{"id":10766,"date":"2019-08-16T00:27:00","date_gmt":"2019-08-15T22:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/159.69.82.204\/win\/?p=10766"},"modified":"2019-08-29T06:16:24","modified_gmt":"2019-08-29T04:16:24","slug":"beware-of-dism-with-windows-customizations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/2019\/08\/16\/beware-of-dism-with-windows-customizations\/","title":{"rendered":"Beware of Dism++ with Windows customizations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px; display: inline;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.borncity.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/winb.jpg\" width=\"58\" height=\"58\" align=\"left\" \/>[<a href=\"https:\/\/www.borncity.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/16\/vorsicht-vor-dism-bei-windows-anpassungen\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">German<\/a>]A brief note for fans of the software tool Dism ++. You can get into a lot of trouble with this tool when customizing Windows installations. Here a few things I became aware of.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h2>What is Dism++?<\/h2>\n<p>The tool Dism++ is nothing else than a graphical user interface, with which the Windows command dism can be handled better. The tool is quite powerful, because it offers functions to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Start management &#8211; i.e. everything that is started automatically under Windows.<\/li>\n<li>App management &#8211; i.e. uninstalling apps<\/li>\n<li>Toolbox &#8211; with various tools for system administration<\/li>\n<li>System optimization &#8211; functions to optimize the system (more caution required)<\/li>\n<li>Driver management &#8211; all drivers installed via Windows Update can be deactivated<\/li>\n<li>Feature management &#8211; you can deactivate functions from the 'Programs and Features' section of Windows.<\/li>\n<li>Update management &#8211; updates can be selected and managed.<\/li>\n<li>Deployment &#8211; all functions to customize an installation image<\/li>\n<li>Sysprep commands &#8211; manages the commands during system deployment<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bytesin.com\/software\/Dism-\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">This site<\/a> contains additional information an a download link for Dism ++.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Dism++\" src=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/EaT1rsd.jpg\" alt=\"Dism++\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The tool itself is portable, so there is no need to install it. However, Dism++ must be run with administrator privileges. The website chuyu.me doesn't exist anymore (08\/13\/2019), and Dism++ is now in Chinese hands.<\/p>\n<h2>Issues caused by Dism++<\/h2>\n<p>The use of Dism++ does involve certain risks, which can lead to problems with Windows. In recent years I have occasionally seen forum posts where feature updates or updates terminates with installation errors and due to installation image altered with Dism++. Furthermore, blog reader Xaver H. contacted me by e-mail. He writes me the following:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I just noticing that when using Dism++ (current version) in W7 the update process is not added. I have just done all updates (except the red ones) in W7. But the update process is at 2016.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So if you work with customized image files and have used Dism++, you should always think about this cause of error. Final question: Anyone else who has run into problems with Dism++?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Addendum:<\/strong> The development of the tool has been stopped, the developer decided to put that project in maintenance mode &#8211; so only bug fixes will apply in future. But there is a successor &#8211; see\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/2019\/08\/25\/dism-switch-to-manintenance-mode-and-a-new-project\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Dism++: Switch to maintenance mode, and a new project<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[German]A brief note for fans of the software tool Dism ++. You can get into a lot of trouble with this tool when customizing Windows installations. Here a few things I became aware of.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[194],"class_list":["post-10766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-windows","tag-windows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10766\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}