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Suggestions and Requests
[Solved] Keyboard pressed on screen


Hi to all

Sometimes (Rarely) explaining something is very hard about an issue, i mostly use picture, but for the first time after watching john3voltas's movie and with a determined soul to show my idea, i learn how to make a movie of my issue.

I made a movie here

by Lancelot, Wednesday, 15 October 2008 15:00 [ Read all ]
Development
StrFormat


I implemented two new options for StrFormat:

CODE
StrFormat,REPLACE,String,CharsToReplace,ReplacementChars,%VarResult%

CODE
S ...

by psc, Wednesday, 15 October 2008 13:02 [ Read all ]
nativeEx & LiveXP
Boot speed


Hello all,

I noticed that booting in a virtualization product is very fast from USB or HD (15 seconds), but booting on my PC is very slow (5 minutes). I tested this on two different PCs with different motherboads and BIOS. It is not a big deal, but I am curious now.

What could ...

by DaveXP, Wednesday, 15 October 2008 11:14 [ Read all ]
News
Happy Birthday! Galapo


Happy Birthday! my friend
cheers.gif

Pedro ...

by pedrole15, Wednesday, 15 October 2008 03:18 [ Read all ]
Development
Seemingly Missing Functionality in WinBuilder Scripting - Logs


Am I alone in doing this? frusty.gif

I keep finding myself double-clicking log entry lines when during a build with WinBuilder the log screen comes up. My expectation is t ...

by Dramastic, Wednesday, 15 October 2008 02:53 [ Read all ]
nativeEx & LiveXP
BootSDI and ImDisk


Hi all,

I tried the BootSDI script and it works great.

I guess if you use BootSDI then you don't really need another RamDisk any more. Right?

So I tried to uncheck Imdisk and did the necessary adjustments in "define fundamentals". I wasn't very succ ...

by DaveXP, Tuesday, 14 October 2008 21:25 [ Read all ]
Development
WB beta 075 m


@All

I just uploaded the latest Nightly 075 beta 5 m

This upload contains a lot of changes I could not test.

There are two issues which are completely rebuild
  • GUI: I removed a lot of (unnecessary ?) Refreshes to avoid flicker, refresh the GUI correctly a ...

by psc, Tuesday, 14 October 2008 18:41 [ Read all ]
VistaPE
Removing a driver package from a winpe.wim?


i am looking for a standard, reliable method for removing a driver from a winpe wim image. appears tis' easy enough to add one through peimg, but insofar as i can tell not so for removing a once added driver.

poking around in the driverstore you can see approximately what was done to ...

by tiba, Tuesday, 14 October 2008 15:42 [ Read all ]
Tutorials
Create a iso AND a ramdisk for PXE-booting


This is sort of a "minimum what you need" to create a bootable iso-image which contains a bootable ramdisk which then again may also be used for booting from PXE enabled devices:

1:
You (might) need a clean windows XP install, where you will be running Winbuilder. I found i ...

by Einar, Tuesday, 14 October 2008 13:51 [ Read all ]
nativeEx & LiveXP
Truecrypt (Galapo) doesn't work


Hello all,

I built an ISO and BootSDI with the following:
WB75b5
XP sp2
Recommended scripts
Acronis TI
Defraggler
Recuva
Various MBR and HD tools (Mitec, overdisk etc)
Truecrypt

Machine with SI and JMicron controllers with USB and RAID dr ...

by DaveXP, Tuesday, 14 October 2008 11:13 [ Read all ]
RSS news
news: Mateusz's Saucy Editor ("MSEDIT")


Mateusz Viste writes: "Just wanted to announce a new (very minor) release of Mateusz's Saucy Editor: MSEDIT. What's new in v0.11 [12 Oct 2008]: - Fixed a bug in TAB handling (was ignored), - Added a (rather simplistic) "Compile & Run" function when in FB mode. Basically, t ...

by RSS, Tuesday, 14 October 2008 10:31 [ Read all ]
Boot Methods
BootXPLiveCD from Hard Drive


I was wondering if there is a way to 'install' an XP Live CD to the hard disk and have it as a boot option in case of an emergency. If it is possible, how would I add it to the boot.ini or preferably GRUB?

