Can you post the size of a W10 or W11, before and after use our tool, or even better send me, by mp only, one of your ISO, I can test
I think our Romanian friend wore himself out working on this project and trying to post on MDL, and had to take a nap. I have been testing, and there are an impressive boat load of features here, it does look like Eduard has poured an enormous amount of effort into this project. Suggestion for WimWizard & Eduard: your tool has has an enormous number of features and options that will overwhelm new Users -- I'd suggest you create at least three basic profiles and a start batch or binary to run them for beginners. Three suggested profiles might be: Tiniest: absolutely everything possible removed, bare bones just the OS install, may break some compatibility Minimal: almost as small as Tiny, but breaks little or no compatability Compatible: nothing removed that can't be easily put back in without reinstalling The names and outlines here are arbitrary, I'm sure you can give them more interesting names, and draw the lines between differences more exactly. The point here is there are two kinds of users for your project: people like me that love what you've done and all the options, and people that have no idea how to approach this but are very frustrated with the direction Microsoft has gone, and just want less crap.
My-oh-my, I'm wore out just digesting all that can be done with this project. I'd be curious the back story of this project; started from birth, etc.
Yes posting here was difficult, had to deal with the commands for table as copy from my blog to here. lucky Carlos told me about the TABLE feature. so it took a while to adapt. I understand Tiny,Small,Compatible. That's the thing each version of Windows has many components example iot ltsc 21h2 has over 19000 components. It will be human impossible to create all that into a variable settings like you mentioned. So my aproach was to use the a,b,c,d,e,f,g and rest from the file "wimwizard_readme.txt" just edit lines what you not want to use. But it must be used either way you would like, if you would like to use only the /compcreate and /removecomponents you can map all those 19000 components. but you need to do your testings. So what i did the easy part sort of speak was combining some a,b,c,d and so on in the wimwizard_readme.txt file. So use this in order for safest understanding (till each one will get familiar) so you need to edit d:\games\win10up\wimwizard\remove-capability.txt to remove from it what you like to nuke or not same for d:\games\win10up\wimwizard\remove-packages-install.txt EXAMPLES: G: Remove Capabilities ! ------------------------- wimwizard.exe /p d:\games\win10 /removecapability d:\games\win10up\wimwizard\remove-capability.txt wimwizard.exe /p d:\games\win10 /getcapabilities d:\dism-capabilities_lite.txt H: Remove Packages ! -------------------- # dism /Image d:\games\win10 /Get-Packages /Format:Table # wimwizard.exe /p d:\games\win10 /x Containers /n wimwizard.exe /p d:\games\win10 /removepackages d:\games\win10up\wimwizard\remove-packages-install.txt wimwizard.exe /p d:\games\win10 /l move Packages.txt d:\packages_updated_lite.txt wimwizard.exe /p d:\games\win10 /y move Components.txt d:\components_updated_lite.txt I: Components remove xml ! -------------------------- ##### Protection: First we need to create manifests in order to actual start removing components ! ##### 1'st use this then after use J: Components create xml ! wimwizard.exe /removecomponents -file "d:\games\win10up\dummy" -p d:\games\win10 -verbose J: Components create xml ! -------------------------- ## ControlPanel wimwizard.exe /compcreate -key "Microsoft-Windows-TerminalServices-Workspace-RADCUI Microsoft-Windows-TerminalServices-Workspace" wimwizard.exe /compcreate -key Microsoft-Windows-Autoplay wimwizard.exe /compcreate -key Microsoft-Windows-Backup-CPL wimwizard.exe /compcreate -key Microsoft-Windows-DiagCpl wimwizard.exe /compcreate -key Microsoft-Windows-FileHistory-Core-CPL wimwizard.exe /compcreate -key Microsoft-Windows-HealthCenterCPL wimwizard.exe /compcreate -key Microsoft-Windows-mobsync wimwizard.exe /compcreate -key Microsoft-Windows-SecurityCenter-ControlPanel wimwizard.exe /compcreate -key Microsoft-Windows-StorageSpaces-ControlPanel wimwizard.exe /compcreate -key Microsoft-Windows-TerminalServices-RemotePage NOTE: BE SURE TO MOVE OR COPY ALL CREATED XML FILES aka /compcreate above into for example "d:\games\win10up\wimwizard\remove_components" J: Components remove xml ! -------------------------- wimwizard.exe /removecomponents -file "d:\games\win10up\wimwizard\remove_components" -p d:\games\win10 -verbose wimwizard.exe /p d:\games\win10 /y move Components.txt d:\components_updated_lite_wimwizard.txt wimwizard.exe /p d:\games\win10 /sxsdump d:\install-sxs-full_updated_lite_wimwizard.txt and then also you need for better understanding of what was removed from components use winmerge to compare. there are examples in a 7z archive in the download section. yes i know it is a bit complicated, but i promise this that once you will get familar with Wimwizard you will become ADDICTED at a point that you cannot use Windows anymore without apply the magic of Wimwizard. And you will probably have to deal with even loosing girlfriend. Please take some time and study Wimwizard, at least a week. I beg YOU ALL! See also the screenshot "Spoiler: Before Wimwizard and After Wimwizard Magic" with what reduction is after for example on iot ltsc 21h2 x64 v19044.7058 and btw i use /removewow64 meaning that the resulted screenshot is a pure amd64 only capable of running 64bit exe and no wow64/32bit anymore, and the size just calculate from screenshot it's like a bit over 3100MB and install.wim 1022MB . see all the files and also the size. Anyway since all of you probably use older wow64/32bit software your slim including wow64/32bit will be like 4200MB and install.wim 1400MB. Use first ONLY in vmware workstation pro free or virtualbox. and yes always test resulting install.wim first also in virtualmachines like the ones mentioned above. I hope i am not complicated things up. Really it's much to say and i am one person so i try it to make it as simple as possible. Please correct me, thanks all! BTW: This software is dedicated to YOU ALL! And i do know that it's Wimwizard magic will make regardless of Windows version 10, 11 or 12 a safe, strong and secure, powerful and slim OS. Just like all things need a little bit of time for all to adapt to Wimwizard, i can't say what your girlfriends will think afterwards. create_components EXAMPLES ONLY for version (2026-03-10 19044.7058 KB5078885) iot_ltsc_21h2_x64_v19044 https://forums.mydigitallife.net/at...8/?temp_hash=7ca2d2dfae7fb6c93f2728fe61c721f5
Looks like advertisement to me; this guy has dumped it all over Europe, Russia etc. etc. on every computer forum he could find!
