Rufus recently got updated to patch the Windows ISO which include Secure Boot and TPM bypass, bypass the requirement for a Microsoft account, skip all data collection questions by setting them to false and more

I've been doing this since 95lite all the way to now. When 95lite and 98lite came out this was awesome. Well worth the money. Thanks for spreading the word.

When adding updates with NT Lite always remember to check the resetbase box to clean the winsxs folder.

When I was a Windows 10 Desktop Engineer/Lifecycle Administrator, NTLite was my secret sauce for creating clean and fast Windows images to load into SCCM.

Seems like a do-it-yourself, legit alternative to LTSC. Very nice. I absolutely LOVE that you end up with such a bloat-free install. Nice!

NT Lite is the absolute best. I use this software all the time to integrate updates and I rarely ever run into any sort of issues.

LOVED NT Lite in the Win XP days, it's how I used to make my SP2 discs. But I thought it was useless with Win7 maybe I didn't give it a chance- glad to see it still around!

I think it’s very helpful that you have an accompanying guide, as it was not immediately obvious to me from the video a few things, for example the main difference between this and some other custom ISO making videos. I see now that this is a sort of half way house solution, since the tool has some pre-set options to do some of the stuff for you if you pick the typical final ISO type you are looking for.

Thanks Chris, another awesome guide for making a Lite Win10 ISO. This is a really great accompaniment to your VM guide.

Thanks bro finally someone who isn't posting malware or fake stuff, you deserve my subscribe!

Wow, The name of the forum (MSFN?) escapes me but Nuhi started making software way back that would strip down Windows. Pretty sure Nuhi started NT Lite as well and he might be the one doing it today. Odd enough, I really enjoyed trying each update and getting back to him on any issues I had and it was amazing how quick he would come back with a fix. Back then it was free and had other names for different versions of Windows. This guy was very talented and should be paid for his work. God knows he did the free work for a long time.

I've been using this software since the Windows XP days, it's worth every penny. The only problem I ever have - I can *_never_* get my old HP LaserJet 1022 working after installing with a custom ISO 😮‍💨

I am a ntlite user and i can say that it was the best purchase I have ever made :)

Someone who doesnot blow up your mind with an awful music and a loud voice. Thanks for your great work.

Will you go through all the changes made in the xml file in a future video? Maybe explain all the Windows components and software stuff entirely?

Wow.. just learnt how to easily download the windows iso 👍

very interresting Chris. sure would like to be able to make my win10 iso as light as that. thank you for sharing your knowledge. impressive about how much you know of all this stuff :)

I use your debloat script, I have familiarity with this tool, PS and CMD are my friends, and your debloat utility works for me.

msmg toolkit is like command prompt ive used ntlite free edition for my windows iso's and it was very good

3:01 "But, it's Microsoft. it's not meant to." This statement pretty much sums up the era we are in with Big Tech, going from Windows XP days to what they now call Windows 10/11.

I’m still getting on well for now using Chris’s tool utility stuff on stock instillations, but I will move on to making my own custom ISO and this video will certainly get on my to view list then. The trick for getting at the ISO simply was useful, (as I recall it used to be more straight forward). I think it is generally a good idea to always get a copy of a standard MS windows ISO when you can. It seems that as MS develop something further, they make it less easy for us to modify. I think Chris mentioned that by his utility tool tweaks it was easier with the earlier versions. I do not know if the same is true for when customising the ISO, but I think when I investigate making my own I would like to experiment with different stock versions. In Germany it is more straight forward as some reputable computer magazines offer a simple stock MS ISO download. In fact, until recently, one was offering the complete series of all the earlier windows 10 operating system versions, so I got a full set of ISOs. I don’t unfortunately have a set of all the English versions, so if anyone passing knows of a safe source to get at those I would be grateful, thanks. Alan

I thank you for your time and everything you've done for the community the people online and the entire internet thank you...👍😁

I'm going to keep on watching this video a lot until I'm confident I can do it. I love those low process in the task manager. I really want my gaming pc like that. All about buttery smooth 😎

Awesome tutorial Chris. Snagged NT Light for myself.

That's interesting. I spent a week making a company image last year and writing unattended scripts by hand. I remembered the days of win xp when we could get a working image of about 200mb hacking at it. Good old days.

That tip about getting the ISO you need was nice to see. Though I wish we could download only the Pro version. I gave up modding years ago because nothing ever seemed to work for me. Started again last month. I finally bought NTLite after failing with the other free tool out there. Wow, what a difference! The config file chose the wrong timezone though. CANCELLED! 🤣

Nice video, will you be making your own preset for NTLite in the future?

