Hello mate and thanks for the awesome build.
I tested on VM and it was, expectedly, very slow, so I took the plunge and dropped it on my daily driver.
It is an absolute lovely piece of work and for that I'm incredibly grateful, but, would there be a way of having it not install anything by default?
For example, I use Start11 and removing extras can leave junk behind for users that don't know of more advanced uninstaller programs. I also don't want the transparent UI.
And a huge beg of you, is there any way to have it uninstall edge either automatically or have a screen with the apps that are able to be removed post install?
Either way, so far it's rock solid and I'm looking forward to getting it fully set up during the weekend.
Yes, as I said above, you can disable almost everything from this release so it is just a clean OS.. here is how to do the things I know of and the reasons behind them (Some are very important):
Also note if you want to edit your existing install you can use task manager, autoruns or simply browse the start menu (Startup) to delete TransparentExplorer.exe, but StartAllBack and MyWallpapersLive using one of the other 2 mthods as it is only in the registry startup section.
Use Add Remove or My Uninstaller to get rid of StartAllBack (if you do not like it on your current OS).
Anyway how to mod the ISO/USB:
Open a new copy of the ISO you downloaded (so you can keep the orignal), use UltraISO to do so. If you want you can edit the USB stick you created instead, just assume X: is the USB disk;
X:\sources\$FirstLogonApps\TransparentExplorer.sfx.exe <-Remove this file to stop Transparent Explorer being installed by default.
X:\sources\$FirstLogonApps\zStartAllBack_v3.5.2.4522_Win11_ClearDark2_ssApp.exe <-Remove this to stop the alternative start menu being installed by default.
X:\sources\$PostLogonApps\MyWallpapersLive_v2.5_Last11_NoAutoStart_ppApp.exe <-Remove this to remove the Live Wallpaper from being installed by default.
There is a few other things in there you can remove without any issues to the end result, once your happy, save your changes to UltraISO, if USB - your deleteing of them is all you need to do.
There is very little reason to delete Microsoft Edge from your PC as even if you do many of the files still exist in C:\Windows\WinSxS\ so you don't really gain more than 400mb space back at the most. To get rid of Edge will require a quick MyUninstall or Add Remove Programs, I left it in that list knowing someone may want to kill it. I also left webview2 in for the same reason, but if you remove this, almost all UWP - Windows Apps wont run at all. Edge is needed so that Internet Explorer 11 Legacy functions, many games/apps and tools use this for their menu's/help viewer etc, so it's also a bad idea to remove edge on a production machine.
I never claimed my Mod was a lite or Gaming focused mod. It's a feature complete OS version aimed at ALL uses except maybe ones wanting a lower HDD usage or pre-tweaking services aimed at low resource usage or Games only usage. It's impossible to make a Universal OS that can work for every need (in 1 version) and so many times I have gone to a Lite OS install only to have stupid stuff fail to work, MS Updates wont complete and weirdness. I don't really support the Lite OS movement as once I get that sort of need I switch to Linux as a OS as it's WINE and Steam Support etc can do 99.9% of the things I need it to, just Adobe Photoshop and a few other things (which are slowly making their way to work native anyway) that stop me only using Linux.
So what I am saying is please reconsider removing edge off PC's if you have enough HDD space for it as it's independant to OS now (not embedded) so if you Uninstall it, it is gone (just like Google Chrome - because it is Chrome).
* To run MyUninstaller right click the Desktop or This PC Icon and open the "System Tools" Menu, that has Edge to uninstall on the PC's where you really don't need it. It takes under 60 seconds to do this.
The end OS isn't too fancy though, just a simple and clean end result, so maybe nobody really cares about the added flair and your all happy with the basic LastOS experience as it just works and has what you need, which is good... but I'd still like to know someone has used this apart from me and Unitop4
