Is there a way to work in NTLite on more than one Windows version or edition at the same time?

[Anonymous Internet User]

I never quite figured this out as I usually work on one image at a time for a while. I looked briefly into this once or twice, but it eluded me.

Is there a way to work in NTLite on more than one Windows version or edition at the same time?

I still have Windows 11 24H2 loaded in NTLite but I'd like to start tinkering with 25H2 without removing my current 24H2 stuff and customizations and still being able to tweak and update 24H2 while building a new 25H2 image.

Is that possible? Thanks!

 

[garlin]

Each NTLite session can only have one loaded image at a time (for consistency reasons).

But if you have a licensed copy of NTLite, you can run multiple sessions (each of them loading a different image). When you start a duplicate NTLite process, it will ask confirmation if that's what you really want to do.

Users might look at a Windows image as a collection of raw files, but NTLite has to carefully track the mounted image's metadata so Windows Servicing (the ability to enable/disable features or to add future updates) can be maintained. This makes it harder to provide a "side by side" view of two mounted images.

 

[Anonymous Internet User]

Thank you Garlin, I suspected something like that. Yes, I have a licensed version but I guess I'll stick to working on one image at a time as this sounds like a way to indeed mix things up. My not-so-easy solution last time was to backup the NTLite application directory and the working directory, work on a new image, then restore it all back to my previous image.