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NTLite 2.0.0.7705 (64-bit)
Upgrade:
- Source: Win10 preview build 20241 support +license date changed
- Source: Improved ESD image compression detection for some custom images
- Components: ‘Display Policy Service’ moved as a parent to ‘Display Enhancement’ for better clarity what is needed for ‘Night Light’
- Components: Reduced the servicing stack compatibility warning scenarios
- Components-1809: Supporting removal of legacy Calculator if no modern app detected
- UI-Translation: Thanks for Chinese Simplified (Gskening)

Fixed:
- Updates: Downloader UI not remembering checked items on Verify
- Components: Turkish character in a temporary path could have disrupted the Start Menu cleanup
- Components: Defender empty service leftovers in deployed/live removal
- Components-Win7: Enterprise x86 English-US language removal in non-English image could have removed too much
- Components-Win7: Windows Component Store removal leftovers if Internet Explorer kept
- Components-Win7: wininetplugin.dll setup error if removing Migration Wizard with Servicing Stack compatibility disabled


NTLite 2.0.0.7656 (64-bit)
Fixed:
- General: Auto-updating could get stuck on cleanup
(improvement is visible only when updating from this version in the future)

Upgraded:
- UI-Translation: Thanks for Turkish (SALiH DRD)


NTLite 2.0.0.7640 (64-bit)
Upgrade:
- Source: Windows 10 21H1 build 20206 support (+license date changed)
- Source: Better handling of a non-standard WIM/ESD image names (e.g. using only description instead of the name element will no longer leave ‘NONAME’ prefix)
- Updates: Downloader now disables the already integrated update entries to simplify choice
- Updates: Downloader now unchecks unnecessary cumulative update on manual selection (e.g. selecting two cumulative updates, leaves only the last one selected)
- Components: Components page filter bar for easier browsing (‘Uncheck all’ toolbar button applies to listed, non-filtered only)
- General: Improved REFS support for image content storage (Note that temp/mount dir needs NTFS by design)
- UI: Faster Components page opening, expanding and collapsing of all items
- UI-Translation: Thanks for Chinese Simplified (Gskening)

Fix:
- Updates: Existing updates could have duplicate entries
- UI: Automatic update will now prompt before restarting the tool if image loaded
- Components: ‘PeopleExperienceHost’ removal leftovers


NTLite 2.0.0.7618 (64-bit)
New:
- Settings: ‘Phone calls’ privacy option
- Parameters: ‘/saveallstates’ – Include currently unchanged states on a preset save
- Together with forcing non-existent components, captures most of existing changes

Upgrade:
- Source: Windows 10 21H1 build 20190 support +license date changed
- Components: ‘IPSec’ leftovers
- Components: ‘RDP ActiveX Client’ 32-bit split
- Components: ‘Remote Desktop Client’ 32-bit split
- Components: ‘WMI (Core)’ 32-bit split
- Components: ‘WMI (Providers)’ 32-bit split
- Components: Replaced Live-Only removal lock with OOBE compatibility
- Make sure to keep that compatibility enabled to avoid setup issues

Fix:
- Updates: Improved cumulative update integration to reduce the chance of WU reoffering already integrated CU
- Components: Settings-Privacy-Diagnostics page now removed with Telemetry removal instead of disabled with Error Reporting removals
- Components: Slow ‘Preparing data’ at 99% in patched Windows 7


NTLite 2.0.0.7596 (64-bit)
New:
- Settings: ‘Temporary directory (User Accounts)’
- Settings: ‘Pointer speed’ and ‘Enhance pointer precision’ options
- PostSetup: Compress Windows (Compact OS) template option, unattended version of it is conditional

Upgrade:
- Source: Windows 10 21H1 build 20180 support (+license date changed)
- UI-Translation: Thanks for Korean (Redrabbit), Farsi (Mona mon)

Fix:
- Updates: DISM cleanup was blocked by .NET 3.5 integration if in the same session
- Updates: If only integrating updates in a session, special runonce-type updates might not install
- Components: ‘OneDrive’ removal ‘Automatic file downloads’ settings page leftover
- Components: MMC Extended tab was removed with ‘Internet Explorer’, now only with ‘IE HTML Viewer’ as intended
- Drivers: Rare UI crash on exporting a certain machine’s hardware list
- UI-Tool: Removed legacy Check Updates option in File-Settings


NTLite 2.0.0.7580 (64-bit)
Upgrade:
- Unattended: Disk partitioning template now pre-fills install size to have recovery partition last
- Updates-Win10: DISM update cleanup methods inserted earlier to avoid error 2054 in a single session
- Installer: Silently installing NTLite was always starting the tool, now optional with /autorun
- Update-Features: ‘Browser.InternetExplorer’ filtered out of FODs as there is already Internet Explorer feature configurable
- Components: ISO files .Sourcesreplacementmanifest cleanup with removals
- UI-Translation: Thanks for Chinese Simplified (Gskening), Chinese Traditional (Matt), Dutch (René), French (tistou77),
- Greek (Soulimiotis), Polish (KrzysioZ), Portugues-Brasil (Igor), Russian (Den-s), Spanish (Oleada), Ukrainian (Ihor)

Fix:
- Components: TPM removal blocking Cryptographic service startup after CU + remove reinstalls
- Updates: Uninstalling packages could cause this tool to crash


NTLite 1.9.0.7539 (64-bit)
New
- Settings: ‘Target release version’ Windows Update option
- Settings: ‘Allow pinning Store app to taskbar’ option

Upgrade:
- UI: Spend less CPU cycles waiting on external processes like DISM cleanup
- UI-Translation: Thanks for Chinese Traditional, Ukrainian


NTLite 1.9.0.7530 (64-bit)
New:
- Settings: ‘Fast Startup’ option
- Settings: ‘Fast User Switching’ option
- Settings: ‘Hardware-accelerated GPU scheduling’ option
- Settings: ‘Shutdown menu’ options
- Settings: ‘Variable refresh rate’ option

