NTLite 2025.03.10344
NTLite is a Windows configuration tool that allows you to modify your existing Windows install or an image yet to be deployed, remove Windows components, configure and integrate, speed up the Windows deployment process. Reduce Windows footprint on your RAM and storage drive memory. Remove components of your choice, guarded by compatibility safety mechanisms, which speed up finding that sweet spot. Windows Unattended feature support, providing many commonly used options on a single page for easy setup.
Easily integrate a single or multiple drivers, update or language packages. Package integration features smart sorting, enabling you to seamlessly add packages for integration and the tool will apply them in the appropriate order, keeping hotfix compatibility in check.
One of the important new features of NTLite (compared to its predecessors) is the ability to modify an already installed the operating system, by removing unnecessary components.
Supports Windows 11, 10, 8.1 and 7, x86 and x64, live and image. Server editions of the same versions, excluding support for component removals and feature configuration. ARM64 image support in the alpha stage. Does not support Checked/Debug, Embedded, IoT editions, nor Vista or XP.
NTLite 2025.03.10344 changelog:
New
- Components: 'Image Mastering API (IMAPIv2)' 32 and 64-bit (used by NTLite Create ISO)
- Components: 'InstallShield WOW64'
- Components: 'Microsoft Pluton security processor'
- Components: 'Net Command Line Tools (net.exe) - 32-bit'
- Components: 'Network Shell (netsh.exe) - 32-bit'
- Components: 'Profile Quota'
- Components: 'Share Targets' 64 and 32-Bit
- Components: 'Widgets Platform Runtime (InboxApp)'
Upgrade
- Components: 'Windows Feature Experience Pack - Core' now removable
- Components: 'Windows Feature Experience Pack - LKG' components merged into one (readd it to preset if needed)
- Components: 'Network Profile' 32-bit split, and removes more if SFC compatibility disabled
- Components: 'USB UCSI driver' upgraded to 'USB Connector Manager' and removes more
- Unattended: 'Product Key (Activation)' option returned due to demand, make sure not to put generic keys into it
- Image: 'Update boot managers' and 'Create ISO' now support 'Windows UEFI CA 2023' Secure Boot certificate
- Image: 'Host refresh' wizard autosaved preset name now has a suffix added to not overwrite the 'normal' preset
- UI-Translation: Thanks for Turkish (Just), Swedish (1FF), Russian (RDS), Italian (clarensio), Hungarian (John),
- French (tistou77), Chinese Traditional (Matt)
Fix
- Updates: Update downloader existing checkpoint update installation detection
- Updates: .Net 3.5 language integration was interrupting the process
- Unattended: Keyboard selection in rare host/image combinations could have generated a wrong ID
- Post-setup: Post-setup updates, e.g. Win7 KB2603229, now processed in order as on screen, instead of updates first