Thanks
-gooroo ...

by Gooroo, Tuesday, 14 October 2008 09:15 [ Read all ]
Development
Problems Adding TextFile Object to Interface


- It seems there is a problem with the TextFile object in the interface editor. After Adding the object, when you click the 'load..' button and try to point it at a file, an error message is generated. Further, the file does not always get encoded properly into the script, as seems to be the ...

by Dramastic, Monday, 13 October 2008 22:23 [ Read all ]
News
Newsletter - 13th of October, 2008


Hi.

This is the feedback topic regarding the newsletter for the 13th of October.

http://boot-land.net/newsletters/081013-OC...Newsletter.html

As always, you're welcome to ...

by Nuno Brito, Monday, 13 October 2008 21:27 [ Read all ]
WinBuilder
Failed to add line to file autorun.cmd [net start "Stardock WindowBlinds"]


Hi,
I am facing an error while trying to add windowblinds 6.1 along with Combobox 3h (Both are released by Max Real) into my vistape 12 (WB 075 Beta 05 & Vista SP1 dvd as source).

What I intend to do is a VistaPE with Windows blind. Can any one please guide me step by step how to ...

by pokemon1, Monday, 13 October 2008 12:48 [ Read all ]
VistaPE
Keyboard layout files


I don't know how these configfiles in winbuilder gets updatd ,but it seems the keyboard files KB*.dll are missing in order to make use of the keyboard layout script.

I think it is the file :

CODE
\vista ...

by ktheking, Monday, 13 October 2008 10:53 [ Read all ]
Development
Seemingly Missing Functionality in WinBuilder Scripting - INI Functions


Issue

There does not appear (to me) to be any simple way using only winbuilder scripting and without resorting to batch files or other external programs to process an INI file (or .script in .INI format) Section with key names that are unknown in advance. Maybe someone will ...

by Dramastic, Monday, 13 October 2008 09:30 [ Read all ]
RSS news
news: YASM 0.7.2 is out


Changes from 0.7.1 to 0.7.2:

* Add PIC support to 64-bit Mach-O (#141). (0 comments) ...

by RSS, Saturday, 11 October 2008 18:00 [ Read all ]
VistaPE
USB Keyboard and USB hard drive do not work together


Hello all,

I am new to VistaPE, but before posting did some extensive research.

I use VistaPE 12 beta 3 and Vista SP0 as source. Installed WAIK sp1.

I learnt enough how to mount a wim file and how to insert an SI 3132 RAID driver. I also managed to install the acron ...

by DaveXP, Saturday, 11 October 2008 09:23 [ Read all ]
Websites
poweroff


http://www.boot-land.net/forums/index.php?...amp;hl=Poweroff
http://www.boot-land.net/for ...

by rawral, Friday, 10 October 2008 22:38 [ Read all ]
VistaPE
Vista feature pack


hello everybody wink.gif

it's a beta script, but i want to share this scripts with maximum users; in the goal to help me.
Can you test this script and report me suggesti ...

by ludovici, Friday, 10 October 2008 21:51 [ Read all ]
RSS news
news: 4DOS 7.87


Build 187 (Version 7.87) of 4DOS was released today! Mostly these are bug fixes, including: # Fixed my bug causing DELAY /M and _CPUSPEED sporadic hang-up # _WINTICKS now works on 8086-286 too # TIMER accuracy now 10 ms on 8086-286 too (but still not under OS/2) # TITLEPROMPT now works under OS/ ...

by RSS, Friday, 10 October 2008 20:22 [ Read all ]
Windows 2K/XP/2003 and Vista
How many ways exist to access hdd images?


Up until now i have used exclusively the ISO format for my PE.
It gave me the advantage that the data was accessable in various ways.
Direct boot, RAM boot and running apps like portable software, were the ones i used.

