W11 26H2 Pro Test

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OK, was prepared to give this thing a try, lol, but blue screen boot loop nightmare! Practically same pre set as for LTSC.

I must have entered MS's matrix too far?
 

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Isn't LTSC already stripped down and pro still has normal consumer components? Just asking... As may not be able to use same edits on Pro... If it was me , Id remake a new one with the Pro separately.
 
Which is exactly what the above is, my first 'Pro' edits, but knowing MS, I must have removed something they don't like ;)
 
Tweaked a few things, that I thought could be the problem?, lol, but nope! Seems one can't remove anything from this turd now?

Also, where has the option to enable 'Direct Play' gone? (scrub that, found it).

Could it be a corrupt image?, nope. Loaded it as is, bypassing online account, with start ms-cxh:localonly, and I'm presented with the festering bloat turd that it is. Fans ramping up & down, all sorts going on lol???

How can anyone run this crap??, seriously? Anyway, I'm sure I'll find out what is breaking the boot, as it will just be a case of process elimination, albeit a pain ;)
 

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Got it running with this, most rot removed, but 'Notifications' crashes lol. Hey! Rome wasn't built in a day :)

It's like a 'puzzle' is Pro, remove, move, slide, roll the dice.

I'm gonna admit, I'm not a fan of the new NTLite UI, as a lot of stuff is now 'hidden', which for new users, must be a nightmare. Tabs that can be missed, very easily, with important stuff needing done, is now not obvious to the user. I know what to look out for, even so, I'm missing things myself, as it's just not readily 'visible' like before. (Direct Play) as above ;)

Perhaps a system of 'what you have changed' could be shown 'in bright RED' (an example lol) when loading a previous pre-set, alerting one's changes to the eye?

I find I'm probably making more mistakes now with NTLIte than I have ever done.
 

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It's, 'Quiet Hours/Focus Assist', (removing these breaks 'Notifications') but here's the thing. I loaded same pre set today (above), and NTLite would not let me delete any of the 4 updates I had added via 'latest'? Bin was greyed out, with no way to remove them, no right click, nothing.

What worked, was to unload image, then manually delete these updates from the 'NTLite\Cache' folder, then load image again, but they still showed up in UI?, even after clearing 'cache' through settings, although bin was no longer greyed out, and I was able to remove them normally afterwards.
 
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It's, 'Quiet Hours/Focus Assist', (removing these breaks 'Notifications')
If I recall correctly, it was added to the description.

I loaded same pre set today (above), and NTLite would not let me delete any of the 4 updates I had added via 'latest'? Bin was greyed out, with no way to remove them, no right click, nothing.
I've run into the issue of removing updates before (and forgot to report it to nuhi )
I managed to do it by switching pages and coming back (or by right-clicking on the update first)
 
Latest rot (9711) running pretty good, using (12522) NTLite, I can live with this :)

'Home' still persists in Explorer though, always has done?, (goes away, returns, rinse repeat), but easily removed by manually deleting key in Registry.

Also, no 'crossdeviceresume' in Pro?, else it's been named something else?, but have enabled task to delete it regardless, should it pop up ;)

Best image yet!, even over LTSC lol. Will install this on laptop later, and run the usual O&O/Winhance over it, and lock it well down for the next year or so.
 

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