Some of my VB6 programs fail to run when I boot winpe to a ramdrive (pe1.6) and the same seems to be for winpe2. both booting from RIS or WDS.

Any known reason why? Straight RIS or CD boot works fine....

if you use a ramdrive,somethings to note are the use of a temp/tmp folder on a writable partition such as a ramdrive. these need to be defined as environment variables. Also make sure the drive letters aren't being remapped

Thats not it, found out last night the code is failing at some of the first wmi queries, gonna rewrite the program in .net....

>net does not work in PE...try enabling WMI and trap errors...

>net does not work in PE...try enabling WMI and trap errors...

You can get a wrapper for .net that will run in pe. Found out what it was, a small jpg on my form was stopping it run, strange...

Well, I dunno why ur are having problems when running the appz from RAM of the RIS box, cause i am using two vb applications in my WinPE build that works just great and just like u said, it is the same as any CD/DVD WinPE boot (in regards to the runtime).

Found out what it was. I had a very small JPG image on a form which was making the code bomb out when run from ramdisk.

You could not make this up.....

try converting the jpg to png...sometimes depending on the version of the vb runtimes, it has a problem with jpg. Also a problem with the build scripts from ms with the winpe batch files was discovered where the err code or inverse of the wmi install happened.