v0.4.2_240218

This is the second preview release of DISMTools 0.4.2, with new features and enhancements:

File hashes

File	Hash (SHA256)
Installer	F20477435737481C4D9F33BDC7B603B81A3A1D486F36E1A2F95AF9211749626A
Portable	C8950911D55A33CBCCA5FE34D47958D77960A6C8D3C11EE23DA772A307417B5A

Bugfixes

• Fixed some minor text editor issues in the Configuration List Editor
• Fixed an issue where the "Pick..." button in the image file information dialog would not be disabled automatically when selecting "Currently mounted image"

New features

• You can now view the general information of a driver file

• A help entry for downloading applications has been added to the AppX package addition dialog

• You can now perform operating system uninstallation tasks:

  • Setting the uninstall window:

  

  • Initiating an OS uninstall:

  

  Explanatory warning

  

  Rollback process

  • Removing the rollback ability:

  

  Explanatory warning

  • Getting the uninstall window

Note

These tasks are only available when managing your active installation.

• You can now exclude user OneDrive folders and add them to your configuration list automatically using the OneDrive folder exclusion tool

Exclusion of OneDrive folders of some test user accounts

• The Recents list has been implemented

Note

Add projects to the Recents list by opening them. Then, to access a recent project, double-click its entry in the list.

• Portuguese translations have been improved

Important

You still shouldn't use Portuguese translations as the main program language, as they're not complete

• CODE: updated the assembly description

What's Changed

• DISMTools 0.4.2 Preview 2 by @CodingWonders in #101

Full Changelog: v0.4.2_pre_2421...v0.4.2_pre_2422

v0.4.2_240211

This is the first preview release of DISMTools 0.4.2, with new features and enhancements:

File hashes

File	Hash (SHA256)
Installer	8BDC255EB1D7A79F3E1FB963C33DE215B34535B19D276F18ED76407A0546463B
Portable	3BCA4B0A26B80D903DC47606A68AA8050E25BDFAF3B74227EA16364315CB3D2F

Bugfixes

No bugs were fixed in this release

New features

• An initial implementation of Portuguese translations has been added

Important

Don't use these translations yet, as they're incomplete. Only use them if you want to contribute to language translations, for testing purposes

• When picking an image in the driver import dialog, you will now see the image file associated with its mount directory

• When selecting the boot drive in the offline installation source of the driver import dialog, it will switch to the online installation automatically
• You can now pick a mounted image in the image file information dialog

• Updated the DISM API library to version 3.1

What's Changed

• Last changes for DISMTools 0.4.1 by @CodingWonders in #98
• DISMTools 0.4.1 by @CodingWonders in #99
• DISMTools 0.4.2 Preview 1 by @CodingWonders in #100

Full Changelog: v0.4.1_pre_2412...v0.4.2_pre_2421

v0.4.1

This is the release version of DISMTools 0.4.1, with new features and enhancements:

File hashes

File	Hash (SHA256)
Installer	B4BF93D295167D5975DA9318470578C55A9FAA94B0451831ECC6C47BFFD6B400
Portable	CC536156B35CC8A944E0041987DF6D1691CCDC7F047B9FF4694EB9B4C2B5D999

Changes made since last preview

Bugfixes

• Dates of the RSS feed news are now represented correctly

New features

• Added 2 new command-line arguments: /offline (enters the offline installation management mode) and /? (shows the following message):

Removed features

• The old method of getting drives through WMIC is now removed. Typing dthelper /drinfo will now result in an unrecognized command

Overall changes

Bugfixes

Note

This will show the bugfixes of all preview versions. To view them, expand a section

Preview 1

• Driver information background processes no longer fail on Windows 7 images
• The image information report preview window is no longer shown behind other windows
• The help documentation content browser no longer redirects to the Help home page if its window lost focus or was minimized