Since a 210MB MiniCD, becomes now a bit too small to house t ...

by MedEvil, Friday, 10 October 2008 19:22 [ Read all ]
Boot Methods
Run XPe from HD image


I want to run another Operating System (specifically Windows XPe) that is NOT installed on a partition of the HDD.
ATM i am running this installed version of this XPe under a Virtual Machine program in normal Windows XP Pro.
I am trying to work out if i am able to run this Virtual Machine ...

by morroman, Friday, 10 October 2008 13:34 [ Read all ]
Suggestions and Requests
Response to Jesse Heitlager's email


I received an email via boot-land which I will post here in full:

QUOTE
dear Amalux,

i've got two simple questions, but i'll first tell you about the environment.

i take care of unat ...

by amalux, Friday, 10 October 2008 13:15 [ Read all ]
Community forum
World's Most Disgusting Apartment Is In Houston(Pics)


What a mess.. wink.gif




by Nuno Brito, Friday, 10 October 2008 09:37 [ Read all ]
Boot Methods
Project Upx




Hi all



with Upx project it possible do creating a DVD multi boot
for installing 2 versions of Win2003, a 32-bit and 64-bit.


Thank you

Regards ...

by Z900, Friday, 10 October 2008 08:25 [ Read all ]
nativeEx & LiveXP
PEnetwork, Change computer name.


A while ago I posted a question on how to get a randomized computer name. Holger posted that the beta of penetwork can do this but I cant get it to work. In the Penetwork script I click start editor in the network profiles section. I then type in a profile name and click add to add it to the network ...

by esgaroth, Thursday, 09 October 2008 18:42 [ Read all ]
Support and Bug reporting
Bluescreen (BSOD) after Play button pushed, Anti Virus disturbs


Hi there,

because of an article of a german computer magazine I tried tu build my own VistPE with the help of WinBuilder (v075, beta5; tried beta 4 also).
Everything before I have to push Play button went fine, even installing WAIK and MSXML6.0 Parser.
I did it with original Vis ...

by ChrisP, Thursday, 09 October 2008 17:57 [ Read all ]
Hello world!
VMware Player or Workstation from PE boot disk


Hi -- new to the group and all that, but I've spent the day looking through the site, playing with Winbuilder and still can't figure out how to do what I started out to accomplish. Simply put:

I'd like to have a CD (since nearly all PCs have CDs, but not all PCs can boot fro ...

by Fleagle, Wednesday, 08 October 2008 22:41 [ Read all ]
Windows 2K/XP/2003 and Vista
Installation MultiDVD Winxp Sp3/ Win2003 Sp2



Hi

with grub4dos it's possible create a file.iso that
containing the installation files for Windows 2003 32bit
and 64-bit updated with the latest Service Pack?


It can loader Setupldr.bin of the menu Grub4dos?
It can possibile to start the insta ...

by Z900, Wednesday, 08 October 2008 20:18 [ Read all ]
WinBuilder
Need help adding VLC player script - Startmenu shortcuts are not working


Hi,
I have been working with wb since last month (quite new and request you not to be hard on me pls). I have been making several ISOs of vistape (Only VistaPE I am interested in) successfully. Some of them are customized based on my need.

First of all, many thanks to you all who mad ...

by pokemon1, Wednesday, 08 October 2008 13:58 [ Read all ]
nativeEx & LiveXP
VMWare EMU Fails with LiveXP


I was not able to Run the LiveXP script and sucessfully run the EMU in VMWare.