Fix:
- Apply: ‘Read updated data’ after updating progress stuck at 0% (cosmetic only), regression fixed
- Apply: ‘Image process queue’ missing updates on subsequent tasks, regression fixed


NTLite 1.9.0.7517 (64-bit)
New:
- Source: Win10 21H1 build 20150 support
- Components: ‘Microsoft Edge (Chromium)’ removal
- Components: ‘Region and Language control panel’
- Settings: ‘Show drive letters’ Explorer options

Upgrade:
- Source: Win10 20H2 (2009) build 19042 support, same license date as 19041
- Components: ‘Snip & Sketch’ was dependant on ‘Encrypting File System (EFS)’ removal
- Components: Removed ‘Cortana’ compatibility option
- UI-Translation: Thanks for Ukrainian (Ihor), Chinese Simplified (Gskening), French (tistou77),
- Polish (KrzysioZ), Turkish (SALiH DRD)

Fix:
- Components: Search tray popup various dependencies resolved
- Components: ‘Sync Host’ and ‘CDPUserSvc’ removals were breaking Control Panel – Region
- Components: ‘Cortana’ removal was making Settings-Search not showing states
- Components: ‘Delivery Optimization’ removal settings page leftover
- Components-Win10_2004/9: Cortana removal was breaking Start file search
- Components-Win7: ‘English US’ removal was breaking Chinese IE11 install


NTLite 1.9.0.7501 (64-bit)
New:
- Setting: ‘Online speech recognition services’

Upgrade:
- Components: ‘SmartScreen’ no longer needed for Windows Store compatibility (do not disable SmartScreen if removing)
- Source: Better handling of manual unloading install.wim with still mounted winre.wim inside it
- UI-Translation: Chinese Simplified, Polish

Fix:
- Source: Loading winre.wim outside of install.wim was not supported


NTLite 1.9.0.7490 (64-bit)
New:
- Settings: ‘Display locked user name in logon screen’
- Settings: ‘Feedback frequency’
- Settings: ‘Notifications network usage’
- Settings: ‘SMB Bandwidth Throttling’
- Settings: ‘Storage Sense’ settings

Upgrade:
- Features: Features page filter row added, type to filter the list
- Presets: Listing unsupported files inside the Presets folder
- UI-Translation: Thanks for French, Chinese Traditional

Fixed:
- Components: ‘Connected Devices Platform User Service’ removal shutdown task waiting message if ‘Sync Host’ kept
- Components: ‘Connected Devices Platform User Service’ added to OOBE compatibility
- Components: Removing ‘Internet Printing Client’ was not disabling its deployed feature state if Printing kept
- Settings: ‘Use Peek to preview the desktop at the end of the taskbar’ offline fix
- Post-Setup: SetupComplete.cmd written only if changed


NTLite 1.9.0.7455 (64-bit)
New:
- Settings: ‘Restart PC as soon as possible when required to install an update’
- Settings: ‘Show a notification when your PC requires a restart to finish updating’
- Settings: ‘Use Peek to preview the desktop at the end of the taskbar’

Upgrade
- Components: ‘Internet Explorer Engine’ pieces moved to IE UI component removal
- UI-Translation: Thanks for Chinese Simplified, French, Polish

Fix
- Unattended: ‘Dual architecture’ wasn’t generating both entries on 32-bit sources
- Components: ‘English’ language pack removal on non-English ISOs had leftovers
- Components: ‘Windows Time’ removal was breaking manual time setup


NTLite 1.9.0.7428 (64-bit)
Upgrade:
- Components: ‘AppCompatibility’, ‘Device Guard’, ‘Provisioning’ leftovers
- Components-Win10_2004: ‘Shell Services’ removal finished and unlocked
- UI-Translation: Thanks for Farsi, French, Italian,
- Korean, Polish, Russian

Fix:
- Components: .NET GAC cleanup of removed components had minor leftovers
- Components: ‘COM+’ removal was causing an Event Viewer error
- Components: ‘Modern App 32-bit’ could break weblink opening from 32-bit native apps
- Components-Win10_2004: ‘Data Usage service’ component was removing Network Status page
- Components-Win10_2004: ‘VHD’ component detection and leftovers
- Components-Win10_2004: ‘Windows Performance Recorder’ leftover


NTLite 1.9.0.7407 (64-bit)
New:
- Settings: ‘ShellBags’ disabling option
- Settings: ‘Search Suggestions’ disabling option
- Settings: ‘SMBv3 server-side compression’
- Settings: Explorer – ‘Network in navigation pane’

Upgrade:
- Components: ‘Capture Service’ split from Xbox app (needed for Screen Sketch)
- Components-Win10_2004: ‘Error Reporting’ and ‘CDPUserSvc’ components unlocked for offline removal
- Components-Win10_2004: Linked ‘Search App’ to Start Menu Experience Host component
- Updates: Cleanup after DISM (%temp%TS_*.TMP files)
- UI-Features: Feature names now have green text if enabled by default
- UI-Translation: Thanks for Arabic (thamermousa), Chinese Simplified (Gskening), Chinese Traditional (Matt), Dutch (René),
- French (tistou77), Greek (Soulimiotis), Polish (KrzysioZ), Portugues-Brasil (Igor), Russian (Den-s), Spanish (Oleada)

Fix:
- Components: VSS API 32-bit was not removed if 64-bit version is kept
- Components-Win10_2004: WPF Core Kaspersky 2020 compatibility
- Components-Win10_2004: ‘Windows To Go’ component detection
- Components-Win10_2004: Leftovers and removes more in ‘HIDService’, ‘Delivery Optimization’, ‘Map Control’, ‘Network Diagnostics’,
- ‘Data Usage service’, ‘HyperV’, ‘Printing’, ‘DHCP’, ‘Modern App Support 32-bit’, ‘Lang IME’, ‘Devices Flows’
- PostSetup: UI was duplicating the % sign in commands on preset load
- Settings: ‘Classic logon’ removed as it’s an obsolete setting, instead disable ‘Display last user name in logon screen’
- Source: UI crash when pressing F5 to refresh images during image operation


