So I discovered this promising-looking tool and immediatelly tried the components removal part. Is it normal that install.wim grew some 40MB bigger after removing more than half of the available packages?

The wim will shrink but you have to rebuild the image

You must rebuild image after removing components

EDIT: Sorry for this message, i have opened it in new tab..

Edited July 24, 201113 yr by George King

Thanks for the replies. I found out about this pretty soon - inability to read sucks The image shrank by about 100MB only - I hope it's so little due to strong compression, because the amount of stuff I checked to remove was high.

Stil a shame there's so little to remove

Make sure you remove the components from all images, then it may shrink more... I'm planning on doing some work on the Component Removal

Lego you should add the ability to only un-hide and remove the desired component(s) and leave the others untouched...or the ability after component removal to restore the registry permissions and re-hide the components once more (so it does not affect feature disabling)

Check out this guys explanation to what the install_wim_tweak tool does to un-hide the components (all you need to do is reverse the process)

I asked the author of the install_wim_tweak tool to update it and add the ability to un-hide single components without affecting the rest like so

install_wim_tweak /p C:\mount /m /c <component_name_to_un-hide_here>

The source code is available, hopefully someone can do it or you can add it to your tool

I've already done a few modifications to it myself and fixed quite a few bugs with that tool, it's a great little tool. I will add the feature you are describing to it As i said above i'm planning on doing some work to it by moving it to the All-In-One section so it will remove stuff from all the images you select and not just one at a time

w00t!!! :omg:

BTW if you fixed bugs or added features you should be a sport and release it + source, because the author was kind enough to do the same

Make sure you remove the components from all images, then it may shrink more... I'm planning on doing some work on the Component Removal

Did you mean from other windows versions from the image? If not I don't understand

edit: Can you give us link to your modified tweaker btw? I am trying to learn some stuff and experimenting with DISM, so I would really appreciate it.

Edited July 28, 201113 yr by Octopuss

EDIT: I have completed v1.3.3 which let's you use this tool on the current installed OS but not sure if it actually needs releasing...

Total amount of changes i've done

*the /m is no longer needed, will do the task by default

*fixed a bug where it did not work if there was a space in the mountpath.

*Win32Security.dll file is no longer needed

*Added new colours, errors are displayed in Red

*Fixed bug crashing at end of running

*Fixed bug where it cannot unmount registry if something fails

*Added specific component selection

*Fixed some other bugs

*Added an appropriate small icon for the app

Also normally you will have to put the specific component name i.e.

"/c Microsoft-Hyper-V-Common-Drivers-Package~31bf3856ad364e35~x86~~6.1.7601.17514"

but if for example you put "/c Microsoft-Hyper-V-Common-Drivers-Package" it will show all packages starting with that.

Top picture is on default run whilst bottom is a specific component.

Edited July 28, 201113 yr by Legolash2o

OMFG!!! of course it needs releasing, this is awesome

Needs its own topic IMO

As posted on MSFN, i'm now on build v1.3.4 with more another bug fix.

Also, i've managed to get the Component Removal on All-In-One working so you can now remove packages from all Window versions in the image automatically, but it won't be visible until W7T 1.0.3

Hey li what do you think about this icon?

http://www.mediafire...5aq1dv6dr81rvox

If I find a icon/png with a crumpled up piece of paper I can add it next to the cabinet to represent the removed component

Edit: is there any way to list the hidden components (maybe /L for list) so I can know which command to use with /C

The Component remover i was on about is on the All-In-One Integrator, the same tool which you integrate updates, drivers, etc...

The /L thing would be easy to do, but should i add it..... maybe

I can get the cmpnts names manually from the registry, I dont know how other ppl will do that

Done and works, if you run with /L it will output all components to a text file.

Cant wait

Lol, not sure if i can be bothered to release it, if you want i can send you the source code and you can release it if you want?

I dont understand, why not release it?

Just couldn't be bothered, i've released it on MSFN...

http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/152688-win6x-registry-tweak/