Windows 10: Winaero Tweaker Stalling Sysprep?

I have pinpointed a severe stall time when performing a sysprep to applying Winaero Tweaker settings to my Windows 10 Pro base image, which setting it may be is undetermined. It has increased the initial startup time after running sysprep from 15min to almost 80min, it stalls on the "Getting Ready" screen. I used shift+F10 to access the CMD during the hangup and checked the setuperr.log but it is empty. When I checked the setupact.log the last entry was "WudfCoInstaller: Created marker file C:\Windows\system32\drivers\Msft_User_WpdFs_01_11_00.Wdf" which was created over 40min prior...nothing else was done in that 40+ min.

I do not have the exact Windows version number on hand at the moment.

I am wondering how these tweaks are being applied to the OS, I do not think it is using a group policy as this works on Home edition which has no group policy features. I am guessing the tweaker makes changes directly to the registry right? I am considering making my changes with a policy object instead which would be applied after the sysprep, but I am unsure if all my changes below can be made using a policy?

*Behavior
-Disable Ads & Unwanted APPs
-Disable Aero Shake
-Disable Reboot After Updates
-Show BSOD

*Boot & Logon
-Disable Lock Screen
-Disable Login Screen Image

*Desktop & Taskbar
-Disable Action Center
-Disable Live Tiles
-Disable Quick Action Buttons
-Disable Web Search
-Disable Hover To Select

*Context Menu
-Add Windows Update To Desktop Menu

*File Explorer
-Customize This PC Folders (remove all)
-Disable Jump Lists
-File Explorer Starting Folder (this PC)
-Navigation Pane (remove quick access, home group, removable drives and network)

*Network
-Disable Administrative Shares

*User Accounts
-Enable Admin
-Enable UAC (always notify)

*Windows Defender
-Enable Protection Against Unwanted Software

*Windows Apps
-Disable Auto-Update Store Apps
-Disable Cortana

*Privacy
-Disable Telemetry

*Tools
-Change OEM Info

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Winaero Tweaker is supposed to allow a user to adjust things like the font used for desktop icon labels. But the download is a ZIP file. How do you extract the executable software from the ZIP file?

 

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Hi Jim

Right click that zip file and choose 'Extract All'

Then you will see the installer file, double click that to install Winaero Tweaker- WinaeroTweaker-0.16.1.0-setup.exe

 

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BTW, Here's my list of changes saved.