Nuno Brito

Don't worry, I'm quite sure google and many other companies around the web keep a tab on my age and interests..

Really sad to see how the crossing of all this information can give a very complete scenario of what we do online across these sites. Thanks JorgeA, I have now mentioned this option at http://www.google-is-evil.com/thread-3.html Previously I was using scroogle until it closed doors and later duckduckgo.

Microsoft and Google seem to get confusingly similar nowadays. Both competing directly on so many of the same fields, the scroogle page was funny. The same thing for the symbiosis between Win8 and the Internet services. It just gets much harder to remain anonymous or even hide your preferences from data miners. For a large part of the population, they just won't care or be aware of what happens. In a post-modern world, only the command line will survive all these things. No fancy Javascript or Metro-like will get things done when systems get broken.

Well, allow me to be vocal about this matter. WPI is a great tool, thank you very much for keeping it solid and updated across all these years.

+1 from me.Unfortunately, I just get disappointed with the direction that Ubuntu went with Unity. I mean, so many years providing a rock star style of OS with things that were just great out of the box and now this awful window manager. So, not much better things are going on the other side of the fence. At least with OSX you know what to count and works solid as a unix alternative. Can't believe I'm writing a post to support Apple.

It would be interesting indeed. I'd just think we'd see some other window manager surface to relevance for professional use without the toy'ish appearance. Still remember as a teenager when Win95 came up, that thing just looked hypnotizing and modern when compared to other options such as DOS and Win 3.x. I wonder if teenagers are indeed feeling the same "wow" experience with Win8 nowadays.

Lest we not forget Microsoft Windows Bob around the Win 3.1/95 era. Impressive how you can replace "Bob" with "8" and they still match so well. For more info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Bob

You forgot to mention that it is advertising project names such as LiveXP that are not from his authorship and yet claims them as being author with no credit to the developers. On this case Lancelot, it is not giving any credit to your and mine work at the LiveXP project. Win7PE is not my authorship but most likely a copy from the work from ChrisR and others. If you let people like this get away from blatantly copying works of others and advertising them as their own, once they are done with copying these projects they will turn onto your Gena. There have been several builders since the dinosaur age and you don't see me worried about them, what I do worry is when a "smart" developer misappropriates the merit of our work over these years. Give merit where merit is due. Anyone can download it, no need for registration. If you want to include it in your projects we request developers to ask for permission before doing so as written in http://reboot.pro/about/license At reboot we gathered the funds to hire a developer capable of developing this tool and making it available without any costs to you, therefore I believe it is a fair request that credit is given to the community that made this work possible.

8 months passed, we kept working on this goal and today the WimLib tool has been released to public. Allows creating a WIM archive from scratch without need for WAIK drivers or administrative permissions: http://reboot.pro/files/file/189-wimlib/ The next step is providing the construction/write of NT registry hives without MS tools. I have already done this back in 2008 and now it is time to create a command line version: http://nunobrito1981.blogspot.de/2008/05/raw-registry-hives-magic.html We move forward with this goal.

Thank you. It is not nice to see attempts of turning this conversation into a troll party. @Kullenen_Ask I am available to talk about my personal experience in regards to the challenges and difficulties that appear when creating a good builder. I am also available to showcase the current features of what has been done over the years to help developers create Windows PE projects. Last but not least, I am also here as a programmer to work with a team to implement new features if they are not available already. Take care!

Hi, WinBuilder is unique because it was created since the beginning with the purpose of creating custom Windows platforms, not just Windows PE. It provides a script syntax similar to batch and INI syntax along with a complete GUI support and a structure for running scripts in a given order/categories. It allows creating scripts that include files inside the code, in the same manner as people exchange email messages with attachments everyday. Do you need to learn a new scripting language? Yep. This is not difficult since most times you can use one line per command like: RegImport,c:\myFile.reg http://code.google.com/p/winbuilder/wiki/regimport It is not possible to please everyone as you might have noted. The core of each WinBuilder project can be changed by anyone and wb itself has been developed since years with the support and feedback from different people all around the world. This is what I do, I love creating boot disks and I am a programmer that works closely with those who share similar tastes. In case anyone has requests for features not already provided by WinBuilder to create a WinPE Builder, I will be glad to work on them.

I was the guy called upon to stop a silly fight between senior developers, some of them my close friends for several years. I suspended two members temporarily until the rage settled down after repeated complaints from community members. I indeed am the "guy who kicked the best developers out of the boot-land forum" because they often treat other developers like this: http://goo.gl/8Zimw You are welcome to step inside the development group and help with what you think it is necessary to improve. It is like this: WinBuilder is an engine. It is composed of a single file that is "WinBuilder.exe". You can imagine (to some extent) that it is like AutoIt for building Windows since the only thing that winbuilder does is following the instructions of whatever is written on the scripts. Per se, WinBuilder does not produce boot disks, it is simply an engine or script interpreter if you wish to be more accurate. Gena and NativeEx are Windows PE projects. They build a boot disk and the scripts on both projects that create these boot disks use WinBuilder (as well as many other Windows PE projects over the years did). I hope this helps to understand things a little bit better.

How can I help? I've already started working on the 2.0 version of WinBuilder. The platform is based on Remedium that is both free and open source, you find the ground works at http://winbuilder.googlecode.com If you look on the current winbuilder, most boot disk projects running with this builder are free and open for anyone to change but the biggest problem is keeping developers improving the existent projects instead of simply creating new ones as rabbits. I guess it is far more rewarding to have a feeling of authorship than joining something started by someone else, albeit I'd prefer to see people cooperating to create one or two strong projects. My focus on this moment is to ensure the independence from Windows API to natively construct registry hives and WIM files without resort to MS code, in the process this allows removing the need for administrative permissions or installation of drivers to run the builder. This is what we are doing. For the first time since 2006 we will also reintroduce the concept of a default boot disk project shipped with WinBuilder. As you might know, winbuilder.exe is a free engine and boot disk projects are developed/published by anyone interested. But I am not happy with the current results and will also provide a project for users to try out as default. I am here to listen for suggestions or ideas you have to make things better. Better yet, if someone wants to join and help with coding/testing then I'd surely appreciate that.