NTLite is a Windows configuration tool that allows you to modify your existing Windows install or an image yet to be deployed, remove Windows components, configure and integrate, speed up the Windows deployment process. Reduce Windows footprint on your RAM and storage drive memory. Remove components of your choice, guarded by compatibility safety mechanisms, which speed up finding that sweet spot. Windows Unattended feature support, providing many commonly used options on a single page for easy setup.
Easily integrate a single or multiple drivers, update or language packages. Package integration features smart sorting, enabling you to seamlessly add packages for integration and the tool will apply them in the appropriate order, keeping hotfix compatibility in check.
One of the important new features of NTLite (compared to its predecessors) is the ability to modify an already installed the operating system, by removing unnecessary components.
Supports Windows 11, 10, 8.1 and 7, x86 and x64, live and image. Server editions of the same versions, excluding support for component removals and feature configuration. ARM64 image support in the alpha stage. Does not support Checked/Debug, Embedded, IoT editions, nor Vista or XP.
NTLite 2023.7.9367 changelog:
New
- Updates: Defender update integration support (Platform, Engine, Offline pack)
- Updates: Defender Platform and Engine updates added to the online update lists
- Settings: ‘DumpStack.log’ option, disabling this allows for deletion of C:\\DumpStack.log.tmp
- Settings: ‘Global timer resolution requests’
- Settings: ‘Show recommendations for tips, shortcuts, new apps, and more’
- Images: Server 23H2 build 25398.1 load support
- Components: Windows 11 23H2 Dev edition languages:
- Afrikaans, Albanian, Amharic, Armenian, Assamese, Azerbaijani, Belarusian, Bosnian,
- Cherokee, Filipino, Georgian, Irish, Persian, Scottish, Kazakh, Khmer, Konkani,
- Luxembourgish, Lao, Maori, Macedonian, Maltese, Nepali, Odia, Quechua, Tatar, Uyghur,
Uzbek, Valencian, Welsh
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Images: Faster edition deletion during processing if only one edition kept
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Components: ‘Sensor Service’ split from Sensors and removes more (make sure to uncheck it in your existing presets if Sensors was removed before)
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Only this service is needed for Settings – System – Power – Energy Recommendations
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Components: Edge Web-View and Memory Diagnostics Win11 23H2 Dev edition support
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Settings: ‘Taskbar Classic’ option removed on Win11 23H2+, problematic and unnecessary
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UI: Autoload preset by default is turned off, enable in Menu – Settings
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UI-Translation: Thanks for Chinese Simplified (Gskening), French (tistou77), German (Cartman586), Italian (clarensio), Swedish (1FF)
Fix
- Images: Delete edition should not be allowed on a loaded image
- Images: WinSxS component was allowing uncheck on free, wasn’t removing, always was licensed only
- Images: Do not add Connect as ref menu option to invalid ISOs
- Images: Partially downloaded ISOs could cause a memory leak, now indicates invalid ISO instead
- Images: Removed assumed ’24H2′ tag on 25XXX builds, presenting as is (23H2)
- Registry: Crash during a REG file integration if no Administrator hive with associated entries in it
- Settings: Option ‘Start – App list – Recently added apps’ was not sticking in images
- Components: ‘Windows Setup EULA Mitigation’ placeholder detection fix, it is Win11 21H2 only
- Components: Auto-unmount winre.wim if removing ‘Windows Recovery’
NTLite 2023.7.9368
Fix
- Images: Edit name/description of an edition, recent regression
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- UI-Translation: Thanks for German (Cartman586), Italian (clarensio), Portugues-Brasil (Igor)
Download: NTLite 64-bit | 23.5 MB (Free, paid upgrade available)
Download: NTLite 32-bit | 20.8 MB
Link: NTLite Home Page | NTLite Features