VIDEO TUTORIAL how to use a batchfile to reduce boot.wim

Hello,

i want you to show how to use the root.bat or any other batch files

i have got here an already reduced wim file

it is at the moment 130MB big

i recommend to first use winreducer and after that to test your created iso file

so lets start

first we start the tool gimagex.exe

so one thing. if you did not use with winreducer "winsxs folder cleanup"
your boot.wim wount be reduced much.
and also if you didnt remove the recovey your boot.wim will contain 2 "images"

i will first show you an boot.wim with 2 images

Microsoft Windows PE (x64) is the recovery #index no 1

Microsoft Windows Setup (x64) is the one that we reduce with the batch file
#index no 2

so if you didnt remove with winreducer the recovery part but you want to delete
it you can remove it with gimagex like this:

go to delete tab
select the source (your boot.wim file)

for IMAGE take No 1 because that was the recovery part
now just click on DELETE
now the info TAB shows only ONE index, the setup one

but i will continue with the other image because i removed there the winsxs folder
so the boot.wim will be smaller.

so go to the MOUNT tab and select your boot.wim and also an folder where you want
to mount it

now if you did keep the recovery part you need to change the index "IMAGE" to 2,
i deleted it so i need to keep the IMAGE 1

DONT FORGET the "read and write" checkbox, because if you dont check it you wont be
able to delete stuff

just hit MOUNT and wait till it gets mounted

so now its mounted, so just copy the ROOT.bat or any other batch file to the root
or where it should belong if you got a batch from someone other

so now we need to TAKE OWNERSHIP of the files and folder
because if you dont do that the batch wont remove everything thats blocked

so just use the TAKE CONTROL shortcut from your right click menue

which you will get when you use the reg tweak you will find in the tutorial thread

so now it will take some time till everything will be done

meanwhile we will do some modifications on the root.bat

because you need to change the language code (its at the moment de-DE for german)

you will find the language code here:

the link is also at the forum. so just search for your language i.e. english-us

the language code is "en-us" so just open the root.bat with notepad++ and
do the following steps

press CONTROL + F to search and go to the replace TAB

so if you click on replace all, it will change every de-DE via your language code
i need to keep de-DE.

so just save it and after that run the batch file via right click menue
RUN AS ADMIN

so that it now all files should be removed , you see already that
some folders are deleted

if some folders got such an icon on it like the winsxs folder , such an locked key

just delete the folder manually so it will get to the trash, and restore it back

now just get back to imagex and unmount it, but be careful you need to check the

COMMIT CHANGES checkbox

after that it should be smaller (your boot.wim)

sorry its my fault, its the compression or because we need to do some more steps !

i dont know whats the right command but i will add it to the thread.
********************look at the gimagex solution********************
for now i will compress it with wintoolkit

so the boot.wim is now 65,9 MB big

so now just test your iso, i removed some files from the batch like drives, so it
will run on *hopefully* a lot of machines.

but if i remove all drives from my boot.wim it is this biG: 42,5 MB

so now

HOW To TEST IT

if you get an error while installing windows:

and the error will show you which file is missing, ie imageres.dll

report that to the forum and remove that file (that whole line) from the root.bat
after that do all steps again, an so on and so on

if you will get an error without and file name i.e.  0x.....

do all steps again, but dont use the whole batch file, just maybe 50% of it

if that goes right try again just a bit and so on and so on

so thats it,

im sorry for some typing problems and also that not everything went like it should

so bye bye
KrX