Trying to build a custom ISO without internet components

On Saturday I used this guide:


to create a custom ISO without a bunch of the bloatware in windows 11 that I didn't want. It mostly worked but I removed a few too many components and broke some functionality I needed so I was trying to take another crack at it Monday and the uupdump.net site has been down. I have tried downloading several other ISOs and even used the suggestion here:


to access uupdump.net through a local host and download an ISO that way, which seemed identical to how I did it on Saturday but every other ISO since the one I got on Saturday, then I get to step 11 in the Using MSMG Toolkit to Slim Down Windows 11 section, all the windows components have an * and cannot be marked for removal.

I can't seem to figure out what I might be doing wrong here, I'm going to try some of the uupdump mirrors people have suggested but the only other thing I can think that is different is that I am using Windows 11 now instead of Windows 10. Not sure if that would affect the MSMG Toolkit in some way.

Any suggestions anyone might have would be helpful. Thanks.

Update: I tried reinstalling windows 10, and I've tried ISOs from UUP dump and from UUP dump不忘初心中文站 but none of them allow me to remove the internet components. All of them show up with the * and cannot be marked for removal.

Not sure what else to try at this point. I would appreciate any advice anyone can offer.

dunnetahl said:

Update: I tried reinstalling windows 10, and I've tried ISOs from UUP dump and from UUP dump不忘初心中文站 but none of them allow me to remove the internet components. All of them show up with the * and cannot be marked for removal.

Not sure what else to try at this point. I would appreciate any advice anyone can offer.

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I certainly wouldn't trust a UUP Dump site from China but maybe that's just me. In fact since the main UUP site is down, a few have sprung up and they do seem a bit dodgy. Each to their own but there is some risk here.