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Enable a slimmer Install method #37556

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kilasuit opened this issue Feb 20, 2025 · 1 comment
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Enable a slimmer Install method #37556

kilasuit opened this issue Feb 20, 2025 · 1 comment
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@kilasuit
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Description of the new feature / enhancement

Sometimes you may want to compare tools & functionality in a side|Side manner without needing a huge amount of space to do so

This would be a nicer experience if for each toy there was indivual installer packages.

Should align by publishing artifacts including .exe / MSI / MSIX / zips for individual toys
Should potentially also allow current installer to show a UI for installing only tool x,y,z & also take a configuration file or cmdline options to do so.

Scenario when this would be used?

Smaller purpose Operating installations for different tasks
I.E - having a clean os for PowerShell Dev, Email & Doc authoring, Blogging, Browsing, Administrative tasks etc

This aligns with industry practices where the desire to lower potential Security risks by only having what you need installed on a box

Supporting information

Look at Tiny11 - this rips out lots of things from end Windows installs
Winget Configuration / DSC for OS configs including app installs etc

Check out a number of installers like SQL Server installer & PowerShell DSC Resources (SharePoint another good example in DSC) for more inspiration

@kilasuit kilasuit added the Needs-Triage For issues raised to be triaged and prioritized by internal Microsoft teams label Feb 20, 2025
@timwillhack
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other consideration, I only use image resizer from powertoys because there were too many system wide bugs having all functionality turned on (I use groupy from stardock, sharex etc)

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