Mount ImageX WIM’s via Windows Explorer – Grand Stream Dreams blog.If not, please take a moment to read this earlier post: I’m sure if you are still reading this post, you have already configured your system to allow for the mounting of ImageX wim files. When I opened up my particular vistape.cfg file to review, I found it contained almost all the information I needed to trace out, extract, and then inject the “ripped” contents into my already PGP Injected Win PE 2.0 wim. It really is an amazing piece of work from NightMan and he should be fairly recognized for it.

It’s a good read and I really encourage everyone to take the time to read and understand it.

VistaPE API – Internal functions of VistaPE – VistaPE project page.

Turns out that the VistaPE project developer, NightMan, has already provided us with all the documentation we need to understand just how that miracle functions: That was handled by the custom executable vpeldr.exe and it’s configuration file vistape.cfg. I had started with the winpeshl.ini file that loads the VistaPE project’s shell replacement. If not then there is a good chance I will loose you here.Īt the end of the last post, I was poking around in the VistaPE WAIK build WIM file and looking at how it worked. Also, this post assumes you are familiar with working with Microsoft’s ImageX WIM files mounting them, committing changes to them, etc. Note: I’m serious about this, if you haven’t read and stepped through the previous posts there is a good chance you will be lost.

Custom Win PE Boot Disk Building: Start me Up!.

Custom Win PE Boot Disk Building: Driver Dead Ends.

Custom Win PE Boot Disk Building: Dead Ends Ahead!.

Custom Win PE Boot Disk Building: Step Three – VistaPE 12 RC1 Walkthrough.

Custom Win PE Boot Disk Building: Step Two – PGP Injection.

Custom Win PE Boot Disk Building: Step One – WAIK up.

Custom Win PE Boot Disk Building Saga: Introduction.

If you are just joining us, please go back and review the following posts to get up to speed: Oh yes, and it has to handle the Dell GX 7xx series USB keyboard drivers.

The purpose of this ongoing project is to build a Win PE 2.0 based boot-disk, that has a great VistaPE GUI interface (instead of the standard CLI shell) and the PGP WDE drivers injected so we can “liveCD-boot” a PGP WDE system (assuming we have the user’s passphrase). It will (hopefully) wrap up this project.

Hwpnp.exe download