It offers a write filter which will redirect all writes to a cache file which can be reset on a reboot. This will generate a fresh system on every boot.

Windows Updates can be installed even when the write protection is on. Additional security policies can be applied on the system using SteadyState.

Download a manual for the installation and configuration from our website

net accounts /maxpwage:unlimited
net users Username /expires:never
net users Username /active:yes

The video shows the capturing of an installed “ready-to-clone” image where it will be saved to an external harddrive.
The second part will show the deployment to a fresh system where the target disk still needs to be prepared.

Driver Extractor is a tool which makes creating SLD components for drivers very easy.
All you need to do is to run the tool on the target machine with XP, Vista or Windows 7 and all device drivers installed.
Then you just need to select the devices for which the drivers should be exported into an SLD file and click export.
Driver Extractor will then copy all the needed files and creates a component for XPe/WES with Repository for you.
After importing the component to the database you can easily create your image.

Requirements

• .NET Framework 3.5 SP1
• Windows Operating system with all needed device drivers installed
• WMI Support (if running on an embedded OS)
• Windows must be installed on C:\Windows in the current version

How To Use

1. Run DriverExtractor.exe on the target device. The Windows version should be XP as the exported drivers are taken from the current installation. If you use Vista it will take Vista driver which might not work under XP!
2. Check the devices for which you want to export the drivers.
   
3. Click Actions / Export Selected.
   
4. Choose an output directory. The tool will create a separate folder for each component named by the devices name.
   
5. Import the component (located in the output directory\Devicename\sld directory) into the Database by using the Component Database Manager
    
6. Add the component to your configuration

Description

Menus

Toolbar

Refreshes the device list

  Shows the needed driver files for the current selected device

Exports the drivers for the selected devices

Opens the Windows properties for the current selected device

(v0.9)

1. Use Minlogon
  Minlogon will remove all the status messages and the logon window and logs the system on using the SYSTEM account.
  Normally this works fine but if you need to access domains this solution will not work for you.
  Also there are some other things (Cardspace,..) which will not work with Minlogon as it’s a minimum implementation of Windows Logon.

If you cannot use Minlogon you can go with the default Windows Logon and set the following Registry Key:

2. Windows Logon with hidden status windows

  Create the following registry entry in the runtime image or add the following key to your Target Designer Image Configuration:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System]
"DisableStatusMessages"= dword:00000001

  After this key has been set all the status windows will disappear.

All you need is the installation DVD.

1. Insert it into the target machines DVD drive and an autorun splash screen will appear.
2. Click “Install additional languages for the POSReady user interface”
3. Select the languages you wish to install
4. Select the language you wish to use as default languages for all new users accounts from the dropdown below the language list
5. Click Install
6. Reboot

To change the language for an existing user

• Open Control Panel
• Open Regional Settings
• Switch to the Languages tab
• Select the language you wish to use from the “Language used in menus and dialogs” dropdown
• Click OK
• Logoff
• Relogon

This video will guide you through all the steps mentioned above.

Preparation

Please follow the preparation steps for both – image creation and image deployment as you’ll need to have a working network connection.

Setting up a DHCP server

You can skip this step if you have a DHCP server running in your network.

Create a new dialup connection – the settings like number, etc. are not important.

Open the settings of the created dialup connection and enable internet sharing for the local network adapter which will be connected with your target device.

Check the IP-address of the local network adapter – it should be 192.168.0.1

Create a network share

On your development machine set up a network share where the image will be located. Please make sure you can access the network share from another pc and that you have write access to this share.

Mapping a network drive in Windows PE

Boot the target machine from the previous created media.

In the command prompt type ipconfig to check if the pc has a valid ip address. You can use ping (e.g. ping 192.168.0.1) to test if the connection to the development pc works.

Map a network drive to your development pc.

net use N: \\<IP-Address>\<Sharename> [/User:<pcname>\<username> <Password>]Sample
net use N: \\192.168.0.1\images /User:devmachine\administrator admin

Create an image

To create an image we will use the imagex tool which comes with the WAIK tools. For more information on imagex please have a look on Microsoft Technet http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc722145.aspx

Type the following command
imagex /capture C: N:\image.wmi “Master image”You can also use additional paramters such as /compress to compress the image. For additional arguments please type imagex /?

Deploy an image

Before we will deploy the image we will prepare the target disk to make sure that the image can boot after the deployment.

Preparing the target disk

Run diskpart and type the following commands
LIST DISK

DISKPART> list disk

Disk ###  Status      Size     Free     Dyn  Gpt
  ——–  ———-  ——-  ——-  —  —
  Disk 0    Online       149 GB      0 B
  Disk 1    Online       149 GB      0 B

Use this command to find out the disk id of the disk that should be used as target.

SELECT DISK 0  (instead of 0 use the appropriate disk id of your target disk)
CLEAN   (this will remove all partitions on the target disk)
CREATE PARTITION PRIMARY  (this creates a primary partition on the target disk)
ACTIVE (set the previous created partition active)
ASSIGN LETTER = C (assign the drive letter C)
FORMAT FS=NTFS QUICK (do a quick ntfs format)
EXIT (quick diskpart)

Deploy the image

Run the following command to deploy the image from the network share

imagex /apply n:\image.wim 1 c:

Reboot your machine – it should now boot from the image properly.

Why?

The licensing of Windows Embedded works different than for normal Windows versions.

A image is fully licensed if you put a license sticker onto the device.

If you need more details you can contact us any time!

For more details on how to create a full version image for XPe/WES have a look at the “How to enter the product key in XP Embedded / Windows Embedded Standard?” post.

This is only valid for the following products:

• XP Embedded / Windows Embedded Standard
• WEPOS / POSReady
• Windows CE

All other products are licensed differently.