Why are these Features greyed out?

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Also above what I screen-shotted. I wanted to keep indexing for instance. Here are my Compatibility settings. I disabled Recommended hoping it would let me change those but it obviously didn't.

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Since I keep running into issues I chose the Privacy Preset, but still wanted to customize a few things. Off to go shopping so won't be back to respond to anyone until I get home. Thanks ahead of time!
 
greyed out is in free version. with paid they are available to select
 
MurderChicken has a license (check the last thread's preset).

You're on the Features page. Some Features are instead removed by looking for the same components on the Components page.

Why is this confusing? Each Feature can have 4 different possible starting states:
- included in the image; enabled (installed) by default
- included in the image; disabled (not installed) by default
- not included in the image; enabled by default (will download using Windows Update on post-install)
- not included in the image; disabled by default

Obviously, you can only remove the Features which pre-loaded inside the image.
 
This is a vanilla, untouched Windows 10 Pro version just so you know. I see stuff there I didn't remove, which is why I was a little confused. So I went back and there was stuff hidden in the sub menu, like Window's indexing under the Shell Search box. I also don't see the option to set my local account name which has always been there when I used Ntlite (NOT the free version). I'm on the latest version of Ntlite.

I'm also curious if I should also check the boot.wim 1. Microsoft Windows PE (X64) when removing and adding stuff, or just check the boot.wim 2. Microsoft Windows Setup?
 
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boot.wim (both images ) never needs any updates or removals.
The only practical tasks are to add Drivers, or Settings (to Bypass TPM requirements) to image "2. Windows Setup"

Unattended mode is still there, but nuhi re-arranged the tabs to confuse EVERYONE. Dislike.
 
Yes, dislike is going soft on him/her. I noticed that the Window PE is listed as a Non-essential edition under the removal tab. Don't we need this to recover some things in Windows? Or is this just for people who use Windows Backup, vs something like Macrium?
 
WinPE is the plain WinPE boot environment.
Windows Setup is WinPE + Setup files.

WinRE (Recovery) is dynamically created on the Recovery partition from a WinRE.wim file found on the Windows C:\ filesystem. This Recovery environment copies any installed drivers so it's compatible with your system. WinRE is a derivative cousin to WinPE.

WinPE is always provided on the Windows ISO for deployment scripting. It has a separate set of optional packages (including PowerScript and .NET libraries), which are not interchangeable with normal Windows packages. There is no need to add them to Windows Setup, since Windows Setup only has one job: prepare the system, and run Setup.exe

While Macrium could use the boot.wim image, their instructions require you to download the Windows ADK (which customizes WinPE). The reason is they depend on ISO creation tools found inside the ADK toolkit. Unlike most (cough, cough) public files, ADK is licensed intellectual property of MS. Macrium as an official MS partner cannot redistribute those files themselves.

NTLite doesn't require ADK, because it uses other open-source libraries to do the same tasks.
 
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