NTLite is a Windows configuration tool that allows you to modify your existing Windows install or an image yet to be deployed, remove Windows components, configure and integrate, speed up the Windows deployment process. Reduce Windows footprint on your RAM and storage drive memory. Remove components of your choice, guarded by compatibility safety mechanisms, which speed up finding that sweet spot. Windows Unattended feature support, providing many commonly used options on a single page for easy setup.
Easily integrate a single or multiple drivers, update or language packages. Package integration features smart sorting, enabling you to seamlessly add packages for integration and the tool will apply them in the appropriate order, keeping hotfix compatibility in check.
One of the important new features of NTLite (compared to its predecessors) is the ability to modify an already installed the operating system, by removing unnecessary components.
Supports Windows 11, 10, 8.1 and 7, x86 and x64, live and image. Server editions of the same versions, excluding support for component removals and feature configuration. ARM64 image support in the alpha stage. Does not support Checked/Debug, Embedded, IoT editions, nor Vista or XP.
NTLite 2025.10.10620 changelog:
New
- Preset: Presets now present content as expandable subpages for selective loading, instead of loading a complete preset only
- Preset: Presets now save history data on overwrite, selectable dates on expand
- Components: ‘Enterprise Feature Controls’ (26100.5074+)
- Components: ‘SoundWire’ (26100.5074+)
- Components: ‘Taskbar’, remove only if using StartAllBack or similar
- Components: ‘Volume Mixer’ (32 and 64-bit, legacy for Win11+)
- Components: ‘VBScript’ (32 and 64-bit)
Upgrade
- Updates: Automatically selects cleanup ‘DISM Compatible’ by default, if adding cumulative updates
- Updates: Custom cleanup now also runs DISM Compatible in the same session, for extra cleanup during integration
- Updates: Language packs now list dependency for a 24H2/25H2 checkpoint update
- Updates: Dism Compatible cleanup enabled by default if CU added
- Components: ‘Windows Firewall Control (Binisoft)’ compatibility option
- Components: ‘Certificate tools’ 32-bit split
- Components: ‘Game Mode’ includes Settings page now, was looking like always disabled if Xbox removed
- Not recommended for removal on 24H2 or 25H2, warning added
- Components: App removals now remove more leftovers with ‘Servicing stack’ compatibility enabled
- Components: Extra update files removed when disabling servicing stack compatibility
- UI-Translation: Thanks for French (tistou77), Romanian (Coman), Spanish (Plátano_RD)
Fix
- Updates: 26200 vs 26100 existing update detection
- Updates: DISM cleanup progress could stuck before 100%
- Updates: Windows 10 1607 Custom cleanup setup error
- Components: ‘Performance recorder’ was removed by ‘Telemetry’
- Components: ‘Windows Audit’ split to ‘Audit Mode’ and ‘Windows Auditing’
- Components: ‘Backup and Restore’ removal was breaking ‘System Restore’
- Components: ‘ASP.NET’ leftovers when disabling servicing stack compatibility
- Components: ‘OneSettings Client’ stuck fix if keeping some other components
- Components: Windows 7 ‘WinSxS’ removal was breaking setup
- Components: ‘Dynamic Lighting’ removal breaking CTFMon/typing on some machines
- Image: Unmount multiple editions at once could crash if one was currently loaded
- Image: Split WIM UI progress was stuck unfinished
- Unattended: Computer name %SERIAL% prefix support
Download: NTLite 64-bit | 21.5 MB (Free, paid upgrade available)
Download: NTLite 32-bit | 19.3 MB
Link: NTLite Home Page | NTLite Features | Screenshot
