Microsoft® Windows® Desktop Deployment Resource Kit

Customizing Windows PE

The uncustomized version of Windows PE is useful for preparing computers for installation, but you don’t realize its full power until you customize it. You can add your own 32-bit command-line tools, scripts, optional components, and so on. To do that, you need the Windows PE source files and (possibly but not always) a Windows XP Professional product CD, both of which must have matching build numbers. You also need access to any command-line tools, scripts, and device drivers that you want to add to Windows PE. The Windows PE source files you received from Microsoft contain the following folders:

• \. The root folder of the source files contains four files: Win51, Win51ip, Win51ip.sp1, and Winbom.ini. When you build a customized ...