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greenavocadotoday at 4:35 PM4 repliesview on HN

You can get a completely minimalist Windows 11 by grabbing an ISO from Microsoft then reprocessing the ISO by feeding it into this utility: https://github.com/christitustech/winutil (Win11 Creator Tab) to get a NEW ISO which you then install. The end result is an extremely clean and stable Windows 11 installation.

  The resulting image can remove telemetry, bypass hardware requirement checks, and enable local account setup out of the box.
Official docs:

https://winutil.christitus.com/

https://winutil.christitus.com/userguide/win11creator/


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delta_p_delta_xtoday at 4:46 PM

To anyone reading this: please don't use ISOs downloaded from not-official sources.

Use an autounattend.xml, the mass graves, and a WinGet JSON to customise an online image.

[1]: https://schneegans.de/windows/unattend-generator/

[2]: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-gb/windows/package-manager/wi...

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pizza234today at 6:08 PM

NTlite has also been around for more than a decade, although it has a freemium model.

evikstoday at 4:48 PM

That won't help you get to the minimum of Win10, though

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dietr1chtoday at 4:54 PM

Even cleaner when you don't install Windows at all :P

Why would people put themselves through the painful process of keeping themselves safe from their own computer?

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