NTLite 2024.3.9794 [Update]

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 2024.3.9780 changelog:

New

• Post-Setup: Page redesigned, ‘Machine’ box is now ‘Before logon’ group, ‘User’ is ‘After logon’
• Post-Setup: Integrate background photo support (Add – File – change Type to Background after adding to the list)
• Post-Setup: Integrate ‘hosts’ file support (Add – File, destination is automatically set)
• Post-Setup: Integrate directory support
• Post-Setup: Destination path changeable and has auto-complete. For copy and background types. Overwriting a file preserves original permissions
• Post-Setup: Destination mode changeable. Choose ‘Image’, stored inside the WIM/ESD, or ‘ISO’, stored on the ISO
• Post-Setup: Type changeble, files can be just copied or copied and ran. Commands can be switched on the fly from before to after logon
• Post-Setup: Rename support for existing file and directories
• Settings: ‘Dynamic lock’ option
• UI: Page navigation menu now has a number badge indicator of added or changed items for that page
• UI: Added hover buttons to the appropriate pages, quicky and intuitively insert items

Upgrade

• Unattended: Default Recovery partition size increased from 499 to 700MB on Win10+
• Images: Disabling image Edit menu while processing previous command
• Images: Support for Unload all mounted per WIM/ESD selection
• Images: Presets list remembers clicked header to sort by name or date
• Updates: Downloading updates if cannot connect will prompt for retry or cancel
• Updates: Defender update ARM64 architecture support (fixes popup on loading ARM64 images)
• Components: Reactive compatibility description of ‘Locked by’ extra info on components
• Components: ‘OneDrive’ removal won’t be setting OneDrive disable policy as well. To set as before, use the Settings page in conjuction
• Components: ‘Shared Experiences’, ‘StartMenu’ and ‘Easy Transfer’ remove more, expanded by the cumulative updates
• Components: ‘File Explorer (Extensions)’ removal support for Windows 11 23H2, does not break Explorer
• Settings: Highlighting changed settings for an easier overview
• UI-Translation: Thanks for Chinese Simplified (Gskening), French (tistou77), German (Cartman586), Italian (clarensio),
• Korean (Redrabbit), Romanian (Coman), Swedish (1FF), Turkish (Just)

Fix

• Components: ‘Sounds’ default removed defaults to None in Sound settings
• Components: ‘Text Input Management Service’ removal in a certain scenario could have caused a blank screen on Win11
• Components: ‘RDP Client’ 32-bit removal was blocked if 64-bit version kept
• Components: ‘Telemetry client’ leftover if ‘Application Compatibility’ kept
• Components: ‘Not recommended’ Template disabled, listed for color description only
• Post-Setup: Command prompt popup for ‘Before logon (Machine)’ commands during setup in some cases
• Images: Unloading all at once manually from the folder could keep install image loaded if the WinRE and Boot.wim were mounted as well
• Images: WinRE image handling, should fix rare crashes in processing combinations
• Updates: Check for tool updates default version pre-selection improvements

v2024.3.9783 fixes:

• Image: Isolated (WIM-only) image detection for Post-setup entries, blocking to Image-only mode as intended
• Integrate-Registry: HKCU REG file integration in some cases

v2024.3.9794 fix:

• UI: Chinese character width was incorrect in the new hover buttons
• Drivers: Repeated toolbar Host Import command was recreating multiple Add hover buttons
• Image: Image edit folder rename and overwrite existing folder support

Download: NTLite 64-bit | 23.5 MB (Free, paid upgrade available)
Download: NTLite 32-bit | 20.3 MB
Link: NTLite Home Page | NTLite Features

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