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[Mohammad.Poorya]

NTLite 2.3.0 Build 8308


Changes in NTLite 2.3.0 Build 8308:

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• Updates: Win11 update cache folders 11.21h2.x64 and 11.Dev.x64
  
• Updates: Server 2022 KB5005444 Dynamic Update support
  
• UI: Clean dir preparation stage does not hang UI any more
  

Fix

• Components: Server 2022 ‘Telemetry Client’ removal was causing a setup hang
  
• Unattended: Server 2022 no product key entered would show a license error during setup
  
• Updates: Server 2022 while also being 21H2, now properly filtered in the update lists from the client version (awaiting public updates)
  
• UI: Prompting reboot now cleans before rebooting, instead on the next session
  
• UI: Potential fix for the old and rare opening Apply page crash
  
  
  Homepage – https://www.ntlite.com
  

[Mohammad.Poorya]

NTLite 2.3.0.8330

2.3.0.8330
New
Updates: Windows 11 online update list
Updates: Windows Server 2022 online update list
Updates: Support for the new Windows 11 MSU update format
Components: ‘Device Update Center’ removal

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Updates: Online update lists now have Windows Server names on the appropriate versions
Updates: ESD file type support for the Updates page (e.g. certain lang packs)
Components: Win11 ‘Windows Update’ component detection, also enables listing of related Settings
UI-Translation: Thanks for German (Cartman586)

Fix
Source: WinRE parallel processing with its parent install.wim exporting error fixed
Updates: Multiedition parallel integration now filters Dynamic Update for the loaded edition only
(it just needs to update common boot files once)
Updates: Language pack multiedition parallel integration fixed, and better use of its extracted cache

Homepage – https://www.ntlite.com

[Mohammad.Poorya]

NTLite 2.3.0.8333

2.3.0.8333
New
Updates: Windows 11 online update list
Updates: Windows Server 2022 online update list
Updates: Support for the new Windows 11 MSU update format
Components: ‘Device Update Center’ removal

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Updates: Online update lists now have Windows Server names on the appropriate versions
Updates: ESD file type support for the Updates page (e.g. certain lang packs)
Components: Win11 ‘Windows Update’ component detection, also enables listing of related Settings
UI-Translation: Thanks for German (Cartman586)

Fix
Source: WinRE parallel processing with its parent install.wim exporting error fixed
Updates: Multiedition parallel integration now filters Dynamic Update for the loaded edition only
(it just needs to update common boot files once)
Updates: Language pack multiedition parallel integration fixed, and better use of its extracted cache

Homepage – https://www.ntlite.com

[Mohammad.Poorya]

NTLite 2.3.0 Build 8375

Changes in NTLite 2.3.0 Build 8375:
New

• Source: Windows 11 Dev Preview build 22471 Preview preliminary support
  
• Source: Windows Server Next build 22463 Preview preliminary support
  
• Settings: Win11 ‘Taskbar – Chat’ and ‘Widgets’ options
  
• Settings: Win11 ‘Virtualization-based security (VBS)’ disable option (works only without the UEFI lock for now)
  
• Components: ‘Kerberos’ (64-bit), needed for Win11 WiFi tray popup, listing and keeping a component protects it
  

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• Components: Win11 automatic WiFi and Ethernet driver package cleanup
  
• Components: Win11 ‘Connected Devices Platform User Service’ needed for tray popups, warning on Apply and added to OOBE compatibility
  
• Components: ‘Isolated user mode (IUM)’ renamed and upgraded to ‘Virtualization-based security (VBS)’
  
• Components: ‘Microsoft.VCLibs.140.00.UWPDesktop’ renamed to ‘C++ Runtime framework package for Desktop Bridge’
  
• Components: ‘Windows Remote Management’ removal disables ‘Event Collector’ service, clear dependency for that part of Event Viewer
  
• Source: WIM Export – Append support to the same image file, useful to duplicate editions
  
• UI: Status bar completed message contains Windows resulting Windows version for better overview
  
• UI-Translation: Thanks for German (Cartman586), French (tistou77), Polish (KrzysioZ)
  

Fix

• Components: Win11 ‘Insider Hub’ removal was hiding Windows Update settings page
  