Preview 2

• Fixed an issue where the program would try to save the offline installation management mode pseudo-project after performing element processing
• Fixed a typo in the description of error code 0xC142010C
• Package, feature, and capability operations now pass the /norestart flag to DISM to skip system restart questions

New features

• You can now get image file information of SWM files

• Introduced a PRI resource extractor that comes in handy when getting friendly AppX package display names

Example of an AppX package with its friendly display name in the resources.pri file

• The Options window has been redesigned

• Image status watchers have been added, which detect status changes in an image and notify you of such changes

• CODE: background processes no longer depend on the expBackgroundProcesses variable
• You can now import the driver packages from one image to another to provide the same hardware compatibility:

• If some packages, features, or capabilities require a system restart, you will now see the following message:

Some [packages/features/capabilities] require a system restart to be fully processed. Save your work, close your programs, and restart when ready

What's Changed

• DISMTools 0.4 Hotfix PR (2023/12/24) by @CodingWonders in #92
• DISMTools 0.4.1 by @CodingWonders in #99

Full Changelog: v0.4_stable...v0.4.1_stable

v0.4.1_240128

This is the second preview release of DISMTools 0.4.1, with new features and enhancements:

File hashes

File	Hash (SHA256)
Installer	1218E42927C420DB9ADF9B7988F4C578D4CDD44939DD794FA5ACC1E399CAED9C
Portable	1F78D69C28559886DCA89B75FEC67E6FF18AE4B437477C00926815B78C2B1C06

Bugfixes

• Fixed an issue where the program would try to save the offline installation management mode pseudo-project after performing element processing
• Fixed a typo in the description of error code 0xC142010C
• Package, feature, and capability operations now pass the /norestart flag to DISM to skip system restart questions

New features

• You can now import the driver packages from one image to another to provide the same hardware compatibility:

• If some packages, features, or capabilities require a system restart, you will now see the following message:

Some [packages/features/capabilities] require a system restart to be fully processed. Save your work, close your programs, and restart when ready

What's Changed

• DISMTools 0.4.1 Preview 2 by @CodingWonders in #97

Full Changelog: v0.4.1_pre_2411...v0.4.1_pre_2412

v0.4.1_240107

This is the first preview release of DISMTools 0.4.1, with new features and enhancements:

File hashes

File	Hash (SHA256)
Installer	D443BB2A713A4BD259698AEA1CA2662FFDAAFDCAEFAABA6E4FB95FD5E12F4CFF
Portable	462A505B4C694959E76A5C418A878C59F9C9E55B6D9EA41CBDED343C4B01740F

Bugfixes

• Driver information background processes no longer fail on Windows 7 images
• The image information report preview window is no longer shown behind other windows
• The help documentation content browser no longer redirects to the Help home page if its window lost focus or was minimized

New features

• You can now get image file information of SWM files

• Introduced a PRI resource extractor that comes in handy when getting friendly AppX package display names

Example of an AppX package with its friendly display name in the resources.pri file

• The Options window has been redesigned

• Image status watchers have been added, which detect status changes in an image and notify you of such changes

• CODE: background processes no longer depend on the expBackgroundProcesses variable

Help documentation update versions: v0.4.1.2411 (CodingWonders/dt_help#4)

What's Changed

• DISMTools 0.4 Hotfix PR (2023/12/24) by @CodingWonders in #92
• DISMTools 0.4.1 Preview 1 by @CodingWonders in #94

Full Changelog: v0.4_stable...v0.4.1_pre_2411

v0.4

This is the release version of DISMTools 0.4, with new features and enhancements:

File hashes

File	Hash (SHA256)
Installer	FDB4C75650F5C5D73107618D28A11B624C3B237DD624DD366219FD570601AF4C
Portable	260B9C6939244907364983ECFB02D69DF70A6E8FD4B4A0A0E2988F8BA8270B2A

Changes made since last preview

Bugfixes

• Fixed an issue where the Save buttons of information dialogs weren't positioned correctly on Windows 8 hosts
• Fixed an issue where the AppX package information dialog would not work on Windows 8 hosts

