Well force, I am completely a noobe with just an understanding. For such ppl we call " Jack of all master of none". It was a bit tricky though getting it to boot. 1. Copy the boot.wim to a folder Test on C:\ 2. mount it as rw mode. to a folder VimBoot(I named it so) Ximage /mountrw C:\test\boot.wim 2 C:\VimBoot 3. Copy contents of ur talisman installation to C:\VimBoot\Talisman 4. Copy contents of ur TotalCommander installation to C:\VimBoot\tcoman 5. Copy contents of BSExplorer xip to C:\VimBoot\BSExplorer 6. Regedit and load hive "system" from C:\VimBoot\Windows\Config edit setup key and change it from "winpeshl.exe" to X:\BSExplorer\explorer.exe unload hive 8. for safety to avoid running setup, overwrite ur setup.exe in root folder with any executable or cmd.exe by renaming them to setup.exe 7. then run Ximage /unmount /commit C:\VimBoot Create a same folder structure with sources and Boot in a folder VPE and put boot.wim in sources folder and boot.sdi in Boot folder. 8. create an iso using the folder VPE the bootimage microsoft.img (extract the boot image from the Vista DVD for creating the iso -- I did it but I think its optional). 9. in Boot.ini do not miss the line "nobcd" else it won't boot. My Boot.ini for VPE5219 nobcd ramdisk(0)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows Honghorn Env" /NOEXECUTE=OPTIN /FASTDETECT /DETECTHAL /MININT /rdpath=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)cdrom(o)\sources\boot.wim /RDSDIHDRPATH=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)cdrom(0)\boot\boot.sdi /USENEWLOADER /DB /INRAM now run VPC and load the created iso .