[Check physical memory or RAM inside WINPE 3.0]

The message you get from CPU-Z is because the architecture for the EXE does not match that of the PE you have built.

Here is one example of how to get it from AutoIT:

That was lovely Tripredacus. AutoIT solved the problem and your script worked like charm. I'll also attach a script for comprehensive information about your machine.

$objWMIService = objget("winmgmts:{impersonationLevel=impersonate}!\\.\root\cimv2")$colSettings = $objWMIService.ExecQuery("Select * from Win32_OperatingSystem")$colMemory = $objWMIService.ExecQuery("Select * from Win32_ComputerSystem")$colCPU = $objWMIService.ExecQuery("Select * from CIM_Processor")$colVideoinfo = $objWMIService.ExecQuery("Select * from Win32_VideoController")$colSound = $objWMIService.ExecQuery("Select * from Win32_SoundDevice")$colMouse = $objWMIService.ExecQuery("Select * from Win32_PointingDevice")$colMonitor = $objWMIService.ExecQuery("Select * from Win32_DesktopMonitor")$colNIC = $objWMIservice.ExecQuery("Select * from Win32_NetworkAdapter WHERE Netconnectionstatus = 2")Dim $pcinfoFor $object in $colCPU	$PcInfo = $pcinfo & StringStripWS($object.Name,1) & @CRLFNextFor $objOperatingSystem in $colSettings    $PcInfo = $PcInfo & $objOperatingSystem.Caption & " Build " & $objOperatingSystem.BuildNumber & " Servicepack " & $objOperatingSystem.ServicePackMajorVersion & "." & $objOperatingSystem.ServicePackMinorVersion & @CRLF    $PcInfo = $PcInfo & "Available Physical Memory: " & String(Int(Number($objOperatingSystem.FreePhysicalMemory) / 1024)) & " Mb" & @CRLFNextFor $object in $colMemory    $PcInfo = $PcInfo & "Total Physical Memory: " & String(Int(Number($object.TotalPhysicalMemory) / (1024 * 1024))) & " Mb" & @CRLFNext$objFSO = objCreate("Scripting.FileSystemObject")$colDrives = $objFSO.Drives$Opticaldrives = "Opticaldrives : "For $object in $colDrives	If ($object.DriveType == 2) then		$PcInfo = $PcInfo & "Total space on : " & $object.DriveLetter & ":\  (" & $object.VolumeName & ")  = " & String(Round((Number($object.TotalSize) / (1024 * 1024 * 1024)),2)) & " Gb" & @CRLF		$PcInfo = $PcInfo & "Free space on  : " & $object.DriveLetter & ":\  (" & $object.VolumeName & ")  = " & String(Round((Number($object.FreeSpace) / (1024 * 1024 * 1024)),2)) & " Gb" & @CRLF	Else		$Opticaldrives = $Opticaldrives & $object.DriveLetter & ":\ "	EndIfNext$PcInfo = $PcInfo & $Opticaldrives & @CRLFFor $object in $colVideoinfo	$PcInfo = $PcInfo & "Video card: " & $object.Description & @CRLFNextFor $object in $colSound	$PcInfo = $PcInfo & "Sound device: " & $object.Description & @CRLFNextFor $object in $colMouse	$PcInfo = $PcInfo & "Mouse : " & $object.Description & @CRLFNextFor $object in $colMonitor	$PcInfo = $PcInfo & "Monitor : " & $object.Description & @CRLFNextFor $object in $colNIC	$Pcinfo = $pcinfo & $object.name & @CRLFNextClipPut( $pcinfo )MsgBox(48,"PCinfo",$PcInfo)MsgBox( 48, "PCinfo", "Information was copied to clipboard", 5)

Regards,

Vishnu

[Check physical memory or RAM inside WINPE 3.0]

Hi Friends,

Is there a way to check RAM/physical memory size from within WINPE? The builtin windows diagnosys tools like systeminfo and wmic are missing. I tried running cpu-z standalone from a network share but fails, saying "Subsystem needed to support the image type is not present.". What i need is a simple standalone command line utility to check RAM size. Kindly help.

Thanks!

[Use WinPE 3.0 boot.wim as WDS boot image?]

Hi everyone,

I have already inserted the drivers into my winpe 3.0 image which i have built using WAIK. I tried using this boot.wim as my boot image in WDS but ended up getting the command prompt. Is it possible to use the winpe 3.0 boot.wim as the boot image on WDS? Iam running WDS on Windows server 2008 R2.

Regards

Vishnu

[Customize Windows 7 Edition list during installation? ( SKU )]

You can delete the other images from the install.wim using gimagex or imagex, you need to have WAIK.

Thanks nice_guy, Ill try!

[Customize Windows 7 Edition list during installation? ( SKU )]

Hi friends,

Is it possible to customize the Windows 7 SKU edition list during the initial phase of the installtion where we get to select the Editon of choice like Ultimate, Home Premium, Home starter and so on? What i plan to have is only Ultimate and home Premium as the 2 options available to choose from. Is it possible?

Please help.

[Automatically set Administrator password at install time?]

Hi friends,

How do i automatically set an administrator password during install time in windows 7 so that i can have a uniform password when deploying for large number of systems. Also i Would want the computer name to be set automatically. I have been trying to use WSIM to do this. But i dunno which option to select on the left pane and also where i should be putting the xml answer file. Im doing a network based installation so putting the xml file in the root installation directory is sufficient?

