Dear My Digital Life members, I've had a question that i cannot seem to find an answer for. If by any change my question has already asked and answered point me in the direction please. If this is the wrong sub category to post this in let me know, i couldn't really find a technical sub category. I wan't to do a clean install of windows 10, remove the telemetry by running anti-telemetry services (bat files), running gpedit, and disabling services and optimizing it by disabling page filing, system protection etc. Then i want to save this clean install with all these settings to an ISO so that in the future i never have to do this again, considering it's time consuming and a hassle. Can someone please point me in the right direction. What i need to do, what programs to use and if this is even possible? Regards, Hordori
Thank you, I'm looking into it now. As for you're better solution, the problem is i don't want to restore, I clean install my machine every 6 months. So with the ISO i can just place it on a USB stick or CD/DVD and then keep reusing it whenever i'm in need. But again thank you, i will look into both methods since it sounds interesting!
Sysprep / genralize, capture are meant purposely to do what the OP asked. And there isn't anything strange in his request
Everything on Audit/Sysprep/Capture: https://forums.mydigitallife.net/th...etupcomplete-firstlogon-silent-install.73131/
u can skip the sysperp cos u dont need new SID anytime its for one pc not network of pcs just insatll it on vmware make the changes u want capture it to wim and replace it in ISO with install.wim
Do you perhaps have a link to saving my settings to .wim. All i could find was : Building a Standard Image of Windows 7: Step-by-Step Guide Link: technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee523217(v=ws.10).aspx <= which uses Windows AIK
Shutdown the vmware machine after tweaking it Mount the virtual disk Use dism or gimagex to capture Replace the install.wim of iso u installed from With ultraiso Use rufus or burn the iso edit: which of those steps u need more details ? btw disable telemetry services can sometime break creating the first user after sysperp
Okay i got everything ready till the point where you said Shutdown the vmware machine after tweaking it After i shutdown you said: "Mount the virtual disk" <= which vritual disk. Do you mean add a vritual disk and then mount that and then copy the .wim file to that disk using DSIM? I'm using Vmware Workstation 14, don't know if that matters. Also DSIM has a GUI version available which one would you recommend using.
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Although VMware is great, I suggest to use Hyper-V for such task, given VHDs/VHDXs are recognized natively by windows, and can be used not just inside a VM but also to boot a real system. So you can test an installation on the real HW, using the native boot, then capture their content very easily.
You just can't stay silent, can you? Just stop replying and telling others what to feel or say, just talk about Windows and that's it. This is the last time I reply because trying making you understand is moot. If I don't reply again is not that you win with "smart" arguments. It's just I don't interact with trolls.
Ah, i saw a lot of people post about Hyper-V now i understand why. Thanks i'll switch, but that also means i got to redo everything i read that vmware and Hyper-V aren't compatible .
Okay so today i continued with the custom ISO. Things to note is Free VMware Workstation has zero options (no snapshot, no changing settings except for drives, processors, basic stuff) you need PRO which costs money. So switched to Hyper-V today but map drive option isn't there unfortunately. Can you maybe specify what this option does? It could be named different. Also trying the sysprep method now, since i can't continue for now.