Compressing wim just a tiny bit

Discussion in 'Windows 7' started by ryouga, Oct 20, 2014.

  1. ryouga

    ryouga MDL Member

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    #1 ryouga, Oct 20, 2014
    I have made a custom wim, added drivers for my 2 motherboards, added directx and .net 4.5.2 and its just 11 megabytes too big for a dvdrw !!!!

    Is there one or two files to remove or some way to compress it just a little tighter?
     
  2. abbodi1406

    abbodi1406 MDL KB0000001

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    #2 abbodi1406, Oct 20, 2014
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    Code:
    "\Users\Public\Music\Sample Music"
"\Users\Public\Pictures\Sample Pictures"
"\Users\Public\Recorded TV\Sample Media\"
"\Users\Public\Videos\Sample Videos"
    Code:
    \Windows\winsxs\ManifestCache\
    Remove the files inside not the folders themselves
     
  3. ryouga

    ryouga MDL Member

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    #3 ryouga, Oct 20, 2014
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    Hmmm not sure how to do that as I used Wintoolkit and WinAIO to make the wim(and DISM to merge 2 swms to remove all but 1 version of windows from indexes)
     
  4. steven4554

    steven4554 MDL Expert

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    #4 steven4554, Oct 20, 2014
    You could use a usb flash drive to install your customized installation of Win7, be much faster than a Dual Layer DVD.
     
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  5. ryouga

    ryouga MDL Member

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    #5 ryouga, Oct 22, 2014 (OP)
    Thanks but I want to have it filed away with discs so I have little chance of losing it.

    Anyway still looking, its annoying when its 11 meg too big as surely I can remove something though I know there is files in public folders
     
  6. T-S

    T-S MDL Guru

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    #6 T-S, Oct 24, 2014

    The sample video.wmv is about 25MB in the italian version, I guess it should be more or less the same on other languages.
     
  7. murphy78

    murphy78 MDL DISM Enthusiast

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    #7 murphy78, Oct 24, 2014
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    Try making a cmd script like this?:
    Code:
    @echo off
dism /mount-wim /wimfile:c:\custom-windows\sources\install.wim /index:1 /mountdir:c:\mount
del /q/f "c:\mount\Users\Public\Music\Sample Music\*.*"
del /q/f "c:\mount\Users\Public\Pictures\Sample Pictures\*.*"
del /q/f "c:\mount\Users\Public\Recorded TV\Sample Media\*.*"
del /q/f "c:\mount\Windows\winsxs\ManifestCache\*.*"
dism /unmount-wim /mountdir:c:\mount /commit
dism /export-image /sourceimagefile:c:\custom-windows\sources\install.wim /sourceindex:1 /destinationimagefile:c:\temp\install.wim /checkintegrity
move /y c:\temp\install.wim c:\custom-windows\sources\
    Save that as somefile.cmd and run as admin after editing the various paths.
     
  8. HALIKUS

    HALIKUS MDL Addicted

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    #8 HALIKUS, Oct 30, 2014
    Have you tried to re-export the wim after editing it? In my experience, if you edit a wim, add updates etc. it will have leftover files inside the wim. If you re-export the wim with /maximum it cleans it up. You may find you save hundreds of megabytes.