NT Lite?

Alexey2912 · Jul 22, 2022

Hi,

Is it worth using NTlite on my laptop (specs) running W11 home?
What would I gain (if anything) and is it a risk of breaking the OS, making it unstable etc.

Hoping to hear from you experts, like always.

Thanks.

PS: @Brink , if you ever get the time your expert input would be highly appreciated, like always!:)

Alexey2912 · Jul 22, 2022

Personally I don't intend breaking my laptop's OS which is running fine and be posting threads (with covid around which probably would never end and new variants showing up every 4-6 moths) for assistance, unless its stable?

FreeBooter · Jul 22, 2022

It looks like this software support Windows 11, i don't see any problem it will cause to Windows 11.

Alexey2912 · Jul 22, 2022

FreeBooter said:
It looks like this software support Windows 11, i don't see any problem it will cause to Windows 11.

Thanks for the expert reply. Should it be run/ trimmed on a running W11 or a clean install?

Alexey2912 · Jul 22, 2022

Woh you have a nice YouTube channel.

FreeBooter · Jul 23, 2022

Alexey2912 said:
Thanks for the expert reply. Should it be run/ trimmed on a running W11 or a clean install?

Why do you want to clean install Windows 11 just install software and use it to see the result.

Alexey2912 said:
Woh you have a nice YouTube channel.

Thank you!

Alexey2912 · Jul 23, 2022

FreeBooter said:
Why do you want to clean install Windows 11 just install software and use it to see the result.

Thank you!

You're most welcome. I'd probably subscribe to your cannel.
I don't know how to use the software, never have plus am a newbie, med doc. :crys:

FreeBooter · Jul 23, 2022

Alexey2912 said:
You're most welcome. I'd probably subscribe to your cannel.
I don't know how to use the software, never have plus am a newbie, med doc.

I use the that software long time a go, i don't remember how to use it as well.

FreeBooter · Jul 23, 2022

Google Sites: Sign-in

Access Google Sites with a personal Google account or Google Workspace account (for business use).

sites.google.com

Alexey2912 · Jul 23, 2022

FreeBooter said:
I use the that software long time a go, i don't remember how to use it as well.

Thanks for the reply. is it difficult for a newbie?

Alexey2912 · Jul 23, 2022

FreeBooter said:
Google Sites: Sign-in

Access Google Sites with a personal Google account or Google Workspace account (for business use).

sites.google.com

Thanks for sharing the link.

FreeBooter · Jul 23, 2022

Alexey2912 said:
Thanks for the reply. is it difficult for a newbie?

You can post your NTlite questions when you have problem setting it up.

Necrosaro · Jul 23, 2022

Alexey2912 said:
Thanks for sharing the link.

Sent you another email, can get it done for you

Alexey2912 · Jul 23, 2022

Which version of NT Lite should I purchase?

Care to post its link.

Thanks.

Necrosaro · Jul 23, 2022

NTLite Shop

Purchase or renew an NTLite license

www.ntlite.com

Home is sufficient

Alexey2912 · Jul 24, 2022

FreeBooter said:
I use the that software long time a

Necrosaro said:
NTLite Shop

Purchase or renew an NTLite license

www.ntlite.com

Home is sufficient

Does it require to be activated one time only or on a yearly basis?

Thanks.

TairikuOkami · Jul 27, 2022

Alexey2912 said:
What would I gain (if anything) and is it a risk of breaking the OS, making it unstable etc.

I abandoned NT Lite because it is a nuisance. NT Lite in theory works great, but it is not one click solution. Yes, once you manage to strip down 11 of everything you do not need it, it it runs way faster, the problems are dependencies. I used to reinstall Windows twice a week to get the right setup. You remove something and then some software, game or features stop working. Then there are windows updates, depending on the setup, you might need to recreate setup every two weeks to reinstall. Of course, if you get the right setup, it will be just install and forget, but finding that sweet spot is the problem. To be fair they should be paying you for using it.

pparks1 · Jul 28, 2022

Alexey2912 said:
Hi,

Is it worth using NTlite on my laptop (specs) running W11 home?
What would I gain (if anything) and is it a risk of breaking the OS, making it unstable etc.

Honestly, I don't see the gains as being very valuable. People probably spend more time trying to make their systems run efficiently than the amount of time lost via any of these inefficiencies. Put another way, why spend 3 hours, to save yourself 3 minutes over the course of a year?

