![]() Update, Language and Service Pack IntegrationĮasily integrate updates, languages and service packs. Remove components of your choice, protected by compatibility safety mechanisms, which make finding the sweet spot faster. Reduce the Windows footprint on your RAM and storage drive. Just run the tool on the operating system you want to edit, select what you want to change and restart if necessary – immediate results. In addition to editing Windows installation images “offline”, NTLite Live has editing mode, a unique feature that allows you to configure and remove components from already installed Windows without reinstalling. And you can edit images in any supported host combination, such as editing Windows 10 images from a Windows 7 supported host. The tool can create a bootable ISO from any of them, if the usual image folder structure is present (eg Boot and Sources folders). ESD to WIM, SWM to WIM (aka image joinining), WIM to SWM (aka image splitting) conversions included. Wife is not keeping any important files on the device - but on the mapped online storage (Google Drive, One Drive).Įnable AdGuard DNS on your wifi adapter settings - and you get automatic warning in browser if any internet site is problematic.įinally - she had 0 issues, but if any would happen - restore the backed Macrium image file of the system, and remap the online storage drives in less than 10min.All standard image formats are supported, including WIM, decrypted ESD (Electronic Software Download) and SWM (Spanned Shared Images). Now lite builds can have many things disabled for the sake of speed (Defender, Smartscreen etc, Win Updates, unneeded languages). Once you tweak everything to your liking - use Macrium Reflect to make an image of your build. SP3 has already digital license for Win Pro and will activate. Install WinPro and install (or restore with NTlite) drivers on it. You can a) get the drivers installation exe from MS site or b) install NTlite on your current SP3 and backup its drivers (which you will restore on new fresh Win) The latter is also updated to the last version - and has all the security patches included. You can either a) search the net for one of these builds - but be careful about the source (Oprekin works great) or b) make it yourself with NTlite and original Win10 iso. Reason: its becoming older laptop - and with lite version - it flies. I installed lite version of Win 10 Pro on my wife SP3 - and this works as a best option for us. Moral: be prepared with backups, multiple recovery options, spare USB keyboard and mouse, at the very least a phone for looking up instructions etc. Microsoft will never make any sense to me. Though my type cover has been partially broken for a while and some key keys (like dont work, so had to proceed without account til I could get the drivers and SharpKeys back on to remap my keys (I use f3 for 2, ~ for tab, etc.).ĭozens of updates now going and I'll continue with the reinstall process for applications etc. I couldn't do anything because the keyboard wouldn't work.įortunately I had #3 already prepared and after deleting all partitions (keyboard and mouse working again), it all worked fine. Restarting PC brought me to a bios-like screen asking if I wanted to clear TPM. I tried the other recovery options to no avail. Stopped in the early stages of installation and gave some error message. I tried #2 to be conservative and it didn't work! I already have the Recovery Image and Windows Clean Install USBs created - should I just try #3 and if it doesn't work I can use the recovery image usb? and not sure which version it would install either. Concern with the 1st is that it just isn't as comprehensive as the other two - likely leaving partitions as-is, etc. My concern with the 2nd is that it is version 1511 and I'll have to update it again afterwards. My concern with the 3rd is that it won't have Surface-specific drivers. Use downloaded Windows 10 build 2004 ISO on bootable USB.Use downloaded Surface Recovery Image on a bootable USB.and would like to just wipe things clean and start fresh. I've backed everything up - files, installers, etc. ![]() My Surface Pro 3 has been finnicky for a while and now isn't letting me update to the latest Windows version, even though Windows Update tells me I can. ![]()
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