New features

• When dropping a folder to the driver addition list, you can now pick driver files in it manually

• The home screen has been redesigned

• Friendly representations of the sizes in the application drive specifier are now shown

Overall changes

Bugfixes

Note

This will show the bugfixes of all preview versions. To view them, expand a section

Preview 1

• Updated the managed DISM API package to version 3.0 to fix an issue where the sizes of capabilities could overflow and return negative values

Preview 2

• The background process details panel is now hidden when leaving the offline or online installation management modes

Preview 3

• Fixed an issue where the program threw an exception when attempting to save complete image information if no images were mounted
• When getting Windows PE configuration, the program no longer returns Could not get value MB if it fails to get the scratch space configuration
• Image information reports correctly detect the offline installation management mode now
• The image information saver now informs you when the target report file is being saved

Preview 4

• Fixed an issue where the feature information dialog would not load when its entry in the Commands menu was clicked

Preview 5

• Added exception handling to the log file link in the progress panel (more info on #76, thanks @Guarmanda for reporting this issue)

Preview 6

• Fixed some issues in the new design:
  • Fixed an issue where the program would not unmount read-only images when clicking "Unmount image"
  • Fixed an issue where the program would not disable the commit operation buttons for read-only mounted images
• The "Use mounted image" buttons are now disabled in online and offline installation management modes
• The "Mount destination image for later use" check box is now disabled in online and offline installation management modes
• Fixed an issue where the program could not capture an entire drive to an image file

Preview 7

• Fixed background process panel positioning issues on Windows 8 hosts

• Fixed an issue where projects could not be created from the offline installation management mode

Overall new features

• Introduced offline installation management capabilities

• You can now specify multiple files in the file picker of the AppX package addition dialog, and can now perform multiple selections

• All Windows Update-related settings are now disabled when managing an active installation in Safe Mode (without networking support)
• You will now see an image information report preview right after the generation process has been completed. You can even print it from there

• Added a menu entry to contribute to the help system
• The program now recommends monospaced fonts for log windows

• The initial setup wizard has had a minor redesign
• The image application drive specifier now uses native WMI queries instead of the helper command (dthelper /drinfo)

Note

This command will still perform its work, but is deprecated and will be removed in a future release. You will see the following message when manually running this command:

This function is deprecated and has been replaced by native WMI commands.
You can still access this function, but it will be removed in the future.

• When getting information about driver packages, the progress bar will smoothly increase in value now

• The project screen has been redesigned

Note

The old design can still be accessed by going to the personalization settings

• You can now configure the image information saver settings

• The image capture dialog has seen some enhancements to add translations
• Help documentation contents are now included

Removed features

• The temporary help dialog in the AppX package removal dialog has been removed in favor of the help documentation contents

Update system changes

• The update system has been overhauled:
  • The update system will now run the installer silently when updating non-portable installations
  • The process close functionality has been improved

What's Changed

• Last design changes for DISMTools 0.4 by @CodingWonders in #87
• Last changes for DISMTools 0.4 by @CodingWonders in #89
• DISMTools 0.4 by @CodingWonders in #90
• Update region_fullname.txt by @FowlerJohn in #88

New Contributors

• @FowlerJohn made their first contribution in #88

Changes since last preview: v0.4_pre_23123...v0.4_stable
Full Changelog: v0.3.3_stable...v0.4_stable

Important

This version has been recompiled to fix issue #91 (thanks @IrishWraith). If you've already downloaded this version and experienced driver folder addition issues, download this updated version

v0.4_231217

This is the final preview release of DISMTools 0.4, with new features and enhancements:

File hashes

File	Hash (SHA256)
Installer	43A90866358678BF39D239C50CC9D5FE0B2D46FC7DDEC2E36A7E1A936DC9D9A1
Portable	38834B6DD07BB068DDF8D20BF31FA355C8F46F12907327AD7C4E6A5B36196795

