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#41 MagicAndre1981

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Posted 18 August 2011 - 04:21 PM

/o means online. The files are deleted if the PC is idle.

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Posted 19 August 2011 - 04:02 PM

OK, a stupid newbie here. :blushing:

Removed too many of things on 7 SP1 online with install_wim_tweak.exe /o /c "packagename" /r

Now there is BSOD on boot 0x12a - it cannot find licensed language packs.

Of course, I suspect the following packages:

Microsoft-Windows-Client-LanguagePack-Package-wrapper~31bf3856ad364e35~x86~en-US~6.1.7601.17514
Microsoft-Windows-Client-LanguagePack-Package~31bf3856ad364e35~x86~en-US~6.1.7601.17514
Microsoft-Windows-Client-Refresh-LanguagePack-Package~31bf3856ad364e35~x86~en-US~6.1.7601.17514

I don't know if I removed all of them. I was so frustrated it didn't work (see observation below) that I tried multiple times with multiple things.

What can I do to arrive to a desktop? System Restore is and was turned off.

And an observation: This program didn't work until the services Volume Shadow Copy and MS Shadow Copy provider were started. For some reason, they couldn't start themselves. I waited for 16 hours. :whistle:

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Posted 23 August 2011 - 11:23 AM

MagicAndre1981, on 15 August 2011 - 09:25 AM, said:

I tried it Online inside a VM

install_wim_tweak.exe /o /c Microsoft-Hyper-V  /r

the package was removed, but the VM addition drivers are still in the WinSxS folder. I also tried it with the message queuing client and the files are also in the WinSxs folder.

Interesting post about Winsxs folders:

Should you delete files in the \WinSXS directory? And what’s the deal with VSS?

http://blogs.technet...l-with-vss.aspx

#44 MagicAndre1981

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Posted 23 August 2011 - 11:29 AM

I know it the blog. I wrote their comments too. I was confused that it took 1 day to delete the files.

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Posted 25 August 2011 - 03:56 AM

Second try. :whistle:

Win7 Home Premium x86 SP1.

I came down to this...

Spoiler

It probably can be better, but for now it's pretty good for my needs. :angel

Haven't tested it much, this install also goes to scrap because of unrelated issue.

Multiple runs were needed, often with different chronological order of retries. And some restaring of VSS service and the computer.

IE9 added some packages. Didn't touch them.

Initial pre-install slimming was done with Windows 7 Toolkit 130-19A, but it also failed to remove some (many?) packages. I didn't count how many.

GL

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Posted 25 August 2011 - 09:27 AM

Just want to point out you should only unhide components you want to remove, unhiding ALL might break add/remove windows features

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Posted 25 August 2011 - 03:24 PM

ricktendo64, on 25 August 2011 - 09:27 AM, said:

Just want to point out you should only unhide components you want to remove, unhiding ALL might break add/remove windows features

I did only this, Sir:

install_wim_tweak.exe /o /l

install_wim_tweak.exe /o /c PACKAGENAME /r

because I'm a stoopid noob when it comes to Win7 and I don't know anything more. :angel

But thank you, Sir. :hello:

#48 MagicAndre1981

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Posted 26 August 2011 - 03:33 PM

have you tested it with Vista? For me it doesn't work.

Component : "Microsoft-Windows-DFSR-ClientEdition-Package"

------------------Starting-----------------
Creating BKP of registry file...         OK
Mounting registry file...                OK
Taking Ownership...                      OK
Editing 'Packages' subkeys            3/3OK
Editing 'PackagesPending' subkeys     2/2OK
Modifying registry completed sucessfully.
Unmounting key...                        OK
Removing 'Packages'...                FAIL
Unhandled error occured.
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#49 MagicAndre1981

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Posted 27 August 2011 - 04:58 AM

ok, it works with Vista, too. I don't know what went wrong yesterday :unsure:

Btw, I have an idea. It would be cool if we can have a text file with all package names which we want to remove. Now we should only specify a parameter and your tool reads the text file and removes all the listed packages.

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Posted 17 April 2012 - 12:24 PM

What command do we use to Log Install WIM Tweak?

#51 MagicAndre1981

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Posted 17 April 2012 - 03:28 PM

look at the DISM and pkgmgr logs in C:\Windows\logs

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Posted 05 September 2012 - 12:08 AM

Thanks, Lego, hadn't seen this yet. Only found it on accident because someone posted a link over here.

http://mikecel79.wor...ts/#comment-204

Does running the DISM remove-feature with the online switch rip everything out of the SXS folder reducing your C: drive ? Or does it just remove the feature from the OS and we can run dism enable-feature without requiring the DVD (i.e. files are still in SXS)

install_wim_tweak.exe /o
This will unhide all the packages on the currently installed OS

This post has been edited by MrJinje: 05 September 2012 - 01:15 AM

#53 Tihiy

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Posted 10 September 2012 - 07:04 AM

Found how to clean up WinSxs after removing components:

run "dism /Cleanup-Image /StartComponentCleanup"

don't forget /online or /image: keys :rolleyes:

#54 MagicAndre1981

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Posted 10 September 2012 - 09:15 AM

I've also found this last year when playing with the Remove flag. The command is now shown in the CBs.log. There is also an async version of it.

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Posted 11 October 2012 - 02:06 PM

please, can someone post a common "hungry resources" w8 feature list to remove without system-break risk? thanks

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Posted 11 December 2012 - 10:19 AM

Can I use this tool to uninstall and re-install Windows Defender?

Win8 64-bit Pro. Windows Defender Service is running but when I try to run Windows Defender app to bring up the control panel for it I get:

"An error ocurred in the program during initialization.....

error code 0x80073b01

I must have changed a registry setting or something to break it but in true MS fashion, the error message has no meaningful info aside from the error code which when Googled appears to be a rare error.