Will check with a ru-RU image this time know why it's giving package not found for WMP. Edit: Found out the issue with WMP, When the CU is integrated, removing Microsoft-Windows-MediaPlayer-Package~31bf3856ad364e35~amd64~~10.0.16299.15 will remove all other components but without the CU we need to remove them one by one. Don't know whether it is same with the en-US/en-GB.
Resetpc breaking is not your fault, at least not really, MSFT did disable resetbase for this reason. They even disabled it for winpe images.
Taken from the OP: "[G] - Remove all required Windows Components using [Remove->Remove Windows Components] menu." Does this mean you can remove windows components like Internet Explorer, Media Player and such? What else?
it is super random, it does not happen always just sometimes like doing cleanup, or apply changes, or removing hype v, for example, those long operations, my pc has sleep disabled, only monitor turn off after 2 minutes msmg does not hang, it just freeze until i press a key on the cmd windows and it goes from stuck at any % to full progress, weird and no, clean pc, no antivirus, no miners, no background apps or process, but like i said, this is super random and just a few times btw please someday if you can add press x key to delete all crap from menu 442, not one by one, this would be mega usefull
I tried v.7.7 instead and all worked as it should. V.8.2 do not work for me at all, nothing is found to be removed. V.8.1 was a Little bit faulty too, it did not remove all that i removed. For instance Flash player was there after the installation even though i removed it during ISO Creation. It seems like the problems, for me at least, started when the Toolkit was developed to be more efficient and faster. Around v.7.7 - 7.8.
Can we disable Defragment service from Windows Image by using MSMG toolkit? This service make my PC runs slowly.
Ok it's a random issue. then Adding Remove All Windows Advanced Components at once will increase code size as I need to duplicate them again and also each time modifying any component I need to modify at each stage. I will release one more update and soon will be taking some break to complete my other pending tasks. lets see what's stored in for future, something new for better ToolKit user experience.
Again you are not giving the details like Source OS Image and Version, Host OS and the exact errors you are getting. If the Source OS Image is W10 RS3 then you can see from other people's result it's working for them https://forums.mydigitallife.net/threads/msmg-toolkit.50572/page-302#post-1414636 If it's W7-W10 RS2 then let me know will test again and report back.
Hi, Haven't read this thread for a while and now I'm a bit confused. So this is what I understand so far: - There's a new component removing engine called "ToolkitHelper" - It removes advanced components. - At the moment it still can't remove everything that can be removed using the old DISM method, but only some features. Most notably: Windows Defender, People Experience Host and Windows Smart Screen. - The Toolkit Helper has to be updated each time there's a new cumulative update Now here are the things that I don't understand: - The reason why the ToolkitHelper method was made in the 1st place was because of component store corruption when removing advanced components. Does removing *any* advanced component (e.g Cortana or Internet Explorer) causes this, or only the 3 infamous components (Defender, People Experience Host, Smart Screen)? - Does the corruption happen only on RS3? So if I don't touch RS3 and only use LTSB, do I need to care about the ToolkitHelper at all? Thank you.
ToolkitHelper.exe is a command-line helper program designed for ToolKit to remove Windows components using manual method so that these things can be achieved: - Component Protection (Protect Windows Functionality when multiple components share/depened on same files). - Component Splitting (Split a Component into many sub Components). - Component Store Corruption Fix. - SFC Corruption Fix. To start with, I have added this method only for Windows 10 RS3 and only three components have been added to use this method within the ToolKit : Code: WindowsDefender - Windows Defender App PeopleExperienceHost - People Experience Host SmartScreen - Windows SmartScreen App Of late, the ToolkitHelper.exe has been added more components for removal for testing purpose But are not included in the ToolKit's Remove Components Menu: Code: BioEnrollment - Microsoft BioEnrollment App ContentDeliveryManager - Windows Content Delivery Manager Cortana - Microsoft Cortana App FileExplorer - Windows File Explorer App HolographicFirstRun - Holorgraphic First Run App LockApp - Windows Lockscreen App MicrosoftEdge - Microsoft Edge Browser App OneDrive - Microsoft OneDrive Client ParentalControls - Windows Parental Controls App PeopleExperienceHost - People Experience Host PPIProjection - Microsoft Connect App RetailDemoContent - Retail Demo Content SecureAssementBrowser - Windows Take Test App SettingSync - Windows Setting Sync SkypeORTC - Microsof Skype ORTC SmartScreen - Windows SmartScreen App StoreApp - Microsoft Store App WindowsDefender - Windows Defender App WindowsMixedReality - Windows Mixed Reality XboxApp - Microsoft Xbox App One issue with this method is that It needs to be updated for every update, until a method is worked out to remove the updated components too along with the base component. Using the DISM method too sometimes the Component Store and SFC corruption can occur as the DISM either removes more or less files/registry keys related to a component and this can happen for any Windows OS.
So do I have to do anything special to maintain a live system without causing corruption after a windows update? Or if everything goes well can I just update through windows update as normal?
Yeah you can update without any problems but one exception every half year they bring out something like a major Update and bump the version up then it's better to do the proces again IMO
Does remove all apps except store cause the store to not work properly in new version 8.2? Is it still dependent on Xbox?
Hi, I've been trying to remove features on "en_windows_10_enterprise_2016_ltsb_n_x86_dvd_9058202" and I keep getting "access denied". I've search the forum for answer and I couldn't find any. Host is windows 10 LTSB 2015. Toolkit version 8 & 8.2 have been used. I've also tried to remove features in a clean virtual machine without success. I hope I gave enough information to solve the problem. EDIT: PROBLEM SOLVED When the toolkit ask if you want to mount "recovery partition" and "windows boot image" select "NO" for both. EDIT 2: PROBLEM SOLVED for real. When you start the program use the Start.cmd and NOT Toolkit.cmd.
If you use the DISM method then yes Xbox Live is required for Store and App Repair feature. But you can try one more method: 1) Remove All Apps except Xbox and Store using ToolKit 2) Remove Xbox using ToolKitHelper.exe This way it should work.
I'm using LTSB 1607 and mount both recovery and boot image, no problem at all. The only problem I have (and that has little to do with MSMG toolkit) is updating a CU AFTER the image has been deployed. Not sure how MS distributes the CU or assigns bandwidth, but here in South America it takes more than an hour and sometimes about two hours to download the CU. That's really an issue because it's supposed to download only a delta update, but it takes forever. Once downloaded, it installs in minutes. That's why I prefer to build my images monthly to avoid these tedious "after-install" patches. Cheers.