NTLite 1.9.0.7330 (64-bit)
Fix:
Source:
- Crash after processing with a certain combination of WinRE and Delete editions tasks
- WinRE on live install (C:Windows) handling

Settings: Event Viewer channel settings weren’t fully saved to preset for session reload (now needs resaving)

Components-Win10_2004:
- ‘Kernel Debugger’ leftovers
- ‘Cortana’ removal Start menu popup delay

Upgrade:
- UI-Translation: Korean


NTLite 1.9.0.7304 (64-bit)
New:
- Source: Edit Flags on a WIM image on a right-click
- Settings: ‘Remote Desktop’ and ‘Require Network Level Authentication to connect’ options (does not edit Firewall rules)

Upgrade:
- UI-Translation: Thanks for Polish

Fix:
- Updates: .NET 3.5 existing package detection regression
- Components: ‘Homegroup’ removal was breaking ‘Network Center’ Sharing settings
- Source: Edit WIM Name/Description UI disabled if edition is mounted or is in an ESD format
- Source: Server 2012R2 update downloader detection (Windows 8.1 base pre-selection)
- Unattended: ComputerName wasn’t allowing a prefixed generated ‘name-*’, a regression with stricter checks
- UI: Source page image Delete edition and Edit Name/Description was not disabled while image task is processing


NTLite 1.9.0.7290 (64-bit)
New:
Components-Win7: ‘End of Service notifier (EOSNotify)
Settings: ‘Remote Desktop listening port
Settings-Server: ‘Shutdown Event Tracker
Settings-Win7: ‘End of Service notifier (EOSNotify)

Upgrade:
- UI-Translation: Thanks for French (tistou77), Portugues-Brasil (Igor), Chinese Simplified (Gskening)

Fix:
- Source: Improved WinRE image mounting handling in task sequences
- Updates: Potential crash could happen when queuing existing updates


NTLite 1.9.0.7276 (64-bit)
New:
- New-Settings: ‘Chromium-based Microsoft Edge web browser automatic install’

Upgrade:
- Upgrade-Components-20H2: “User Experience for Windows” (MicrosoftWindows.Client.CBS) renamed and expanded
- UI-Translation: Thanks for French (tistou77)

Fix:
- Source: Preset loading was removing image loaded indicator
- Components: ‘Internet Explorer’ removal was resetting ‘Internet Browser’ .URL association
- Components: ‘Steps Recorder’, ‘Paint’, ‘WordPad’ and ‘PowerShell’ package leftovers
- Components: EventLog channel leftovers for some components


NTLite 1.8.0.7261 (64-bit)
New:
- Source: Win10 20H2 Preview build 19536 support (license date 12/17/2019)
- Source: Win10 20H1 ‘2004’ Preview build 19037 support (moved license date to 12/17/2019)

Upgrade:
- Source: ESD conversion on double-click/load directly will convert all editions by default
- Components: Containers added to Store Apps compatibility, detached from HyperV
- UI-Translation: Thanks for Polish (KrzysioZ), Chinese Traditional (Matt)

Fix:
- Source: Scratch location free space requirements lowered if an image is already mounted
- Settings: Scrolling with a scrollbar wasn’t refreshing newly displayed icons on the expanded lists
- Settings: ‘People Bar’ disabling setting was not working


NTLite 1.8.0.7240 (64-bit)
New:
- Settings: Cortana tray button
- Settings-20H1: ‘Automatically save my restartable apps when I sign out and restart them after I sign’

Upgrade:
- Post-setup: setupcomplete.cmd save location kept inside an image if already existed
- Settings: ‘Allow Telemetry – Locked’ policy suboptions inside the existing setting
- Settings: Renamed ‘Reopen my apps after an update or restart’ to ‘Use my sign in info to automatically finish setting up my device’
- UI-Translation: Thanks for Polish (KrzysioZ) and Chinese Simplified (Gskening)

Fix:
- Registry: Integration of REG file with reg key deletion ‘-[REGKEY]’ permission error
- Components: Internet Explorer removal XML open with leftover “IE ActiveX Interface Marshaling Library”
- Components: Notification Center was disabled with Action Center instead of Push Notifications removal
- Source: Exporting/Converting ESD into a new location, without overwriting the source, would error out
- Source: ESD exporting would duplicate the full edition name in its description
- Updates-Win7: KB2532531/2552343 integration order fix
- UI-Translation: File-Settings-Proxy translation support
- UI-Translation: Chinese installer custom checkbox names


NTLite 1.8.0.7230 (64-bit)
Upgrade:
- Settings: ‘Use check boxes to select items’ Explorer option
- UI-Translation: Thanks for Portugues-Brasil (Igor)

Fix:
- Settings: ‘Use only latest CLR’ was breaking SQL Express 2014 setup if set on image, due to explicit .NET 3.5 dependency
- Updates: Crash after processing language packs over multiple images



NTLite 1.8.0.7217 (64-bit)
Upgrade:
- UI-Translation: Thanks for Polish (KrzysioZ), Italian (gabritb01), Turkish (SALiH DRD)

Fix:
- UI: Was crashing in certain situations after processing


NTLite 1.8.0.7216 (64-bit)
New:
- Source: Win10 20H1 build 19008 support
- Components: ‘ntlite.exe /forcelistcomponents’ switch for listing undetected components
- Useful for repeating removals of partially removed or reinstalled components

Upgrade:
- Components: ‘Event Viewer’ split 32-bit component
- Updates: ‘Display Enhancement Service’ moved under CDPSvc, needed for ‘Night Light’
- UI-Translation: Thanks for French (tistou77)

Fix:
- Settings: ‘Tamper Protection’ and ‘Reserved storage’ options were listed only on 1903, now for newer builds as well
- Components: Win10 1909 Cortana added to ‘Shell Search’ compatibility, disable instead until the Search/Cortana split in 20H1
- Components: ‘Group Policy’ removal leftovers in 1903


