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Ultimate Boot CD for Windows change log: v3.0 Documentation will be included in 3.0.1 or 3.1, whichever comes sooner. PE Builder change log file v3.1.10a Bugfix release PE Builder would report, File "C:\pebuilder3110\BartPE\i386\system32\NTOSKRNL.EXE" not found, on some older windows versions. Changes to pebuilder.exe: - After building, PE Builder checks if files required for booting BartPE are missing. The messages printed about missing files should have been warning messages, but they where error messages. Changed them to warning. - The pre-flight check also did not work OK for server 2003 (with no SP) and Windows XP with SP1, this has been fixed. v3.1.10 Boot BartPE on a system with 64MB Did you ever try to boot BartPE on a system with only 64MB of memory? I used to keep a separate CD (nickname "SmallPE") for this. This CD did not have a ramdrive and some other plugins, so that it would boot on those old 64MB systems. Not anymore! Thanks to an updated nu2menu and a little ramdisk parameter tuning, you can use the same BartPE CD also for 64MB system. Of course this does not include huge and hungry plugins like xpe and so... Supported languages PE Builder currently supports the following languages: english*, dutch*, czech*, german*, japanese*, russian*, slovak*, arabic, brazilian, chinese_chs, chinese_traditional_bg5, french, greek, italian, macedonian, polish, portuguese, romanian, spanish and turkish. (*) Help pages are also available. Pre-Flight check This is a first attempt to check if all files required to boot BartPE exist in the output location. At current a warning message is printed if a file is missing. See below for more details... Changes to pebuilder.exe: - Added an error and warning counter on build dialog. - Added a value of 8 to SourceDisksFiles attribute. This will rename the filename to uppercase. - Uppercasing windows files is only done, when an ISO image is build. - Added an option where you can disable uppercasing the windows files. - The output directory was created in uppercase, while this is not needed. Fixed it. - Added a routine that, after building, checks if files required for booting BartPE are missing from the output directory. Prints warning messages if files are missing. - Added a parser variable @Lcid@, which expands to the system default language identifier (for example "409"). - Added an option to erase the ISO image and the output folder after succesfull CD burn. - When burning using starburn, only devices capable of writing to CD or DVD are shown in the device listbox. Also when no device is selected PE Builder will select the best device for you. Changed items: + pebuilder.inf: Removed olethk32.dll from KnownDLLs. W2k3 SP1 will crash if the NTVDM.EXE is stored in i386\system32 with the above RegKey. This happens for example with the dospe plugin. In W2k3 the olethk32.dll doesn't exist in the KnownDll List. + pebuilder.inf: bootfont.bin is now also copied. Mainly used in non-english languages. It uses the new sourcedisksfiles attribute value of 8 to uppercase the file in ISO images. + nu2shell.exe: v1.3, the environment variables USERPROFILE and ALLUSERSPROFILE where not set correctly (in fact they where erased). Fixed. + plugin\stinger: updated to work with new stinger filenames like "stng259.exe". + plugin\irfanview: added "files" folder. + plugin\ramdisk: updated ramdisk.inf. Now the ramdisk switches to 4MB in size when the system is low on memory. Normally systems with 90MB or less will end up with a 4MB ramdisk. This enables you to run your normal BartPE CD on system with only 64MB of memory. + plugin\nu2menu: updated nu2menu.exe to v0.3.52. Nu2menu was running out of memory a bit fast on systems with very little memory (<64MB). Fixed memory allocation bug. - plugin\total commander\wincmd.ini, Small83Names=0 - Updated the following languages files: lang\english.lng: updated, the following language numbers: 288-293 lang\dutch.lng lang\chinese_chs.lng lang\czech.lng lang\dutch.lng lang\english.lng lang\french.lng lang\german.lng lang\greek.lng lang\italian.lng lang\macedonian.lng lang\polish.lng lang\romanian.lng lang\slovak.lng lang\spanish.lng - Updated the following help files: help\english\pluginformat.htm, added help for SourceDisksFiles attribute value 8. help\dutch\pluginformat.htm Added items: - Added the following languages: lang\arabic.lng lang\brazilian.lng lang\chinese_traditional_bg5.lng lang\japanese.lng lang\russian.lng lang\portuguese.lng lang\russian.lng lang\turkish.lng v3.1.9 stable release Changes to