MSMG8.6 Windows 1803 Windows update can't install updates (for example kb4284848) even if I leave Microsoft Telemetry Services - error 0x800736b3. P.S. There were no .NET 3.5 integration.
Yes - previous CU. Ok. I'll try without updates but if I do so Windows will download and install updates with all crap that I removed right? What about .NET 3.5? Is it safe to integrate or better not to do it?
Question- is it alright if i first integrate updates in win 7 using simplix pack with boss911 integrator and after that i use msmg for integrating .net 4.7.1, direcx and dart. and similar to this is it alright if i first integrate updates in win 8.1 and 10 using whd and w8ui and w10ui by abbodi and after that i use msmg for integrating directx and dart.
Hey guy's, I have a couple things I need help on. OK so, I have the "Retail" Windows 10 64bit ISO, which has about 12 indexes. Q-1: Is there a proper way of selecting 2 indexes at once, that are not in a full range, or just a single index? Can 2 different indexes be selected if they are say... separated by a comma? WIN10 Pro is index #6 WIN10 Pro WS is #10. Can I do this: 6, 10 or 6,10 And... 2 Since I want to modify #6 & 10 indexes only, I only want to keep my modified Pro & Pro Workstation builds. Q-2: Does selecting and modifying an index completely remove it from the oiginal ISO after I apply setting/save/rebuild ISO process? Or are all 12 indexes put back together on the final image, with Home, Home N, etc. still present? Thanks for any help...
Remove the indexes you don't want and then the remaining indexes will be the only ones modified. There is an options to do this in one of the menus.
This tool is totes amazeballs. I may never boot Windows again. Too busy managing my tree of msmg states in virtualbox By the way, your batch-script-foo is almost unbelievably good msmg, I steal ideas from your code constantly. This is a hopelessly big ask, so don't take this too seriously, but I wonder how hard it would be to enable scripted msmg "recipes", so that, for example, one could run the tool against image #0, do this and that, leave, and then say "remember everything I just did as foo.recipe" on the way out. Then, when Microsoft eventually breaks that image with some update, one could hypothetically just pull down the latest vanilla .wims and updates, and get a full re-spin by running "start /replay:foo.recipe" or something like that. I imagine that if each leaf in the menu tree had a descriptive name that was relatively stable across msmg releases, the recipes could consist of just a trivial list of those names. Anyhow, bikeshedding aside, thank you again for all your hard work, I've found several use-cases for which it basically makes Windows 10 into a potentially useful operating system with a manageable level of effort, for which it wouldn't be worth it to muddle through and try to achieve the same result manually using the WDK.
Just thought I would report what I consider as minor errors when using the Toolkit: 1. Access denied when removing Hyper-V components 2. Error about pending.xml being present when cleaning up source image I would attach/link to the log file, but it seems the Toolkit deleted it when I exited. I also integrated NET Framework 3.x before integrating 4.7.1, I hope this isn't an issue. Things I would like to see in the Toolkit: 1. Ability to integrate all the latest versions of the Visual C redists 2. Ability to add Metro apps (like the Windows Store, etc) #2 is no issue since I know the basics of doing it myself via CMD or PowerShell. But I like to automate as much as possible. Things like the Toolkit make my life easier because it prevents me from having to perform so many mundane tasks when installing Windows. I'm running Windows 10 Enterprise LTSB N x64, some say it is unnecessary to use the Toolkit on this build, but it still contains very minimal cruft. Cleaner than the 'regular' consumer editions of 10, but not 100% clean. But this is Microshaft we're dealing with, so this will never happen. I'm off to install my custom ISO in VirtualBox to do some tests, like seeing if updates fail, whether my removals/integrations were success, running an sfc /scannow, etc. Thanks for the Toolkit!
Just figured I'd report back with my findings after installing my MSMG-customized ISO in VirtualBox. This is the first time I have used MSMG: 1. Cortana is removed (cant search from Start menu, I expected this), but the Windows Search service is still running and searchindexer.exe is running. I selected to remove search as well. So it seems this did not fully work. 2. Internet Explorer isnt completely removed, I can still see its' folders in Program Files and Program Files (x86). But if I try to run iexplore.exe Windows says the file isnt found. I expected this. 3. I also selected to remove Defender, but there are still a few references to it in the OS, even though its' services and Program Files/Program Files (x86) directories are gone. Also can't find it in Group Policy Editor. I'm wondering if SmartScreen is considered to be a part of Defender. Or is it a separate component? C:\Windows\SystemApps\Microsoft.Windows.AppRep.ChxApp is still present, which seems to be related to SmartScreen. The Toolkit offers to remove Defender but not SmartScreen. I also notice that the Security Center service is still present, I think it's a part of Defender. 4. I also selected to remove Parental Controls, but its' folder is still present in C:\Windows\SystemApps. 5. I ran sfc /scannow immediately after booting into the installed OS. It claims to have found corrupt files, but when I searched CBS.log for all instances of "corrupt" and "repair", I couldnt find any files referenced, except C:\Windows\SystemApps directory. So I rebooted and ran sfc again, it came up clean. 6. I installed all available updates from Windows Update (even though I don't want them), just to see if the OS would break after updating. All updates installed successfully, and everything I removed seems to still be gone for the most part. I really only want security updates, I dont care about new OS features, because there is a potential for telemetry to creep in. @windows builder: Thanks for the note, I was going to rebuild a 2nd ISO anyway. I'd also like to say that I'm not complaining, just making comments about what I noticed.
Cortana (Search 2) is not the same with Windows Search. You can disable Windows search easily. But some programs need it. Defender and SmartScreen are different. You can remove both of them. Some app folders still remain after removing, but these apps are gone. You can update your windows with Cumulative Update (except very big update, from RS3 => RS4), none of the apps which you removed will come back.
Does anyone have an up to date (RS4 only) App removal list template? The template the toolkit has doesn't look like in includes new RS4 apps and has the apps for all other versions in the same file, so it has to process each one which increases time even if they aren't present (it skips apps that aren't there slowly).
Hello everyone... I'd like to ask how can I integrate SMB Client and server in the default installation of Windows 10 v1803. I search on "integrate" menu, but there is no such an option. Can anyone help me? Thanks a lot!