I did some testing and compared it to the VistaPE VMWare script and this is what I came up with:

[Main]

by Gooroo, Wednesday, 08 October 2008 11:28 [ Read all ]
Websites
Open IT Online - (*.doc, *.rtf, *.odt, *.sxw,*.xls, *.csv, *.ods, *.sxc,*.ppt, *.pps, *.odp, *.sxi,*.jpg, *.gif,*.png)


https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/6350

QUOTE
For the moment, Open IT Online handles the following type of files:

by TheHive, Wednesday, 08 October 2008 05:18 [ Read all ]
Websites
Listē (ListSquared) - small program for creating lists or tables


http://www.bitride.com/freeware/listsquared/info.php

QUOTE
What can Listē do with such a small footprint?
Import and export ...

by TheHive, Wednesday, 08 October 2008 05:02 [ Read all ]
Websites
Synkron - Synchronise multiple folders


Synkron - Synchronise multiple folders

http://synkron.sourceforge.net/

QUOTE
Main goals of Synkron:

Synchronise multiple folder ...

by TheHive, Wednesday, 08 October 2008 04:42 [ Read all ]
Support and Bug reporting
Ping command broken


Hi all,

i believe the ping command is broken

#ip should work
If,Ping,209.85.171.99,Message,"Google is there"

# nit sure if names are allowd
If,Ping,google.com,Message,"Google is there"


in both cases i get nothing. I use ...

by ctmag, Wednesday, 08 October 2008 04:27 [ Read all ]
Tftpd32
Realtek RTL8111B/8111C


Hello! I already for a long time use Tftpd32. On new motherboard such as Gigabyte GA-P35-S3 having built in network card Realtek RTL8111B/8111C I have a problem loading. At loading the loader pxelinux there is a menu and after a choice of item there is a full lag. Thus on a server appears such l ...

by JekaRus, Wednesday, 08 October 2008 04:02 [ Read all ]
VistaPE
Upload file to VistaPE script


Can I upload my .script to vistape server ??
why everyone had subdomain at boot-land.net ?

Sorry bad english.. I hope you know what I mean.. smile.gif ...

by mul14, Tuesday, 07 October 2008 22:33 [ Read all ]
Project forge
nanoVIS


nanoVIS v1.20 (beta)

mihi started and then seemingly abandoned (what i think is) a cool project to use a tiny file or set of files to run a PE system with explorer shell from a standar ...

by dennis123123, Tuesday, 07 October 2008 18:20 [ Read all ]
Screenshots
VistaPE Ludovici






by ludovici, Tuesday, 07 October 2008 14:00 [ Read all ]
nativeEx & LiveXP
XP LiveCD DirDelete Error (DP MassStorage); HALT


Hello everyone,

I am a newbie to this, but also a technical person.

Here is what I did (as basic as I could get):
  • I installed WinBuilder to C:\WinBuilder.
  • Specified source as H:\XPSP2\ (from MSDN SP2 original disk)
  • Did a recommended D ...

by Gooroo, Tuesday, 07 October 2008 08:48 [ Read all ]
VistaPE
It work in beta 1 but now doesn't work


Hi i haven't been on in a while because even thou vistape beta 1 (currently using) is a bit big at least it does what i want from it. However i have just tested the vistape beta3 and i have found it doesn't do what beta1 did. For example

The hta script below reads all the folders ...

by paul vickers, Tuesday, 07 October 2008 07:18 [ Read all ]
Tftpd32
tftpd32 dhcp ignores "Server interface" selection?


I don't know if I am doing something wrong or what, but I have 2 network cards in my computer and even though I specifically select the 2nd network card in tftpd32, it still hands out ip addresses via dhcp on both adapters, even overriding my router downstream and shanghiing new connections from ...

by Pete, Monday, 06 October 2008 16:52 [ Read all ]
Support and Bug reporting
[Solved] Winbuilder does not refresh the values from script.project


Hi all,

As vistape can use different sourcetypes (WAIK downloaded from the web, Server2008 downloaded from the web and a local Vista DVD) I want to use a script that can download the needed files and then sets the ...

by ctmag, Monday, 06 October 2008 06:04 [ Read all ]
Websites
Livestation - TV online


http://www.livestation.com/

Livestation Player 2.1.0 - Offers a range of live radio and television channels to your computer over a broadband network

Note: Free Login Registration

Alot of good informative stat ...

by TheHive, Monday, 06 October 2008 04:28 [ Read all ]
News
Newsletter - 5th of October, 2008


Hi everyone!

