WinReducer EX-100 2.3.9.0 Bugs & Suggestions

1. Element Category="Remove - Accessories" Name="Windows Recovery Environment (WinRE.wim)" Selected="true"  is removing some features of recovery environment. please check the images for better understanding of what features are removed. ( manually removing winre.wim by mounting install.wim doesn't have any problem). Looks like some files or dll's are getting deleted along with winre.wim. Kindly check into this.

what is the difference between these two features

Element Category="Remove - Accessories" Name="Windows Recovery Environment" Selected="false"

Element Category="Remove - Accessories" Name="Windows Recovery Environment (Dual Boot Support)" Selected="false"     are these redundant ?











2.  Element Category="Tweaks" Name="Classic GUI - Enable Windows Photo Viewer" Selected="true"  doesn't work, image opened by paint in the absence of the Windows Photos Modern UI Apps.

3. Application Frame Host process removal ( file location C:\Windows\System32\ApplicationFrameHost.exe) to do list for EX-100 2.4.0.0

4. Windows Telemetry related files located at C:\Windows\DiagTrack, this folder can be removed completely.

Hello mackyreddy

1a - no other files are removed with this component ... but if you activate for removing both "Windows Recovery Environment (Dual Boot Support)" and "Windows Recovery Environment (WinRE.wim)" the recovery folder is removed ... and have you removed other components in your WinReduced ISO ?
1b - "Windows Recovery Environment" deletes related files in Windows installation and "Windows Recovery Environment (Dual Boot Support)" deletes ONLY "reagent.xml" file in the recovery folder ... the same for "Windows Recovery Environment (WinRE.wim)".

2 - I will have a look, noted in my todo list ... thanks for the reminder

3 - I confirm this is already in test in v2.3.9.1 [VIP] since few days for a deployment in v2.4.0.0 [ALL]

4 - I confirm this is already in test in v2.3.9.1 [VIP] since few days for a deployment in v2.4.0.0 [ALL]

Hello Winterstorm2050,


3. Lets not remove Application Frame Host process as it leads to crash of display settings & personalize. In simple words removal of Application Frame Host process leads to settings app crash.