MSMG: is it "technologically possible" to disable all those 'useless' apps/components instead of removing them... ?
Unified Telemetry Client (Asimov) Windows Error Reporting -------------------------------------------- Remove these two components, Running Sysprep without updating the patch is normal, If the Sysprep error is run after the Windows Update patch.
There is no direct way to do this. You can integrate them the same way you add software to the base image but its a lot more work that simply integrating .MSU/.CAB updates.
No Windows Update update patch Run Sysprep OK ----------------------- After Windows Update updates the patch Run Sysprep error
Although the best practice is to enable/disable features, integrate updates and then remove components but the ToolKitHelper isn't coded to remove components files/registry with pre-updates integrated. Today checked with x64 image, just removed apps and system apps and integrated updates and the install failed with an error, Need to further test which component is breaking the setup process.
Ok, these components WER, Asimov, CEIP need to be re-worked to completely remove any remaining traces which is breaking the Sysprep when WU is used.
I tried searching, but didn't really get anywhere... Is it possible to Remove All Windows Components, except for a specific selection of components? For example, I'd like to remove all Windows Components, EXCEPT for Calculator (which it seems users still need). The ability to specify components to omit from the removal process would be very handy! Regardless, thank you for this great utility, and Merry Christmas!
So far everything is normal. I test as much as possible. The system backup in Macrium Reflect does not work. I think it's at all inside versions..
Have a question, forgive me if it's been asked already. I'd like to script the use of the MSMG Toolkit so I can non-interactively remove components from a mounted install.wim file. Is that something easily done? Any how-to documents on that? Reason is I already have a script that configures my install.wim files and I'd like to just pop in another batch command to remove some components. I know some of that I can do with dism, but it seems the Toolkit does a better job of it. Thanks.
Use this in Powershell (admin.)%MOUNT% is path to your mounted install.wim. Code: Get-AppxProvisionedPackage -path %MOUNT% | Where-Object {$_.packagename -notlike "*calc*"} | Remove-AppxProvisionedPackage -path %MOUNT%
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Ah, I think I found the answer to my question with some searching. Can the ToolKitHelper binary stand on its own or does it need support from the toolkit directory structure, for example, binaries in the bin dir?
If you want to just remove components then you can directly include the ToolKitHelper.exe commands to remove the component. Syantx for removing the command: ToolKitHelper.exe <imagemount-path> <component-name> The below command list the supported components list ToolKitHelper.exe <imagemount-path> /? Note: You may need to run the script using the NSudo command prompt with TrustedInstaller privilege, since I haven't yet added the file/registry take-ownership for ToolKitHelper.exe