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I'm currently creating, mounting and unmounting encrypted drives using AloahaCrypt which I'm running using portableapps. If you're really interested in the subject you should contact Aloaha (info@aloaha.com); I've been provided with lots of useful info. (edit) As for my personal certificate stuff it is stored on a physical card...

Thank you for your reply. I'm testing on a physical hardware, having 2GB RAM, and I'm using WinPE3 x86 so I'm guessing this is not a RAM problem. The boot.wim is 273MB large. Is it really necessary to have a RamDisk? I'm trying to load VirtualBox directly from a USB stick. I tried depends, and it seems like all dependencies are in place. That said, it seems that the drivers are failing to load even before I try to run Virtualbox.exe. I'm trying to keep an eye on what's happening using ProcMon.exe from sysinternals, and I've noticed a lot of "BUFFER OVERFLOW" and "NAME NOT FOUND" errors (the latter are issued during reg operations). Could it be that the image size I'm using is too small?

I did test in a real environment, and it works fine. A smartcard is used to securely store cryptographic information, such as users' certificates, passwords and private keys for example. And yes, it can be used for windows login, mount encrypted drives, email/file signing and encryption etc.. The mobile SIM cards are also smartcards. I guess you could find more examples and applications on Aloaha.com and Truecrypt.com. Thank you for pointing out the smartcard remove service. Might be useful later on.

Thank you, this actually worked Just a note, in order to work, all references to Upperfilters and LowerFilters which are related to the smartcard had to be removed. Otherwise, the card reader driver would fail to load.

Hi! I'm trying to run VirtualBox 3.2 on WinPE3 using the following script: regsvr32 /s virtualbox\VBoxC.dll copy virtualbox\drivers\network\netflt\VBoxNetFltNotify.dll X:\Windows\system32\VBoxNetFltNotify.dll copy virtualbox\drivers\network\netflt\VBoxNetFlt_m.inf X:\Windows\inf\VBoxNetFlt_m.inf copy virtualbox\drivers\network\netflt\VBoxNetFlt.inf X:\Windows\inf\VBoxNetFlt.inf copy virtualbox\drivers\network\netflt\VBoxNetFlt.sys X:\Windows\system32\drivers\VBoxNetFlt.sys snetcfg -v -l X:\Windows\inf\VBoxNetFlt.inf -c s -i sun_VBoxNetFlt snetcfg -v -l X:\Windows\inf\VBoxNetFlt_m.inf -c s -i sun_VBoxNetFltmp regsvr32 /s VBoxNetFltNotify.dll drv_ctl --inst-nostart VBoxDrv virtualbox\drivers\VBoxDrv\VBoxDrv.sys drv_ctl --inst-nostart VBoxUSB virtualbox\drivers\USB\device\VBoxUSB.sys drv_ctl --inst-nostart VBoxUSBMon virtualbox\drivers\USB\filter\VBoxUSBMon.sys net start VBoxNetFlt net start VBoxDrv net start VBoxUSBMon start virtualbox\VBoxSVC.exe start virtualbox\Virtualbox.exe pause The services are failing to start though. Output: H:\T2\VBox>regsvr32 /s virtualbox\VBoxC.dll H:\T2\VBox>copy virtualbox\drivers\network\netflt\VBoxNetFltNotify.dll X:\Windows\system32\VBoxNetFltNotify.dll 1 file(s) copied. H:\T2\VBox>copy virtualbox\drivers\network\netflt\VBoxNetFlt_m.inf X:\Windows\inf\VBoxNetFlt_m.inf 1 file(s) copied. H:\T2\VBox>copy virtualbox\drivers\network\netflt\VBoxNetFlt.inf X:\Windows\inf\VBoxNetFlt.inf 1 file(s) copied. H:\T2\VBox>copy virtualbox\drivers\network\netflt\VBoxNetFlt.sys X:\Windows\system32\drivers\VBoxNetFlt.sys 1 file(s) copied. H:\T2\VBox>snetcfg -v -l X:\Windows\inf\VBoxNetFlt.inf -c s -i sun_VBoxNetFltTrying to install 'sun_VBoxNetFlt'... ..failed. Error code: 0x80070002 H:\T2\VBox>snetcfg -v -l X:\Windows\inf\VBoxNetFlt_m.inf -c s -i sun_VBoxNetFltmp Trying to install 'sun_VBoxNetFltmp'... ...X:\Windows\inf\VBoxNetFlt_m.inf was copied to X:\windows\INF\oem8.inf ..failed. Error code: 0x800f0201 H:\T2\VBox>regsvr32 /s VBoxNetFltNotify.dll H:\T2\VBox>drv_ctl --inst-nostart VBoxDrv virtualbox\drivers\VBoxDrv\VBoxDrv.sys failure: CreateService, ERROR_SERVICE_EXISTS H:\T2\VBox>drv_ctl --inst-nostart VBoxUSB virtualbox\drivers\USB\device\VBoxUSB.sys failure: CreateService, ERROR_SERVICE_EXISTS H:\T2\VBox>drv_ctl --inst-nostart VBoxUSBMon virtualbox\drivers\USB\filter\VBoxUSBMon.sys failure: CreateService, ERROR_SERVICE_EXISTS H:\T2\VBox>net start VBoxNetFlt The service name is invalid. More help is available by typing NET HELPMSG 2185. H:\T2\VBox>net start VBoxDrv System error 3 has occurred. The system cannot find the path specified. H:\T2\VBox>net start VBoxUSBMon System error 3 has occurred. The system cannot find the path specified. H:\T2\VBox>start virtualbox\VBoxSVC.exe H:\T2\VBox>start virtualbox\Virtualbox.exe H:\T2\VBox>pause Press any key to continue . . . I'm still new to WinPE development, so I would really appreciate any help! (Pls ignore the ERROR_SERVICE_EXISTS error)

Thx for the replies! I inserted the specified reg entry and copied any dependency dlls from a Win7 machine. Could you pls elaborate a bit further? What do I need to do to install/start the smart card service?

Hi! I'm building a WinPE 3.0 image and need smart card compatibility. The service "Smart Card" is not running though, so I thought of copying all the necessary files from my winServer 2008 machine and start it manually. This brings me to my questions: Which files do I need, what is the correct starting sequence? From my research it turns out that I need to somehow load scardsvr.dll (using svchost.exe?). Does anyone know how to do that? I also need to add a few reg keys I guess. Any help in getting me to start Smart Card service would be greatly appreciated!