So my particular deployment of Ntlite is anal and complicated as can be; sometimes you have to make yourself your own tools case and point SlimJim.
So what is the point of SlimJim preset. It is an ideal image for virtualization, includes .net 3.5, you can install the old run times like VC++ 2005 and 2008 and run those basically largely compromised runtimes in a virtual environment as well as most 3D games. But I had two purposes for myself which were provide the ideal and minimal drivers and hardware support (vis-a-vis) a real pc. You can further trim the drivers and hardware, but this baseline is hard to beat for real systems. You can download that just to see how you did and improve your own preset. But in my case, I have 6 machines, and NTlite comes with 5 activations, so I downloaded an old beta NTlite (1.8....) and I load this perfect SlimJim, import host drivers and export for my real and production ready live image which focuses on security, privacy, functionality and performance. This combined with driver booster 12 made it easy to compile a master light driver package for my systems and one that was up to date.
I'm usually not one to share presets, but as I said my releases are complicated such that this comprises maybe 1/10th of the final ISO. This is just a component removal and unattended. You should probably add the NTlite settings for a more comfortable experience. You use SlimJim with any Windows 10 ISO really, but it was designed for LTSC 2021 IoT Enterprise. With this preset, I assure you, you'll come close to driver/hardware mastery which if you don't have deep knowledge of windows is truly arbitrary. Obviously, this preset is better than any automated preset in NTlite. The Wim size is 1.6GB. And though I can get a Wim size of 1.05 GB, it's a flaky problematic image. SlimJim is ironclad and virgin. I always recommend against modding boot.wim especially if you are releasing to public.
So what is the point of SlimJim preset. It is an ideal image for virtualization, includes .net 3.5, you can install the old run times like VC++ 2005 and 2008 and run those basically largely compromised runtimes in a virtual environment as well as most 3D games. But I had two purposes for myself which were provide the ideal and minimal drivers and hardware support (vis-a-vis) a real pc. You can further trim the drivers and hardware, but this baseline is hard to beat for real systems. You can download that just to see how you did and improve your own preset. But in my case, I have 6 machines, and NTlite comes with 5 activations, so I downloaded an old beta NTlite (1.8....) and I load this perfect SlimJim, import host drivers and export for my real and production ready live image which focuses on security, privacy, functionality and performance. This combined with driver booster 12 made it easy to compile a master light driver package for my systems and one that was up to date.
I'm usually not one to share presets, but as I said my releases are complicated such that this comprises maybe 1/10th of the final ISO. This is just a component removal and unattended. You should probably add the NTlite settings for a more comfortable experience. You use SlimJim with any Windows 10 ISO really, but it was designed for LTSC 2021 IoT Enterprise. With this preset, I assure you, you'll come close to driver/hardware mastery which if you don't have deep knowledge of windows is truly arbitrary. Obviously, this preset is better than any automated preset in NTlite. The Wim size is 1.6GB. And though I can get a Wim size of 1.05 GB, it's a flaky problematic image. SlimJim is ironclad and virgin. I always recommend against modding boot.wim especially if you are releasing to public.