pebuilder.exe: - Made the plugin and build dialog bigger, now you can "see" more. - When adding a custom folder, the build log showed "Error: Adding custom directory: <path>", while everything was fine. Fixed it. Added items: - plugin\starwind, forgot to add it in previous version. - plugin\deepburner, forgot to add some files in previous version. Changed items: - lang\english.lng: updated, the following language numbers: 24 - lang\dutch.lng: updated to reflect change to english.lng v3.1.8b bugfix release Changes to pebuilder.exe: - Bug fix: When booting an error occurs: Could not load i386\system32\BIOSINFO.INF Error code 18. Problem was that the system32 folder (and all registry related files) where in lowercase. Fix it. v3.1.8a beta release Changes to pebuilder.exe: - Bug fix: When trying to copy "setupreg.hiv=a,,2" pebuilder always took the files from the pebuilder directory (default registry build location). PE Builder now never looks in de pebuilder directory anymore (maybe add an attribuut in time when needed). - Changed the registry building routines for the above bug fix. Instead of using the pebuilder directory as a temporarily place for building the registry files, PE Builder now directly uses the output location. This also saves an extra copy step. - A lot of changes to the program for multi language support. - Starburn now using SPTi, no need for aspi (WnASPI32.dll) anymore. - Improved starburn burning routines. - Added a data verify option for starburn. - Added context sensive and multilanguage enabled help (F1 key). See translations.txt for more information. - If you change the plugin list columnwidth, the columnwidth is saved to input.inf as "pluginColumns". - Ability to suppress warnings (input.inf -> SupressWarnings=1) - Added a parser variable @Language@, which expands to the filename of the current selected language (for example "german"). - Added a new "search" dialog. This dialog will search all drives (of the type: fixed, CD-Rom or removable) and all directories for valid windows installation files. Depending on how much files are on your system, this can take a while! When more than one valid location is found, a dialog will appear where you can select which location you want to use. - Somehow I managed to remove the duplicateonce option in mkisofs, have put it back. - Added language autodetect, to enable this you must fill in the lcid in the language file. - The current language file is copied on the CD as system32\lang\default.lng (directory id for "system32\lang" is 29999). Changed items: - lang\english.lng: updated, other languages need to check/update the following language strings: 35, 159-162, 206-216, 260-287 added lcid=409 - lang\dutch.lng: almost redone the entire file (dutch is my first language) added lcid=413 - plugin\bartpe\netconfig.exe, updated for multilanguage support. Removed items: - Removed the firefox plugin, instead of this a new "ready to use" plugin has been created as a separate download. Check the PE Builder page for this. v3.1.7 Changes to pebuilder.exe: - More changes to the program for multi language support. - Starburn devices can be selected manually (not autodetect). - Starburn now defaults to TAO write mode and not DAO. - You can now select between burning with cdrecord or starburn. - Fixed, [<<] and [>>] navigation buttons when using a non-english language. Added items: - deepburner plugin (see plugin\deepburner\deepburner.htm) Changed items: - lang\english.lng: updated - lang\dutch.lng: updated - pebuider.inf: added enable showing ACL permissions sheet on files and folders - firefox plugin, create a complete new plugin. v3.1.6 Changes to pebuilder.exe: - More changes to the program for multi language support. v3.1.5 Changes to pebuilder.exe: - A lot of changes made to whole program for multi language support. - In a network .inf file, if the word (class) "Net" is written in lowercase it causes the builder to skip it as an unsupported class. This has been fixed by using a caseless compare. - Skipping the beta popup warning when running with -auto parameter on the command line. - Changed the uppercase function, now uppercase is called *after* the plugins are parsed. Directories and files with dirid < 30000 are converted to uppercase. Added items: - plugin\starwind: iSCSI Target [server] from Rocket Division Software Changed items: - plugin\zz5\nu2shell: There was some testing code left behind in nu2shell.exe that fixed the ramdrive letter to "b:", removed it. - plugin\zz5\nu2shell\nu2shell.inf: Fixed space in path problem. v3.1.4 beta release Changes to pebuilder.exe: - The Windows files are build/copied in UPPERCASE. No need for mkisofs.exe to uppercase the entire CD anymore. This opens the option to burn for example with Nero Burning Rom v6.6.0.6 (and higher). Here is how to burn when using Nero Burning Rom: 1) New compilation, CD-ROM (Boot), [Boot] Image file=<PE-Builder>\BartPE\bootsect.bin, kind of emulation=no emulation, number of loaded sectors=4 [ISO] data mode=1, file system=ISO 9660:1999 *** Important! any other file system then "ISO 9660:1999" will not work!!! *** 2) Add all files and folders from your pebuilder output folder (<PE-Builder>\BartPE by default) to your compilation. 