• Components: Win11 ‘IPsec Policy Agent’ removal had leftovers
  
• Components: Win11 ‘Snip & Sketch’ now includes the Snipping tool component
  
• Components: Win11 open .TXT service error
  
• Components: LCU folder removal leftovers
  
• Components: ‘Edge Update’ removal was removing DoNotUpdateToEdgeWithChromium reg tweak
  
• Unattended: Disk configuration Expand button would crash UI in some cases
  
• Sources: WinRE missing target after deleting editions in the multiedition session
  
• Settings: ‘Use only latest CLR (.NET version)’ offline/image apply
  
  Homepage – https://www.ntlite.com
  

[Mohammad.Poorya]

NTLite 2.3.0 Build 8394

Changes in NTLite 2.3.0 Build 8394:
New

• Unattended: Computer Name %SERIAL% variable, dynamically insert machine’s serial number during install
  
• Settings: Win11 Start – ‘Show most used apps’ option
  

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• Settings: Win11 TPM requirement disabling option improved
  
• Components: Win11 language removal detections for ‘Basque’, ‘Catalan’, ‘Galician’, ‘Indonesian’, ‘Vietnamese’
  
• Components: Win11 removing more for ‘Microsoft Account’, ‘System Guard’, ‘VBS’, ‘Edge Chromium’, ‘Telemetry’, ‘Speech’, ‘Diagnostics’, ‘OCR’
  
• UI-Translation: Thanks for Chinese Simplified (Gskening) and German (Cartman586)
  

Fix

• Source: Detected file in use error while saving, if processing Install + Boot + WinRE images in the same session
  
• Components: Win11 ‘DevicesFlow’ removal would cause Settings – Devices closing
  
• Components: Win11 ‘Wired Autoconfig’ removal would cause Settings – Network connections closing
  
• Components: Win11 ‘Zip Folders’ removal was reverting Explorer toolbar to an old ribbon style
  
  Homepage – https://www.ntlite.com
  

[Mohammad.Poorya]

NTLite 2.3.1 Build 8444

Changes in NTLite 2.3.1 Build 8444:
New

• Components: Built-in removal presets in a form of ‘Template’ unchecks from the toolbar (Privacy, Gaming, Lite)
  
• Components: ‘Shared Experiences’
  
• Components: ‘OneSettings Client’
  
• Components: ‘Microsoft Cloud Identity Service’
  
• Components: ‘Undocked Update Stack’
  
• Settings: ‘Alt-Tab style’ classic option (Win11)
  
• Settings: ‘Classic context menu’ (Win11)
  
• Settings: ‘Decrease space between items (compact view)’ (Win11)
  
• Settings: ‘Shared Experiences’
  
• Settings: ‘Show most used apps’
  
• Source: Windows 11 Dev build 22489 preliminary support
  

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• Components: ‘Wallpapers (Themes)’ detection on Win11
  
• Components: ‘Near Field Communication (NFC)’ and ‘Payments’ split
  
• Components: ‘Devices Flow’ split subcomponents ‘Device Picker’, ‘Consent UX’ and ‘Device Flow 32-bit’
  
• Components: ‘WaaS Assessment’ renamed to ‘Windows Update Medic Service’
  
• Components: ‘Task View’ removal under Win11 now switches to classic Alt-Tab style, as it is required for the new one
  
• Components: ‘Scanner support’, ‘On-screen Touch Keyboard’, ‘Windows Update’, ‘International Unicode Components’ remove more in Win11
  
• Components: Few Windows Apps display names improved for clarity
  
• Settings: Disable Widget and Chat options now also hide or disable them in the Windows Settings
  
• Updates: Extraction cache autocleanup enabled, deletes unused extracted updates (14 days+) on exit
  
• UI-Translation: Thanks for Chinese Traditional (Matt), French (tistou77), German (Cartman586), Polish (KrzysioZ)
  

Fix

• Updates: Language pack integration in case of an exe package format or standard extraction integration option
  
• Components: Win10 1803 HyperV removal causing BSOD during image setup
  
• Components: ‘Capability Access’ deployed removal was causing MSCTF Taskhost error.
  
