Slim down boot.wim

brittech wrote:

Ok, Yuriy.

Let's find out what's happening.

Please could you mount your boot.wim file, as before, but this time I just want to capture a complete listing of the files within your boot.wim image.

so, when the image is mounted, from the cmd prompt, please type:

Code:

dir  /a  /ogn  /s  /b   d:\wimoffline >image_list.txt

Thanks

brittech wrote:

@Torrentus  your boot.wim worked once I restored these files only!
see post #8200

"Windows\System32\en-US\Licenses\_Default\Enterprise\license.rtf"
"Windows\System32\en-US\Licenses\_Default\Professional\license.rtf"
"Windows\System32\en-US\Licenses\_Default\HomePremium\license.rtf"

If people find your boot.wim is broken, try restoring those files first.

brittech wrote:

@KrX  you're probably right.  Although, we could perhaps continue to ask users in the background to test certain stuff... They love it

@Yuriy

Try this,
 replace_dirs_3.bat

But you will now need this file, place it in your Windows folder.
 rm.exe

brittech wrote:

So sorry, Yuriy, my problem.  Wrong link.

Try this,
remove_dirs_3.bat

You also need this
 rm.exe

brittech wrote:

That's ok.  I've removed parts of the original folder names so they match Windows 7 or 8.

Let me know if it works.  Then I will try to fix remove_files.bat

brittech wrote:

it is necessary for boot.wim,   but you need then to place it at the directory where you are working... example  D:\

It is used in the batch file instead of 'rmdir'

Torrentus wrote:

@brittech and KrX to make it clear, do you guys have a SSD and tried to install with my boot.wim ? It would be good to know if you can install on a SSD or not, I don't have one yet but soon  . 
The problem is I did this boot.wim half year ago and I can't remember if I removed universal SSD drivers or not...

mrpotter2510 wrote:

Thank you so much for the great tutorial Torrentus
But there's 1 little thing, in my windows 8.1 boot.wim, I deleted msftedit.dll, and it still works

mrpotter2510 wrote:

I'll try it on windows 8 and I'll let you know

EDIT: It also works on windows 8 

hi,

you asked for the boot,wim batch file:

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you will need to change some lines here. i.e.:

- i remove files with german languages from folders with de-DE
- i remove all keyboards exept german once
- i remove files from all windows edition exept Pro N
. i remove all NLS files exept german once
- i remove all drivers i dont need

it could also be that some files i remove you need to keep so your boot.wim will work. i think that this batch removes nearly everything possible, i couldnt remove more or the boot.wim broke.

with this batch my boot.wim gets ~44,8 mb and it worked for all my PCs/notbooks i tried with my iso + VM