Making the Best Windows ISO

I've talked about NT Lite in past videos, but this shows you everything you need to make NTLite ISO in minutes. Here is the website guide so you can copy paste any links you see in the video.

[redemption]

Rufus recently got updated to patch the Windows ISO which include Secure Boot and TPM bypass, bypass the requirement for a Microsoft account, skip all data collection questions by setting them to false and more

[tboneify]

I've been doing this since 95lite all the way to now. When 95lite and 98lite came out this was awesome. Well worth the money. Thanks for spreading the word.

[KeronBullock]

When adding updates with NT Lite always remember to check the resetbase box to clean the winsxs folder.

[MegamanEXEv]

When I was a Windows 10 Desktop Engineer/Lifecycle Administrator, NTLite was my secret sauce for creating clean and fast Windows images to load into SCCM.

[Revenant]

Thanks Chris, another awesome guide for making a Lite Win10 ISO. This is a really great accompaniment to your VM guide.

[KeronBullock]

NT Lite is the absolute best. I use this software all the time to integrate updates and I rarely ever run into any sort of issues.

[alanelston]

I think it’s very helpful that you have an accompanying guide, as it was not immediately obvious to me from the video a few things, for example the main difference between this and some other custom ISO making videos. I see now that this is a sort of half way house solution, since the tool has some pre-set options to do some of the stuff for you if you pick the typical final ISO type you are looking for.

[pdraggy]

LOVED NT Lite in the Win XP days, it's how I used to make my SP2 discs. But I thought it was useless with Win7 maybe I didn't give it a chance- glad to see it still around!

[eugeniuchiritoiu]

Thanks bro finally someone who isn't posting malware or fake stuff, you deserve my subscribe!

[jbarr]

Seems like a do-it-yourself, legit alternative to LTSC. Very nice. I absolutely LOVE that you end up with such a bloat-free install. Nice!

[victorjoseph]

very interresting Chris. sure would like to be able to make my win10 iso as light as that. thank you for sharing your knowledge. impressive about how much you know of all this stuff :)

[stuartlaw]

Love your work Chris tons and tons of very informative information on Windows and Linux operating systems.
Also love the Mandalorian picture behind you.
May I ask where you got it.
Cheers Stuart Law from Australia

[itzamedave]

This is awesome appreciate the info as always thank you 🙏

[glenmichaelson]

Awesome tutorial Chris. Snagged NT Light for myself.

[jmjm]

Wow, The name of the forum (MSFN?) escapes me but Nuhi started making software way back that would strip down Windows. Pretty sure Nuhi started NT Lite as well and he might be the one doing it today. Odd enough, I really enjoyed trying each update and getting back to him on any issues I had and it was amazing how quick he would come back with a fix. Back then it was free and had other names for different versions of Windows. This guy was very talented and should be paid for his work. God knows he did the free work for a long time.

[Amrd]

Will you go through all the changes made in the xml file in a future video? Maybe explain all the Windows components and software stuff entirely?

[ygiagam]

Thank you for sharing your knowledge with us.

[csa-ramonp]

I started using Ntlite back in time with Windows 7 and XP, and it was a really helpful tool to get ultralight versions of both OS. Nowadays, the Ntlite team has improved a lot of cool things that make it easy to set up Win 10 or 11, as you mentioned, so it is worth paying $40 for the home version. I have a question regarding your settings for Gaming OS. Can I use those settings on a home PC on a windows Home (such as browsing, using Microsoft office and that kind of stuff), or Does it need to be a Windows Pro?. This is because I am trying to help someone from my home country, so if that works, it will be easier to deploy. Thanks.

[dtikwvl]

I thank you for your time and everything you've done for the community the people online and the entire internet thank you...👍😁

[ianmc]

Question. After making your own custom ISO, does Windows try to reinstall their bloatware with updates? Or can you specify only security updates with ISO? Just want to know if Windows tries to sneak (install) their bloatware back on.
And...appreciate any input on custom ISO for a gamer but not strictly gaming, surfing net for news and financial things too. Was definitely looking at removing Windows Store, Cortana, Calender, (killing auto update), ect but possibly keeping IE, and Defender. Don't use IE but sometimes you can't escape it (rarely).