Somehow you overused my mind reading capability, it's not working anymore.
Please ask questions in a way that someone else than you can understand them.
No idea what your are trying to ask with the first question.
As for ESD apply yeah I have seen a few crashes and dead locks while applying a wimlib captured image with wimgapi or dism.
So switch to wimlib (Ctrl + Shift + W) and apply this ESD.
WinNTSetup 5.3
- compiler updated to PureBasic 6.00 C-Backend
- updated wimlib to version 1.13.6
- right-click on apply mode combo opens Tools\Compact\WimBootCompress.ini
- fixed errors with native 4K drives
- fixed VSS error not displayed
- fixed Bootice Mod always starts in darkmode
- fixed capture problem with OneDrive On-Demand files
- fixed error message on FormatEx failures
- fixed inaccessible devices were listed in drive combo boxes
- fixed offline windows scan may not detect Windows 10/11 builds correctly
- fixed internal VHD boot files option may create duplicate BCD entries
- fixed auto format may not work if drive is in use
- fixed loading ISO with relative path may create duplicates in source combo box
- added commandline switch for VHD-CREATE -uuid:{UUID} (simular to VBoxManage internalcommands sethduuid)
- added WinCopy option (copy Windows from one partition to another)
- added WinCopy and WinCopy-CLI command line
- added ReFS support for Windows 11 23H2
- added combobox script selection to diskpart window
- added -diskpart command line switch to bring up diskpart window
- added WIM_MSG_ERROR and WIMLIB_PROGRESS_MSG_HANDLE_ERROR Messagebox choice
- added Remove OneDrive tweak
- added DISM feature enable/disable and APPX removal
- added possability to disable SFX detection with file: "nosfx" next to WinNTSetup_x64.exe
- new right-click on tweaks button to quickly disable all tweaks
- changed wimlib is the default compression engine
- changed Unattend: Win7-11-Select.xml disables 42 days password expire
- changed rearrage folder layout
- MinWin: support inline comments (//)
- MinWin: grant full admin access to files
- MinWin: fixed VCRuntime 2008 installer needs sxsstore.dll and config\TxR
- MinWin: fixed diskpart shrink needs defragproxy.dll
- RegImport: added support for [?HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\...] (only processed if key exists)
- workaround windows 7 Dism /add-driver bug 30 (AMD, NVIDIA drivers with LZSS compression)
- workaround EFI NTFS driver bug
Beta 8 adds ReFS support for Windows 11 Dev builds.
ReFS version should be displayed (you need at least the current version 3.9).
Format dialog will show this option regardless of the Windows edition, no need for Enterprise or Professional Workstation.