Please help!

[Setting ip address from within a range in WINPE (no dhcp)]

Well, my File server is 172.16.255.254/16. So I would want all the systems to be in the range 172.16.0.1 - 172.16.255.253 so that they are in the same subnet. And i dont understand onething, How is the default subnet mask 255.240.0.0? Can you please explain?!

[Setting ip address from within a range in WINPE (no dhcp)]

Topics Merged

Hi friends, Can someone help me out with a Batch script which will help set an ip address randomly from the following:

IP Range: 172.16.x.x - 172.16.x.x

Subnet mask: 255.255.0.0

Please help!

[Setting ip address from within a range in WINPE (no dhcp)]

That seems like a good point but Im not the administrator of the other DHCP servers. Allen

[Setting ip address from within a range in WINPE (no dhcp)]

Hi friends,

First of all lemme explain what the problem is!

We have multiple DHCP servers in our network and they should run no matter what! So that becomes a problem because when wpeinit happens it looks for a DHCP server for an IP address and sometimes it listens to the wrong DHCP server and the Windows installation wouldnt start. Now is it possible to set an IP address within 172.16.x.x - 172.16.x.x all the time winpe boots and I also dont want WINPE to obtain IP information froma DHCP server from here on. I know we can set an ip address manually using netsh but doing that will cause IP address conflicts coz we are including this in our startnet.cmd script.

Please help!

[Hide the command prompt in winpe?]

Hi friends,

Ive googled a lot and i found a program called cmdow.exe which seems to work!

This is what i have done to hide the command prompt:

Firstly, while creating the winPE image you gotta put this program which is hardly 40kb into the system32 directory. And then in the startnet.cmd file, type:

cmdow @ /HID
wpeinit
wpeutil initializenetwork
<cmd>
<cmd>

It seems to work but the command prompt do appear for a second or two. Please let me know if it worked for you guys or if you have additional things you can suggest.

Thanks

[Adding network driver into winPE 3.0 Image! (urgent)]

But when I use the "/drivers" option, It tells me that its adding drivers. I thought dism is capable of adding multiple drivers from a directory! And i even read about this is in Technet. Ok Let me me just try out your suggestion Trip.

[Hide the command prompt in winpe?]

Hi friends.. Is it possible to hide the command prompt in winpe so that i can hide the commands in the startnet.cmd file which gets executed automatically? Please help

[Adding network driver into winPE 3.0 Image! (urgent)]

hi friends..its not working..tried everything.

[Adding network driver into winPE 3.0 Image! (urgent)]

Thanks for the reply echo!

The /Recurse wouldnt make any difference here because there are no subdirectories! What i have done is, Ive extracted the files from the EXE setup file from Intel into a folder and i believe it contains all the necessary inf, sys files etc. So i reckon its something else!?!

[Adding network driver into winPE 3.0 Image! (urgent)]

Hi friends,

How do i inject a network driver into winPE so that i can make some of the new systems on my network to work? I face this problem when i try to fire up windows 7 installation from WInPE 3.0 over the network. Now the problem is, because the PE image is unable to provide the required network driver, the installation fails to start!

This is what i have done so far using WAIK, but I have failed to get it to work:

>copype.cmd x86 c:\winpe 
>dism /mount-wim /wimfile:c:\winpe\winpe.wim /index:1 /mountdir:c:\winpe\mount 
>dism /image:c:\winpe\mount /add-driver /driver:c:\drivers 
>dism /unmount-wim /mountdir:c:\winpe\mount /commit
>copy c:\winpe\winpe.wim c:\winpe\iso\sources\boot.wim  
>oscdimg –n –bc:\winpe\etfsboot.com c:\winpe\iso c:\winpe\winpe.iso 

Is there anything additional i should do ?

Please help!

[Slow winpeinit process in WINPE 2.0]

Thanks,

Ill try!

[Slow winpeinit process in WINPE 2.0]

Hi friends!

Im able to start the windows 7 installation using winPE, everything's fine but the time taken to load wpeinit process is too much. It takes atleast 5 - 10 mins just to load wpeinit. Otherwise everything's working like charm. I dont understand.

Im using winpe 2.0. Will upgrading to winPE 3.0 improve the speed or is there any alternative to speed up the process?

Please lemme know

[Automatically execute bat script after winpe is loaded]

Hi ...im back!

Im able to start the installation, everything's fine but the time taken to load wpeinit is too much. It takes atleast 5 - 10 mins just to load wpeinit. Otherwise everything's working like charm. I dont understand.

Im using winpe 2.0. Will upgrading to winPE 3.0 improve the speed?

Please lemme know

[Automatically execute bat script after winpe is loaded]

Hi, I am not able to find the winpeshl.ini file in the image. where is it located?

Please let me know

Thanks

[Automatically execute bat script after winpe is loaded]

Thanks Tripredacus.

[Automatically execute bat script after winpe is loaded]

Hi friends,

Is it possible to automatically run a bat script after the winpe environment has been created? Im trying to do this to automatically kickoff of the windows 7 installation from windows pe environment.

Following are the commands i wish to execute:

> net use z: \\172.16.255.254\win7 jet-123 /user:student

>z:\setup.exe

Please Please help!

Thanks