Yep. Just a FYI note that may be useful for who read Sometimes is very desiderable to install win 7/8 drivers on Win 10/11. WiFI drivers for one. Most of them have the hosted network functionality removed (hot spot feature) that W10/11 mimic using the WIFI direct functionality. The point is that the former is usually hugely better, more bandwidth, more stability, easily controllable from a script or from the task scheduler, while the latter (if available) works only from the ugly setting menu, is unstable, has less bandwidth, it stops if internet becomes unavailable for some reasons and so on
Heya, I've been using Linux for some time but now I switched back, and with a 22621.1702 base I had Windows Defender come back after an update so I'm guessing it's no longer possible to permanently remove it?
It will come back anyway if you use Windows Updates. If you want to completely ditch defender - you better remove WU component as well.
it does i have used MSMG for a long time but this time setup.exe gets removed in the "start removing components" process i refresh the folder and suddenly its gone
I've never encountered that problem. However, sometimes strange things happen when you have the Mount directory open in Windows Explorer while simultaneously copying files between that folder and another which can lead to Windows being unable to cleanly unmount a Windows image once the operation is over. Good luck.
no idea what you mean by that i tried 4 different ISO builds from different download sources and its the same problem the Setup.exe gets deleted while executing "start removing windows components" can i copy Setup.exe from the mounted ISO to MSMG DVD folder and create the custom ISO ? does it work that way ?
Don't redo the work. Just do what I said: keep the generated wim(s) and copy everything else from a stock iso. Then build the ISO, *do only this* don't restart the whole process
so i keep wims from source file ? and copy everything else ? that means the setup.exe gets the installation packages from wims library, means we using MSMG to only modify the wims to call/not call packages from wims !! good to know
What's so complicate ? MSMG modifies only the installation image (and maybe the boot and recovery image). Everything else is (normally) left unchanged. You have (for unknown reasons) something of such "everything else" deleted. So just get everything from the original ISO, but keep all the *.wim you have already modded. wims aren't "libraries" are filesystem images. ISOs in 2023 are practically useless. Setup.exe is useless for fresh installations. ISOs are still built in 2023 because people is used to them since Win95. For in place upgrades you still need setup.exe (but you need just the installation folder, isn't needed that they reside in a ISO file) For fresh installations all you need is dism /apply-image command and the install.wim file
when you say get the wim, i dont know where is it/they are located , is it from DVD\source folder ? i dont know the location of the image that MSMG works on, as far as i understood its in DVD folder ( that i copied from the mounted ISO)
Save the ".\DVD\sources\boot.wim", ".\DVD\sources\install.wim" files in a place other than the DVD folder. Extract the ISO you used as a source into the DVD folder. Remove the boot.wim and install.wim or install.esd files. Put the .wim files you saved elsewhere back in the DVD\sources folder. Avoid removing the "ManualSetup" component the next time you do a new customization.
Perhaps reading a bit of the readme and looking at what you're doing helps. Also windows has a search button since 1995, don't know where a file is located? Search for it!!