NTLite 1.8.0.7182 (64-bit)
Fix:
- Source: 1903 to 1909 build (18362->18363) image version reading
- Components: Disabling Compatibility options would not refresh the UI (regression in last update)

Upgrade:
- UI-Translation: Thanks for Polish (KrzysioZ), Turkish (SALiH DRD)


NTLite 1.8.0.7180 (64-bit)
Fix:
- Components: Internet Explorer removal, even with IE Frame kept, WWW shortcut could not be created
- Components: ForceShowComponents settings flag could crash UI after processing

Upgrade:
- UI-Translation: Thanks for French (tistou77), Polish (KrzysioZ)


NTLite 1.8.0.7165 (64-bit)
New:
- Settings: Win10 RS3+ (Win10 Pro and above)
- Start Menu ‘Choose which folders appear’ options
- Start Menu ‘App list’ and suboptions
- Start Menu ‘User tile’ and suboptions
- Start Menu ‘Power button’ and suboptions
- ‘Recently opened items in Jump Lists’ option
- ‘People bar’ option
- ‘Pinning to taskbar’ policy option

Upgrade:
- UI-Translation: Thanks for Chinese Simplified (Gskening), Chinese Traditional (Matt), Dutch (René), Farsi (Mona mon), French (tistou77), German (KrX), Greek (Soulimiotis), Korean (Redrabbit), Polish (KrzysioZ), Portugues-Brasil (Igor), Spanish (Oleada), Turkish (SALiH DRD)


NTLite 1.8.0.7137 (64-bit)
New:
- Settings: ‘Desktop icon size’ option
- Settings: Search ‘Find My Files’ (Enhanced search) option
- Settings: Security Center ‘All notifications’ and ‘Non-critical notifications’ options

Upgrade:
- Registry: REG file integration now can apply to protected keys

Fix:
- Settings: Win7 ‘Navigation Pane’ settings not remembered in preset
- Settings: Search ‘Finish setting up my device online’ was not working for certain Win10 versions
- Settings: ‘Notifications’, ‘Radios’ and ‘Diagnostics app access’ options were not working for certain Win10 versions
- Components: ‘Web Account Manager’ now removes Settings – Sign-in Options
- UI: Crash after finishing certain combination of tasks


NTLite 1.8.0.7120 (64-bit)
Fix:
- Updates: Windows 7 Servicing Stack SHA-2 dependency integration order
- Components: Windows 7 ‘Component Store’ removal breaking Internet Explorer deployment

Upgrade:
- UI-Translation: Thanks for Polish (KrzysioZ), Chinese Traditional (Matt)


NTLite 1.8.0.7115 (64-bit)
New:
- Source: Windows 10 1909 (19H2) support
- Settings: ‘Search includes Bing web results’

Upgrade:
- Source: Windows 10 20H1 build 18970 support
- Unattended: Computer Name unattended prompt improvements (thx freMea)
- Components: Windows 7 and 8.1 smaller image size after removals with Windows Update compatibility
- Features: Allow Windows Update online usage if missing image files for enabling a feature
- UI-Translation: Thanks for German (KrX), Turkish (SALiH DRD), Polish (KrzysioZ)

Fix:
- Updates: .NET Framework 4.8 integration order when using core, lang pack and update
- Features: Preset saving of sub-component states if default-enabled by the parent
- Features: Configuring Hyper-V in Win10 image from Win7 host is locked to protect image integrity


NTLite 1.8.0.7095 (64-bit)
New:
- Settings: ‘Suggest ways I can finish setting up my device online’ option

Upgrade:
- General: Windows 10 build 18956 Insider Preview support
- Downloader: State column split
- UI-Translation: Thanks for Chinese Simplified (Gskening), Portugues-Brasil (Igor)

Fix:
- Components-Win7: Driver integration might fail after driver removals
- Components-Win7: ‘Shell Search’ removal leftovers (first disable Feature for UI removal)


NTLite 1.8.0.7080 (64-bit)
Fixed:
- Components-1903: ‘Device Management’ removal hanging Settins – WU window
- Components-1903: ‘Mixed Reality’ removal breaking taskbar after cumulative update install, until Remove Returns is ran
- Components-1607: ‘Modern App Support – 32 bit’ removal was breaking login
- Features: State change of IIS subfeatures wasn’t detected on parent enable


NTLite 1.8.0.7070 (64-bit)
Upgrade:
- Upgrade-Components: ‘Adobe Flash’ 32-bit component split
- Upgrade-Components: OOBE and Autopilot unlocked for image removal in a fully unattended scenario

Fix:
- Components: ‘OneNote’ app removal had a start menu shortcut leftover
- Components: ‘Internet Explorer’ removal could cause iernonce.dll popup on login
- Components: ‘Telemetry Client’ removal was breaking the online .NET 3.5 install without the CAB package
- Components-Win7: ‘Windows Firewall’ removal could break folder sharing
- Components-Win7: ‘Remote Desktop Server’ removal could cause black screen on logon
- Components-Win7: Driver removals could cause driver reinstall prompt after logon
- Components-Win8.1: ‘Sami Extended Norway’ keyboard removal
- Settings: Disabling ‘Automatic installation of sponsored apps’ could break some GPOs


NTLite 1.8.0.7046 (64-bit)
Fixed:
- General: GPO using Workspaces may have access denied error after certain changes, permissions fixed
- Components: ‘Remove Returns’ tool could break update compatibility on cleanup
- Components: ‘Fax’ and ‘Internet Printing’ post-removal detection


NTLite 1.8.0.7036 (64-bit)
Upgrade:
- Update cache directory location now supports relative folder [NTLITEDIR]
- UI-Translation: Thanks for French (tistou77), Turkish (SALiH DRD)

Fix:
- Updates: .NET 3.5 Feature on Demand reference was blocking .NET 3.5 package insertion
- Updates: Improved 1903 cumulative update support after removing disabled features
-Features: Features if upgraded might have been missing from the configuration list