Hehe on deskmodder i had to since from there i am learning about future versions of Windows. And on here digitlife i use to have an account once in 2017 where i used for bios mods like, and for exchange versions. But if you call that all over the world. well that's your opinion.
Good, great that means it will become world's no 1 tool for Windows Customization. More people are aware of it. Thank you for intel. I did search a lot i even find a polish forum, but some are unknown, you see i do not live on internet. Strange thing is that there is even on github projects with same name as mine. Hmm billions of people....coincidence ?! But hey Windows is worldwide and that can't be all post from a single guy from Microsoft...don't you think?! Anyway i am not going forward and backward on this subject for the sake of conversation.
I read everything on most places and I'm sure it's all you who posted it. All the exact same kind of postings and referrals to your blog. It's advertisement in my book
Yeah, sure, the information is interesting, but as they say, you can’t really make sense of it without a drink or two. Unfortunately, this tool isn't optimized at all, so it isn't user-friendly or, more importantly, intuitive for everyone to use. To understand what the author has presented, you have to try to follow his line of thinking. Personally, I don’t fully understand the tool yet, but I’ll try to figure it out. Even though it's not entirely clear yet how to use it ...
I usually manually process the image, removing unnecessary functions and components, and the unfolded image after processing usually does not exceed 5G.
It sure made the impression of advertisement at first, so, he got stuck in moderation hell for a while.
Similarly, I tried to make sense of the idea proposed by @GotSoft and came to the conclusion that the concept of the tool itself is quite interesting. The only thing is, in my opinion, it’s a bit disorganized. In the sense that when the author is developing this tool, they need to design its layout with the end user in mind, since they’re making it available for public use. Of course, everything is clear and straightforward to a specialist, but when creating a tool for working with images, one should take into account that the vast majority of forum users are amateurs and enthusiasts. Therefore, the tool should be designed so that everything in it is transparent and clear. There are many “mind-blowing” scripts and one-off scripts posted on this forum. Scripts that, apart from their author, no one will ever use. The scripts themselves may be brilliant, but they are written in such a way that even the devil himself would break his leg trying to figure them out. So, my request is this: if yet another genius in creating image-processing tools decides to share their work with the audience, please don’t forget that the vast majority of users aren’t famous programmers, but simply ordinary users—enthusiasts, just like me.
Hehe. Take you're time guys, it takes a time to learn the basic in Wimwizard. Give it a week or so maybe more. The only problem after that will be the addiction to it. Now i consulted an quite powerful Ai regarding how to port my tool into easy meaning (something familiar). Funny the Ai even thanked me so much in his own words because he said that now he finally understand how windows works. And the same Ai after i provided him some code(s) including screenshots of an amd64 only os, he said again in his own words amazing microsoft should have done that in 2015 with the first win10 version. And i said well i done it in late 2016 having the perfectly amd64 pure 64bit only edition of windows 10 (meaning stripped the wow64/32bit) making it capable of running only 64bit exe. You know reducing surface attacks by removing 32bit, less IO input/output, lower latency and so much more. First Wimwizard it was meant to be released in GUI version but the Ai convinced me that CMD is the way to...and it was right. So YES Wimwizard is very, very adjusted for most users who uses CMD interface, for Linux something like this will be Platinum GOLD, and for Windows Power Users this is Platinum GOLD too. But i know, i know most users are just enthusiast or ocasional weekend's keyboard warriors. Still here will come into play the multitude of users that will discover, gather even further innovate, adapt, improve to such means that will make/help a lot of beginners. Imagine different configs, strenghten security a safe system an anti hackers os, keep spam call centers at bay because you can become your own service center sort of speak (many service centers will not like my work because they like to scalp people) but hey first learn this tiny wizard and when you will have the first goosebumps then you will finally understand. I may have exagerated in word's saying that my tools is word's no 1... it is on internet yes absolutely but ONLY because is on the Internet. That being said out there in the wild are tools more powerful than mine but they are not to be shared because their developers most of the time do not seek fame or many are being very, very bad threated and they prefer the anonimacy and privacy something like in the movie "Tomorrowland"
After the outlandish graphic in post #1 above got stuck in the moderation queue, and the way @GotSoft bombed other threads while staff was offline, he's really lucky to still be here. The fact that it is not paid software is what really swayed the decision. Hopefully it was all just enthusiasm regarding a possibly useful tool.
Hi there. If I may, I just have a couple of questions before I take a look at your tool if that happens. Who is its target audience, i.e., the typical user? Is it an Open Source project? Thanks in advance.
All in all, the more I study the code you provided, the more I like it. It takes a very unconventional approach to working with images, at least for me. The only thing I don’t like about your code is the way you structured the tool. So I restructured it my own way, since I prefer it that way and find it easier to work with. I added the features I need and removed the ones I don’t. I tested what I came up with, and there are still some minor bugs in the resulting code—but what’s a program without a few? Still, I’m quite satisfied with how the tool works. Once I finish this work and fix the minor bugs, I can provide it to you for testing if you’re interested.