Is it possible to also remove with one click Map Control, OneDrive, Quick Assist, Retail Demo Content, Setting Sync, Skype ORTC, CEIP_SQM, Face Recognition, First Logon Animation, Game Explorer, Internet Explorer, Location Service, SmartScreen, Unified Telemetry Client, Windows Error Reporting and Windows Mixed Reality?
MSMG, It looks like Mixed Reality is being reinstalled by CU: - 17763.1 LTSC 64 ITA succesfully removed components with Toolkit - added SSU 402 and CU 437 - re-run Toolkit's removal and all components are seen as "already removed" except Mixed Reality (which is succesfully removed again) Thank You
Yeah, sorry, I didn't read much of the forum since it's quite big. But anyways, I did integrate .net framework 3.5 and thanks for telling me about it. Kudos I'll try it in a bit and give my results. The link I posted is from the template files I got from MSMG, although somehow when I ran it it gave me "This package has been removed already." message. I think the package names must have been changed in the April build or is different in the LTSC version so can't say. But yes if it works for you, it should remove all those apps you mentioned. MSMG, can I use dism commands from the toolkit or after mounting the wim images? I wanted to see if the packages are really removed or not and would try to remove them manually if they aren't getting removed with the list I provided.
@Supern00b Thanks, that worked great. Just tried it out and it works. @MSMG I got some questions, sorry for not reading the thread before hand. But I was thinking of implementing something just like Dell's Support Assist. In a fresh newly bought dell laptop, there's a partition which is meant for dell support assist. I was wondering to do something like that but instead implement a winpe to it instead which would act like support partition in case of system failure. Is it possible to achieve this? If so how, shall I remove the windows original recovery partition? My idea was to leave that one alone and instead create a new partition and a recovery image which will automatically be loaded to it and a new entry to boot to it would be made.
Can anybody explain to me how to properly run/start the toolkit? If I try to run 'ToolkitHelper.exe' whether with Nsudo or not, a black window open but the shutdown itself in a second. The only way for me is to run the script (the start or the toolkit). I have .net 4.7.2 installed on my system.
Yes, I also have the "This package has been removed already." message after adding some entries to the RemovePkgsList.txt file. How can I know the packages' name to add the right ones to the file? I'm on Windows 10 1809 non-LTSC.
Don't worry those packages have the same name, I verified all of those apps were removed already from the source image that's why I was getting the same message while trying to remove them.
Recently I have also built a Windows 10 x64 1809 image with the latest Toolkit version (9.2) and removed all Windows Apps, most of System Apps (I didn't remove File Explorer App, Lockscreen App and Setting Sync) and most of Advanced Windows Components including Location Service and I haven't noticed any freezes in the System Settings (you meant Start -> Settings -> System?). If you go there, yes, Display settings are opening first from the menu and are opening fine, no freezes, Night light settings are opening also without any freezes, except that you can't change there anything (options are grayed out), so you may have right, that they depend from Location Service, but other than that, any freezes, everything is working fine. Images I've built are PL and EN-US, in both cases, no freezes. In 9.1 version of the Toolkit by removing the same components resulted freezing Work Folders (Control Panel -> System and Security) when you opened it and try to go back with the back arrow. In 9.2 version this problem is gone.
Just wait for the new version as in current version some component is breaking the setup when all components are removed. or If you don't care about SFC errors or Apps not working then you can use the Removing Apps using Package List method which uses the DISM to remove the Apps.
If you want to remove a set of custom selected components then you can use the ToolKitHelper.exe in a script and run it using the NSudo.
May be empty folders might have got restored and the ToolKitHelper.exe checks for the folders existence and tried to remove it.
Yes you can use the DISM commands outside the Toolkit to peform other tasks. Some components doesn't have a package names and so they won't be displayed when checked with the DISM.
I don't recommen you remove the OEM recovery/support partition unless you do know about installing a OS without them. You can check the OEM Recovery Partition Creator for Windows thread regarding OEM recovery/support partition info.
You can remove the File Explorer App which is a Modern File Explorer App and not the classic Windows/File Explorer. So, you didn't get any errors while removing the packages or installing the OS?
This is probably a silly question but i can't find an answer to it If i download this tool kit and edit the latest iso image and remove everything i want when the next update comes out and it updates does it reinstall the s**t on my fresh clean OS ? do i need to disable windows updates or when it updates will it just skip the stuff that i removed
If the next update is just a Cumulative Udpdate then it wom't restore the removed component but if it's feature update then yes it's completely a new OS and all features removed will be restored along with some more new features. If you want to update a new build then make a fresh image using the ToolKit and perform a in-place upgrade.