Components
Remove Windows components with dependency analysis and safety warnings.
This page contains a list of detected removable Windows components for the loaded image. To queue a component for removal, uncheck the checkbox on the left.
Most components are color-coded, indicating a member of the template in the menu.
Templates
Menu in the toolbar, unchecks sets of components for each level (Privacy → Gaming → Lite), with Lite removing the most.
Component checkbox color labels reflect each template:
- Green - Privacy template
- Blue - Gaming template
- Orange - Lite template
- Red - Not recommended to remove
Compatibility
Opened from the toolbar, these options help you protect the needed components from removal for a given feature set.
Enable those that you want protected; that will automatically lock the tied components from unchecking, and thus removal. Especially useful in combination with Templates.
App removal mode
Dropdown in the toolbar that controls how Windows apps (Microsoft Store / provisioned packages) are removed. Applies only to apps, not to other component types on this page.
DISM is the normal mode, using the standard Windows servicing API to unregister and stage the app for removal. This is the default and the safest choice.
DISM + Custom adds extra cleanup steps on top of the DISM removal, stripping additional traces left behind. The trade-off is that in some cases this also removes support for the app, so reinstalling it later from the Store may not work. Choose this when you want a more thorough cleanup and do not plan to bring the app back.