But that's what I'm telling you since the beginning. If it's not its fault, at least the size always increases a lot after using the cleanup source images, the apply & save changes to source images and the rebuild source images settings. Maybe it's the first two mentioned settings' fault or just one of the two and not the rebuild source image setting's fault.
Then you have only one option to convert the image to ESD. Internet, Multimedia and Privacy components are not added for removal for v2004, yesterday' s update only removes Remoting, System, SystemApps and WindowsApps categories. You can either user the CustomStartMenu Layout or the registry import method to do the taskbar pinning items. It's your choice to if you want to mount the boot or recovery images, choose yes if you are integrating features/updates to them If you follow WHD updates repo then choose Integrate WHD Updates Pack menu, if not then choose the Integrate Windows Updates menu. Integrate Windows Updates menu don't follow the proper order while integrating the updates. All components expect Windows apps do get returned, since you have integrated the latest CU and removed the components so you are not seeing any component returned, when you install new CU it will be back.
But the image size wasn't increasing before and I wasn't even converting to ESD like currently. Could you tell me which part of the w10_CustomStartMenuLayout.xml file has to do with the taskar items? How can I remove the Search Box and Cortana as well as the Start Menu's Pictures folder shortcut and the desktop's old Edge shortcut? What's the difference between the boot and recovery images? When you talk about the latter, are you referring to the image that can only repair Windows problems (if so, the former also has repairing capabilities)? If so, I don't even understand how integrating updates on it could help with repairing Windows. But like you said, the "Integrate Windows Updates" setting doesn't follow the right order unlike the "Integrate WHD Updates Pack" setting. May I have any problem if I keep on using this setting even (I downloaded the updates from Windows 10 Hotfix Repository)? Ok, but I thought they would return without even installing the updates since I integrated them. EDIT: I don't know if this is ok but the Advanced Startup feature doesn't show up below the Reset this PC one on a VM after removing components with MSMG ToolKit.
The image I tested contains .NETFX35, SSU, CU, Flash, .NET CU integrated. 1) Windows Setup Boot Image (Boot.wim) - required to boot the Windows Setup 2) Windows Installation Image (Install.wim) - the image which is expanded to the installation drive 3) Windows Recovery Image (WinRE.wim) - the recovery image used to perform OS recovery and it is located at \Windows\Ssytem32\Recovery\winre.wim
I thought I was the only one who noticed that. I've yet to remove Cortana with MSMG ToolKit but I removed it with NTLite (as well as other things) and after typing "winver" in the Start Menu, it had no results, after typing "control panel" in the Start Menu, it showed up with a different icon, after searching for a local file in the Start Menu, it also had no results, and after searching anything in the Settings app, it had no results too.
Edited my post above to be more clear. But I agree, removing Cortana does seem to break Search in 20H1.
I wasn't sure since I removed other things (but I already suspected Cortana the most) besides it so I was getting ready to test one by one but since you're having the same problems than I am (I suppose) I guess it really has to do with it and we may have no choice but to not remove it. EDIT: It really was the Cortana removal that messed up Windows Search. I didn't remove it with NTLite and removed the Cortana app with CCleaner and I'm not having any Start Menu problems. EDIT 2: The Edge Chromium problem was caused by the removal of AAD Broker Plugin and AccountsControl by NTLite.