JFYI
I just made a new experiment, I wanted to test if replacing the usual folders with a 0 bytes file can be done since the installation, previous to reboot the PC, and I can confirm it can be easily done.
To do this I created a 5 GB single partition NTFS, it was mounted in drive H, and made a MinWin installation to it.
I know WinNTSetup allows to run CMD or EXE files but I don't think it will run as TI as required in this case..
Then after the installation finished, with the VHD still mounted in H drive, ran following command as TI by means of PowerRun:
Safe-to-Replace.cmd
All was successful except the two last lines in both sections.
The 0 bytes files were not created in:
H:\Users\Default\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Recent >>> the folder was still present.
H:\Users\Default\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\WebCache >>> the folder didn't exists yet and the file also was not created.
Then manually deleted the folder and created the two 0 bytes files in both locations.
Rebooted, and all was fine, I'm writing this post from it.
Now since the very first boot avoided the creation of a lot of LOG and ETL files. During first boot now they only use 48.4 MB not more than 100 MB as before, I deleted all the remaing from SwiftSearch TI, and also made the directory junction for C:\Windows\System32\Logfiles, and that's all.
But, I found an unexpected result, following additional 0 bytes files were created too:
So far I haven't noticed any issue, and all seems to work fine, but I will need to check this further.
alacran