Is it possible to integrate drivers other than NIC drivers, so tests can be run from within the enviroment.
Tests for GPU, sound card, modem, etc.

Is it true that WinPE 2.1 is stripped of directx?

They support adding drivers for Gfx, Masstorage devices (SATA/HBA/SCSI/IDE), NIC... Sound and graphics are somewhat challenging as they often use additional .dll / .exe and so on which are NOT often mapped to conent of a WinPE image. Yes, ActiveX is NOT part of WinPE.... defeats the purpose really.

It's possible indeed.

But I recommend building a VistaPE rather than plain WinPE 2.x with the tools that come from MS.

Windows PE 2.x comes bundled as the install OS for Vista and also available inside the WAIK package that is freely downloadable from MS: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details...a5-5b50c657de08

Look for some info regarding how activeX can be installed to a PE based boot disk :
http://www.boot-land.net/forums/?showtopic=2745 (at the time developed for XP PE but you can ask the author to adapt to WinPE 2.x as the procedure is quite similar)

Also another interesting script here for adding IE and more functionality: http://www.boot-land.net/forums/?showtopic=3821

And an open source driver slipstreamer for WinPE 2.x : http://www.boot-land.net/forums/?showtopic=4357

Really cool stuff.

But would this new PE that i would build be the same in functionality as the original coming with WAIK?



I looked at the info in the link. I understand that it might give register .dll and .ocx functionality; but how do I install, or rather integrate directX 9.0c e.g. into PE WIM image? I must admit that I lack a basic understanding of what files are needed to be copied over and registered for directX to function properly from within PE...