3) Burn it. - Added a "config" button to the plugin dialog to start a configuration tool for a plugin. This configuration tool can be a script or a executable. Add to the [PEBuilder] section the key "Config". Sample: [PEBuilder] Name="Nu2Shell" Enable=1 Config=nu2shellcfg.exe @PluginFile@ - Added a parser variable @PluginFile@, which expands to the filename of the current plugin (absolute path). - Added a "refresh" button to the plugin dialog to reread the plugin files. - Added "XP style look". - Added a check for administrator rights, for building pebuilder needs administrator rights. - Added a check to tell the user that a beta version is being used. Changed items: - plugin\zz5\nu2shell: Added "nu2shellcfg.exe" for setting password and boot prompt. See "config" button in PE Builder plugin dialog. - plugin\zz5\nu2shell: When a ramdrive is found, a profile is automatically build on the ramdrive. The following shell folder IDs are created: CSIDL_PROFILE, CSIDL_FAVORITES, CSIDL_RECENT, CSIDL_SENDTO, CSIDL_STARTMENU, CSIDL_DESKTOPDIRECTORY, CSIDL_NETHOOD, CSIDL_APPDATA, CSIDL_PRINTHOOD, CSIDL_LOCAL_APPDATA, CSIDL_COMMON_STARTMENU, CSIDL_COMMON_PROGRAMS, CSIDL_COMMON_STARTUP, CSIDL_COMMON_DESKTOPDIRECTORY. - pebuilder.inf, small change, removed winbom.ini and winpeoem.sif. Added fsutil.exe - plugin\ramdrive: Updated to a Nu2 Production version 5.2.10.2. This version is specially created for BartPE. Added items: - plugin\firefox: Firefox v1.0.1 - pe2usb.cmd: this installs BartPE to USB Flash Drive using setupldr from w2ksp1 with a ramdisk-bootstrap-loader. See pe2usb.txt for more info. Removed items: - plugin\peloader, sorry theTruth! - plugin\!profiles. Nu2shell.exe now creates the profiles. v3.1.3 public release Changes to pebuilder.exe: - Changed the way that the splash screen was destroyed. Hopefully this will fix that sometimes pebuilder comes up behind some other window. - PE Builder does not copy addon language files like spr*.dll and obr*.dll anymore. These files can be found in the file layout.inf section SourceDisksFiles and have a number between 700 and 740 in the 8th column. These files would overwrite the original file that is in the correct language. For example: When building from Windows XP SP2 US, xpsp2res.dll would be in the "Lithuanian" language. - If the "-auto" command line option is specified, pebuilder does not prompt the license agreement. Changed items: - plugin\peinst.cmd: added timeout=30 option for boot.ini and a small path fix for mkbt.exe. - plugin\autorun: updated to v1.0.5 - plugin\nu2menu\nu2menu.xml: Added a dummy @SetMenuPos( 'L','B' ) to fix position of the "go" button after screen resolution change. - plugin\ultravnc\ultravnc.inf: small fix if missing some files - plugin\zz5\peloader\peloader_nu2menu.xml: removed an invalid line <?xml version="1.0"?>. Added items: - plugin\zz5\nu2shell: my own version of "peloader" (sorry TheTruth). Functionality is simular but with a boot password protection. See nu2shell.txt for more info. Changed items: - plugin\autorun: updated to v1.0.5. - plugin\peinst: small bugfix. Added "timeout=30" when installing to boot.ini. - plugin\ultravnc\ultravnc.cmd: minor changes. v3.1.2 public release Changes to pebuilder.exe: - Fixed a bug when adding some network drivers. PE Builder did not find the device sections when the Version/provider string is not equal to the key listed in the Manufacturer section. Fixed. - The "ISOduplicatesonce=1" option in the input.inf did not work, fixed. v3.1.1 Changes to pebuilder.exe: - The "-exit" command line parameter did not work, fixed. Changed items: - Updated plugin\ultravnc. Some small changes and fixes. Added the ultravnc.htm file. v3.1.0 public release Changes to pebuilder.exe: - Fixed a bug when adding storage drivers. PE Builder did not add the last line from the "HardwareIds.scsi.xxx" section. Changed items: - the help files (help\*.htm) have been updated. - Updated plugin\ramdisk\ramdriv.sys