NTLite 1.8.0.7025 (64-bit)
Upgrade:
- Components: ‘COM+ API’ 32 and 64 bit split from ‘COM+’
- Components: ‘Virtual WiFi’ split from ‘WLAN’
- Updates: Clean updates method ‘DISM (ResetBase)’ split from ‘DISM (Compatible)’
- UI-Translation: Thanks for French (tistou77), Turkish (SALiH DRD), Chinese Simplified (Gskening), Farsi (Mona mon)

Fix:
- Components: ‘Azure Active Directory’ removal causing OOBEIDPS error in Win10 1809
- Components: ‘Mobile Device Management (MDM)’ removal was crashing Settings-Accounts-Access work
- Components: ‘Telemetry Client’ removal was breaking Troubleshooting wizards
- Components: ‘Insider Hub’ removal breaking Win10 1903 Search tray popup
- Components: ‘Fax’ removal could break Win10 1903 CU install
- Components: Live removals and ‘Remove Returns’ could have leftover start menu icons
- Components-Win8.1: ‘Text Prediction’ removal breaking Explorer Search box
- Components-Win8.1: ‘Telemetry Client’ removal breaking Windows setup
- Components-Win8.1: IEFrame 64 bit component detection
- Components-Win8.1: removal compatibility improvements
- Components-Win7: Non-English language pack causing removal crash
- Components-Win7: Win7 Embedded removal compatibility improvements
- General-Win7: Extreme memory usage during ‘Preparing Data’ on 99%
- Source: Potential crash on Forget image


NTLite 1.8.0.6996 (64-bit)
Upgrade:
- Components: ‘Speech API’ split from ‘Speech Recognition’
- Components: ‘Push Notifications System Service’ split from ‘Push Notifications’
- Components: ‘Cloud Notifications’ split from ‘Push Notifications’
- Components: ‘Start Menu Experience Host’ removal unlocked
- UI-Translation: Thanks for Turkish (SALiH DRD)

Fix:
- Components: ‘OpenSSH’ leftovers
- Components: Improved cumulative update compatibility after removals
- Updates: ‘Clean updates (Complete)’ Flash update handling


NTLite 1.8.0.6976 (64-bit)
New:
- Source: Windows 10 20H1 18912 support
- Settings: Search (Taskbar) option
- Settings: ‘Dark mode for Windows’ option
- Unattended: ‘Full Name’ entry, can be used with Computer Name * for prefixed random computer name

Upgrade:
- UI-Translation: Thanks for Chinese Traditional (Matt), Turkish (SALiH DRD)

Fix:
- Components: App live removal could cause default app change Settings crash in 1903 (TWINUI entry)
- Components: ‘Accessibility tools’ removal could break cumulative update for 1903 Home image
- Components: Certain app removals could break Search tray popup in 1903
- Unattended: Disk template default EFI size increased to 260 MB due to 4KB-sector drives
- Features: Non-English image ‘Feature on Demand’ names could be missing in certain situations


NTLite 1.8.0.6962 (64-bit)
New:
- Source: ‘Remove Reinstalls’ tool, useful for cleaning Win10 1903 cumulative update-returned component parts

Upgrade:
- Installer: Chinese Simplified translation
- Components: ‘Unified Telemetry Client (Asimov)’ renamed to ‘Telemetry Client’
- UI-Translation: Thanks for French (tistou77)

Fix:
- Components: ‘Windows Media Player 32-bit’ removal could cause errors when WMP 64 is opening videos from File Explorer
- Components: ‘Unified Telemetry Client’ removal could break Search tray UI in Win10 1903 image
- Components: ‘Unified Telemetry Client’ removal could break ‘Program Compatibility Assistant Service’ in Win10 1903 image


NTLite 1.8.0.6942 (64-bit)

Upgrade:
- Update-Installer: Binaries signed by the official certificate

Fix:
- Components: Windows Remote Management (WS-Management) breaking 1903 CU install on reboot 98%
- Components: 1809 removed components were returning on CU install (1903 still does, by Windows design, post-cleanup will be implemented)
- Updates: 1903(.30) Clean Updates (Complete) could break CU install (same for DISM full reset base, that one is by Windows design)
- Updates: 1809v2(.379) Clean Updates (Complete) could cause BSOD on latest CU install
- Features: Already installed Feature On Demand uncheck/recheck was unnecessarily prompting for packages


NTLite 1.8.0.6930 (64-bit)

New:
- Features: ‘Features On Demand (Capabilities)’ adding and removing support on the Features page

Upgrade:
- UI-Translation: Thanks for Chinese Simplified (Gskening), Turkish (SALiH DRD)

Fix:
- Components: ‘Internet Explorer’ removal could break setting the default browser
- Components: ‘Windows Media Player’ feature disabling would make it undetectable for removal
- Components: ‘RDP Client’ removal in Win10 1903 Home could break a cumulative update install


NTLite 1.7.5.6842 (64-bit)

New:
- Source: Windows RT (ARM 32-bit) basic loading support (no official support)
- Components: ‘Netflix’ compatibility option

Upgrade:
- Settings: Toggling Settings and Unattended page values with a single click, with color state indicators
- Source: AOMEI Backupper load boot.wim support
- Components-1903: CDPUser and Error Reporting services removal does not need live lock any more
- UI-Translation: Thanks for Dutch (René)

Fix:
- UI: Checking for updates no longer blocks UI
- UI: Source page UI lists weren’t properly refreshing in certain multimonitor scaling situations
- Updates: update.mum (extracted CAB) integration handling
- Components: ‘Gaming Peripherals’ and ‘Input Processors’ leftovers
- Components: Win8.1 ‘Unified Telemetry Client’ leftovers after the latest rollups
- Source: Export/image file structure optimization was skipped if only non-deletable editions were on the image


NTLite 1.7.4.6790 (64-bit)

