WinReducer 8 - v0.50 (alpha) - 2013.06.15

* GENERAL
- NEW - “Updates Download Tool” with monthly updates
- NEW - “Cancel” button in Options page
- NEW - Standalone Tools icons in splash screen
- NEW - “Customization – Appearance” tabs
- NEW - “Presets” appearance tab
- NEW - “WinReducer Packs” (Abstract, Default, Flower, Official and Space)
- NEW - “WinReducer Packs” preview
- NEW - “WinReducer Packs” embedded cursors (except Default Pack)
- Update "Advanced.wccf and Extreme.wccf" presets files to be compatible with v0.50 (alpha)

* COMPONENTS
- “Accessories - Diagnostics Troubleshooting Control Panel”
- “Accessories - Time and Date”
- “Accessories - Spell Checking”
- “Accessories - Windows Contacts”
- “Accessories - Windows Mail”
- “Drivers - Bluetooth Support”
- “Drivers - IEEE 1667 Support”
- “Drivers - iSCSI Support”
- “Drivers - Network - Wireless – Realtek”
- “Drivers - Processor - AMD”
- “Drivers - SmartCard Support”
- “Drivers - SCSI Support”
- “Drivers - Storage - Adaptec RAID Controller”
- “Drivers - Storage - Adaptec SCSI Controller”
- “Drivers - Storage - AMD RAID Controller”
- “Drivers - Storage - AMD Sata Controller”
- “Drivers - Storage - IBM RAID Controller”
- “Drivers - Storage - LSI RAID Controller”
- “Drivers - Storage - LSI SAS Controller”
- “Drivers - Storage - LSI SCSI Controller”
- "Drivers - Storage - LSI Solid State Controller”
- “Drivers - Storage - Nvidia RAID Controller”
- “Drivers - Storage - Promise SuperTrak SAS and SATA RAID Controller”
- “Drivers - Storage - SIS RAID Controller”
- “Drivers - Storage - SIS SATA Controller”
- “Drivers - Storage - VIA IDE Controller”
- “Drivers - Storage - VIA RAID Controller”
- “Drivers - Storage - VIA StorX RAID Controller”
- “Multimedia – Codec - Windows Media Audio (WMA)”
- “Multimedia – Codec - Windows Media Video (WMV)”
- “Multimedia – Codec - Indeo5”
- “Multimedia – DirectX Diagnostic Tool”
- “Multimedia – Photo Viewer”
- “Services - BitLocker Drive Encryption”
- “Services - Block Level Backup”
- “Services - Internet Connection Sharing (ICS)”
- “Services - Microsoft iSCSI Initiator”
- “Services - Network Connected Devices Auto-Setup”
- “Services - Smart Card”
- “Services - SSDP Discovery”
- “Services – Time”
- “Services – UPnP Device Host”
- “Services - Windows Firewall”
- “Services - Windows Store”
- “Services - Windows Update”
- “Services - WLAN AutoConfig”
- “Services - WWAN AutoConfig”
- “Multimedia - MIDI Support”
- “Customization – Appearance - Mouse Sensitivity”
- “Customization – Services – Windows Update”

* IMPROVEMENTS
- Improve Windows Updates integration
- Improve Components Removing speed by 5%
- Improve “Boot.wim” cleaning process
- “Presets – Vmware Player – v5.x.x” (Protect “Drivers - LSI SAS Storage Controller”)
- Add help messages for all “Presets”
- Deactivate “Presets” if necessary components have been previously removed
- “Accessories – Tablet PC (Engine)” (Improve tips)
- “Drivers” (Improve components order)
- “Drivers - Firewire” (Improve cleaning)
- “Drivers - Hyper-V - Network” (Improve cleaning)
- “Drivers - Modem Support” (Improve cleaning)
- “Languages - Chinese (Simplified)” (Improve cleaning)
- “Languages - Chinese (Traditional)” (Improve cleaning)
- “Languages - Japanese” (Improve cleaning)
- “Languages - Korean” (Improve cleaning)
- “Multimedia – Speech” (Improve cleaning)
- “Multimedia – Windows Media Player” (Improve cleaning)
- “Network - Internet Explorer (GUI)” (Improve cleaning)
- “Tweaks – Explorer – Disable User Tracking” (Change name for “Tweaks – Explorer - Disable Recently Opened Programs List”)
- “Services - Fax” (Improve cleaning)
- “Services – Remote Access” (Improve cleaning)
- “Tweaks - Logon - Disable first Sign-In animation” (Improve cleaning)
- “Tweaks – System – Boot directly to Desktop” (Remove old deprecated method with Explorer)

* BUGS RESOLVED
- Improve “Control Panels” names to avoid troubles with all “Services” components
- WinReducer WPI shouldn’t start under certain circumstances during Windows Installation

* KNOWN BUGS
- If you select "Services - Wlan" or "Services - WWan" and choose "Administrator" as default local account login : "Administrator" will not be translated
- If you choose to integrate Windows Updates : your ISO will be growing by much and it seems to be a bug of Windows and not WinReducer
- If you Choose "Services Smart Card" many applications will refuse to install ==> SOLVED in v0.51 (alpha)
- System Control Panel Links are unavailable [UPDATE : "Multimedia - WinSAT" cause this]
- If you select "Windows Update", Language CPL failed to work ==> SOLVED in v0.51 (alpha)

bay12 wrote:

hi winterstorm! i want to report a bug: if i delete tablet pc components it breaks sticky notes.

theKramer wrote:

bay12 wrote:

hi winterstorm! i want to report a bug: if i delete tablet pc components it breaks sticky notes.

This has been reported already.

Please also post bugs in the dedicated Bugs thread!!!

bay12 wrote:

hi winterstorm! i want to report a bug: if i delete tablet pc components it breaks sticky notes.