Optimize-Offline Guide - Windows Debloating Tool, Windows 1803, 1903, 19H2, 1909, 20H1 and LTSC 2019

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Thanks for the info - this does not seem to be the problem as sysprep itself runs fine (but takes forever). Once sysprep is done and I reboot into installation/OOBE, the installation gets stuck before OOBE. The problem only appears when I run Set-Additional.ps1 while in Audit mode (I am on build 19042 by the way). Without it, sysprep finishes much faster as well.
I'll probably just use Set-Additional after deployment, should not be too much of a problem.

 

Any updates on when the gui version will be released?
Hope everything is ok with the dev

 

Quick question. New to NVMEs and I've always avoided unattend.xmls as I'm a bit spooked it'll overwrite one of my data drives. I have not installed the NVME drive into my motherboard yet but there is only one NVME slot. Is there any way of knowing if NVME drives take the lowest drive letter by default? I ask because it takes an act of congress to remove my SATA connectors from my motherboard. Which is why I always do manual install so I can select the right one. If anyone can maybe point me somewhere that'd be great.

 

As long as you haven't changed the drive letters in Windows, in the Windows search box type diskpart, run it as Admin, and use the command below.

Code:

list volume

 

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If you install Windows and use a custom install, it should let you choose the disk you want to use. The unattend.xml only picks the disk for you if you don't choose custom install.

 

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Yeah that's why I never use an unattend just slog through the install. Though looks like the unattend wizard linked in the guide only lets you go up to disk 5. I'll try and edit it and see what happens. That second command you wrote for diskpart gave the same answer as Disk Management so it's pulling it from the same place it looks like.

 

I use an unattend.xml but just manually select my disk, all the other unattend stuff works fine.

Edit: I have a post with my completed unattend.xml here in this thread. It's set up for en-GB and en-CA locale though, you'd need to change that likely. And my username and Windows key are commented out and stuff.

Search is your friend.

 

Oh so what do you remove just the lines pertaining to the disk? Like.

Code:

<DiskConfiguration>
<Disk wcm:action="add">
<DiskID>0</DiskID>
<WillWipeDisk>false</WillWipeDisk>
<CreatePartitions>
<!-- Windows RE Tools partition -->
<CreatePartition wcm:action="add">
<Order>1</Order>
<Type>Primary</Type>
<Size>300</Size>
</CreatePartition>
<!-- System partition (ESP) -->
<CreatePartition wcm:action="add">
<Order>2</Order>
<Type>EFI</Type>
<Size>100</Size>
</CreatePartition>
<!-- Microsoft reserved partition (MSR) -->
<CreatePartition wcm:action="add">
<Order>3</Order>
<Type>MSR</Type>
<Size>128</Size>
</CreatePartition>
<!-- Windows partition -->
<CreatePartition wcm:action="add">
<Order>4</Order>
<Type>Primary</Type>
<Extend>true</Extend>
</CreatePartition>
</CreatePartitions>
<ModifyPartitions>
<!-- Windows RE Tools partition -->
<ModifyPartition wcm:action="add">
<Order>1</Order>
<PartitionID>1</PartitionID>
<Label>WINRE</Label>
<Format>NTFS</Format>
<TypeID>DE94BBA4-06D1-4D40-A16A-BFD50179D6AC</TypeID>
</ModifyPartition>
<!-- System partition (ESP) -->
<ModifyPartition wcm:action="add">
<Order>2</Order>
<PartitionID>2</PartitionID>
<Label>System</Label>
<Format>FAT32</Format>
</ModifyPartition>
<!-- MSR partition does not need to be modified -->
<ModifyPartition wcm:action="add">
<Order>3</Order>
<PartitionID>3</PartitionID>
</ModifyPartition>
<!-- Windows partition -->
<ModifyPartition wcm:action="add">
<Order>4</Order>
<PartitionID>4</PartitionID>
<Label>OS</Label>
<Letter>C</Letter>
<Format>NTFS</Format>
</ModifyPartition>
</ModifyPartitions>
</Disk>
</DiskConfiguration>
<ImageInstall>
<OSImage>
<InstallTo>
<DiskID>5</DiskID>
<PartitionID>4</PartitionID>
</InstallTo>
<InstallToAvailablePartition>false</InstallToAvailablePartition>

 

Install ADK, run Windows System Manager from Start Menu Windows Kits and remove all the disk partitioning options. Then save it.

Have a backup Windows install USB, any error in your unattend file and Windows will error out and not install.

Edit: You need to extract a Windows ISO with WinRar and browse to the install.wim in the sources folder.

 

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Thanks @KedarWolf
Had to take a break from working on this as my mother broke her leg. I've worked on the bit you mentioned and integrated updates with W10UI as I have in the past however I guess one of my updates changed the build number to 19042 and now Update Offline won't pass the edition selection screen (these are all mainline updates as far as I could tell not preview). Is there a way to bypass the image version check so I can try and build the image?

 

I think if you replace all of the code with $InstallInfo.Build -le '19041' with $InstallInfo.Build -ge '19041' it fixes it if I recall right.

Easiest way is to use Notepad++.

 

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Just an update since my last 'update,' which was a while ago.

As stated before, time was constrained due to the aforementioned reasons. I had anticipated to roll out at least two-to-three new builds of Optimize-Offline by now but alas, I have not been able to. Primary reasons for this are because I have not had ample time to work on the most recent update and ensure its new features and changes work as they should, which is a result to my government employment being bombarded now that the COVID-19 vaccine has been making its rounds thus re-activating previous contracts that were put on hold. Likewise, the additions being done to my home have taken longer than expected and quite simply because it has been an insanely busy Q1 of 2021. That said, I have been working on an update for Optimize-Offline which will add support for the new 21H1 updates as well as include some new features. I am planning to push this to GitHub within the next few weeks.

 

I was soooo worried things had gone terribly wrong for you.

I'm glad you are well and just busy.

 

Does anyone know if GodHand is still working on Optimize Offline?
Haven't seen any updates from him in a while over on GitHub