WinReducer 8.1 (Old discussion)

No, simply because I didn't be able to reproduce the bug ! OK, for your test with RC2 and if it there is a problem, please open a thread in the "Bugs" forum, I will be more easy for me to help you with this problem.

Hey guys,

Here we go, WinReducer 8.1 - v1.00 (RC2) is available and only available in the WinReducer website :

CHANGELOG :

This is a major update ! So, please consider it as an important update by rebuilding your WinReducer folder from scratch !

* NEW
- “Drivers - Hyper-V - Dynamic Memory”
- “Drivers - Hyper-V - Fibre Channel HBA”
- “Drivers - Hyper-V - Generation Counter”
- “Drivers - Hyper-V – Input”
- “Drivers - Hyper-V – Guest”
- “Drivers - Hyper-V - PCI Bus”
- “Drivers - Hyper-V - Storage”
- “Drivers - Hyper-V – VMBus”
- “Drviers - Storage - Smart Array SAS and SATA Controller”
- “Drivers - USB Audio”
- “Services” : Black Viper Configuration is available for all WinReducer Services
- “Tweaks - Explorer - Automatically Expand to Current Folder”
- “Tweaks - Explorer - Remove Shortcut Suffix”
- “Tweaks - Explorer - Show Drive Letters Before Drive Names”
- “Tweaks - Mouse - Set Pointer to Default Button”
- “Tweaks - System - Disable Automatic Defragmentation”
- “Tweaks - System - Disable Ready Boot”
- “Unattended – Activate Auto Activation”

* UPDATED
- English language file to v1.00 RC2
- Changed minimum screen size resolution to 1024*768
- “Accessories – System Restore” : Improve cleanup
- “Control Panels - Sync Center Folder (Files)” : Improve cleanup
- “Drivers - Floppy Disk” : Improve cleanup
- “Drivers - Hyper-V - Graphic Card” : Improve cleanup
- “Drivers - Network - Wireless - Atheros” : Improve cleanup
- “Drivers - Storage - Intel” : Improve cleanup
- “Drivers - Storage - VIA StorX RAID Controller” : Improve cleanup
- “Drivers - Support - Bluetooth” : Improve cleanup
- “Features – Windows Defender” : Improve cleanup
- “Features – Work Folders” : Improve cleanup
- “Services - Printer Support Services” : Improve cleanup
- “Services – Superfetch Service” : Improve cleanup
- “Services – Windows Time Service” : Improve cleanup
- “Services – Windows Error Reporting Service” : Improve cleanup
- “Services – Windows Update Service” : Improve cleanup
- “Tweaks - Explorer - Hidden Files and Folders (Show)” : Name Changed (Take to your wccf file)
- “Tweaks - Explorer - Hidden System Files (Hide)” : Name Changed (Take to your wccf file)
- “WinReducer Tools – Updates” : Improve categories name differences for Windows Updates (to slipstream automatically) and Executable files (to launch manually)

* FIXED
- “Appearance – Cursors” : Solved minor GUI issues
- “Appearance – File Replacer” : Didn’t work properly
- “Multimedia – Photo Viewer” : “Open with” menu cleanup
- “Multimedia – Photo Viewer” : Solved opening picture bug in case you removed “Services – Printer Support Services”
- "Tweaks - Explorer - Remove Shortcut Arrow" : Didn’t work properly. I totally changed how it works so a blank file is used to replace the arrow (in “HOME\SOFTWARE”). So you could easily customize the shortcut arrow by replacing it with the one you want. Read the Help Tips for more informations
- Fix various minor bugs
- Fix WinReducer GUI bugs

http://www.winreducer.net

This version is the latest WinReducer 8.1 build before the FINAL ... 

==> Yes, my friends I will stop working for a while on WinReducer 8.1. This doesn't mean the development is finished ! It's important to continue adding bugs or ideas (in respective forum, thank you !), because in few weeks I will release an updated WinReducer 8.1 build if it will be necessary. I will continue, of course, to help you in case you experienced troubles.

So next week :
-  I will finalize the "HowTo.pdf", then I will send the complete translator package to translators. If you want to become a translator, there will be many languages could be available to translate. You could find the list in the dedicated forum.

- I will also work on all WinReducer 8.1 Presets.

