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As seen in the image.

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The preset should tell the story. Before I lose another day in re-doing, is it <c>langime 'Input Method Editor (IME)'</c> or
<c>lpksetup 'Language Pack Setup'</c> by any chance? It is European language/keyboard, no IME.

Some other observations:

1. With this preset, OOBE stopped because it couldn't display the EULA. This was needed (shift+F10, regedit, type):

Code:
REGEDIT4

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Setup\OOBE]
"SetupDisplayedEula"=dword:1

1a. By the way, I always wanted to know, never tested it, does NTLite accept .reg files in this format? REGEDIT4, ANSI and truncated zeroes? I am curious mostly about the truncated zeroes, the other two probably aren't a problem.

2. While redoing the preset (my source was corrupted, just added the correct source), the autosaved preset was identical to the starting preset, but dropped one line:

<Tweak name="System\EnableLUA">1</Tweak>

I don't know if it is intentional or significant, just wanted to report.

3. GUI: The chevrons > that expand the contents inside should stay at the same place. When they are closed (like this > ) they are all at the same place, but when they are opened, they move to the end of the text, all at different positions. I don't know about others, but I instinctively try to open the item, see what's inside, and then close it. With the current arrangement, I have to hunt for the chevron.

4. License upgrading: I haven't used NTLite for a long time, and when I wanted to enter the upgrade key, I couldn't figure out what the current key is (I have 1 license and 3 upgrade keys) - maybe the bullets should have an "eye" button? Or is it a security concern? Luckily, I found my notes, otherwise I was worried I could 'waste' a license. Probably not, but it was an uneasy feeling.

Edit * 5. Maybe too early, because I haven't installed drivers yet, but the installation didn't recognize an USB NVME enclosure (which worked fine, in fact, Windows was installed from it). Maybe there is something obvious in the preset?
 

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Any insights please as to which component could cause this?

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In fact, I don't have the whole Language section.
 
I'm guessing NTLite hid that section (using SettingsPageVisibility) because you removed:
Code:
                <c>lpksetup 'Language Pack Setup'</c>
 
I don't think it's there.

Code:
REGEDIT4

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer]
"ForceActiveDesktopOn"=dword:00000000
"NoActiveDesktop"=dword:00000001
"NoActiveDesktopChanges"=dword:00000001
"NoDriveTypeAutoRun"=dword:000000ff
"SettingsPageVisibility"="hide:a9;aicomponents;autoplay;backup;copilot;cortana-windowssearch;easeofaccess-closedcaptioning;easeofaccess-highcontrast;easeofaccess-magnifier;gaming-broadcasting;gaming-gamebar;gaming-gamedvr;gaming-trueplay;gaming-xboxnetworking;holographic-audio;installedupdates;maps;mobile-devices;network-cellular;network-mobilehotspot;privacy-feedback;remotedesktop;search-moredetails;search-permissions;sustainability;sync;troubleshoot;windowsdefender;windowsupdate;windowsupdate-action;windowsupdate-history;windowsupdate-options;windowsupdate-restartoptions"
 
It was probably LPKSetup, but I made a lot of other changes.

To answer my own questions from above:

1. I still include this reg file, just in case. Haven't tested without it.
1a. It accepts them.
2. Undetermined, maybe I toggled it and forgot about it.
3. Much better with chevrons on the left side now.
4. Nothing to add right now.
5. It was a removed driver, SCSI over USB or something similar.

Now new ones:

1. What is "Remove background images"? Remove them from where?

2. UI: As I said, better now, but I miss resizeable columns. I have a fairly large screen, but still some items are not expanded, especially in the first column, and the tooltip just says "Preset". But also sometimes in the last column.

Example:

Capture.gif

3. UI/Chevrons: I wish they were bolder. Still not fully visible to my tired eyes. :) But maybe that would mess up the grayed items, I don't know.
 
2. UI: As I said, better now, but I miss resizeable columns. I have a fairly large screen, but still some items are not expanded, especially in the first column, and the tooltip just says "Preset". But also sometimes in the last column.

Example:

Capture.gif

Example:

Clipboard_09-03-2026_02.png

I don't know if it is because of enlarged font, but there are several places like that.
 
Disaster, hangs with this message:

View attachment 16367

Keyboard or mouse do not respond, only power button. Maybe some info?

Any help, please? I created a couple of (similar) images, all crash on setup with this error. Is it the new version of NTLite? It isn't the Windows Updates because they haven't changed in the meantime.

Please compare the .xml in the quoted post with the one in the first post to see the differences. Next I'll try the first .xml with the new version of NTLite, but I'm pretty tired, already on my 8th image.
 
Disaster, hangs with this message:

IMG_20260902_233445.jpg


Keyboard or mouse do not respond, only power button. Maybe some info?

After 30+ NTLite sessions & installs :eek:, I can say that the culprit is:

<Tweak name="Config\VulnerableDriverBlocklistEnable">0</Tweak>

At first I thought it was some removal, then kb5095966 (NTLite offerred it and auto-selected it for download, so I included it in some sessions), but it came down to tweaks. And I'm still not 100% sure this is the only one, maybe it is a combination of this and/or others, or a timing issue during setup (a race condition?). But when an image doesn't work, it doesn't work, no matter how many times you restart or even reinstall. And keyboard and mouse do work, just that there is no cursor. You have to blindly activate that window and then ENTER will let you carry on, maybe on to part of the setup (which looks like the old setup, although it wasn't chosen), but eventually it will restart and crash again to this window.

This is a very underpowered laptop (Celeron N4020 + 4Gb of soldered ram, no slots), so many removals were needed. That's why at first I thought it was some removal. The laptop is brand new and WinPE and live Linux work fine with it, so I think physical malfunction is very unlikely.

Additionally, I found something odd:

<Tweak name="OOBE\EnableExpeditedUpdate">1</Tweak> causes an OOBE error, but it is recoverable (A button "Try Again" appears and it succeeds).

Maybe I misunderstood the logic, but this line is created when I select Updates during setup = disabled. If I edit the line to <Tweak name="OOBE\EnableExpeditedUpdate">0</Tweak> the line gets deleted and in the NTLite UI it looks like this:

Clipboard_09-08-2026_01.jpg

Shouldn't it be reverted?

Anyway, because of the many NTLite sessions I got quite used to editing the preset directly so this baffled me.
 
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