Changelog – NTLite

March 4, 2022

2.3.4.8643

New

UI-Translation: Japanese (by Cabocha)
UI-Translation: Swedish (by 1FF)

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Components: ‘Device Association Broker’ removes more

Fix

ISO: Processing a certain combination of sequenced editions could get stuck on Create ISO

February 26, 2022

2.3.4.8641

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UI-Translation: Thanks for Chinese Traditional (Matt), French (tistou77), Portugues-Brasil (Igor)

February 24, 2022

2.3.4.8640

New

Source: Windows 11 Preview build 22557 support
Settings: ‘Local user account setup support’ option for Win11 Preview
Settings: ‘Taskbar – Alignment’ option for Win11
Components: ‘Bluetooth’ compatibility option

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Components: ‘Task Scheduler’ split APIs from it due to Geforce Experience dependency on the 32-bit API
Settings: TPM requirement disabling now includes disabling unsupported device warnings on Win11 Preview

Fix

Updates: Downloader would list Dynamic Update twice, as external, if already downloaded
Updates: Downloader could crash after downloading updates and verifying
Settings: Win11 ‘Select the far corner of the taskbar to show the desktop’ fixed and renamed
(to ‘Select the far corner of the taskbar to show the desktop’)
Components: Driver classes removal registry leftovers
Components: WMI Core was removing WMI Service description text file

February 8, 2022

2.3.4.8620

New

Components: ‘Processor Microcode Update (MCUpdate)’ and ‘Processor Microcode Update Servicing’
Components: ‘COM Runtime Broker’
Components: ‘Registry Editor 32-bit’

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Licensing: Online activation backup and easier renewals
Components: Registry defragmented after removals to reduce its size on an image
Components: ‘Narrator’ ‘Screen Magnifier’ and ‘Cursors’ split from ‘Accessibility’, ‘On-screen keyboard’ moved
Components: ‘Event log’ tracing-related parts moved to ‘Event Tracing’ and expanded
Components: ‘Bluetooth Audio Gateway Service’ was dependent on ‘User Data Access’, ‘User Data Storage’ and ‘Telephony’
UI-Translation: Thanks for French (tistou77), Romanian (Coman)

Fix

Components: Win11 ‘Wired AutoConfig’ removal fix for Settings-Network-Ethernet crash

January 25, 2022

2.3.3.8585

New

Source: Windows 11 Insider Preview build 22538 support
Components: ‘Night light’ and ‘Volume Shadow Copy’ compatibility options
Settings: ‘Setup Requirement – TPM/CPU – Host’, setting necessary on a Win10/11 host to skip CPU requirements when using the setup.exe method

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Components: ‘Quality Windows Audio Video Experience (qWave)’ split from QoS, needed for Nvidia Geforce Experience Overlay and Discord
Components: ‘Shell Experience Host’ and windows.immersivecontrolpanel (‘Settings’ app) removals unlocked by default, not recommended
Components: Win7 IIS is needed for MSMQ HTTP Support, so locking that feature config if IIS unchecked for removal (fixes component error during setup)
Updates: Delta CAB PSF filename pairs now allow for different suffixes (e.g. manually saved from UUP dump)
UI: Win11 ’21H2′ label returned to the status bar for clarity compared to future versions
UI-Translation: Thanks for French (tistou77), German (Cartman586), Polish (KrzysioZ)

Fix

Components: ‘Shared Folders UI’ removal was removing Services shortcut from the Computer Management menu
Components: ‘Device Lockdown (Embedded Experience)’ removal on Server 2016 with Desktop Experience would switch desktop to command-line mode
Components: ‘Error Reporting’ removal could prompt Microsoft\Windows\Feedback file access error

January 11, 2022

2.3.3.8567

New

Components: ’57-bit Linear Addressing’
Components: ‘Disk Usage utility’
Components: ‘DiskRAID tool’
Components: ‘Natural Language – Sorting’
Components: ‘Now Playing Session Manager’
Components: ‘Pen Service’
Settings: ‘Use Print Screen key to launch Snip & Sketch’ option
Settings: ‘Search – Allow cloud search’ option

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Components: ‘Error Reporting’ components refactored, now removes a service as well, while API is split to cover WerFault silent app errors handling
Components: Network ‘Data Usage service’ moved under ‘Diagnostics’ as its dependee
Components: Win1X ‘Storage Service’ removes more
Components: Windows ARM64 support improvements, SysArm32 leftovers
Components: ‘Telemetry Client’ now also includes Update Aggregators
Updates: Win7 boot.wim update integration ‘Reapply tasks across editions’ filters known install.wim-only updates
General: Setting chosen temp directory to the host FilesNotToSnapshot and FilesNotToBackup exclusion keys
UI-Components: Answering ‘No’ for the prompt to uncheck dependees will proceed with the target uncheck only, instead of cancelling it
UI-Translation: Thanks for Polish (KrzysioZ), Romanian (Coman), Korean (Redrabbit)

Fix

Components: ‘Battery’ removal was removing Settings – Power page
Components: ‘Event Viewer’ had repeating 1107 errors if ‘Auditing’ was removed
Components: ‘HyperV’ had leftovers if keeping ‘Defender’ or ‘Linux Subsystem’
Components: ‘Shared Experiences’ Win10 removal was needed for Settings – Display
Components: ‘WAP Push Message Routing Service’ added to OOBE compat, solves missing Power Options in Settings if removed in image
Components: FamilySafetyTask task removal while removing a Parental Controls app in the same session
Components: Win7 ‘Minesweeper’ was dependent on ‘Parental Controls’ to open
Components: Win8.1 ‘Windows Store’ leftovers
Features: FODs connections to Components, e.g. ‘Steps Recorder’ disabled if its component is pending removal
UI: Takes less CPU while waiting on external processes
UI: Cleaning progress popup could stuck at 100% when done