I'm having trouble saving my full preset in NTLite. When I load a preset in a new session, some of my previous edits seem to be missing.

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I'm trying to save a full preset in NTLite, but when I press "Save Preset," nothing gets saved because no new changes were made. I want to generate a preset that includes all the current modifications in my customized ISO, even if I haven’t made recent changes.

Is there a way to force NTLite to save everything as a preset? Maybe through a command or another method? Any help would be appreciated!
 
In Preset, Add => Add as and it's good normally
This will save the "changes" made at that time
 
There is no option to add everything into a single preset. Currently, only small automatic saves are being created instead of a complete preset. The ISO I have now is good, but I want to future-proof it by being able to instantly import the full, properly configured preset for the image.
 
Once your ISO is mounted, you save the preset after the changes

You can use the option "Extract current image state"
But there will be no updates, drivers, etc... integrated

The best way to have everything is to load your preset, make the desired changes and then in Preset, Add => Add as
Or apply the changes and keep the preset generated by NTLite
 
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There is no way to save the entire preset for use on other unconfigured ISOs without making changes? I just need an XML file containing all the data for that ISO, so I can use it on other ISOs.
 
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You use the preset created with NTLite when you made your modifications,
If you did not keep it, you must redo it
 
So i have to redo the whole image? It auto saved small changes. But only the changes
 
If you have a preset (even if not complete), you load it, then you add your missing modifications and you save the preset
If you don't have any preset, you have to do it again (all the modifications you want to make, addition, etc...) then the same, you save the preset
 
So, there’s no way to create a single preset from a fully configured ISO file? It has been auto-saving, which is why I’m asking. However, it only saves the individual changes I make, not the entire configuration. What I mean is that I need to create the ISO in one go, and only then can I save the full preset—provided I disable auto-save. Or am I mistaken?
 
I just want to manual save the whole iso preset that i can use on other iso files. I can't manual save the whole preset when auto save is enabled?
 
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1. Presets only record pending changes in your current session, waiting to be applied to an image.

When you click Apply, all changes are processed and there's nothing left to record. Unless you've disabled "Backup presets" in NTLite's settings, two auto-saved preset files are written every time you hit Apply.

One copy is saved in the Presets folder. One copy is saved in the ISO folder, on the root folder.

Presets are not cumulative records across the lifetime of the image. They only save changes for the current session. The best time to save a preset is right before Apply, so you can properly name it instead of taking a random Auto-save name.

2. To create a preset from an already edited image, use the preset extract feature. Load an image, and Preset -> Save / Extract current image state.

This will try to recreate a preset based on what Features, Components and Settings have changed. It's not a perfect copy because it won't capture updates, reg changes outside of NTLite's knowledge, or your Post-Setup actions.

Load a clean image (of the same Windows release), and afterwards load your extracted preset on top of it. Preset -> Save As to a new preset, which can be used to create new images from scratch.
 
My expirience:

1. Load an untouched image and make some settings in NTlite, save as ISO, an preset "Automatic preset..." will be saved as last preset.
2. Rename the last preset "Automatic..." to "MyPreset_1"
3. If i reload the UNTOUCHED ISO again and reload the preset, every settings is used and set.
4. If i reload the PRETOUCHED ISO (where settings were set before) and load "MyPreset_1", not all settings that were set before won`t appear.

This is due to "double-acting" (sorry, i`m German, it`s called "Mehrfach-Bearbeitung") -NTlite recognices most of the changes that were made in first run. My advice: Save/rename your presets every run, you can ad one preset to another until you have found your perfect preset (it`ll be always the last "Automatic..."
 
Every time NTLite loads an image, it takes an inventory of the image's available components, integrated updates, 3rd-party drivers, and Setting tweaks it allows you to change. When a preset is loaded, it compares the requested changes with what changes are applicable.

Any changes which cannot be performed, are silently ignored. At this point, if you load a previous preset and try to save it again, it will only reflect the possible changes for the image's current state.

Ignored changes may include:
- Removals for components missing in the current image​
- Listed updates which are not found in the Updates folder​
- Listed driver files which cannot be found​
- Listed reg files which cannot be found​
- Post-Setup files which cannot be found​

NTLite will attempt to load presets created by an earlier version of NTLite, and try remapping older changes as much as possible. A newer NTLite can read an older NTLite's presets, but not in the reverse direction.
 
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