New:
- Downloader: Proxy support, enter credentials in File-Settings

Upgrade:
- Source: Architecture handling rewritten, enables test ARM64 support preview
- Source: Loading image edition directly that needs to be converted will keep all editions
- UI: Yes and No to all options for components checking prompts (instead of just Skip all)
- UI-Translation: Thanks for Korean (Redrabbit), Farsi (Mona mon)

Fix:
- Source: Propagating tasks from boot.wim to install.esd could crash the tool
- Source: Expand state remembered for unmounted install images
- Components: ‘Diagnostics’ removal was breaking directory ownership popup in Explorer
- Components: ‘Media Player’ preset loading could recheck it
- Components: TaskHostW could be crashing after a specific removal combination
- Unattended: Autofill selects first available image language if the host language is absent
- Post-setup: Error messages with % sign could cause a crash


NTLite 1.7.3.6761 (64-bit)
- General: Temporarily removed expired tool certificate (blocked by admin popup)


NTLite 1.7.3.6760 (64-bit)
New:
- Source: Windows 10 Preview 20H1 build 18336 support
- Source: Unload all mounted images in a folder option
- Unattended: Disable mode, to remove any unattended settings from the image
- Unattended: Autofill ‘Windows PE’ sub-option, sets only the boot segment with host choices
- Components: ‘Text Services Framework (MSCTF)’ – 64 and 32 bit
- Components: ‘Microsoft Edge’ compatibility option
- Settings: ‘Action Center’
- Settings: ‘Typing insights’

Upgrade:
- Components: ‘Windows Performance Recorder’ split from ‘Performance Counters’
- UI: Preset file operations unlocked during processing and loading
- UI-Translation: Thanks for Turkish (SALiH DRD), Spanish (Oleada), Russian (Den-s),
- Portuguese-Brasil (Igor), Italian (gabritb01), French (tistou77), Dutch (René),
- Chinese Traditional (Matt), Chinese Simplified (Gskening), Arabic (thamermousa)

Fix:
- Source: Host Refresh crash if using ESD image
- Components: Win10 1803 IE removal breaking ms-settings shortcuts after a CU update
- Components: Win10 1903 ‘Display Policy Service’ removal Settings – Display crash
- Components: DISM full Rebase had issues after some removals
- Components: ‘UAC’ and ‘Input Service’ 64 bit removal could break 1809 setup
- Components: VMware Guest compatibility removed (not necessary at this point)
- Updates: .NET 3.5 template 32 bit detection
- UI: boot.wim Settings applying in certain situations not going to 100%


NTLite 1.7.2.6717 (64-bit)
New:
- Source: Windows 10 Preview 1903 build 18329 support

Upgrade:
- Components: ‘VMware Guest’ compatibility option
- Components: ‘Push Notifications Service’ removes more
- Components: Removed ‘UAC’ from ‘Store’ and ‘OOBE’ compatibilities
- Components: Removed ‘Radio Management’ from ‘WLAN’ compatibility
- UI-Translation: Thanks for French (tistou77), Turkish (SALiH DRD)

Fixed:
- Components: Various SFC errors after removals
- Components: Better cumulative update support after removals for a DISM rebased image


NTLite 1.7.2.6703 (64-bit)
New:
- Source: Windows 10 Preview 1903 build 18323 support

Upgrade:
- Updates: Allowing ‘Get Latest Updates’ on secondary instances of this tool
- General: Settings are now applied before Update Cleanup (enables DISM full rebase if set)
- Components: ‘Windows Update’ moved under ‘WinSxS Database’, for more flexibility in trimming ‘WinSxS’
- UI-Translation: Thanks for French (tistou77), Turkish (SALiH)

Fix:
- UI: Host Refresh wizard could stop after making the ISO, before the actual setup initialization
- Updates: Update cleanup had leftovers, now improved while maintaining the better cumulative update compatibility
- Components: Cumulative Update compatibility improved on refreshed lite ISOs (e.g. 1809.107)
- Components: Minor SFC scannow fixes
- Components: ‘Spell Checking’ removal was breaking the Group Policy editor filter
- Components: ‘Enterprise Data Protection’ removal could hang ‘Preparing Windows’ on Win10 1511


NTLite 1.7.2.6680 (64-bit)
Upgrade:
- Components: ‘Connected Devices Platform User Service’ split from ‘CDPSVC’
- Components: ‘Problem Reports and Solutions Control Panel Support’ split from ‘Windows Error Reporting’
- UI: Existing ISO file overwrite warning added to the Apply preview
- UI: Allowing adding latest online updates during a Host Refresh session
- UI-Translation: Thanks for French (tistou77), Russian (Den-s), Arabic (thamermousa), Chinese Simplified (Gskening), Greek (Soulimiotis)

Fix:
- Components: RuntimeBroker errors after some removals (mostly 19H1 Preview)
- Components: ‘People’ app removal wasn’t hiding the tray option
- Components: ‘Store’ live removal was leaving an empty stuck taskbar shortcut
- Components: ‘Remote Desktop Server’ removal breaking live cumulative update post-reboot
- Components: Apps could be crashing if IE and Edge both were removed
- Source: boot.wim loading could hang
- Registry: Integration of a unicode REG file support


NTLite 1.7.2.6650 (64-bit)
- Change log not available for this version


NTLite 1.7.1.6630 (64-bit)
- Post-setup: Duplicate entries in some situations


NTLite 1.7.1.6627 (64-bit)
- Change log not available for this version


NTLite 1.7.1.6623 (64-bit)

Fixed:
- Components: Improved 1809 Windows Update compatibility after removals
- Components: .NET Cache component removal leftovers
- Components: ‘Printing’ removal in some cases breaking image installation
- Components: ‘Internet Explorer’ removal breaking Edge
- Components: ‘Photo Codec’ removal breaking desktop and tray icons
- Components: ‘Windows Connection Manager’ breaking Settings – Network Center
- Components: Win7 ‘Sound Themes’ removal if default sounds kept
- Unattended: Post-setup page and SetupComplete are now allowing duplicate lines
- UI: File-Settings was disabled after processing


