
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 2026.06.11200 changelog:
New
- Secure Boot Migration support: Verification, certificate staging, and boot-manager/sector update across the Image, Updates, Apply, and Create-ISO pages
- (2023 CA migration, optional 2011 revocation, Anti-rollback, Boot sector choice etc)
- Secure Boot Host Readiness: Live host Secure Boot migration monitor and Servicing-task control
- Option under Image page - C:\Windows row, or load the host as the target - Updates - Secure Boot
- Image: 'Sort mounted images first' option for the image list in Menu-Settings
- UI: Hover description card for Components and Unattended pages, selectable text and quick access to Compatibility options
- Command line: Relay commands into the already-running instance
- Enables controlling already running NTLite via ntlite.exe Use /NewInstance to launch an additional instance using CLI operations (premium)
- UI: 'New instance' option via main menu instead of a secondary ntlite.exe prompt
- Apply: Hide individual Apply-page notes with a per-note dismiss (X), critical excluded
- Settings: 'Unsigned RDP file launch warnings' tweak (RDP client), bypassing the April 2026 security-update prompt on RDP connections
Upgrade
- Image: Live OS and deployed image editing now unlocked on free/test licenses, same licensing as images
- Image: 'Recompress' option in manual dialog Remove Editions to shrink the WIM in one session
- Image: SWM part size set inline on the Apply page and image dialogs, split-size popup retired
- Image: Relative 'Last change' dates; editions grouped by build time to reduce noise
- Image: 'Forget - Missing' on the Edit-cache menu to mass drop entries whose folder is gone
- Components: Root groups reorganized - user-facing groups first, system/critical last
- Components: Show filter options to view components by Template or App-type, since Apps are now merged into groups
- Presets: Delete confirmation now lists the multi-selected preset names
- UI: Design update propagated to the rest of the tool
- UI: Filter and search match words in any order and partially, better results filtering Components
- Unattended: Input-locale language derives from the user locale, with an independent keyboard picker, enables combinations previously unavailable
- Unattended: Input-locale now allows for a user value override
- Unattended: Localization OOBE WinPE now can be copied with the new WinPE Copy OOBE localization toggle, enter locale settings once for both stages
- Updates: Downloader greys and locks updates the image already carries (hotfix and MSIX)
- Updates: Resume interrupted update downloads
- Command line: Many upgrades, see /?, now prints help to the console or redirected output
- UI-Translation: Finnish language added, also thanks for Chinese Traditional (Matt), French (tistou77), Italian (clarensio), Russian (RDS), Swedish (1FF), Vietnamese (Vu Anh Vu)
Fix
- Components: Containers removal breaking Apps deployment
- Components: Microsoft Account had leftovers when Easy Migrate is kept
- Image: Export to an existing WIM improvements, Append renamed to Merge
- Image: Improved 26H1 live removal support
- Image: No more 'X:\ not accessible' popup for certain drives during image scan
- Presets: Manual image refresh picks up presets added/removed outside the app
- Tweaks: Disabled visual-effect animations no longer return after first logon on a new profile
- Tweaks: Live Visual Effects toggles (animations, drag full windows, font smoothing) now apply correctly
Download: NTLite 2026.06.11200 | 20.5 MB (Free, paid upgrade available)
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