Question. After making your own custom ISO, does Windows try to reinstall their bloatware with updates? Or can you specify only security updates with ISO? Just want to know if Windows tries to sneak (install) their bloatware back on. And...appreciate any input on custom ISO for a gamer but not strictly gaming, surfing net for news and financial things too. Was definitely looking at removing Windows Store, Cortana, Calender, (killing auto update), ect but possibly keeping IE, and Defender. Don't use IE but sometimes you can't escape it (rarely).

This is awesome appreciate the info as always thank you 🙏

Love your work Chris tons and tons of very informative information on Windows and Linux operating systems. Also love the Mandalorian picture behind you. May I ask where you got it. Cheers Stuart Law from Australia

2:35 You can simply hit f12 and click tablet button on the top left corner. And hit f5 or refresh the page manually. (It works for Chrome, i don't know how to do it for other browsers but it might be similar.)

Windows 10 also has winget

Hi Chris your videos always help me fix my potato laptop lol

2:50 you got me hooked there - thats awesome

Oh one more thing to add to that Chris when you do your download of doing that making your custom ISO is there a way to have every driver out there downloaded with it so you don't have to worry about searching whatever software from wherever it could just slap the drive or in no problem even if you go from Windows to 2 raspberry pi or you know Linux or whatever if you understand what I'm trying to say if you're getting kind of stuck let me know..

i didnt hit the create iso in the beginning and was so confused, I figured it out though! Thx a bunch!

There is the beautiful windows 10 script to debloat windows and it worked like a charm as well and removed every bloat and i really liked it...

It's a little bit fast for me, but an outstanding great video. Thanks a million times.

Thank you for sharing your knowledge with us.

I love this tool much better than MSMG Toolkit, I created a Windows 11 22H2 Superlite ISO and removed practically everything!

I started using Ntlite back in time with Windows 7 and XP, and it was a really helpful tool to get ultralight versions of both OS. Nowadays, the Ntlite team has improved a lot of cool things that make it easy to set up Win 10 or 11, as you mentioned, so it is worth paying $40 for the home version. I have a question regarding your settings for Gaming OS. Can I use those settings on a home PC on a windows Home (such as browsing, using Microsoft office and that kind of stuff), or Does it need to be a Windows Pro?. This is because I am trying to help someone from my home country, so if that works, it will be easier to deploy. Thanks.

If you cannot afford the $40/£41 then use the NTLite free version: Drivers: use Double Driver to export your Host system drivers into a structured folder and import in NTLite.

I followed the same process but the iso file is still larger than 5 gigs. Is it because I used the free version?

Can you make an updated guide on msmg toolkit coz in 40$ I can eat for 30 days lol

Worked thank you alot! you're the best bro liked

Thanks Chris. As always good tech and easy to understand. Keep them coming.

is better WinToolkit than MSMG Toolkit? your recent video is about MSMG Toolkit (2020), but in this video you recommend the WinToolkit(2019)

always love yr vids

Hi Chris ! I love your videos! Can you make one where you explain how to get paid programs into the image and have them install automatically with Windows. During the installation, a window should appear with the programs we want to install and not play around doing this later. We mark and they are installed with Windows. For example, Wondershare Filmora X, Revo Uninstaller Pro, Visual Studio, Internet Download Manager, etc. I'm making an image with AOMEI Backupper, but I want to know how it goes with NTLite ISO. Thanks !

Can you do an up to date video of making a copy (settings) that got you the 78 processes at 11:20?

Hey Chris, awesome video as always! I think it would be greate if you make a video about the tool WinReducer.

Your content is great 👍

Exactly what I needed

Great video Chris! I might have to give this one a try. I would love to be able to make my own OS. I saw your video on tiny 11 this morning, scrolled down and saw this video and thought I would watch it. Can this software work with Windows 11 also?

This is awesome! How are they not getting in legal trouble for charging money for the tool though?

Really good video, I am curious to know "How to make Best Windows ISO using NT Lite, as a daily driver?"

Good video, thanks mate.

Any chance we can get a more in-depth video about this, and maybe some additional presets for a minimal and debloated install that is still good for every day use like web browsing and email? This video goes kinda fast and only covers the GamerOS preset. Edit: Also, where can we get that file with all of the drivers at about 5:30 in the video?

Chris how do I prevent your debloat tool from screwing with Edge?

I have not been able to get this to work with windows 11.

I get an error when I import your preset for Win 11. Any suggestion?

Man I love everything that you are doing. I used to do this as well before I loved to linux. I used to use black vipers services batch file too. Shut off anything that is not needed. I wonder if you have done this? Disable all those services running which no one uses except the hackers or microsoft to check if your license is valid every other clock cycle.

cool, but the gamer os presets kill my bluetooth and wifi drivers on win10 as well as on win11.

What are your opinions of ghostspectre?

Have you ever use uupdump? thats my favorite piece of file to download any windows 10 or 11 versions weather it be retail, beta or developer iso. i like to use that in conjunction with ventoy

You should do an updated version of this video because some procedures have changed somewhat.

