I am just curious to see the modifications people have made to it.
I posted this here so people would not get confused and post regular desktop screen shots here.

Here is mine:

Here are my screens. I made this WinPe for the company I work. I Photoshopped the name from the company, so it's unreadable.......

Boot Screen

Init

Main Menu

Tool Menu

About Screen

Edit: Changed Images to links.

Superbikkel: What version did you you use Narts or Microsoft. If you used MS you certainly spent a ton of time messing with plugins. That is a great layout also did you write the code for it? Nice work.

Very impressive my boy

Edit:
Would like a look at your ini file for that one Kewl?

Superbikkel Do you have a plug in for that APE3.3?

I wish i knew how to use WinPE

Looks like it's reading time when I get time First stop, THE STICKY.

(I've never even looked at WinPE before, just started messing with BartPE....)

You mean my HTA file?

APE is not a plugin.

I think it will be hard to implement at any other location that where we use it. It heavily interacts with a server to store some data for example.


Also, as I made this partially during working time, and for my company, I think they will be less then pleased when I distribute APE.
Some of our competititors would like to have it (in fact: have asked me for it). But I'd like to hang on to my job for a little while longer

BTW: It's based on plain WinPE 1.2, not BART's.

That's impressive! I didn't know that someone could do something like that with PE. Did this take a long time? Erf, too bad for me, I'm not working on PE for something the users could use, just for something that does all the work automatically...so I just don't need something beautiful and user-friendly like APE.

Did it take a long time????

Between the first version and the last version is about 1,5 years.

Everytime my collegues or I came up with something that we wanted in PE, and I integrated it.

It is coded in Visual Basic, and it uses no plugins like Bart does.

Before you all think I'm just bragging here: I have on occasion looked how Bart did it.

People, POST LINKS to the humongous images that screw up our tables... PLZ POST LINKS!!!!

Well what size would you like them? Since there is no suggested size in the rules..
I try to keep mine at 800x600 or lower.

Outstanding work, I am trying to create a similar one for work. Can you at least post some lessons learned for the rest of us trying to get where you are?

There is alot of examples here on how to make some headway using hta's/batchfiles and the like.

No worries my boy, however not much use posting your so called creation if you cannot part your knowledge on how you made this for everyone else here?

Topic is "Post your screenshots", not "Post your knowledge".

I cannot post APE but I can help anyone with a specific question on how to get something working (if I know how).

So: want to know something: ask!
Only if it compromises intelectual property of my employer, or it can cause economical damage to my employer I will not answer.

OK I think you have said enough. I still think this work is impressive, however its a pity the concept cannot be shared with out compromising your position. What does your employer say about posting this work?Anyway its basically a fancy menu for pe at any rate.

Here's Mine - Bart'sPE Based with XPE plugin (Explorer etc)

Nice Desktop Sparticus

Very good example much more advanced than mine.

Here's Mine

It took months of work... maybe its going at least a half a year of "development"... I'm not really sure...

Its BartPE based using a slimmed down XP SP2 RC2 as the source (thanks to nLite 0.96.2)

And yes, these pictures are real, and I have full sound and video working...

Sorry about not releasing all of my plug-ins... I just haven't gotten around to it... and of course I haven't had time to write any real documentation... so it wouldn't be fare to release the more difficult ones yet... the screen captures themselves took a good chunk of time. I hope to have a real website soon, with small tips, plug-ins, etc... something that will do it justice, and help others out at the same time.

I have to go to bed now... but I'l check back tommorrow morning at work... just to see how far your jaws dropped... just kidding

Very nice work Troglodyte.

I'm looking forward to the releases of your plugins. Maybe we can also use them in real WinPE.

Troglodyte -- would mind posting where you got your ntoskrnl in the screen shot? I really like that one. I am tired of looking at the Longhorn boot screen.

@superbikkel

Thank you very much...



I also want to say that you have done a wonderful job utilizing MS's WinPE... I think I can safely say that it would have taken me much longer to get my disc to this point if it wasn't for Bart and his pe builder.

I will release my plug-ins soon enough... some of them are already available if you look hard enough. But only like 3-5 or so, and they are probably outdated by now. Let me clarify though, I didn't create ALL of the plug-ins that I have available on my distrubution, just many of them were created from scratch or heavily modified by myself. Many were gotten off the official forum, were I also post a lot.

Sperbikkel, may I ask though, is there are particular reason that you are using the official MS's WinPE Builder? I don't think I would have the time or need to convert the plug-ins to MS PE format. I would probably leave that up to you. Of course, I would be glad to assist you any other way I could.

