Newsletter - June 29, 2008 IntroductionAnother week for the boot land community has passed and summer vacations are just around the corner, during the warm season there have been some interesting developments, especially regarding VistaPE where more developers are doing a quality ...
Boot Land's birthday! It's the second year of existence for boot land and all the fun and magic is still like day one.
We've been through a lot but our path continues to move forward at fast pace since we continue to be encouraged by the steps and goals that were solved ...
3 weeks home alone.. June is the month for second semester exams at the university so I'm taking a few weeks off my daytime work to properly prepare for these exams.
Some of them are really complicated and involve a level of study that I know for sure that is beyond my ...
Newsletter - 31st of May Grub4dos won't boot Vista Home Premium SP1
muffin wanted use grub4dos on his USB pendisks in order to multiboot various OS (Ubuntu, BartPE, XP, Vista) on different PC's, look on the solution provided by Jaclaz that teaches how use tag files inside ...
Newsletter - 25th of May This week on boot land we've been talking about Windows XP a lot. It's been a while since Vista was released but how can we beat the simplicity and speed of running XP on a virtual machine when compared to the Vista?
Wether you are a Vista or XP fan, ...
Newsletter - 21st May This week on boot land we've been mostly focused on testing and improving some of the methods to create our boot disks, here is a quick flashback of what has been discussed.
Ways to save space in a PE
Interesting talk ...
Newsletter - 12th of May Do you know how to use google to only find files with a specific filetype?
This might be a good tip if you're browsing the web when looking for some ebook in pdf format (.PDF) or a powerpoint presentation (.PPT).
Next time you use google write (for ...
Newsletter - 6th of May New forum section for AeroStudio
A year ago, useronce released his project: a graphical multiboot program capable of making cool eyecandy boot screens from where you can launch your favorite OS's. His work has since that date faded a bit away from ...
AeroStudio forum A new forum for discussing AeroStudio has been created to help promoting this good piece of software from useronce.
You find this new forum section here.
I'll quote the program presentation for those not familiar with AeroStudio:
Aero Studio ...
28th of April - newsletter from the land of boot disks One important detail about Boot Land is that we take good pride on the community effort to learn and share knowledge freely across the web and everyone is welcome to visit to and place any questions wether they are "advanced" or "newbie" - they're both ...
is there a way to decrypt all scripts in one go to have something like several pebuilder plugin folder? i dont like the encodeded files cause i cannot edit embedded ini-files etc. ...
I am having an issue that I hope someone has an answer to. I use TFTPD32 to ghost computers through ghostcast. If anyone not familiar with the process, it's a PXE boot, that loads a floppy image and starts ghost.exe. In ghost.exe, once you pick ghostcast, the ...
I have downloaded the Mega App Pack here and I tried to start ClamWinPortable in VistaPe, but it isn't working. After pressing on the ClamWin.exe nothing happened. What is to do? ...
I have been trying to build a vista pe boot cd for a few days when I stumbled upon the winbuilder web site - great I thought - someone else has done the work for me! My build system is a win vista SP1 desktop machine but I have tried using a win xp machine as well. I ...
In our Network we use the QIP DHCP Server. If i enable the DHCP funktion in TFTPD32 the 2 Servers bite themselves... So what i want is, that the PC's get a ipadress from the Qip server, and after get the file from the TFTPD32 Server... How do i have to configure the TFTPD32 Server to r ...
Can anyone tell me how to make the ramdisk driver included in Vista install and run?
I tried the normal inf installer, and also tried adding the old win2k style reg entries in HKLM/System/CurrentControlSet/Services/Ramdisk or wherever it stores them, then installing the inf. neither says ...
I just cant for the life of me get Acronis to integrate with VistaPE. No matter what script I try I get errors and the files just wont copy over. I have the plugin for BartPE installed and have tried everything. If someone would be so kind as to help me get Acronis True Image 10 (4942) installed I w ...
Let's start with a bet: Does this nativeEx_075 project has any suitable result (please look at the files' sizes)? [attachment=5772:075_project.gif] I'm sure you lost your bet. Here the result: [attachment=5773:075_result.gif] Voodoo? NO New WinBuilder f ...
Yesterday evening, inspired by ispys posts about great pirate editions and removing IE fom XP, I checked a bit on the net and did some tests to determine, how useful/useless PE and thinning a OS really is.