I will try to release the WinReducer 8.1 Final build next Sunday ...   

winterstorm2050

EDIT : I will start soon to update WinReducer 7.0 to v3.xx ...  

Hello winterstorm
great work.
i wanted to make a note 

i use English (us) windows mainly with the us-keyboard but i need the support of Arabic (Egypt) language to read Arabic files' names and its Arabic (101) keyboard to type ....

i was always achieving this by combining the choice of the Arabic (Egypt) system language and the us-keyboard during installation process.

now you have changed the names of the system languages and keyboards in the unattended section and and in the removal tabs.

 so i had to keep Saudi Arabia and English (us) system languages and Arabic and English (us) keyboards during removal process.

 and i had to choose Saudi Arabia system language and English (us) in the unattended section which always fails and i always had to change it manually during the install process. 

i am stuck at this and either i am doing it the wrong way or the change of the names have affected the unattended part for me.
please help me or fix it

by the way, i noticed that if i keep Saudi Arabia and English (us) system languages in the removal tab then save this image then try to mount this image again ,i notice that it is displayed that all languages are removed including Saudi Arabia and English (us) ... is it a bug or related to my problem?

thanks

winterstorm2050 wrote:

Hey guys,

EDIT : I will start soon to update WinReducer 7.0 to v3.xx ...  

Will you also update WinReducer 8.0? Or maybe make 8.1 Compatible for Windows 8.0?

There doesn't seem to be an option to remove 'Offline files' anymore. And the option to remove 'offline files service' is greyed out (unselectable). Why is this?

Hello guys,

spidernz wrote:

Will you also update WinReducer 8.0? Or maybe make 8.1 Compatible for Windows 8.0?

Yes, I will update it in few weeks.

aymanalz wrote:

There doesn't seem to be an option to remove 'Offline files' anymore. And the option to remove 'offline files service' is greyed out (unselectable). Why is this?

Nothing change for this. It's only dependent to your Windows 8.1 Edition. So, if WinReducer detects it as removed (or unavailable), it will be greyed. But if you think it's a bug, please use the "Bugs" forum. Thank you.

winterstorm2050 wrote:

aymanalz wrote:

There doesn't seem to be an option to remove 'Offline files' anymore. And the option to remove 'offline files service' is greyed out (unselectable). Why is this?

Nothing change for this. It's only dependent to your Windows 8.1 Edition. So, if WinReducer detects it as removed (or unavailable), it will be greyed. But if you think it's a bug, please use the "Bugs" forum. Thank you.

I don't know if it is a bug or not. But I am following the same procedure I used to earlier, from the same ISO. Reducing a 64 bit AIO ISO, and using only the 'core' edition from it. Earlier I used to have an option to remove offline files (I think it was under features), and an option to remove the 'offline file service'. Now I don't see the former at all, and the latter is greyed out. My resuling ISO is about 20 mb bigger than the ISO I made with previous versions. (I think v.99.6 was the last one I used.) I am sending the previous and current wccf, if it helps.

http://wikisend.com/download/526082/previous.wccf  >>>previous wccf, ISO size 1,990,954

http://wikisend.com/download/298660/current.wccf   >>>current wccf, ISO size 2,011,368

aymanalz You are Right


Iso Size====>


RC1:796MB Size
RC2:1GB Size


Both I use One wccf file

RC2 Work Good But Not able Rebuild boot.wim and install.wim(Optimization not work good in RC2)

when i setup the new ISO made by winreducer RC2 , i experienced a very long time installation time ( caused by a CMD of DISM) that appears after the first restart in the installation process, this CMD persist working till 100% for 30 minutes

i am not sure what it is... probably it is related to integration of updates

@ amin20:

WOW, your iso sizes (RC1: 796MB and RC2: 1GB) are very impressive!

Would you mind to share (via PM) your wccf file... I am so curious to see how you managed to obtain such an amazing result.

Could you also tell us what is the used space on your system partition right after installation?

BTW, the difference between the 2 iso sizes (RC1 and RC2) is probably due to additional features (newly implemented in RC2) that your wccf file obviously did non have checked/selected and that were therefore not addressed during the 2nd reduction process... This is just my (logical) assumption or "guesstimation", I can be wrong.