Thanks for the compliments,

Trog

@likuidkewl



Boot Screen here...

So you are one of the few people using Longhorn as the source with PE Builder? If so, how is it working?

I am using WinPE not Bart's, Works like a charm I am using 4029 now. I have posted instructions elsewhere as to how to obtain PE from Longhorn 4051->4074. Will write more when I switch to using 4053 as a source. thanks for the boot screen.

I started with WinPE before I ever heard of BartPE.

When I found out about BartPE, I wouldn’t give up my version anymore

It does most of what I want it to do, and so far I could always get everything (well, it's not that much) to work.

APE is really used in an industrial environment. We use it to preinstall systems, to refresh test-systems (with Ghost32), to do basic tests and Anti-Virus runs on systems from customers.

I want to make sure my PE is legal, and working perfectly so therefore I stick with the official WinPE.

I have been using that boot screen made from that guide for many months works very well & looks the part.

Here is mine:

@Kenny-- Looks good. Are you using Geoshell?

Thanks

Yes, its GeoShell and nu2menu.

here is mine...
its partPE with nu2menu as the shell (with TheTruths winlogon legit hack) and bginfo and Program Manager for its speed...

Here is my new project for WinPE using BlackBox, some Foood icons and Microsoft's WinPE.
This shot is the same as the attached image:
http://www.zer0-tec.net/likuidkewl/screen1.jpg
My List of ERD tools I use most often
http://www.zer0-tec.net/likuidkewl/screen2.jpg
And finally computer management with the transparency on the menus
http://www.zer0-tec.net/likuidkewl/screen3.jpg

Just FYI this was simple and only took about 5-6 hours to get the base image done and ready to roll. I am still refining my Rescue/Install Disc....

I am answering to the question below, make use of a screwup.



Well since I don't load anything at startup, I use the menu when i need the network and scripting etc. It only takes about 30-45 seconds. I find that launching the Batch files after PE starts is great time saver, I mean do you really need HTA/VBS/ADO just for a quick "Crap I locked myself out my local account call?" No and in that case you don't need a network either!

how long does it take to finish loading the disk?

i thought about using bb but coz i wanted speed and a usable "desktop" i went the progman route

How did you get Computer Management working??

It refused to load when I tried it.

**Removed as it doesn't work***

In the pic I was aiming at the I386 folder. But trying to aim it at the Windows Dir doesn't wok, when I get a minute I am going to look into why.

Ok I got it to work, I took Sysinternals Process Explorer and ran the ERD compmgmt.exe in windows and realized it relies on Diskpart. So I moved the compmgmt.exe and the associated diskmanagerAPI.DLL to the %SYSTEMROOT%\System32 folder along with thetruths ERDlogon.exe and the batch file. Low and behold it works. HTH

EDIT added a screenshot of my eventlog.
EDIT #2 I just realized my date is off by 4 hours, in the event log of winpe wierd...

Hey SUPERBIKKEL,
How did you edit the boot screen? (The one you show at http://www.bbgo.nl/winpe/pe_load.jpg ).

Loof

With Recource Hacker. Really simple.

Perfect. Thank you.

Loof

whats the program that shows all the info about drives and stuff on the desktop ?

Bginfo from Systernals

Here This is my BartPE based build. My WinPE based build doesn't look quite so good...yet.

Cheers

Hi superbikkel,

ive done a little experimenting with winPE and i wish to remain using it for the same reasons as you.
what im trying to do is replace the cmd on startup with an exe, actually its a flash based exe. i want to make an app in flash and use it to call the various tools that i use.

Are you asking how to do it? Or just stating some information.

I guess you'd have to add Flash support first and then change the line in the registry (setupreg.hiv ?) that specifies the shell executable (cmd.exe by default). Changing the line in the registry is easy, but I'm not sure how you would go about adding Flash support in WinPE.

Cheers

Yes it is setupreg.hiv, if you are working on WinPE 2004 just add a file called winpeshl.ini to your system32 folder with the [AppLaunch] your.exe and it will skip the defaults and load your program. The flash is a little more difficult though.

Well I will post a new PE screen I guess it has been a while.
Now I switched to WinPE 2004 (AKA 1.5) and the Nu2menu, black box was being horribly difficult with VBS scripting for some reason.

[QUOTE]Now I switched to WinPE 2004 (AKA 1.5)

Likuidkewl, on what Microsoft CD is that on? We have an Enterprise Select Agreement and the only version I can find in our library is 1.2. Since we are not an OEM, I don't have access to the OPK. Any ideas?

Contact your TAM, I know a few people had to do this to get ahold of it.