to v5.2.10.2m. Should fix freezing problems on boot when running on Virtual PC. - Updated pebuilder.inf, added traffic.dll (needed for pathping.exe) - Updated pebuilder splashscreen and the bartpe wallpaper (blue look). Added items: - added plugin\ultravnc. VNC can be run in server mode, so you can connect to BartPE system. Removed items: - Removed plugin\vncviewer. You should now use ultravnc. v3.0.37 beta Changes to pebuilder.exe: - Fixed a bug when adding some network drivers. PE Builder did not handle empty Sections correctly and reported something like "Error: Section "DEFAULTDESTDIRS" does not exist..." - Fixed program crash when hitting Escape key while building. - Changed default font to tahoma, this way pebuilder also looks nice when running in BartPE. Yes pebuilder runs fine on BartPE. v3.0.36 beta Changes to pebuilder.exe: - Fixed a bug when adding some network drivers. PE Builder did not handle the INF DestinationDirs Section correct as described in Windows DDK Device Installation. - Fixed a bug when adding some network drivers. PE Builder did not select the correct CopyFiles Section. v3.0.35 New items: - added a first version of my own network configuration GUI (netconfig.exe) You can find it in the menu as system->network->Load Network Support (GUI) Changes to pebuilder.exe: - Added hnetcfg.dll to pluging\bartpe\bartpe.inf, to fix filesharing trouble with winxp/sp2. - Filtered out "disk" and "tape" devices from the devicelist combobox. - Added an advanced option to enable absolute output path. - Fixed problem with compressed driver files (for example "yk51x86.sy_") in drivers folder. - Fixed problem with some network drivers, where pebuilder complains about a section not having a copyfiles key. Pebuilder produced an error something like: Error: File "c:\...\drivers\Net\cb102\CB102B.Reg" does not exist... - Fixed "cdrecord: No such file or directory" error when path to iso image contained spaces. - Many small internal code changes. Changed items: - Updated plugin\ramdisk\ramdriv.sys to v5.2.10.1 - Updated nu2menu to v0.3.49 (now supports hidden menu items) - Change plugin\bartpe, added the new Network Configuration Tool (netconfig.exe) added Load Fileshare Support (msserver.cmd) and some other small changes. v3.0.34 Changes to pebuilder.exe: - Output directory is automatically created when using "-auto" argument. - Added CD burning (cdrecord.exe). Using Reanimatolog's Win32/Mingw32 version 2.01 of mkisofs.exe and cdrecord.exe for this. There is also a erase option and a combobox for selecting the writer device. - Fixed a bug in processing driver INF files (in drivers folder), this caused intel drivers failing to load (error 5 access denied). Now all sections (not only the first) from a copyfiles line are processed. Changed items: - pebuilder.inf: Removed [BuildISO] exec values. Use the GUI to change burning option. I will add more customized options in next version. - Some small changes. v3.0.33 Changes to pebuilder.exe: - Completely new user interface. Because of this alot has changed! - Changed the icon. - Changed the splash screen. - When you start PE Builder for the first time, you must agree to the license agreement. - On first build the windows end-user license agreement (eula.txt) is shown. - Added "skip building registry" and "skip building files" in the option screen for advanced users. - Added "Build ISO (F5)" option to the "Builder" menu to quickly rebuild the ISO image. - New command line options: -auto -exit -overwrite -verbose -skipregistry -skipfiles -buildiso See help index "Commandline options" for more info. - PE Builder now returns the number of errors while building as the errorlevel. - When pebuilder starts building it first completely erases the output folder. This is somewhat dangerous. Imagine what would happen if a user would select c:\windows as the output path. So pebuilder now only accepts an output path relative to the pebuilder directory. For example if you would enter "BartPE" as the output path and pebuilder is located in your "c:\pebuilder" directory the full output path becomes "c:\pebuilder\BartPE" - A few very small engine bug fixes. - A lot of other small changes and enhancements. New items: - Included a new plugin "zz_peloader" that contains peloader.exe and peshutdown.exe created by Pierre Mounir (TheTruth). PELoader is a shell loader that removes the resource limits (user resources limit & 24 hour time limit) from BartPE in a legal way, no need for any patches. Thanks Pierre!!! - New way of adding network drivers. Just create a new folder in "drivers\Net" and