styxx_78

Hi guys, I am creating a Lite Touch installation which I will be installing from a UFD, so far so good, the process is working pretty good but I would like to streamline the "Lite Touch" to "Lighter Touch". I am having trouble finding the proper components for the following prompts from the deployment wizrd in WinPE2.0. I have looked through everyone but still cannot find these components. - Keyboard Layout - Restore User Data (I never want to restore user data, always a clean install) - Input Locale, System locale, Keyboard layout (Is it possible to select these settings based on what Language Pack is installed?) - Packages (Is it possible to make some packages Mandatory and some optional?) - BitLocker (I am not going to use BitLocker and do not want to be prompted to enable this. Any help would be appreciated.

Here I found this in BDD 2007 RC1 under component downloads. It is an available download for XP SP2 clients and this hotfix is required in order to perform offline servicing properly. "Windows XP Hotfix required for performing offline servicing of Windows Vista and Windows PE 2.0 images. Applicable OS versions: XPSP2"

I couldn't find anything on this.

Thanks fizban. I ended up working around my problem by installing WAIK but it is nice to know the reason for future reference

Guys, Here is a command lilne I am using with imagex to mount an image unsuccessfully. Can anyone tell me why I am unable to mount this image and getting this error? The image is is the right location and I have specified the correct image name. Are there any other files required in the folder of ImageX.exe? ============================= F:\>imagex /mountrw c:\copyofpoc.wim 1 c:\mounted_images ImageX Tool for Windows Copyright © Microsoft Corp. 1981-2005. All rights reserved. Mounting (RW): [c:\copyofpoc.wim, 1] -> [c:\mounted_images] Error mounting image (RW): The system cannot find the file specified. F:\> =============================

Guys, I noticed this too but was not too concerned given that I was not aware what the SRT was used for. Could someone explain to me what I am now missing to see if I may need it? Thanks

Can anyone tell me how to specify a custom wallpaper in my unattend.xml The only info I can find refers to using an oobe.xml and I would like to encorporate all of my customizations into one answerfile if possible. Thanks

Do you plan to deploy your Vista image over the network aswell? Are you at 100Mb or gig? We won't be at gig for years and I find even at 100 Mb it is going to be really slow deploying 5GB images over the network.

I noticed that with every compnent added to WinPE it greatly increases boot time. I was very surprised with the speed of a Base WinPE with no components installed but am starting to realise that I will need a lot of them installed in order for our install strategy to work properly. My next step is to see load time differences between CD/DVD and USB Flash to see if I can speed things up a bit. Meanwhile, I will be passing my HTA on to one of our programmers to spend some time on it.

OK, I have some more info. I have gotten around the "Access is denied" but by using an even easier method. By specifying the complete path of the hta it works as follows: mshta.exe y:\folder\file.hta You do not need the credentials as mentioned before as long as you have previously mapped a drive and entered them. Also, I am now able to load a Simple hta with no issues by using the method above. Now I have to figure out why my complex hta is not working...and that job is not for me, I am going to to hand it over to one of our coders to work out. Thanks for the help Jazkal

I'm going to try that right now. The hta I was using does have componenets in it that do adress an SQL database that houses all of our software command lines.

MDAC is the only one I did not load yet. I will try loading that one and try again. I have actually opened a Premiere Support call with Microsoft on this one because I do not want to spend a lot of time on it. I hope they can help.

What components did you load when you created your WinPE?

I have not tried what you posted above yet but here is what I have found. I have been able to run .vbs scripts with no modification to my WinPe image so far. Try specifying wscript as your script engine as follows. c:\>wscript <script name>.vbs Also, i was having trouble running .HTA files from a network location. I have made it further but it still is not working perfectly yet. mshta.exe file.hta <username> <password> By specifying mshta.exe to load, along with my credentials it seemed to load a partial HTA window, but it was completely grey. I am still not sure if it is a coding issue or the way it is being handled. Jazkal, Have you tried loading an hta from a network shre yet? Have you been successful?

I wonder is User Access Control (UAC) is also incorporated into WinPE 2.0? If so, I wonder if that could be the culprit and if it can be disabled. (It's soo annoying)

They were on a USB flash stick.

I was able to load my local HTA that I put on my WinPE CD. But after mapping a drive on the network and trying to load another HTA I also get the "Access is denied" error. I tried to use the command mshta.exe <htaname> but nothing happened, although there was no "Access is denied" was not returned either. Any other thoughts?

Jazkal, I am having the same issue here. This needs to get fixed because I need to be able to run our scripts from the network as part of our corporate deployment strategy. Post back if you hear anything. I'll do the same

Spooky, I have an 8GB USB Flash stick with WinPE 2.0 and Vista RTM on it. What I do is put my Autounattend.xml at the root of the USB stick and I edit the Startnet.cmd so that I can change directory to my DVD source and run setup.exe automatically after Winpe is finished booting. The install from a USB stick is A LOT faster then installing from the DVD. I realise that most people don't want to fork out the $250 for an 8GB stick but the prices will come down soon enough.

Well, needless to say, I did the same thing. While installing WAIK, halfway through, it asked me to insert the CD??!! This shouldn't need to be installed from a CD.

My workaround was to actually copy the catalogue from the Vista DVD to my system and let it use that. I can't remember where I copied it to though.

This has the extension .img What did you guys use to burn it?

Hi guys, I have been using previous versions of WinPE for a while in our corporate environment but am now looking into upgrading our deployment tools to WinPE 2.0 Currently we have a .hta that launches and provides a menu of choices where a technician may log on to the domain and launch installs of XP SP2 and additional applications. I have created a basic WinPE 2.0 from the Winpe.wim as per the following instructions: Customizing WinPE 2.0 I was successful in creating a ISO image with no extra drivers or packages that booted without error. I then tried creating a WinPE disc with the following packages: HTA, SRT, Scripting. This ISO also booted without error. On my 3rd try I re-created the disc with the above packages and added my .hta menu to the STARTNET.CMD. When my disc booted up the menu launched but did not have the proper menu button names and I received multiple error windows with no error information in it. The dialoague was to say "Yes" or "Cancel" but neither option would close the window. At this point, non of the other windows were accesible even though they were tiled and you could see them. Basically it was frozen and nothing could be done. Has anyone else tried adding a .hta to your disc and were you successful? I am going to try and adding all of the other available pack-in packages and see if that helps. Any other suggestions? styxx