Totally agree. WSUS is only useful when many computers are involved. ie Uni/large corporates.. Even though we have it at work I still prefer to have my install key integrated for new installations. Soooo much quicker! Don't know why this above has been posted twice, strange.
I love Windows! It makes me sad after installation of a full size of any Windows to recognize that 50% of code is not necessary and next 25% are not vital for fully functional OS. That's main reason I insist on Lite solutions. I am trying to find minimal solution for all three OSs. Unfortunately my knowledge level is far below yours: you are MDL Guru and I am MDL novice. I follow your work with awe and read your descriptions as poetry, but registry and command line utility are off limits for me. I am GUI man and still type with one finger. With your knowledge and experience you are able to make best tool for extracting essence of the Windows. Give it to try, please!
I was a GUI dude as well before I learned the dism commands and started stringing together scripts. You really cannot make big AIOs like I make without dism scripts. There's just too much to do. Shrinking is not as complex because you can focus on a single image index. If you get tired of the usual tools, you can give Gdism a try. heldigard, the guy that made the kmsnano and kmspico programs made a GUI version for the dism commands. It should still be in the program threads. You can give it a try. It might help you wrap your head around the various dism commands. Useful ones for shrinking would be things like /get-features and /remove-feature or whatever they're called. ATM they just set pending removals, but if you combined offline removals with a sysprep capture, it could end up shrinking quite a bit. I'm sure you already know all this though if you've gotten a win81 pro down to under 1500mb.
Of course I know: I download half cut Win81Pro, then take axe and chop something I don’t like and keep chopping until it's not possible to install it any more. Then I go back one step and name it Virgo version. The rest you know. But you could do it properly! Just review RVMIntegrator, nLite and vLite and make new masterpiece for Win7/81. I know you will love it and lot of people will be thankful.
I'm not a programmer bud. Well, at least not for windows apps. It would take someone that really knows how to both program and how to remove services and apps without setting pending status. Strangely someone who would be most suited to this kind of task would be heldigard or ratiborus. Those guys were the dudes who chopped down win7 images for the kms vm activators. They also program their own little activation apps. I know you're looking for help on chopping down images, but unless you have a specific issue you're running into, I'm not exactly the guy to ask. I typically add things to an OS, not remove them.
OK, let me try to learn DSIM command line approach! Please, make me sample script: for integrate 19 updates in cab format (Windows8.1-KB2843630-v3-x86.cab), in "G:\Updates" folder, in Win81ProVirgin.iso, located in "G:\Win81" folder, using "G:\Extract" and "G\Mount" folders, and commit changes, clean mount folder and make new ISO.
I'm not sure if it allows full directory /addpackage for cab files. I seem to remember needing to add them individually, but you can try this: Code: dism /mount-wim /wimfile:g:\win81\sources\install.wim /index:1 /mountdir:g:\mount dism /image:g:\mount /add-package /packagepath:g:\updates dism /unmount-wim /mountdir:g:\mount /commit g:\oscdimg.exe -bg:\win81\boot\etfsboot.com -u1 -lYourLabel32CharsMax g:\win81\ g:\YourOutputFile.iso Note that you have to specify where the oscdimg.exe is since it's not native to windows. The reason you don't have to do that with dism is that it's already included in Windows\system32 and syswow64
This is fun! As you can see all is working but integrate command in all four variants: set of cab files, single cab file, set of msu files and single msu file?! Please I need command for extracting "Win81ProVirgo.iso" from "G:\!Work\Win81" to "G:\Win81" folder. View attachment dism.zip Suprise: Everything is working for Win7 with set of cab updates in a folder! So, problem is probably in my Lite-ed Win81?!
After day of google-ing I have found only GDism version 3.02. Have you (or anybody else) valid link for version 6.2?
Actual version on this link is 3.2! Anybody has valid link for portable GDism version 6.2 or to PM to me working program, please!
You are the King of Integration! I see that you manage to integrate all Win7 updates in install ISO. I must do it in three steps: 1. Integrate set of 31 updates (February 2014) in install ISO. 2. Install OS and install KB947821-v31. 3. Install applicable 31 updates and disregard 97 N/A updates. Have you some secret magic or this is problem of Lite-ing Win7?
For Win7 I have acceptable solution as I don't believe that MS will announce SP2. For Win81 and Win9 I will stay with chopping method, hoping that nuhi will return from hibernation and improve vLite to do it properly. I thank you for your patience, time and attention and effort to try to convert me into command line type. As I told earlier it's poetry, but I am not poetic man. Anyway, it was profitable discussion (for me) and I will boring you from time to time.
murphy, this happened to me with your latest, February release of W8.1 (x86). Which is weird, because I've never had any problems with your integrations. Could you look into it a bit? /threads/52628-Black-screen-of-nothingness-when-switching-language-in-Windows-8-1-Update-1