DISMTools 0.7.1 is now available as a stable release for the 2025 Halloween season, and comes with new features and enhancements.

What's new?

• The PE Helper has seen several improvements:

  • A new autorun window has been added to allow you to access the items you want more easily

  • A new tool designed to prepare computers for Sysprep generalization has been added, called theSysprep Preparation Tool

  • Some of the PE Helper's settings now persist

  • A new PXE Helper has been added to add support for FOG, the server component of which supports both Windows and UNIX

  • The PXE Helpers main menu now detects network adapters and offers you the ability to install new network adapters by leveraging the Driver Installation Module (DIM)

  • The representation of PXE Helper providers has been slightly improved

  • The PXE Helpers now support IPv6 server addresses

  • The PXE Helpers can now reconnect to the server up to a maximum of 5 attempts

  • COMMAND-LINE ONLY: the PE Helper now supports external temporary directories

  • The WDS Helper now supports cleaning up files by independent session GUIDs

• Unattended answer file features have seen several improvements:

  • You can now specify the initial user to join an Active Directory domain with more easily

  • When selecting a user, DISMTools will now check if the account is disabled and will show a warning if it is

  • UnattendGen has been updated to the latest version

  • Batch scripts are now added as is, without wrappers. Multiple scripts per stage can now be added as well. Editor syntax highlighting is also dynamically adjusted based on the language

  • For those who are just getting started with unattended answer files, we have included starter scripts that you can use in your target installation. The following scripts are available:

• A new tool has been added to view and manage the services of the Windows image

• You can now remove multiple AppX packages from the addition queue in bulk

• A new tool has been added to view the environment variables of the Windows image

• DISMTools will now attempt to remove read-only flags from the image to mount if it had been copied to read-write locations with that flag set

• The Inno Setup component has been updated to version 6.5.3

• DISMTools is now DPI-aware on Windows 10 and 11

• The following libraries and components have been updated:

What's fixed?

• Guards have been added to all PE Helper scripts to prevent running them on non-Windows platforms

• The DNS address syntax parser of the Active Directory domain join wizard now parses scoped IPv6 addresses correctly

• Fixed an issue in the ADDS domain join wizard regarding user name validation

What's changed since the?

• Fixed an issue where the start script for the UNIX version of the FOG Helper Server would not start due to Windows line endings

• Some starter scripts have had their registry addition procedures fixed to prevent issues

• The Environment Variable Manager can now fully modify environment variables

• The FOG Helper now determines OS platform when connecting to a server

• Feature update detection support has been added for Germanium 25H2 builds

• The DISMTools Tour is now multi-lingual, in both text and video forms, supporting the 5 program languages

• The Help documentation has been updated

Update details

Setting migration will be performed when you update to this version. These are the settings that will be affected:

These settings are not configured from the Settings panel, but the ISO creation wizard instead. Settings that you specify there are automatically saved on wizard closure.

How do I begin?

As always, you can begin contributing to the project by andreporting feedback to us.

Feedback is very crucial for the success of this project.

If you want to help us with something else (like documentation or artwork), we also welcome your suggestions. The help documentation content pages are available on and we encourage you tocontribute to them so that we can make DISMTools easier to use.

Expect the first preview release of the next version of DISMTools (version 0.7.2) around November 9.