CorruptHuman

I don't mean to make a useless post in this thread but I needed to say that made my day. I am glad to say I now have a better understanding of WinPE 3.x and what makes it a WinPE or another form of a PE. You also gave me more material to research and understand. Thank you for that. I have a few more tweaks I will be making to the PE I am creating. No worries though, I will be sure to lurk around the forums and make heavy use of google before creating a thread. Thanks again!

Simply converting it to: Seems like working fine (but you will have anyway to test in your setup). jaclaz I tried relative paths prior to this and it didn't work. If I recall correctly I had ..\..\RocketDock Thank you for your help. The problem is now fixed. Using relative paths worked, but only when used correctly. If needed thread can be closed.

Primary SSD: C: FlashDrive: G: CD-ROM 0: D: CD-ROM 1: F: On my test laptop the icons show up correctly because the test laptop recognizes my flash drive as E: I am guessing because I mapped all the paths while I was on this machine.. On my wifes laptop the icons all turned to question marks and gave an application not found error when I clicked them. This is because it was still trying to reach out to E:\RocketDock\Tools\(name of application).* I am still in the process of thinking of a way to make this work. My idea is to have a small GUI to launch my tools from, along with the ability to drag and drop new tools into the tools folder without mounting the boot.wim file everytime. [LaunchApps]"%programfiles%\setres\setres.exe h1024 v768 b32"%SYSTEMROOT%\system32\startnet.cmdThe above is what my WinPEShl.ini executes upon booting. The program setres.exe just changes the resolution from its native resolution to 1024x768 with a 32-bit color scheme. for %%p in (a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z) do if exist %%p:\RocketDock\RocketDock.exe set w=%%p%w%:\RocketDock\RocketDock.exeThe above I use in my StartNet.cmd to have RocketDock launch automatically. When I used the program pstart I didn't have this issue because the program didn't read from the beginning of the path starting at the drive letter. Pstart looked in its current directory only, which was extremly convenient but the gui looked terrible and I wanted something a little more appealing. Thank you again for all your help!

Thank you for the explanation of what the term WindowsPE actually means. I will have to research what you said to further understand what you meant by "WinPE can be BOTH a "generic" term for a PE, or a "specific" term for a PE built using only MS tools.". It appears I used WAIK for the Windows 7 Environment. http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=5753 If I understand correctly I used PE ver 3.x. My project is to create a rescue tool. The method I am using is the most common method of using the boot.wim file. Instead of having to run my tools from the terminal I wanted to have a GUI to create ease of access to my tools. At first I used PStart and it worked flawlessly in displaying all my tools from one window. The GUI wasn't aesthetically pleasing though..... I know beggars can't be choose but if there is a will there is a way. I have the will to learn so I feel this will end in success. On a side not I tried editing the path to where my tools are by using the %pdrive% variable. Something like %pdrive%\RocketDock\Tools\NameofTool This gave me an error. As i try more I will post results.

Hello Everybody, I am trying to create a WinPE bootable flash drive that uses rocket dock to store all my tools. I was able to accomplish this but when I boot to the flash drive on different machines the drive letter changes. This corrupts my shortcuts to my tools on rocketdock. If anyone here has advice i'm all ears. Thank you in advance for your support in advance. [EDIT] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/60034/how-can-you-find-and-replace-text-in-a-file-using-the-windows-command-line-envir I found this article which I believe may be beneficial. I wIll try creating a find and replace script that will change the drive letter for my shortcuts in my Settings.ini file for Rocket Dock prior to lauching RocketDock.exe. This or there my be the possibility of having startnet.cmd pass commands to FART ("F ind A nd R eplace T ext" command line utility) to accomplish this. [/EDIT] Best Regards, CorruptHuman

Hello Everybody, I joined this forum due to a random google search. I am trying to learn more about the use of WinPE. I will explain more in a thread I will open up in the appropriate category. Thanks ahead of time for sharing your knowledge with me. Best Regards, CorruptHuman