Usually I don't recommend MS refreshed source images because - Previously the DISM had issues in removing Apps, But now I don't know whether that issue still exists or not. - By the time the MS releases a refreshed ISO, the updates contained in the image are outdated. With the latest Windows 10 RS4 LCU, removing WMP breaks the windows setup, so I do not recommend removing it or use the original image remove the components and then integrate the updates/install updates through WU.
As earlier said, the Microsoft has made it more difficult to remove components by merging several removable components into main packages and so the usual method of using DISM to remove a component wont work anymore. Starting from next version of Toolkit (command-line), As a starting point the Toolkit will start the process of using the manual method (ToolKitHelper.exe) to remove all components for Windows 10 RS3 (MUI), RS4 (MUI) Source OS's. If there is no new W10 RS5 build until next week then support for W10 RS5 Build 17751.1 (en-GB/en-US) Source OS will also be added for testing. The component removal for other Source OS's will be removed temporarily and will be added back when it's ready to use the manual method (ToolKitHelper.exe). People using the ToolKit to remove components for other Source OS's do stick with the current version.
Hello MSMG, out of pure curiosity my programming language uses the ToolkitHelper.exe or manual method since from now on we will not be able to use Dism anymore because of its limitations maybe from now on would be the Powershell? or something similar to the Chocolatey staff ...
It's not that DISM can't remove any packages but only the packages that are merged can't be removed properly. I don't know Powershell programming and also it's bit slow in execution. The current Toolkit script needs to be cleaned up and refactored, I'm thinking of using the C# instead of batch for Toolkit command-line and so both the CMD and GUI will be using the same programming language.
no, there are no updates integrated and no removed WMP So as I understand it, I may not remove components because otherwise the abild breaks Is there no solution that could handle it?
OK, so I am not finding this anywhere so maybe someone can help. I am attempting to make a stripped down version for a Mac Boot Camp version. After all I would like to not have as much bloat. So I am using Win 10 1803 and when I am finished the size of the file is over 6 gigs. I need to get this file less than 4 gigs to boot camp. What am I doing wrong?
msmg with rs5 being out soon, will transition to new version be easier than before for you? (since you probably have tested latest rs5 builds)
That is what I am doing but it still ends up at 6+ gigs. I am just removing, not adding anything. How do I have it just be the Pro x64 version? I won't need the rest.
Hi, I integrated ahci drivers (for Windows 7 x64), putting drivers into "Drivers\WinPE\w7\x64" folder, to have integrated into boot.wim (as I understood), but when I start Windows setup from boot I got error: Windows failed to start..... file: iaStorAC.sys Status: 0x0000098 what did I done wrong? (i just checked the file "iaStorAC.sys" was in the folder)