John-Patrick’sSWITCHSlipstreamed Windows Installation ToolkitWINDOWS INSTALLATION TOOLKIT
Create a Windows installation USB with updates, essential drivers and your selected settings. Back up drivers and personal files, then restore them after installation.
John-Patrick’s SWITCH combines Windows USB preparation, customization, and driver and personal-file backup and restore in one application.
Windows desktop app · Extract the ZIP
Choose your settings, prepare a Windows USB with offline updates, and keep drivers and backups together.
INSTALLATION AND SETUP
SWITCH helps prepare the updates, drivers, settings and backups needed for a Windows installation. Save your selections to reuse them when creating another installer.
Keep your preferences in one reusable plan for your next installation.
APP SCREENSHOTS
Explore customization choices and backup tools. Click any image for the full view.
Review individual changes, skip the ones you don’t want, and save your preferences.
Back up drivers and standard personal folders to your SWITCH USB. Restore them after reinstalling Windows, or use the backup and restore tools on their own.
GETTING STARTED
Extract the ZIP. Choose Install SWITCH to copy the verified app into your per-user Programs folder and add a desktop shortcut, or Launch SWITCH (portable) to run from the extracted folder. Keep portable files together. Uninstall SWITCH removes installed app copies and their desktop shortcut.
Choose Create a Windows USB or Apply optimizations to this computer. Each workflow saves its choices separately. For a new installation, choose the Windows release, then open Choose install modifications and uncheck changes you do not want. The USB includes Home and Pro; choose the licensed edition on the computer being installed.
Review your selected changes before confirming. View activity shows progress while SWITCH works.
Choose optional driver and user-data backups before starting. Click Prepare USB drive once; preparation continues automatically. Confirm the drive shown before erasure. Selected backups run directly to the USB after creation.
Prepare resources → choose the USB → review its capacity and erase confirmation → create the media → boot the destination computer → verify any selected backup → choose Home or Pro and confirm the destination disk → install Windows → apply selected changes and restore data.
Disk erasure is destructive. Keep a separate verified backup, identify drives by model and capacity, and follow the app’s explicit confirmations. A Windows license is still required; this toolkit does not provide one.
Choose Save diagnostic log to Desktop, then send the resulting ZIP for review. Completed changes remain in place. The log identifies the stopped step and any settings that could not be applied.
Update local prep files refreshes the official sources and prepares installer files while reusing verified caches. Clear local prep files removes downloads and preparation files when image servicing is idle, keeping your app, preferences and USB backups. Update SWITCH USB appears when a recognized drive is connected. It uses prepared files, skips matching files and preserves Drivers and UserData; refresh local prep first to include newer updates. Incompatible layouts or insufficient temporary space require explicit recreation, never automatic formatting.
After the selected changes and online follow-up finish, restore any files or drivers you need. Choose Finalize and clean up on the completion screen to run the final cleanup and remove SWITCH’s temporary setup files and setup shortcuts.
SWITCH estimates USB space as you choose installation options and optional backups. Turn driver or user-data backups off to reduce the requirement. The estimate becomes more precise after the installer is prepared; the final drive capacity is checked before writing. Local Windows images and working copies also need tens of gigabytes of disk space.
Create a Windows USB prepares files for another installation. Apply optimizations to this computer is a separate, explicitly reviewed action that changes supported settings on the current computer and may request administrator approval. Opening the app or reading computer details does not apply settings.
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Create a Windows installation USB with official updates, essential drivers and your selected customizations. Back up and restore drivers and personal files, or apply supported optimizations to an existing Windows installation.
Windows x64 · ZIP
Download ZIP ↓SHA-256 checksumExtract all files, then choose SWITCH - Install or SWITCH - Launch (portable). Applying optimizations requires review.
WHAT SWITCH DOES
Prepare for a clean installation, bring back your files, and reduce the work of setting up Windows again.
Windows USB preparation, customization, and driver and user-data backup and restore.