Uhuru · Jul 28, 2022

Alexey2912 said:
Hi,

Is it worth using NTlite on my laptop (specs) running W11 home?
What would I gain (if anything) and is it a risk of breaking the OS, making it unstable etc.

Hoping to hear from you experts, like always.

Thanks.

PS: @Brink , if you ever get the time your expert input would be highly appreciated, like always!:)

pparks1 said:
Honestly, I don't see the gains as being very valuable. People probably spend more time trying to make their systems run efficiently than the amount of time lost via any of these inefficiencies. Put another way, why spend 3 hours, to save yourself 3 minutes over the course of a year?

Depends what your purpose is, though debloating Windows of all the crap you never use isn't that time consuming, with NTLitefor some that alone is worth it.

For me it's more about saving Time reinstalling Windows + Drivers + over 600 installed games most of them modded, never mind all the 3rd party tools involved, and that time saved is more like a solid year of full time work.
I'd got that down to around a week of manual modifications, by basically only installing Windows, and Drivers on my C Drive, having a Dual Boot setup, and alternating to a Fresh Install with 6 monthly updates.

This had the advantage, of limiting my Learning curve SNAFUs, especially in the first instance, when though I grabbed the Free Win 10 Pro upgrade for my W7 Ultimate in 2015, it was 2 years before I even switched to W10 as my go to build.

After a few years with UWP a flop, and even the new settings menu reverting to exe, my no Phone apps on my PC attitude, seemed to be winning.
I even managed to remove AppData, and Program Data, to separate drives, and then updating those 6 month builds started working.
I got lazy, and applied them, everything worked fine, but it was a big mistake in the long run, errors started building up, and a fresh install always improved my setup.

Never been one for the odd version good, even version bad mindset, each new Windows has had good points (Even W8), but the "Do you guys not have phones" mentality, of trying to force tiny phone touch screen trash onto my huge desktop PCs, meant that was the one Windows I never tried.

Now with MS going back to a standard system, UWP pretty much a dead loss, it's MS Virualization that's causing me most issues.

AppData and Program Data are back on C Drive for MS installed programs, and I now SymLink all my 3rd Party Data to that.
All my 3rd Party Programs, User Files, (Except Registry Hives, and AppData), are still shared between both Dual Booted Windows.

I am sole user, so NTLite allows me to add my Software registry (Microsoft removed) en masse, and carefully selected MS/System registry tweaks to the "Default" install hives (plus you can add them in post Setup, for multi-user PCs. I use a Local Account, make all the settings, including Group Policy ones (Pro version Required).
Adding required Drivers is easy, you can even import them from your current setup.

Even if Debloating the OS isn't your focus, and you don't remove a single thing MS installs, it makes doing an unattended, or partially attended setup much easier, and for users with a lot less must have 3rd Party programs, than me, they can be silently installed in post setup.

You can have your new W11 install done, and dusted, in one install, and having made your custom registry tweaks, via Reg File from existing install, or directly editing the Default hives, of the install.wim

Other users can and do provide NTLite settings scripts, for a custom setup with no danger of Malware, as you apply those setting to files you downloaded from sources, from the W11 ISO, to any 3rd party installers, the entire point is everything is done in NTLite, with trusted files you provide separately, and the NTLite settings files are simple text readable XML. files, and all other Windows Tweaks are done by you, depending on the OS version used.

I'm still a total noob with NTLite, but for me it's far more, about making a new OS install, less of a chore after it's installed, doing all the many, and varied tweaks, we "Power Users" do every time we install the OS, than just about making Windows more optimized when it's running.

pparks1 · Jul 28, 2022

Uhuru said:
I'm still a total noob with NTLite, but for me it's far more, about making a new OS install, less of a chore after it's installed, doing all the many, and varied tweaks, we "Power Users" do every time we install the OS, than just about making Windows more optimized when it's running.

Yeah, for your purposes it makes perfect sense.

But I think those who gravitate towards debloat installers are often trying to figure out a way to make their machines leaner, cleaner, etc. They are trying to free up disk space, turn off things they don't want in hopes that reducing system resources will provide a noticeable performance boost. In many cases, I just don't think it works out to a whole lot.