Thanks

@ winterstorm:

A short feedback while my other notebook is busy reducing with RC2:

1) In Remover / System / Disable Window Resource Protection. Strange because I disabled it also in previous reductions and WRP still nags if I try to replace/edit some (protected) files such as the native Notepad.exe;

2) Add "Replace native Notepad" feature with option to specify the path of the new exectutable (that must be manually renamed to Notepad.exe);

3) I know that this is a big request (and a lot of work) but it would be excellent if you could edit all tooltips: When a box is checked the tooltip should say what happens when the box is checked and when a box is unchecked the tooltip should say what happens when the box unchecked... (if you need concrete examples, please ask). This will help new users a lot;

4) "Tweaks" Name="Explorer - Remove Network from Navigation Pane" ATTENTION this prevents from enabling to show the Network icon on the desktop!

More feedback (hopefully none or just a loud YIPPIE) after I reboot in my Win 8.1 Lite

In a previous reduction process (after booting into Win 8.1 Lite) in Folder Option (View tab) the button "Apply to Folders" was greyed out, so I changed this:

Element Category="Tweaks" Name="Explorer - Enable Confirmation Dialog to Apply to all Current Items" Selected="false"

To this:

Element Category="Tweaks" Name="Explorer - Enable Confirmation Dialog to Apply to all Current Items" Selected="true"

But the button "Apply to Folders" is still greyed out!

winterstorm2050, according to you are these things related to each other?

Thanks

EDIT: The button "Apply to Folders" is greyed out if I access Folder Option -->> View tab via the Control Panel, but if I access Folder Option -->> View tab via the View menu -->> Folder Option -->> View tab (directly in Explorer) the button "Apply to Folders" is NOT greyed out... So I guess that this is a Windows (old) bug that was even present in XP  

Archimede wrote:

@ amin20:

WOW, your iso sizes (RC1: 796MB and RC2: 1GB) are very impressive!

Would you mind to share (via PM) your wccf file... I am so curious to see how you managed to obtain such an amazing result.

Could you also tell us what is the used space on your system partition right after installation?

BTW, the difference between the 2 iso sizes (RC1 and RC2) is probably due to additional features (newly implemented in RC2) that your wccf file obviously did non have checked/selected and that were therefore not addressed during the 2nd reduction process... This is just my (logical) assumption or "guesstimation", I can be wrong.

Thanks

Don't Hurry up, Winterstorm work on Preset(wccf) and He Release very soon good preset for you(Extreme preset)

Also You can go to (https://forum.winreducer.net/t341-extreme) and download this extreme preset but wait until update This preset  until support all the new components to remove

mido26683 wrote:

when i setup the new ISO made by winreducer RC2 , i experienced a very long time installation time ( caused by a CMD of DISM) that appears after the first restart in the installation process, this CMD persist working till 100% for 30 minutes

i am not sure what it is... probably it is related to integration of updates

hi!
i had the same problem, and i think to know with take so much time: i think that to clean tha winsxs folder, winter use command

DISM.exe /online /Cleanup-Image /StartComponentCleanup

because i have installed my customize iso of win 8.1 x64, and I run the command just written, and the progress is stuck at 20% for at least 20 minutes, the same % at which it was stopped the installation when I was installing a custom version where I had enabled the deep cleaning of the winsxs folder.

Winter did you use this command into winreducer to improve winsxs clean?

leom81 wrote:

mido26683 wrote:

when i setup the new ISO made by winreducer RC2 , i experienced a very long time installation time ( caused by a CMD of DISM) that appears after the first restart in the installation process, this CMD persist working till 100% for 30 minutes

i am not sure what it is... probably it is related to integration of updates

hi!
i had the same problem, and i think to know with take so much time: i think that to clean tha winsxs folder, winter use command

DISM.exe /online /Cleanup-Image /StartComponentCleanup

because i have installed my customize iso of win 8.1 x64, and I run the command just written, and the progress is stuck at 20% for at least 20 minutes, the same % at which it was stopped the installation when I was installing a custom version where I had enabled the deep cleaning of the winsxs folder.