Great video man

I wondered how to do the same with Linux. Especially Debian base system

Goodnight. Be careful doing this. I did the step by step as Chris explains and I ran out of pc. Yes, the system consumes 1.3Gb of ram, and runs smoothly. But... At what cost? The navigation bar below DOES NOT WORK. Neither does the sidebar. It does not come with any software installed, nor do most of the essential services. Basically you can't do ANYTHING. If you want to install something you can't either, since the Microsoft Store service is deactivated and you can't install anything. Not a browser by console the Power Shell. Be very careful.

amazin video didnt know about this tool

You say this setup is for gaming. What about online gaming or game updates with no windows defender? Still safe?

I've been looking into moving to an NVR setup called Blue Iris instead of a proprietary NVR as they seem to fail far too often. However, Blue Iris is Windows only. It doesn't make sense to build a headless server out of Windows Desktop with all of the bloatware that is running on it. This seems to be a way to run Blue Iris "bloatless" on a headless server. I mean it would be the same light weight install as I would want for a dedicated gaming machine. Thanks for this!

I would like like this but windows 11 so can I do same step on windows 11 image?

is there a need to run your tool after this to do its "desktop" tweaks ? also, would there be a variant of the preset with windows defender enabled ?

This is pretty cool. Would it be possible to run a .bat file for installing apps with chocolatey post windows install? Also, is it possible to create an image from an existing version of windows with all the settings in other apps?

What a internet speed you are having...😮😮

I love this so much

Did I get it right: you can include software in this image you would install anyways (e.g. an office)? And also can I put in my active directory to get the computer right into the network?

My ISO came out at 5.48 GB. Did that much change since you posted the video?

This seems like the perfect way to get a lightweight version of Windows on the SteamDeck purely for gaming! Thanks for this. Defo think I'll pay the $40.

But i do have a question, when Windows 10 updates, it updates the missing "important" stuff from the NTLite custom winOS, like for example windows defender. So after several updates, you still get those features that you don't want. How do you prevent that from happening from the windows updates?

Thanks for sharing.

Very good video!

Love it, thank you! Yes, very powerful stuff... and I do like it more than MSMG Toolkit, worth the $40.

You Rock!!!! Thank you!!

can we skip the download updates part from 4:35 coz i think maybe it will increase the ISO size.

Hey Chris quick question where did you get the folder with all the drivers for all the OS's versions I would like to include on my image thank you! NVM I actually found it thanks!

How to setup a bare minimal light weight security in this ISO? for the reason that we download and install binaries that may be harmful and this will become a vulnerable setup.

Well done great video By the way, I'm a little ashamed to ask, can I please have a link to download the Windows you made? I want to install it on my computer

do that on a windows 11 iso pleaseee

Are these custom .iso installs just for convenience or do they allow you make changes that are impossible after a regular install?

I followed directions precisely 3 separate times(even purchased the licensed version of ntlite) and I don’t seem to get the same results as far as total processes running once booted. I inserted only the network/audio/and chipset drivers and ran the windows updates inside of ntlite and I’m still starting with things like defender, one note, amongst others even though they are supposedly removed using the xml file. My guess is now that this is a 2 year old video and the version of windows I used is 22h2 (not 21h1 like in the video) that something has changed. That said, pretty cool, but looks like I’m back to drawing board and will have to more closely look at what is removed.

It's weird how on Windows 10 they still require on Windows the "installation Media" if it detects you are on Windows... With Windows 11 you can literally just download the ISO (Least it showed that for me) when I went to the website, while on Windows 11... Microsoft is always so backwards on so many things...

if i wanted to download microsoft store apps/xbox games what would i need to enable in each section?

Nice! I saw on your github linking to the GamerOS preset but I haven't had a chance to look at it yet. Personally I just added the unattended, removed Edge / Defender and was on my way (I use LTSC 2021). There is another "LTSC NANO" preset out there which has the ISO down to 1.1GB but I found it removed just a little too much as some program compatibility wasn't great.

AMIGO HELPS when applying changes in NTLite where it says "save changes in iso" it doesn't start from 100% and returns to 0% the others if they go green

when installing my custom iso I get an error windows /panther/unnattend.xml in the cycle specialize ,any solution ? I've been trying things for 2 days

Great video! Got it 99% working. Only problem I found is that when I change the language that should be installed to Norwegian, the keyboard layout is still English.. Tested with SHIFT+F10 in the setup stage, and there the keyboard layout is correct(Norwegian). But when the actual OS is installed its English. Now I'm stuck with the English keyboard since all the components for language pack download is stripped away. Anyone have a fix for this?

Perfect just to dedicate windows for work environment.

You have made it to easy!! LOL NICE!