drop all vendor nic driver files in that new folder and pebuilder will automatically include those drivers. - New way of adding storage drivers. Just create a new folder in "drivers\SCSIAdapter" and drop storage driver files in that new folder. PE Builder will automatically include those drivers. Please note that PE Builder needs the drivers "txtsetup.oem" file and it ignores the *.inf driver files. - Added a slipstream dialog that helps less advanced users to slipstream their windows installation files. See menu "source->slipstream". Changed items: - plugin\ghost8, some small changes - plugin\nu2menu, new version and some small changes to menu xml file. - split plugin\bartpe and plugin\penetcfg into 2 separate plugins. - updated penetcfg to v2.20 - removed plugin\nic_xxx, use the new way of adding drivers! - removed plugin\dsk_xxx, use the new way of adding drivers! v3.0.32 Changes to pebuilder.exe: - Pebuilder needed a very minor fix to support Windows XP SP2 Release Candidate 1 (RC1) To get the SP2 RC1 go here: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/winxppro/sp2preview.mspx New items: - plugin\dsk_hpt3xx: HighPoint HPT3xx ATA RAID Driver - bartpe.bmp: the new official "BartPE" wallpaper, created by Henk de Jong. Changed items: - plugin\nu2menu: * Updated nu2menu.exe to v0.3.45. Added @Exit() function. * New program nu2menumsg.exe, this program can send simple script commands to nu2menu.exe. See reboot.cmd for an example. * Added nu2go.bmp: New "go" button. * New command "reboot" to reboot BartPE from a batch/command script. - plugin\a43: Update A43 File Manager to v2.26 v3.0.31 - plugin\bartpe: - plugin\network: updated penetcfg.exe to v2.1.1 build1 (same version but file is different?!?) v3.0.30 This version is the first official public release with "built-in" network support (using bartpe/penetcfg)! Changes to pebuilder.exe: - New button "search" added to the source dialog. This will search your system for valid windows XP/2003 installation locations. First check (registry): hive=HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE subkey=SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Setup value=SourcePath hive=HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE subkey=SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion value=SourcePath Second check (windir): The current windows directory will be checked Third check (drive search): All local fixed disk and CD-Rom drives are searched, on fixed disk only a list of paths will be searched, currently only the root, but I can easily add other known locations. On CD-Rom drives the entire media is searched. When the source path editbox is empty, search function will go off automatically. - New button "check" added, this will show if source path is valid, the windows productname and the windows CD name. - Changed SourceDiskFiles attribute value "4". It was not possible to optionally copy files from the windows source CD, for example: "msvbvm50.dll=2,,4" would give an error. This has been fixed. - Changed the order of processing plugin INF sections, swapped SourceDisksFiles and SourceDisksFolders The old order was: WinntDirectories, SourceDisksFiles, SourceDisksFiles.x86, SourceDisksFiles.<buildnr>, SourceDisksFolders, SourceDisksFolders.<buildnr> The new order is: WinntDirectories, SourceDisksFolders, SourceDisksFolders.<buildnr>, SourceDisksFiles, SourceDisksFiles.x86, SourceDisksFiles.<buildnr>, - Fixed GUI deadlock, when you have used "autobuild" and manually (re)moved the source directory, next time you started pebuilder.exe would get you in a deadlock situation, clicking "next" did not take you to the next dialog window. Changed items: - Updated bartpe.exe to v1.2.3 The "-minint" option is now compatible with "factory.exe -minint". - plugin\bartpe: updated penetcfg.exe to v2.1.1 build1 file sharing now also works! - plugin\dospe: when sertain files not exist the copy will not fail anymore. - plugin\autorun: updated keydown.exe to v1.1 (dospe and autorun changes done by Erwin Veermans) - plugin\network: updated penetcfg.exe to v2.1.1 build1 v3.0.29 New items: - plugin\bartpe: Network Support [bartpe/penetcfg] Network support using pebart.exe by Bart Lagerweij and penetcfg.exe by theTruth (no need for factory.exe and [s]netcfg.exe!) Warning: this plugin is a BETA version! Note: file sharing does not work correctly at this time! Removed items: - plugin\penet (see the new plugin\bartpe) Changed items: - plugin\dsk_cpqcissm\cpqcissm.inf: added id "PCI\VEN_0E11&DEV_0046&SUBSYS_409D0E11" to support Smart Array 6400 U320 EM Controller - plugin\pehdinst\pehdinst.cmd: PE Hardisk Installed updated to v1.0.3 Added a check for a "bartpe.tag" file before removing folders like \minint and \programs on the target drive. This will prevent accidental removal for those directories when a user already has a \programs folder on his system before installing BartPE. - plugin\a43: updated A43 File Management Utility to v2.24 v3.0.28 - plugin\penet\penet.htm: fixed typo v3.0.27 Changed items: - plugin\total commander\files folder was missing, added. - plugin\total commander\totalcmd.inf: added "files" to wincmd.key. - plugin\mcafee\mcafee.inf: fixed missing file scangui.txt - fixed some typos. New items: - plugin\snapshot: Drive snapshot tool (shareware) Included with permission from the author. - plugin\penet: Network Support [PENET] Network support using penet.exe by Bart Lagerweij (instead of netcfg.exe or snetcfg.exe) Warning, this plugin is a BETA version! v3.0.26 Changes to pebuilder.exe: - Fixed bug that caused "Error: loadKey failed" when using the builder on Windows 2000 systems and using the source files from CD. Changed items: - plugin\patch_824146.htm: fixed typo - plugin\mcafee: Updated scangui.exe to v1.0.3 - plugin\a43: updated A43 File Management Utility to v2.19 (Fixed sorting bug when sorted by name on launching A43) v3.0.25 Changes to pebuilder.exe: - Changed the source input path check, changed file version from 1106 (sp1a) into 1045 (sp1). - Added "buildnr" to Software.AddReg, Software.AddReg, Software.DelReg, SetupReg.AddReg, Default.AddReg, Default.DelReg, SourceDisksFiles and SourceDisksFolders section Sample: [SourceDisksFiles.2600] files\xp\sp2\ole32.dll=2,,1 ; for XP [SourceDisksFiles.3790] files\2k3\rtmgdr\ole32.dll=2,,1 ; for 2k3 - When an invalid directoryID is specified in sourcedisksfolders pebuilder would crash. Fixed it, pebuilder print an error about not finding the ID. New items: - plugin\patch_824146: RPCSS Service Security Patch (KB824146) - plugin\sermouse: Serial Mouse driver - plugin\mozillaembed: Mozilla Embedded webbrowser Changed items: - plugin\mcafee: Added a GUI (scangui.exe) to start the scanner. - pebuilder.inf, the environment path variable was set twice, so the second entry wrote over the first one. Fixed. - plugin\nu2menu\nu2menu.xml, removed color depth. This does not work on all video adapters. v3.0.24 Changes to pebuilder.exe: - Input parameter are no longer saved to pebuilder.inf. They now are saved to a separate file input.inf, this way the pebuilder.inf file stays somewhat unchanged for most of us. - Added an extra value for SourceDisksFiles/attribute. Value 4 means: only copy the file if it exists. Don't complain when it does not exist. Handy for "trying" to copy file that "may" exist. New items: - plugin\dsk_cpqcissm: Added plugin for HP/Compaq Smart Array 5x and 6x Driver Changed items: - plugin\!profiles: The ProfilesDir environment variable was not set correct, fixed. - plugin\total commander\totalcmd.inf: Updated. Try to copy wincmd.key - plugin\total commander\wincmd.ini: Updated. added "StartupScreen=0" option to remove the Splash Screen... - plugin\total commander\totalcmd.htm: Updated. - plugin\bst5\bst5.inf: Updated. Try to copy bst5.key - plugin\nu2menu\nu2menu.inf: Updated. Try to copy nu2go.bmp - plugin\bst5\bst5.htm: Updated. - plugin\nic_intelpro\nic_intelpro.inf: Updated. The plugin did not work on all systems. Now including .cat, .din and prounstl.exe. v3.0.23 Changes to pebuilder.exe: - Changed the source input path check, you cannot continue when you are using windows xp sp0 or lower. New items: - A43 File Management Utility - as the new explorer replacement. It is small, it loads fast, just what we need. The program is written by B.G. Miller and it is included with PE Builder with permission from the author. He even made some small changes to the program so that it would run from a readonly media without trouble, isn't that great! - plugin\!profiles: This plugin creates the "Profiles" folder to store user profiles. It creates the %systemroot%\Profiles\All Users\Desktop and the %systemroot%\Profiles\Default User\Desktop folders. Where %systemroot% is \i386 (on CD) and \minint (on HD). The DefaultUserProfile and AllUsersProfile is set to point to these 2 directories. This should avoid any conflicts with existing "documents and settings" folders when installing BartPE to harddisk, next to an existing windows installation (boot.ini). Also this will avoid any language conflicts. The profiles directory is the same on any language now. This plugin replaces the old !document.inf plugin! Note