WinPE v2 and "Access is Denied" error

[styxx_78]

OK, I have some more info.

I have gotten around the "Access is denied" but by using an even easier method.

By specifying the complete path of the hta it works as follows:

mshta.exe y:\folder\file.hta

You do not need the credentials as mentioned before as long as you have previously mapped a drive and entered them.

Also, I am now able to load a Simple hta with no issues by using the method above.

Now I have to figure out why my complex hta is not working...and that job is not for me, I am going to to hand it over to one of our coders to work out.

Thanks for the help Jazkal

Edited December 1, 2006 by styxx_78

[styxx_78]

I noticed that with every compnent added to WinPE it greatly increases boot time. I was very surprised with the speed of a Base WinPE with no components installed but am starting to realise that I will need a lot of them installed in order for our install strategy to work properly.

My next step is to see load time differences between CD/DVD and USB Flash to see if I can speed things up a bit.

Meanwhile, I will be passing my HTA on to one of our programmers to spend some time on it.

[Jazkal]

I haven't really messed with booting from CD or USB much. We have been loading WinPE over the network with PXELinux for the past couple of years (ever since WinPE 2005).

[styxx_78]

Do you plan to deploy your Vista image over the network aswell?

Are you at 100Mb or gig?

We won't be at gig for years and I find even at 100 Mb it is going to be really slow deploying 5GB images over the network.

[Jazkal]

I'm more on the Server OS deployment side of things. We currently use both 100 and 1000, just depends on what datacenter your in. Our 2k and 2k3 images are 2-4 gigs in size and most of those are done in 15 mins or so.