  
  

Homepage – https://www.ntlite.com

[Mohammad.Poorya]

NTLite 2.3.2 Build 8500


Changes in NTLite 2.3.2 Build 8500:
New

• UI: ‘Scheduled Tasks’ removal page, remove existing scheduled tasks
  
• Settings: Added ‘Disk Quota’ disabling option
  
• Settings: ‘Automatic App Archiving’ option
  
• Components: ‘Windows Setup EM’ added by Win11 22000.318+, undocumented component
  
• Components: ‘Scanner’ compatibility option
  

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• Updates: Improved new updates integration compatibility running on an older host, pre Win10 1809 editions
  
• Source: Win11 new Preview build 22504.1010 load support
  
• Source: Improved Host Refresh migration compatibility in the full(er) to lite scenarios (error 0x8007042b)
  
• Source: Host Refresh automatically agrees to EULA on Win11 images
  
• Settings: CPU check bypass added to TPM requirement option
  
• Settings: Application Compatibility section options merged into other groups
  
• Components: ‘MS Audit Tools’ split, needed for ‘Windows Firewall Control’ by Binisoft
  
• Components: ‘Modern App’ compatibility option split from ‘Windows Store’ compatibility
  
• Components: ‘PowerShell ISE’ split from ‘PowerShell’
  
• Components: ‘WWAN AutoConfig’ removes more
  
• Components: ‘Speech API’ moved from Gaming to Lite, needed for Farcry 6
  
• Components: ‘Disk Quota’ needed for WMI volume provider ‘wmic volume’, moved from Privacy to Lite
  
• Components: ‘Bind Filter Driver’ split from Containers, needed for many things
  
• Components: Win11 ‘Network Location Awareness’ component detection
  
• Components: ‘Zip folder’ removal improved to support Host Refresh return
  
• UI: Sorted pages on the left to reflect the actual sequence of processing
  
• UI-Translation: Thanks for French (tistou77), German (Cartman586)
  

Fix

• Features: FOD duplicates removed
  
• Updates: Downloader could crash with corrupted files without a loaded image
  
• Updates: Skip icb.ppkg loading, to not have unnecessary popup on certain images
  
• UI: Remember tool’s window size and position
  

Homepage – https://www.ntlite.com

[Mohammad.Poorya]

NTLite 2.3.2 Build 8502

Changes in NTLite 2.3.2 Build 8502:
Fix

• UI: Saving window location if closed minimized, it would restore invisible
  
• Components: Cancelling component removal would hang UI at cleaning
  
• Components: Edge Chromium removed from Lite template
  
• Source: Exporting an edition to the same WIM file (duplicating an edition) would hang UI at cleaning
  
  
  

Homepage – https://www.ntlite.com

[Mohammad.Poorya]

NTLite 2.3.2 Build 8519

Changes in NTLite 2.3.2 Build 8519:

New

• Settings: ‘Teams – Install’ disable option
  
• Components: ‘Application Guard / Containers’ compatibility option
  

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• Components: ‘TPM’ includes HSP addition from new Win11 CUs
  
• Components: ‘Notepad’ removal for Win7-10 (Win11 already has an app)
  
• UI-Translation: Thanks for Chinese Simplified (Gskening), Italian (gabritb01)
  

Fix

• Features: ‘Features on Demand’ listing improvements on specific images
  
• Components: ‘Assigned Access’ or ‘Edge Legacy’ removal could break UWP apps print dialog
  
• Components: ‘Scanner’ and ‘Notepad’ Settings features entry removal leftovers
  
• Components: ‘Setting Sync’ removal unnecessary error about busy file Microsoft\Windows\Live
  
• Settings: Taskbar button grouping option removed from Win11 as it’s not supported
  
• UI: Task Scheduler page not listed if no Task Scheduler component
  
• UI: Source page toolbar Presets tab was taking focus when handling images (e.g. add to the list, forget from list etc)
  

Homepage – https://www.ntlite.com

[Mohammad.Poorya]

NTLite 2.3.2 Build 8526

Changes in NTLite 2.3.2 Build 8526:

New

• Components: iCloud compatibility option
  

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• Components: ‘Other Themes’ renamed to ‘Windows Personalization themes’ and added Win11 detection
  
• Feature Config: Bolded pending Feature Config changes
  
• UI-Translation: Thanks for Chinese Traditional (Matt)
  

Fix

• Settings: ‘Temporary directory (User accounts)’ now also pre-creates the directory if missing
  
• General: Filtering shared duplicate registry WOW64 keys, for better image/offline compatibility
  
• Updates: Skipping unnecessary error about the unsupported usmt.ppkg on some OEM images
  

Homepage – https://www.ntlite.com