This week's newsletter has been prepared and sent to all subscribed members.

You can read it here - http://boot-land.net/newsletters/081005-OC...Newsletter.html

by Nuno Brito, Sunday, 05 October 2008 22:51 [ Read all ]
Tutorials
Make your own NT OS Loader (NTLDR+SetupLDR)


This is what you need to do:
1. Extract Setupldr.exe/osloader.exe from XP or W2k3 Source.
2. Customise the setupldr.exe/osloader.exe to your liking.
3. When done you need to type this in the cmd prompt window.
CODE
QUOTE
AnV ...

by TheHive, Thursday, 02 October 2008 03:05 [ Read all ]
Community forum
Can you pass to the third grade?


[Joke] Little Eddy's Test

A first-grade teacher was having trouble with one of her students.

The teacher asked, "Eddy what is your problem?" Eddy answered, "I'm too smart for the first-grade. My sister is in the third -grade and I'm smarter than she ...

by TheHive, Thursday, 02 October 2008 02:44 [ Read all ]
News
Happy birthday AeroXP!


Almost on the end of day but it's the intention that counts - HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!

thumbup.gif ...

by Nuno Brito, Wednesday, 01 October 2008 21:30 [ Read all ]
Project forge
Announcing ODIN A free open source disk imaging tool


I would like to point you at a new program to backup and restore partitions or complete hard disks. You can download it from here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/odin-win/.

ODIN (Open Disk Imager in a Nutshell) is a ...

by ungebremst, Wednesday, 01 October 2008 19:55 [ Read all ]
Support and Bug reporting
nLite Source with XP-Setup Error


Forgive me if this has been asked before, can't find anything specific to my issue. I'm trying to use XP-Setup from PE to fresh install XP using an nLited source (works fine with standard source). XP-Setup doesn't recognize nLite source, 'WINNT32.EXE not found' or similar. ...

by amalux, Wednesday, 01 October 2008 15:27 [ Read all ]
News
Newsletter - 30th of September, 2008


The fresh newsletter is being sent to mail boxes of community members and if you want to take a quick peek it can also be read here - http://boot-land.net/newsletters/080930-SE...Newsletter.html

Th ...

by Nuno Brito, Wednesday, 01 October 2008 06:31 [ Read all ]
Portuguese
como usar VM no projeto VistaPE


smile.gif Caro Nuno, parabens pelo seu magnifico projeto. Gostaria de obter informacoes a respeito do uso de maq virtual. Sei que li algo a respeito por aqui, mas a fartura de informacoes e ...

by Paulo Figueiredo, Tuesday, 30 September 2008 23:44 [ Read all ]
WinBuilder
Question about the best path to a goal


I am currently working on an existing PE ISO to make it fit my needs.
  • the ISO as small as possible (or as reasonably possible)
  • To add VNC for remote access to the PE after it boots
  • Keep the rest of the PE fully functional (ie: don't break anything)
  • It's c ...

by ruddykins, Tuesday, 30 September 2008 22:38 [ Read all ]
Suggestions and Requests
Survey: I use my Pe for ...


Just a little survey inspired by some post i've read about, what's suppose to be 'the proper use' of a PE and what not.

In said thread one of the posters 'tried' to forbid others to use a PE for anything but bare bones recovery work.
Everytime somebody had a m ...

by MedEvil, Tuesday, 30 September 2008 22:23 [ Read all ]
Websites
Wininstall LE re-released


Just found out, thanks to the msfn board, that a newish version of Wininstall LE has been re-released as a FREE product from the new company that acquired "ondemandsoftware":
http://www.scalable.com/WinINSTALL_LE.asp ...

by jaclaz, Tuesday, 30 September 2008 17:54 [ Read all ]
Screenshots
Wrong Display or..?


Take a look at this guys.It's real confusing me.