Winter did you use this command into winreducer to improve winsxs clean?

today i have tried another iso without integration of updates and with the same wccf , it was normal , so i can confirm it is related to update integration , but i am not sure about the commands ... i am not that expert

in my iso i have integrated updates, and i haven't got problem... i have problem during installation, and i think it is caused by winsxs clean up process (sorry my bad english)

leom81 wrote:

in my iso i have integrated updates, and i haven't got problem... i have problem during installation, and i think it is caused by winsxs clean up process (sorry my bad english)

hello 
you misunderstood me..
when i integrate updates to iso , installation takes very long time.
when i don't integrate updates , installation becomes normal.
i am not saying that integration of updates is not working

mido26683 wrote:

leom81 wrote:

in my iso i have integrated updates, and i haven't got problem... i have problem during installation, and i think it is caused by winsxs clean up process (sorry my bad english)

hello 
you misunderstood me..
when i integrate updates to iso , installation takes very long time.
when i don't integrate updates , installation becomes normal.
i am not saying that integration of updates is not working

 ok sorry

Hello guys

I cannot install .net Framework 3.5 (nor 3.5 SP1)... I rememeber that there were some talks about this issue but unfortunately today I am totally unable to scour the entire forum and I need urgently to run an app that needs .net 3.5.

Any lifesaver can suggest a quick solution?

Thanks

Just noticed that in "Features" -->> "Net Framework 3.5" is greyed out and consequently my wccf reflects this:

Element Category="Features" Name="Net Framework 3.5" Selected="OK" Value="remove"

I sincerely hope that there is a quick workaround that permits the installation of Net Framework 3.5... Anybody? winterstorm2050? (please help)

Please note that I did not do Net Framework Cleanup:

Element Category="Optimizations" Name="EXPERT - Net Framework Cleanup" Selected="false"

i solved problem of integration framework 3.5
in yhe afternoon i will wrote how i solved it!

Please note that I did not integrate Net Framework, I simply want to install it afterwards.


Any help/suggestion/workaround is most welcome

Thanks

i have integrated framework into my iso, you can try to install it after you have installed your operating system.
i have integrated files extracted from this archive:

http://forums.mydigitallife.info/threads/47748-NET-Framework-3-5-Standalone-Installer-for-Windows-8-1-x86-x64

@ leom81

Thanks, my friend, that solved my issue   . I'm very grateful.

Archimede wrote:

@ leom81

Thanks, my friend, that solved my issue   . I'm very grateful.

 
is functioning?

leom81 wrote:

Archimede wrote:

@ leom81

Thanks, my friend, that solved my issue   . I'm very grateful.

 
is functioning?

Yes, I successfully installed Net Framework 3.5 and my app that normally would not run, now runs properly, so I would say that it is functioning.

Thanks again

i'm happy for you
hei Winter, is it possible to add these files directly into winreducer? so if someone want to integrate framework 3.5, can simply put a tick and files will be automatically integrated into iso

leom81 wrote:

i'm happy for you
hei Winter, is it possible to add these files directly into winreducer? so if someone want to integrate framework 3.5, can simply put a tick and files will be automatically integrated into iso

Good idea!

Hey guys,

I have a problem

I finished my installation (Win 8.1 Pro 64 bit) after having reduced it with RC2 and my system makes no sounds

I installed the audio drivers and all went fine. If I test the audio driver wizard it works (I hear sound) but none of the applications that normally produce sounds actually make sounds!

The only sound-related things in my wccf file are the ones below:

"Remove - Themes" Name="Sounds" Selected="true"
"Tweaks" Name="Sound - Disable all Sounds" Selected="false"
"Tweaks" Name="Sound - Disable Startup Sounds" Selected="true"
"Tweaks" Name="Sound - Disable Auto System Sounds Leveling" Selected="false"

I hope that someone can suggest a workaround for this.... I am not worried about apps that reproduce a click sound (that is not a big deal) but Skype or other VoIP clients without audio... That is not good.

Thanks for any creative solution

on optimization Two Thing YOU Never select its:

1- Expert-Net Framework cleanup ==> Kill .net 3.5 although on windows feature .net 3.5 checked

2- Expert-WinSXS cleanup ==> kill your windows installation

amin20 wrote:

Hi winter

I have some useful reg tweaks
Please add this Reg settings to Tweaks For Next Build
----------------------------------------------
[ltr]
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Services\SystemEventsBroker]
"Start"=dword:00000004 [/ltr]

after many test, i found, on my custom iso, that tweak in red cause non correct functioning of COMODO FIREWALL;if i put

"Start"=dword:00000003 (default value)

Comodo will function normally