Result:
There's hardly any reason to do eighter one of the above, fr ...
a huge bravo to spain for the victory and to germany too for reaching the finals! Even though I was at germans' side, I have to confess that the spaniards plaid football like there was no tomorrow. ...
i've some problems with VistaPE 12b2 detecting my Harddrives (in VMware and on my real machine).
After booting the Harddrive with partitions is completely accessible until VistaPELoader detects the Hardware (if I skip it all works fine). After Hardwaredetectio ...
I am trying to find out how the vista setup program or dvd extracts files from install.wim without any of the dlls/exes available in the WAIK for doing this.
boot.wim lacks imagex.exe or wimgapi.dll, so it cannot be possible to use the ...
This is a good freeware solution to dedicate a CPU for running a single program - like for example - PC virtualization or heavier programs that can benefit from having full CPU time without interruptions.
Very cool stuff - supports machines equipped with up to 32 cores.
I have downloaded the Avira Antivir script in winbuilder 0.75 for VistaPe v12. If I press on the Download update in Winbuilder there is always a mistake.
I bought a brand new laptop from pc world which has vista on, works fine n'all. But i didn't get a windows disk with it, so i cannot format my laptop and install a clean instalation of windows on.
Since this website for me is hard to navigate around (new member) wo ...
Since it's summer, I really hope you spend this day under a coconut while drinking a few fresh beverages.. byNuno Brito, Thursday, 26 June 2008 08:40 [ Read all ]
There is a problem where if I press play from the script source page to test it and there is an error, I get stuck on the log page with no way to get back. I have to close the program and reopen it to get out of the log. [attachment=5743:1.jpg] [attachment=5744:2.jpg] The play, advanc ...
I have seen a couple of references to a file based write filter script but I cant find where to get it. I used this in my bartpe boot disk and it worked great for my needs. I don't think the bootsdi option will work for me since it places the whole image onto the ramdrive. I would like this boot ...
Hello, is there a way of putting chkdsk in livexp? I am looking for an alternative to the recovery console because its quite annoying when poeple have an administrator password. ...
A SVN server was made available at http://winbuilder.net/svn to allow keep this repository as a central place for .script developers to work directly on the core of winbuilder related projects.
i am having hard way to find out how to include Novell Client in VistaPE. Is there anyone did that before and how should i go about? i have been trying to look around for the answer or guidance on this but seems that i have no luck on this.
CDBurnerXP http://www.cdburnerxp.se/ has gone Non-commercial. From the web page they mention ads from Google or Amazon as well. I'm not sure if this means banner advertisements in the program or what. I was not able to burn an ISO file e ...
I have a silly question that is nor a suggestion neither a request. Why winbuilder executable is not available for download from "Downloads" section in the right-top corner of this page? I know that it is hosted in winbuilder.net and I am curious why. bybillonious, Tuesday, 24 June 2008 11:48 [ Read all ]
I created today an VistaPe v12 iso and boot from it, but then I started Total Commander and I could not see my Partition C and D. With v11 I could always open them and do all what I can do in my "real" Vista.
A few more emoticons were added to our forum list, some static emoticons were also replaced by others who were animated like: and byNuno Brito, Monday, 23 June 2008 20:55 [ Read all ]
I tried new VistaPe 12 Beta 2/3. Looks very nice but i have a problem with USB Plug and Play. USB Mouse or USB Sticks are only working if i connect them before booting. With VistaPe 11 and VistaPe12 Beta 1 USB pnp also worked after booting VistaPe. What am I doing wrong? ...
I don't get with VistaPE in the internet. I have downloaded mynic script and it built a script. This script I run in Winbuilder. The Networkadapter is Broadcom 802.11g. Then I tried to load oem13.inf with drvload, but then the fail 80070002 in drvload. What can I do to g ...
Sometimes an app which you are delivering to the PE, is case sensitive when opening certain needed files. An actual sample is the '34kb ISO' issue where mkisofs.exe adds the boot sector and does not find it at any UC / LC mismatch.
I've noticed that many of the shortcut icons don't show up in the livexp project. Especially from any scripts that I have made myself. I have tried running the recommended profile for the livexp project without changing any of the settings. Some of the icons show up like the shortcut for the ...
hello, I have read the tutorials on script writing in the getting started section. In one of them I read that a zip of all the files you want for the app can be attached to the script and then unpacked when the script is run. Whenever I try this the script fails to expand the files from the zip file ...
I finnally got some spare time after the exams and i decided to make a multiboot dvd as an emergency rescue. For which Livexp and then Acronis TrueImage 10 is a must in my point of view as i just restore C: partition whenever i need to start clean ( takes ...
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