NTLite 1.7.1.6593 (64-bit)

Upgrade:
- Components: Win 8.1 ‘Windows Store’ split from ‘Core Metro Support’
- Components: ‘Remote Desktop Services ActiveX Client’ split back from ‘Remote Desktop Client’, needed for HyperV
- UI-Translation: Thanks for German (KrX), Italian (gabritb01), Arabic (thamermousa), Chinese Simplified (Gskening), Korean (Redrabbit)

Fix:
- Components: ‘Mobile PC’ removal breaking ‘Windows Connection Manager’
- Components: ‘SMB Server Common’ removal was breaking ‘HyperV’
- Components: ‘Telemetry Client’ removal was breaking Store-updated ‘Mail’
- Components: ‘HyperV’ removal could break Visual Studio setup
- Components: Win 8.1 ‘Windows Search’ removal was breaking ‘Shell Search’
- UI: Blue text more readable in a dark theme


NTLite 1.7.1.6572 (64-bit)

New:
- Unattended: Optional ‘Computer name’ prompt during setup, select or type [Prompt] to enable it

Upgrade:
- UI: ‘Removed files’ counter and image sizes now show hard links
- UI: Max number of tool instances increased to 2x of CPU threads
- UI-Translation: Thanks for French (tistou), Turkish (SALiH)

Fix:
- Components: 1809’s new PSFX update format compatibility after removals (error 0x800f0982)
- Components: ‘Bitlocker’ removal breaking 1809 Cumulative Update install
- UI: Startup delay while checking temp folder permissions
- UI: Various minor UI fixes


NTLite 1.7.0.6522 (64-bit)
- Change log not available for this version


NTLite 1.7.0.6510 (64-bit)

New:
- Source: Win10 RS5 (1809) Build 17763 support (also many existing components were not detected)
- Source: Win10 Preview Build 18237 support
- Components: ‘Remote Desktop Licensing’

Upgrade:
- Components: ‘Encrypting File System (EFS)’ Feature split from the service (needed for RS5)
- UI-Language: Thanks for Korean (Redrabbit)

Fix:
- Components: Unchecking ‘EVR’ fixed and reduced popups for tied components
- Components-Win10: ‘MobilePC Location’ component detection on RS4+


NTLite 1.7.0.6500 (64-bit)

New:
- Tweaks: Cortana – Activity recommendations when switching devices
- Tweaks: Cortana – Use my signed-in devices history
- Components: ‘Recovery Reset support’ compatibility option
- Components: ‘Nvidia driver setup installer’ compatibility option
- Components: ‘Spotify’ compatibility option

Upgrade:
- Source: Windows 10 build 17755 RS5 preview support
- Components: Dynamic depenency linking among Apps
- Components: SMBv2 split into the Client and Server
- UI-Components: Unchecking master component will prompt before unchecking far dependees

Fix:
- Components: ‘Mixed Reality’ removal was breaking ‘Sensor Data Service’
- Components: ‘Store’ removal was breaking ‘Sticky Notes’
- Components: ‘LockApp’ removal could break Start menu
- UI: Unattended-Join network could select both radio buttons at once
- UI: Minimized error prompt blocking view


NTLite 1.6.3.6440 (64-bit)
- Change log not available for this version


NTLite 1.6.3.6400 (64-bit)

New:
- Tweaks: ‘Command Prompt in directory context menus’
- Tweaks: ‘Remote access to administrative shares’
- Tweaks: ‘Show People on the taskbar’
- Components: Manual option to permanently protect components in the settings.xml ‘LockComponents’

Update:
- Components: Disabling the Explorer warning “Indexing service not running” if Search is removed
- UI: Thanks for French (tistou), Chinese Simplified (Gskening)

Fix:
- Components: ‘Tablet PC’ and ‘Telemetry Client’ removals were breaking the ‘Sticky Notes’ app
- Components: Driver removal better separates multiple versions of the same driver


NTLite 1.6.3.6373 (64-bit)
- Change log not available for this version


NTLite 1.6.3.6240 (64-bit)

New:
- Source: Win10 RS5 17686 support
- Source: Load preset Overwrite/Append options

Update:
- UI-Translation: Thanks for French (tistou)

Fix:
- UI: Cancelling a second instance of the tool would crash on closing


NTLite 1.6.2.6220 (64-bit)

New:
- Updates: ‘Clean update backup’ split into modes (DISM, Compatible and Complete)
- Components: VPN support compatibility option

Update:
- UI: Light theme updated for more contrast
- UI-Translation: Thanks for French (tistou), Italian (gabritb01)

Fix:
- Updates-1803: Error 87 could happen in some environments when integrating a cumulative update with configuring Features
- Updates-Win7: Platform update integration order improvement, solves some extra Windows Update detection
- Components-1083: ‘ICS’ removal could cause OOBE setup reboot
- Components-Win7: ‘DWM’ removal could cause a ‘dwmapi.dll’ setup error
- Components-Win7: Search removal was breaking Shell search


NTLite 1.6.1.6190 (64-bit)

New:
- Source: Edit image edition Name and Description in the context menu
- Updates: .NET Framework 3.5 template option (Add-Template)

Update:
- UI-Translation: Thanks for Italian Installer (bovirus)

Fix:
- Source: Delete edition was temporarily hanging the UI
- Components: Defender removal could remove the empty Run key, now protected for compatibility


NTLite 1.6.0.6174 (64-bit)

Fix:
- Updates-1803: Integration error 32 when combining KB4135051 and .NET CAB
- Components: ‘Spell Checking’ and ‘Windows Update’ removals were causing Settings Language Options crash
- Components: ‘Mail’ removal could break the time tray Calendar popup
- Components: ‘Storage Service’ removal was breaking the Settings Apps list
- Components: ‘Skype’ app had no calling sound after some removals
- Components: ‘User Data Storage’ removal could crash the Mail app
- Components: ‘TPM’ removal could break the Firewall and Defender control panels
- Components-1607: ‘Hyper-V Guest’ removal could break a cumulative update install

