Components in boot.wim
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My preset pack might have a barebone bootwim preset for windows 7, prolly in the archive folder. If not put a request in that topic and someone will upload it hopefully. I may have it somewhere. If you want to shrink boot.wim on 8.1 or later then adapt it, load a w7 image, your required os and compare both.
Unless you are worried about iso size because you will burn a dvd then shrinking the boot.wim serves no purpose.
Delete the PE part but keep Microsoft Windows Setup.
Unless you are worried about iso size because you will burn a dvd then shrinking the boot.wim serves no purpose.
Delete the PE part but keep Microsoft Windows Setup.
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WinPE isnt used by the majority of home users and can be easily removed.
Its in the archive folder, w7 bootwim barebone v2, built on ntlite 1.2.0.4433.
Im suprised you asked because you have been here(and the old place) for a long time and you havnt tried before.
Im suprised you asked because you have been here(and the old place) for a long time and you havnt tried before.
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W7-Bootwim-Barebone-v4 in the 6.1.SP1 folder, bult on 1.2.0.4861. oops 
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Post your results(and preset) please @tistou, will be helpful for others 
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Untouched boot.wim on ltsc 1809 is 389mb.
Remove 1 driver and delete PE and its 328mb. 60mb isnt enough for me to worry about.
I cant fully remember the results on 7, i dont think the result was great but it could be a deal breaker if burning to dvd and that was the point of the exercise.
Remove 1 driver and delete PE and its 328mb. 60mb isnt enough for me to worry about.
I cant fully remember the results on 7, i dont think the result was great but it could be a deal breaker if burning to dvd and that was the point of the exercise.
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Kasual
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Hi tistou77
How small is your 1903 boot.wim?
I have attached the preset with the components that i keep (had to disable protections to save the list), if you need to integrate drivers to the boot.wim image, keep Windows component database and store, once the drivers are set, you can remove both components.
The image goes down to 165 MB but i have removed some more files after mounting the image and no drivers are integrated. Has been installed in VirtualBox but probably i can remove some more components.
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In boot.wim keep only Marlett but i think you can remove everything in boot.wim\sources\Windows\Fonts
The font used when copying files changes after keeping only Marlett but ok I decided to leave it that way.
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Is there a preset floating around the forums? Maybe one of the presets mentioned in this thread? (I would like to compare and contrast)
Better yet, is there a baseline minimum compoents for boot.wim to function?
I basically have the exact same question as tistou77 in the very firsst post of this thread.
Better yet, is there a baseline minimum compoents for boot.wim to function?
I basically have the exact same question as tistou77 in the very firsst post of this thread.
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Since time, I've found
The components I'm removing (current state of boot.wim) and I haven't tested everything yet
For the drivers, make sure you keep the ones that match with your machine (disk controller drivers, language, keyboard, etc..., among others)
The components I'm removing (current state of boot.wim) and I haven't tested everything yet
For the drivers, make sure you keep the ones that match with your machine (disk controller drivers, language, keyboard, etc..., among others)
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Greatly appreciated! I'll post any findings, if any.
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