Trim the fat from your Windows 11 install with NTLite

(Image acknowledgment: Microsoft)

At the start of the hebdomad, we looked at the latest Rufus, which makes building a bootable Windows 11 platter that bypasses system requirements a child's play. Well, now another image-burning tool, NTLite, non only follows lawsuit but allows you to strip away roughly of the components of Windows 11 that you'll never use, thus making for a little, tighter install.

NTLite is an incredibly powerful tool, although that power does attach to the cost that it isn't as easy to use as Rufus. With it, you behind remove elements from your Windows 11 installation, but you can also use it to burn an image that has the latest Windows Update installed at the same prison term.

The downside is that you can't just throw the Windows 11 ISO at the tool. Instead, you'll need to extract the files from the ISO and then point NTLite at that. And in case you're wondering, simply mounting the ISO isn't enough either, as you need write access to actually fiddle with the installation.

Erstwhile you do possess a writable icon to play with though, NTLite offers up yap away-dropping control over it. You terminate take away drivers for devices that you know you'll never use, for instance, or potentially more usefully, get rid of whatever of the default apps you take up nary intention of ever opening. You could get rid of Microsoft Edge and replace it with Google Chrome if that's your thing.

Edit the Windows 11 installation with NTLite — (Image credit: Microsoft, Nlitesoft)

If all you want to do is remove the requirements for TPM 2.0 and SecureBoot, so you'll notic the option to turn this off in the Settings > System menu. It's underneath the choice to disregard the Memory and RAM requirements.

While there's no easy-to-travel along tutorial on how to strip the junk down of Windows 11 with NTLite, this tutorial explains how to reduce the size of a Windows 10 installation refine to 700MB. Apparently, there are some taxonomic category differences, but you should be able to follow this enough to get eliminate close to of the junk.

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