Update:
- UI-Translation: Arabic and Chinese Simplified


NTLite 1.6.0.6146 (64-bit)

New:
- Settings-1709+: ‘Reopen my apps after an update or restart’
- Settings-1803: ‘Fullscreen optimizations’

Upgrade:
- UI-Translation: Thanks for French (tistou), Chinese Traditional (Matt), Russian (Den-s)

Fix:
- Updates: 1803 CU KB4100375 could popup an error after integration if used together with Adobe Flash update
- Unattended: Duplicate commands on repeat preset load could cause setup error
- Components-1803: Various leftovers
- Source: ESD compression now uses a number of cores instead of threads, for stability
- General: Multi-instance stability improvements in extreme scenarios


NTLite 1.6.0.6122 (64-bit)

Upgrade:
- UI-Translation: Thanks for Arabic (thamermousa), Farsi (Mona mon), Italian (gabritb01)

Fix:
- Source: 1803 RS4 Enterprise edition crucial package not detected message
- UI: Export progress during ESD to WIM conversion


NTLite 1.5.0.6105 (64-bit)

New:
- Settings: ‘Accent Color (LogonUI)’

Upgrade:
- Source: Win10 RS4 17128 support
- Components: ‘Storage Service’ in Win10 polished and unlocked as safer to remove

Fix:
- Components: Photos could autoclose after being removed and reinstalled from Store
- Components: LTSB image Windows Store detection
- Components: SFC removal was breaking VC-runtimes in Windows 7
- Components: EventLog removal could cause an OOBE loop in Win10 14393
- Components: ‘Language Pack setup’ removal made live only, breaks Settings-search if removed from image
- Components: Scanner drivers were protected from removal if Printing kept
- Settings: ‘Accent Color’ on images, Windows setup resets the value
- UI: Export progress bar could show incorrect values when multiple images were processed in sequence
- UI: Image Tasks checkboxes were not set correctly initially


NTLite 1.5.0.6080 (64-bit)

Upgrade:
- UI: Preset list header clickable for sorting by name
- UI: Better progress bar behavior when exporting multiple editions and preparing data

Fix:
- Post-setup: There could be command reordering mismatches after reloading previously edited image
- Components: Snapping tool removal was breaking OneNote (Desktop Experience missing message)
- Components: Removing Maps or Printing were breaking the Photos app
- Components: MiracastView removal could cause a long lasting blank screen on logon after 1607 CU install
- Components: Now allowing printer drivers removal if Printing and Windows Update kept (updating support balancing)
- Components: Containers removal could break Sysprep
- UI: Windows versions listed like before, in pre-RS4 (e.g. Windows 10 Pro instead of Windows Professional)


NTLite 1.5.0.6025 (64-bit)

New:
- Settings: ‘Display the lock screen’
- Settings: ‘Display last user name in logon screen’
- Settings: ‘Use classic logon’
- Components: ‘Volume Shadow Service API’

Upgrade:
- Source: Win10 RS4 17093 support
- UI-Translation: Thanks for French (tistou), Korean (Redrabbit), Chinese Traditional (Matt), Farsi (Mona mon),
- Portugues-Brasil (Igor), Spanish (Oleada), Arabic (thamermousa), Chinese Simplified (Gskening and jockeysoft),
- Dutch (Rene), Italian (gabritb01)

Fix:
- Components: Bluetooth removal was breaking Windows Mobile Hotspot Service
- Components: Bitlocker removal could break cumulative update in some cases
- Unattended: CopyProfile option was set in the wrong stage, non-functional
- Source: Crash could happen after saving the image


NTLite 1.5.0.5955 (64-bit)

Upgrade:
- UI-Translation: Thanks for Italian (gabritb01), Czech (Tom)

Fix:
- Updates: Language package integration wasn’t applied to boot.wim
- Source: boot.wim image edition deletion protection with ‘Manual setup’ kept unlocked for optional removal


NTLite 1.5.0.5930 (64-bit)

Upgrade:
- Source: Win10 RS4 17074 support
- Components: ‘Recovery Agent’ split from ‘Windows Recovery’ (needed for Bitlocker/TPM and UEFI/dual boot menus)
- Components: ISO image components, those outside of a WIM, grouped in their own section
- Components: Improved Feature configuration support after removals, use Windows Update compatibility option
- Components: Improved cumulative update component removal cleanup

Fix:
- Components-Win10: ‘MicrosoftStickyNotes’ removal was breaking ‘Edge’ PDF functionality
- Components-Win10: ‘Mixed Reality’ and ‘Media Streaming’ detection in N-editions
- Components: ‘IE Engine’ removal was breaking some portable apps
- Components-Win7: ‘Accessibility’ removal was breaking ‘Accessibility On-Screen Keyboard’
- Unattended-Win7: Localized images Administrator enabling
- UI-Translation: French, Russian, Italian, Dutch, Spanish, Farsi, Arabic, Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional, Portugues-Brasil


NTLite 1.5.0.5855 (64-bit)

Upgrade:
- Settings: Added Expand/Collapse buttons

Fix:
- Components: Win7 Shell Search removal was breaking Libraries
- Components: Loading preset after opening compatibilities was crashing
- Drivers: Inserting drivers from a directory named windows* would not show anything
- Post-setup: Adding second Command through the UI would do nothing, false duplicate detection
- UI: Tool visual style was not properly saved between restarts


NTLite 1.5.0.5840 (64-bit)

Upgrade:
- Source: Windows 10 RS4 17046 support
- Source: O&O Bluecon v15 boot.wim support
- Components: WinSxS Component Store removal includes update packages

Fix:
- Post-Setup: Command sorting could be mixed on some preset loads
- Post-Setup: Command applying would not indicate progress in identical commands with different parameters
- Components: Win10 1607 ‘Firewall’ and ‘Performance counters’ removals were breaking Metro UI
- Components: Win7 Search removal was breaking library shortcuts