Winzard-PIW / Blog: Recent posts

Winzard-PIW Alpha 1.6 continues to grow beyond a simple post-installation tool.

What started as a local, transparent, script-based solution for installing EXE / MSI applications and deploying portable apps is now also evolving into a practical Windows customization hub.

This new phase is not meant to magically replace every theming or customization tool.
The goal is instead to provide a clearer and more maintainable workflow for preparing, organizing, launching, and re-applying a personalized Windows environment.... read more

Stress Test v1 – Builder + Deploy Validation

Winzard-PIW continues its evolution from the original PostInstallWizzard Alpha into a structured Windows post-install automation toolkit.

Version 1.5 introduced the full separation between Builder and Deploy.
Version 1.5.1 completes the rebrand and stabilizes the architecture.

This release validates the complete workflow:

Catalogue generation → Detection → Deployment... read more

Hello everyone,

I’m happy to share a new presentation video of PostInstallWizard (PIW).

Before you watch it, I want to apologize in advance for two small issues in this release:

The video contains double subtitles (French and English).

The English voice-over is AI-generated, as English is not my native language.

Unfortunately, I lost the original CapCut project file, so I wasn’t able to properly edit or clean the final version as I normally would.... read more

PostInstallWizard-PIW v1.5 Alpha is now available.

This update introduces a major architectural improvement and internal cleanup.

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What’s New in v1.5

1) Full Separation Between Builder and Deploy

The project is now split into two independent components:

• PIW-Builder
• PostInstallWizard-PIW (Deploy)

The Builder is now fully responsible for generating catalogues, while Deploy focuses only on execution.... read more