Eagle710

I have also tried adding this service as an allowed startup through the registry and it still creates duplicates. If I add a test file/folder in one of the Windows directories it appears in the other one as well. So it seems that the service starting causes this issue any ideas? I no longer need to know how to start it unless it will load it silenty without making changes to the system.

So here is the issue I got. Its actually not Bit Locker causing it. When I boot a WIM file from a USB on a system that has an internal drive everything works fine. When I Unlocked the Bit Lockered drive a service starts that service being EFS. This is due to the fact that this unlocked drive presents EFS encrypted data. Want to test this yourself on a system? Copy C:\Windows\System32\sc.exe and C:\Windows\System32\en-US\sc.exe.mui to the corresponding mounted folders so that they would be in X:\Windows\System32 and the en-US. Once booted into the WIM file open up command prompt and run the following command to start the EFS service. sc.exe start efs Check to make sure the service started using: sc.exe query efs It should stay started or running and now check the root of you X:\ drive and you should see doubles. What I have tried is: Changing service startup to 2(automatic) instead of 3(manual) --> Service did not start Including the start service command in WinPEshl.ini file --> Same issue of duplicates. Tripredacus you wanted information now I got you some. Any ideas?

I would like to have the EFS service started automatically on boot up in WinPE.... any idea how to do this? I have tried changing the Registry to have startup of 2(Automatic) but this doesnt work. Any ideas? Any hints to get any service started automatically would be great.

I determined that my Virus application on the system was preventing me from mounting the image. Pesky virus apps.

1. I am running the Special command prompt and states that it is updating the path to include the dism and so on. 2. I am an administrator on the system and the admins have full access to all files. 3. Yes I do right click and select to run as admin. This is WAIK 7 on a Vista image. It starts to mount on one file it get to 5% on the winpe.wim original file it gets to 12%. Any other ideas?

Actually in my testing so far it appears that these duplicates appear when booting the wim on a system that has Bit Locker disabled. When I enable it on those systems only a single instance appears as it should. I will try a few more test to make sure but isnt that strange?

I have created a new system to create my wim files on. I have installed the WAIK 7 and when I try and mount a working or even the original winpe.wim file I get Error 5: General Access denied error. Any Ideas why this is happening? Attached you will find the simple DISM log file. dism.txt

I mounted the base wim file and simply customized the winpeshl file as per my issue with the resolution.... which is now resolved. When simply mounting the wim to work on only one of each appears but when booting into it I get duplicates.

LOL....awesome how you cant update Vista images with WAIK 7. They should have made them universal.

When I boot into the WIM file I have created there appears to be duplicate folders. Such as : X:\ProgramData x2 X:\Program Files x2 X:\Windows x2 X:\Users x2 Even if I made a directory such as X:\Temp Files this is duplicated as well. Any ideas as to why this is happening?

The only command removed then was peimg. So if I have WAIK 3 installed I could still edit WinPE 2images using imagex? I just cant add drivers I suppose unless the dism can modify WInPE 2 files?

I thought for creating WIMs in WinPE 3 you could only use dism? Can you still create wim files for WinPE 3 using images as I have done for WinPE 2?

OK sounds good... is that just the documentation that comes with WAIK?

How would you compress the wim file. In WinPE 2 there was a command yet in WinPE 3 I cannot find the command or argument to pass in order to compress maximum. Any ideas?

The documentation doesnt say anything about quotes..... for anything following the comma I suppose we have to do that... WinPESHL Info Is it correct that in order to include multiple option with a command to use quotes around the whole command and options?

Tripredacus, The quotes worked great and my issue is resolved. How did you determine you needed the quotes? It drove me nuts. Thanks for your help. Eagle710

So place unattend in the root of the wim as in X:\unattend.xml? and in winpeshl.ini is just -unattend not unattend.xml?

I have an xml file that I call using wpeinit ro change the resolution of my WinPE. However, running the command through winpeshl.ini doesn't work. Any Ideas? Here are the files/commands: I have the following file DisplayChange.xml which contains the following: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <unattend xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:unattend"> <settings pass="windowsPE"> <component name="Microsoft-Windows-Setup" processorArchitecture="x86" publicKeyToken="31bf3856ad364e35" language="neutral" versionScope="nonSxS" xmlns:wcm="http://schemas.microsoft.com/WMIConfig/2002/State" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"> <Display> <ColorDepth>32</ColorDepth> <HorizontalResolution>1024</HorizontalResolution> <VerticalResolution>768</VerticalResolution> </Display> <EnableNetwork>true</EnableNetwork> <EnableFirewall>true</EnableFirewall> <PageFile> <Path>C:\Pagefile.sys</Path> <Size>1024</Size> </PageFile> </component> </settings> </unattend> And I would like to run the following command from within the Winpeshl.ini file: wpeinit.exe, /unattend=X:\Windows\Displaychange.xml My WINPESHL.ini file for simplicity looks like this: [LAUNCHAPPS] x:\windows\system32\startnet.cmd x:\windows\system32\wpeinit.exe, /unattend=X:\Windows\Displaychange.xml x:\windows\system32\cmd.exe I have tried switching the order of the wpeinit command and there is no difference. However, if I run the command by itself from a command prompt it works and therefore changes the display. Any idea why this is happening?

Alright. Thanks.

These are just folders that I have added as toolbars.

How would I make the following toolbars located on the taskbar smaller? Or possibly have them horizontally over one another?

How would I import a PFX/EFS certificate using command line in Vista? I have tried going through the certutil options but to no avail.

Does anyone know how to get PE Network working in WinPE 3.0?

Does anyone know the command to inject a driver to an offline WIM file using WinPE 3?

So it is recommened to use CMD and not BAT files in WinPE 2.0+?