– ‘Desktop Activity Moderator (DAM)’
– ‘Device Setup Manager’
– ‘File Picker UI Host’
– ‘File Trace MiniFilter’
– ‘Identity Protection Technology (Intel IPT)’
– ‘IP Translation Configuration Service’
– ‘Multiple UNC Provider (MUP)’
– ‘Recommended Troubleshooting service’
– ‘Unix socket (AF_UNIX)’

Changelog 2020

NTLite stable version changes

December 8, 2020

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November 16, 2020

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November 10, 2020

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October 27, 2020

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September 23, 2020

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September 22, 2020

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September 8, 2020

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August 18, 2020

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August 4, 2020

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July 21, 2020

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v2.0b merge

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June 29, 2020

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June 27, 2020

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June 23, 2020

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June 9, 2020

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June 2, 2020

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April 28, 2020

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April 14, 2020

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April 7, 2020

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February 25, 2020

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February 4, 2020

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January 21, 2020

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January 14, 2020

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