Bugfixes

• Fixed background process panel positioning issues on Windows 8 hosts

• Fixed an issue where projects could not be created from the offline installation management mode

New features

Update system

• The update system has been overhauled

What's Changed

• DISMTools 0.4 Final Preview by @CodingWonders in #86

Full Changelog: v0.4_pre_23122...v0.4_pre_23123

v0.4_231210

This is the sixth preview release of DISMTools 0.4, with new features and enhancements:

File hashes

File	Hash (SHA256)
Installer	52EB3FB3C25BEA2F5C4A09DEF3E5FD928B53E1DC15812E84C700109AC205FAC6
Portable	42944A052F1E42661D285563940B99B4945CAB8658C5020D5F9AF7924A0EF8C6

Bugfixes

• Fixed some issues in the new design:
  • Fixed an issue where the program would not unmount read-only images when clicking "Unmount image"
  • Fixed an issue where the program would not disable the commit operation buttons for read-only mounted images
• The "Use mounted image" buttons are now disabled in online and offline installation management modes
• The "Mount destination image for later use" check box is now disabled in online and offline installation management modes
• Fixed an issue where the program could not capture an entire drive to an image file

New features

• Help documentation contents are now included. This is why the release assets have noticeably increased in size

Note

The help documentation contents aren't complete yet, so we encourage you to contribute to them

• The monospaced font detection procedure of the Options window has been ported to the initial setup wizard

Update system

• The process close functionality has been improved

Removed features

• The temporary help dialog in the AppX package removal dialog has been removed in favor of the help documentation contents

What's Changed

• DISMTools Design Refresh and help documentation stuff (2023/12/03) by @CodingWonders in #81
• DISMTools Design Refresh and Help Documentation stuff (2023/12/07) by @CodingWonders in #82
• DISMTools 0.4 Preview 6 by @CodingWonders in #83

Full Changelog: v0.4_pre_23121...v0.4_pre_23122

v0.4_231203

This is the fifth preview of DISMTools 0.4, with new features and enhancements:

File hashes

File	Hash (SHA256)
Installer	C7948DFA7C83251AB40164E86A5B9F208A8621D2F05D72A012B07D2F6DDC5AD1
Portable	F90CE9F8E0FF8C830E4A707F1D88E6811829B3690A0BE9F91B95B307B0112057

Bugfixes

• Added exception handling to the log file link in the progress panel (more info on #76, thanks @Guarmanda for reporting this issue!)

New features

• The new design is now complete, and the following changes were made:
  • Translations have been added
  • The program will no longer switch to the old design automatically

• You can now configure the image information saver settings:

• The image capture dialog has seen some enhancements to add translations

Update system

• The update system will now run the installer silently when updating non-portable installations

What's Changed

• DISMTools 0.4 Preview 5 by @CodingWonders in #79

Full Changelog: v0.4_pre_23114...v0.4_pre_23121

v0.4_231126

This is the fourth preview of DISMTools 0.4, with new features and enhancements:

File	Hash (SHA256)
Installer	4CE73CC559957813B4D9F19E358FCFC1D4C40B460AE29130B754136ACA56D4D8
Portable	152236DD9AC415075114FBB43865B95F102C182D041D35D693FE60220ADDC92B

Bugfixes

• Fixed an issue where the feature information dialog would not load when its entry in the Commands menu was clicked

New features

• A new design for the project view is now available:

Note

This design is unfinished so some things may change by the arrival of the next previews. This design also isn't translated. Because of this, the old design is still used by default

What's Changed

• DISMTools 0.4 Design Overhaul (2023/11/18) by @CodingWonders in #68
• DISMTools Design Refresh (Black Friday Update) by @CodingWonders in #69
• DISMTools Design Refresh (2023/11/25) by @CodingWonders in #70
• DISMTools 0.4 Preview 4 by @CodingWonders in #71

Full Changelog: v0.4_pre_23113...v0.4_pre_23114