Last year I also mentioned that "MinWin" option with WinNTSetup so it's pretty much like nothingburger when compared to the goal(s) of our own thread here
http://jplay.eu/foru...yclean/?p=60623
Not to mention the fact that lsass.exe shouldn't be killed under any "regular" versions of Windows no matter what we're doing to tweak them, it's just rebooting the OS or maybe BSOD etc. and then end of the story.
http://jplay.eu/foru...-guide/?p=62382
PS. I am a longtime tweaker and (as you mentíoned it in one of your previous posts) I actually participated, like you, in the long-ago project of slimming Windows XP cMP / cics memory player - I was nagual19 back then and originated the idea of stripping shell32.dll of its "resource" components using resource hacker 
on audioasylum. This closes the circle ,)
http://jplay.eu/foru...-guide/?p=62420
From 2023 years perspective, cMP days seem a bit like wild west, back then hard- and software seemingly was not as diverse as it is now. Editing resources inside EXE + DLL also is not possible anymore due to Windows wanting to load only files which have their signature fingerprints intact (...)
I've been waiting for aircondition to come back at some point, though it doesn't hurt to talk about this briefly.
For the year of 2023, let's see if we're able to find a way to tackle anything about shell32.dll etc. since they're splitting a single *.dll file into multiple parts these days
http://bbs.c3.wuyou....read&tid=417694
8.新增mun文件精简（适用1903之后版本），无需选择默认替换为精简文件（imageres.dll.mun、mmres.dll.mun、shell32.dll.mun）
原版3个文件40余M,精简3个文件11.9M，此项可缩小wim体积10M以上
9.新增 Administrator账户 imageres.dll 精简7.5MB，之前版本 Administrato r账户必须使用原版 20多MB的 imageres.dll
Basically we aren't touching those *.dll files for obvious reasons, though we'll work on something else instead
https://www.elevenfo...334/#post-18017
"Latest Windows 10 builds are using *.MUN files for storing resources, which are located in C:\Windows\SystemResources\*.mun -- that said, for the file C:\Windows\System32\shell32.dll correct resource file path would be C:\Windows\SystemResources\shell32.dll.mun and you should be able to extract it the same way with 7-Zip."
PS E:\Temp> 7z x C:\Windows\SystemResources\shell32.dll.mun -oE:\Temp\_shell32
E:\Temp\_shell32\.rsrc\ICON
or IcoFX
BTW, dunno why but the developer of WinXShell was modifying version 10.0.10586.0 (i.e. 1511) of shell32.dll with hex editor
http://bbs.c3.wuyou....541&pid=3235074
And then here's yet another flavor that's gonna be so much fun
https://github.com/g...issue-148186709
Nano Server does not have shell32.dll or many other DLLs that are part of standard Windows desktop and Windows Server installations. Nano Server is based on OneCore and as such doesn't have shell functionality; the API in question is moved to a different DLL. OneCore replaces explicit references to system DLLs with "API sets", which are DLL-like things that reference logical sets of APIs that may be hosted by different DLLs on different Windows platforms. For example, CommandLineToArgvW is in api-ms-win-shcore-obsolete-l1-1-0. (I don't know why it's in something marked "obsolete", that seems strange to me, too).
Of course, most software out there is not going to start linking to the new API sets any time soon, so Nano Server also has a mechanism to forward from the old DLLs to the new API sets. This mechanism is known internally as "reverse forwarders". These reverse forwarders allow Go software (and a lot of other open source software) to run on Nano Server without changes.
https://social.techn...web-server.aspx
https://github.com/M...erse-forwarders
dism /online /add-package /packagepath:c:\packages\Microsoft-OneCore-ReverseForwarders-Package.cab
dism /online /add-package /packagepath:c:\packages\en-us\Microsoft-OneCore-ReverseForwarders-Package.cab
So here's the deal, usually the shell32.dll should be around 7MB or so while shell32.dll.mun turned out to be almost 18MB.
Let's borrow version 10.0.22000.1 as an example
That's pretty much why I was looking at quite a few command-line music players, we could get the entire OS even closer to the 200MB mark but most likely there's a price to pay
https://forums.mydig...t/posts/1741324
The only gui app I have so far found working is the calc.exe program copied from 32bit Win XP. And, so far, SemWare editor is the only working editor I have. Any version of notepad I have tried has failed, also the previously mentioned WinVi. I suspect a lot of dll depencies for windows gui apps are broken.
BTW, there's something else called "Replicated MinWin" and that's supposed to be done via PowerShell
http://jplay.eu/foru...dio-os/?p=57492
