WinBuilder for WinPE - Any Experiences?

[DCGPX]

I'm just trying to get into making my own WinPE and currently looking at Winbuilder, as I like the simple GUI, to do this and add apps as I go from scripts I'm downloading, eventually writing own I hope!

Does anyone have experience of this or have a better way with poss and link to tutorials?

First time I really sat down and tried to do a custom WinPE so any advice gratefully recieved before I go down a wrong path too deep.

I was going to originally try and butcher my Acronis WPE so at least I have a full imageing utility and add apps I use frequently but I think that maybe another project.

For those that do PE discs what do you use?

 

[tf76]

I've used UBCD, ubcd4win and SARDU.

Regards,

 

[SmithFamilyDesigns]

I'm just trying to get into making my own WinPE and currently looking at Winbuilder, as I like the simple GUI, to do this and add apps as I go from scripts I'm downloading, eventually writing own I hope!

Does anyone have experience of this or have a better way with poss and link to tutorials?

First time I really sat down and tried to do a custom WinPE so any advice gratefully recieved before I go down a wrong path too deep.

I was going to originally try and butcher my Acronis WPE so at least I have a full imageing utility and add apps I use frequently but I think that maybe another project.

For those that do PE discs what do you use?

I have used WinBuilder and I will say that it is a PITA. It is explained as much simpler than it is, every time I have built a PE using winbuilder, it has not worked. The one that I finally had success with was Win7PE in it's most basic form. I was able to implement .NET 2.0 into it so the simple scripts and programs that .NET work. I can't even give advice on using it, but reboot.pro is a good place to ask questions and learn.

 

[DCGPX]

I use UBCD4WIN normally but thought I'd venture into pe territory!

I want to learn pe to do set tasks so I can boot to a disc and it does everything I want then shutdown

I know its do able as other use it as they comment on it but I have no examples so building my own.

I'm using reboot pro as a base and learning as I go!

If it gets to hard to maintain or do I'll look at a basic ubcd4win and add what I need by autoit

Just a bit of time to look at it over bank hol


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[KompuKare]

WinBuilder is fairly easy to use and provided you test in a virtual machine it's not too bad. But changing things is slow. Most scripts have a few options and they can interact / interfere with each other so my advice is to start with a basic project (I'm using Win7PE_SE) and work up from there.

The load from RAM options are nice but they do mean that any machine you want to use it on will have to have more RAM. So try that out too. That is don't make a 1500MB vm and then find that on most customer's PC it doesn't run.

Also, there's a program called MakeScript which helps with basic scripts.

I ended up making a simple AutoHotKey.script which launches a compiled AHK which in turn launches a pstart.exe launcher and some other things like a timed ultravnc SC server (for a headless machine - nice to have a CD which can run from a machine without screen). A compiled AutoIT would work as well.

Between the pstart launcher and the AHK script, making changes is now possible without rebuilding my Winbuilder project.

 

[Kitten Kong]

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[parker.casey]

If you head over to reboot.pro, you'll find a lot of help with WinBuilder.