that this plugin does not create the "document and setings" folder! Changed items: - plugin\network: Changed line in network.inf to "penetcfg\penetcfg-*.ini=2,,1" This will copy all ini file starting with "penetcfg-" Also added custom A: and C: profiles. Fixed some small things. - plugin\nic_intelpro: Updated Intel PRO 100/1000 network adapter plugin This replaces the old nic_e100b325 and nic_e1000325 plugin! - plugin\pehdinst: PE Hardisk Installed updated to v1.0.2 Installing BartPE to FAT system volume is now also working. This plugin replaces the "pecd2hd" plugin! You can also use the PE Harddisk installer to install from the PE Builder output directory, no need to burn a CD! Very handy for testing BartPE! - plugin\total commander: Updated total commander plugin for version 6 - plugin\nu2menu: Updated nu2menu.exe to v0.3.44. We think there is a bug in server 2003, when booting winPE from harddisk and the shell program tries to load a bitmap image from file. Created a workaround in nu2menu for this. - plugin\aspi\aspi.inf: Added help entry. - Updated the pebuilder.hlp file a little bit. Removed items: - 2xexplorer plugin. It was loading very slow, on some systems it didn't start. To much trouble. - plugin\nic_e100b325, see plugin\nic_intelpro - plugin\nic_e1000325, see plugin\nic_intelpro - plugin\pecd2hd, see plugin\pehdinst - plugin\!document.inf v3.0.22 Changes to other files: - nu2menu.xml: replaced "cmd.exe /c start @GetWinDir()\system32\[CPL_Name]" into "rundll32.exe shell32.dll,Control_RunDLL @GetWinDir()[CPL_Name]" - Added ghost8 plugin. - Added aspi plugin. - Updated penetcfg to v2.0. Added 2 profiles, one for dhcp one for static IP. v3.0.21 - Bugfix: There was a directory ID overlap in the "sourcedisksfolders" function. This caused files to get copied into the wrong directory. - Rewrote some internal functions for handling directory IDs. v3.0.20 Changes to pebuilder.exe: - BugFix: The registry data field "%RamDrv%\@ProfilesDir@" resulted in "%RamDrv%\Documents and". The number of bytes to write was set to the old (unparsed) string. This has been fixed. v3.0.19 Changes to pebuilder.exe: - Updated the peParse() function. Supported variables are now: @ProfilesDir@, @IsoFile@, @OutDir@, @SourcePath@, @Verbose@, @Build@, @Version@, @Program@, @PluginDir@ Note: variables are case sensitive! Added this parser function to Section/variable: WinntDirectories/dirname (existed there already) BuildISO/exec SourceDisksFiles/filename, filenameRenamed SourceDisksFolders/sourcepath Software.AddReg, SetupReg.AddReg, Default.AddReg/regKey, regValue, regData (only when data is a string) - Added a new value to the "attribute" field (SourceDisksFiles section). Add a value of "2" if you do not want files to decompress. You can see this in the log file, "DecompressOrCopy file.." or "Copy file.." - The "add files/folders from (custom) directory" now uses the normal filecopy function (no decompress). This makes an exact copy! - Changed pebuilder.inf: Added a section "BuildISO" and value "exec" to hold the mkisofs commandline. - The builder now cleans up the temporarily files used for registry building. - The builder (and plugin check) now handles absolute filenames correctly. Example: [SourceDisksFiles] C:\Programme\AntiVirenKit professional\*.*=a,,1 or [SourceDisksFiles] \\corp-server\data\Network Associates\Mcafee\Superdat\sdat*.exe=a,,1 - Added sourcedisksfolders section. This section allows you to copy a folder including all files and subdirectories. Example: [SourceDisksFolders] ; when openoffice folder is in plugin directory openoffice=a or [SourceDisksFolders] ; when openoffice folder is at c:\ c:\openoffice=a - Changed some other builder functions to support some of the new changes. - When the appendFile() function failed ("append" section) It would not say what file it did not find. This has been fixed. - The root directory (id 30000) is now created in pebuilder.exe and the line is remove from pebuilder.inf - The xpsp1res.dll (Windows XP) is now copied in the correct (default) language. So the about box in notepad is now in the correct language. Changes to other files: - Changed mkisofs.exe, removed some of the output warnings. - Updated pebuilder.inf: Added Virtual Disk Service. Now diskpart.exe should also work in server 2003. - Updated pebuilder.inf: Added a pebuilder key and version value, ControlSet001\Control\PE Builder\Version - Updated pebuilder.inf: Fix for "failed to create an empty document" when starting wordpad now adding "msftedit.dll". - Updated pebuilder.inf: Added \bin to path environment. - Updated