Windows 10: WIM larger after removing built in apps

I removed all the built in apps but windows store from my wim file and I was expecting it to be smaller. Can someone explain and is the a command in powershell to compress the wim when I save?

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Orphaned tiles after deployment

A little background.

We removed provisioned apps from our WIM file. We also have a GPO to disable the consumer experience to get rid of the rest of the unwanted non enterprise apps.

The WIM file is loaded into SCCM and deployed via task. Everything works fine.

Every user who logs now has orphaned live tiles on the start menu. The provisioned apps that were removed via DISM and powershell, their tiles will disappear after a reboot or 2 but they should not be there in the first place as the apps were removed in
an offline WIM.

Is there something in the WIM I need to do to remove the live tiles as well?

On the Consumer Experience GPO the apps tiles are stuck on the start menu you can manually unpin them but our users are really not that capable. I know it is a simple right click and unpin but this is a "prison run by the prisoners" environment so we have
to figure out how to clear this up with out getting them involved. Note that the icons are in the live tile area, the actual program/apps list they are gone. The tiles have a downward arrow like they are downloading and some say A great new app is coming.

Any suggestions would be helpful. We are testing Windows 10 1703 but the same exists in 1607

 

windows phone waiting for wifi

Android allows users to download apps larger than 50 mb , it just warns when all download limits are removed.

why windows phone doesn't allow users to download apps more than 50 mb.

windows should remove the limits, and just issues a warning while downloading apps larger than 50 mb.

 

You could use dism++
Dism++ | New Windows Utility

 

New-WindowsImage -CapturePath C: -ImagePath D:\WHATEVER.wim -name "SOMETHING" -Verify -CompressionType max

If you are just unmounting, I don't think you can specify compression. You can if you are capturing or exporting to a new wim.

You can use dism++ to export - it has an easy gui. Alternatively, wimlib has an optimize function:
wimlib - Main page

 

Oookay... That's makes sense. I'll give exporting a try.

 

If you want to use Powershell as SIW2 said you can't compress using Dismount-WindowsImage (for some unknown reason - some of these Powershell wrappers are a bit simplistic I think.).

What you can do is Dismount the image (to save your changes) and then use Export-WindowsImage to compress it.

You can't just export it without dismounting it first afaik.