MSMG ToolKit

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Someone has a new package Microsoft-Windows-NetFx3-OnDemand-Package~31bf3856ad364e35~amd64, the old package is not integrated into the Windows 11 Pro image in MSMG Toolkit

 

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Any news from @MSMG ?

 

As we all know, MS is no longer interested in innovating. They just want to stockpile your personal data for AI use and deliver ads to your computer monitor. MSMG was a a great tool for stopping a lot of MS shenanigans. And it is still great for integrating the following: languages, drivers , fonts, DotNet 3.5 functionality, user account images and startmenu shortcuts. But, after a lot of testing, I find it has become less useful with Windows 11 24H2 for component removal.

I now use MSMG Toolkit in combination with UUP Dump and a custom autounattend.xml file to remove apps and tweak Windows 11.

Sometimes I don't know if it is worth the effort since there are a whole lot of things in Windows 11 24H2 that MS hasn't fixed or made worse. Windows 11 still displays double removable drive icons when you plug in a usb drive, Windows' sleep and hibernation are still unreliable and installing .msi apps that rely on "msiexec.exe" is now painfully slow. Many users report that it takes over 15 minutes now to install Microsoft Office.

So, I have modified my MSMG Toolkit guide to reflect the best clean install practices for those users, like me, that still use MSMG Toolkit. Note that some users, including me, have had issues using %OEM% setup. So the guide shows you how to copy files directly to the Windows setup folder for execution during setup.

Link is, below, in my signature file.

 

All windows SKUs (including 24H2 IoT Enterprise now support the use of $OEM$ folders inside the ISO:\Sources folder.

 

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Not true. Add a generic ei.cfg file to sources directory, otherwise if setup detects a license and auto installs the respective edition, it will skip most if not all of $OEM$ folder contents.

 

@shhnedo & @Enthousiast. I am not disputing either one of your experiences. %OEM% in sources folder worked great for me until my current build and using C:\Windows\setups\scripts instead solved the problem. And @shhnedo I have not used a ei.cfg file since Windows 8.1.

 

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does msmg work with windows 11?
I never succeed in making it work, i extract contents of iso into dvd folder, and when selecting the source it loads it but when going to remove menue I can not see remove windows components.
its very strange because i can make it work perfect with all windows 10 versions, I tried win 11 home pro iot none of them work, is there something i need to do ?

 

After select what you want to remove, checking it with - sign, you need to back to previous menu and select the option that start removing components.

 

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thanks for pointing that out, do you have an idea of another tool that can work on windows 11 v 24H2 or higher ?

 

Perhaps you can change the Windows 11 23H2 version in the MSMG Toolkit and then update to 24H2, but I haven't tested it yet. I'm also wondering how to remove windows components for 24H2, if not with this program, then with another one. (Sorry in advance for my English, I'm from Russia, haha)

 

there might be another option to use msmg toolkit but still not sure, remove via package list as referenced here https://forums.mydigitallife.net/threads/msmg-toolkit.50572/page-1352