Hello everyone, Do you have tools/tips Or Programs to Reduce the size of a Windows (image) (Install.wim) but i don't want to delete components thx gr. diolo
I too want to make something smaller without removing anything. Re-exporting the wim may decrease it's size.
I think WinReducer 8.1 can help you remove non-component stuff that might reduce the size. I would give it a shot.
There really isn't a safe way to remove stuff from a Win8 image in a way that will increase performance. You could disable a couple inconsequential services like fax, windows defender, and a couple others by using an autounattend.xml file, but I've found it better to leave the options at their default settings and let users do their own disabling. You can technically remove all the modern ui apps and remove the payload of all the disabled services, but it doesn't increase performance. It just saves a couple hundred megs of space.
Also, make sure you are using a SSD drive as your install drive. That will probably be the biggest thing you can do to get a performance boost. But for just WIM size WinReducer would be the best way to go. BTW, WinReducer 8.1 v1.16 which should be available later in the week will have it's multi version of windows capability increased to 30. So your 24IO should be fully compatible with it. Hopefully there will be a Aug. version for it. Or are you waiting for MS to fix their "Update 2" issues first
go to programs and features and remove some which not worth of. Del temp folder files. defragment the hdd.
Powershell Code: Get-WindowsOptionalFeature -Online | where { $_.State -match "Disabled" } | ` foreach { ` $_ = $_.FeatureName; ` DISM /Online /Disable-Feature /FeatureName:$_ /Remove ` } enter enter This will remove the payload of disabled features
This is not what i mean sorry.. i don't won't to delete anything Winreducer can.. do you have something else?
You can export to esd recovery compression to reduce the size. I have info about that in post 2 of the integration thread. It's a bit buggy if you have quite a lot of images and information though.. x64 versions like to cause setup errors if you have too much data crammed into the esd.
Thx Murphy.. But i have done that in Windows 8.1 But i 7 it can't you said in another tread that i have to use Winpe... what is the simpliest way to make a windows 7 esd?