custom.inf: Disabled the timezone. - Updated 2xExplorer.inf: 2xexplorer would not start on windows XP sometimes, I added a registry settings for "User Shell Folders", hopes this fixes this. Hmm, didn't work... Must be missing something else. Anyone? - Updated dospe.inf: now version 1.0.5 - Updated nic_el2k_xp plugin. - Added nic_e1000325 plugin. Intel PRO/1000 Adapter driver - Added nic_e100b325 plugin. Intel PRO/100 Adapter driver v3.0.18 - v3.0.17 copied PENetCfg.exe with the name netcfg.exe and the real netcfg.exe was overwritten by PENetCfg.exe. Fixed this. v3.0.17 - PE Builder can now build without the need of an already installed workstation. So, the only source files needed is the Windows XP/2003 installation/setup CD-Rom. Coooool! This has changed the internal build engine, so it needs a good test. Specially non-english versions of Windows XP needs to be tested. When you build a non-english version of XP please compare the folder \i386\WinSxS against the output from Microsoft's Windows PE toolkit v1.2 or against %windir%\WinSxS. - bootfont.bin is now also copied. Mainly used in non-english languages. - Added Broadcom 440x network driver plugin (bcm4sbxp). - Added Broadcom BCM57xx NetXtreme gigabit driver plugin (b57xp32) - Changed network support plugin. Now including PE network configurator by TheThruth. - Added keyboard layout plugin by Boris Mebarek. v3.0.16b - Fixed re-adding columns after adding a plugin. - All titles of all dialogs now include version number. - Minor wheel mouse fix in custom.inf - Minor fix in mcafee.inf - Some minor fixes... v3.0.16a - Updated custom.inf and pebuilder.inf. v3.0.16 had wrong version of the files. v3.0.16 - Added 2xExplorer as the explorer replacement. Got permission from the author to include it in pebuilder. - Added confirmation box to overwrite a plugin when the plugin directory already exists. - Removed "-beta" from version string. - Removed "driver storage" plugin. - Added "dsk_fasttx2k" as a new storage driver plugin. - Added mouse control panel. - Added date and time control panel. - Added accessibility options control panel. - Updated nero plugin, now all files are in the "files" directory. - Added "-auto" commandline option (for autobuild). - Added background info (bginfo) plugin. - Updated chkdsk plugin. - Updated dospe plugin. - Updated mcafee plugin, now also adding the superdat (sdat*.exe) file. - Added more command line tools: cacls.exe, comp.exe, compact.exe, convert.exe, fc.exe, find.exe findstr.exe, finger.exe, hostname.exe, label.exe, lpq.exe, lpr.exe, makecab.exe, mountvol.exe, nbtstat.exe, pathping.exe, print.exe, replace.exe, route.exe, sort.exe, subst.exe, tftp.exe - Updated custom.inf, added timezone info for "GMT+01:00" This is the timezone where I live in... v3.0.15-BETA - The verbose checkbox did not stay checked next time you ran pebuilder. Fixed. v3.0.14a-BETA - Removed quick fix for "spanish" about boxes in wordpad and so. Does not work when build from win2003, must rework/think about that. - added network_nu2menu.xml, forgotten, (oops) v3.0.14-BETA - ramdisk.inf plugin, change the "tmp" and "temp" environment variables from "b:\" into "b:". The ending backslash gives trouble to some applications. - nu2menu updated to v0.3.43. This version has a new function "@ShowRunDialog()" to show the default windows run dialog. (thanks to Cyberian) - The "Add files/folders in from (custom) directory" option in the source dialog, now also add's the files even when no ISO is generated. - Did a quick fix for "spanish" about boxes in wordpad and so. - Added a "what to do" dialog. This has the option to build using previous settings or to (re)generate and iso image from the last build. - Moved nu2menu from \programs to \programs\nu2menu Please replace any @programdir() menus with @programdrive()\programs - Rearranged the menu - Added "autorun" plugin created by Erwin Veermans - Added "dospe" plugin created by Erwin Veermans - Added plugin to run chkdsk.exe - Added riched32.dll, used by wordpad.exe (and others) - Added file associations for wordpad - Removed the network dialog from pebuilder.exe. Network support can now be enabled using the plugin "Network Support". - Added "network support" plugin This plugin includes "static ip" using: GNetCfg.exe from http://mitglied.lycos.de/cybtools/ IPChange3.0.exe from http://www.csparks.com/ipchange/ dhcpip.cmd by Ed Myers network.inf by Davide Cavalca - Added "network autostart" plugin. You can easily autostart the network by enabling this plugin. - Fixed typo in putty plugin. - Changed nero plugin, hope pebuilder doesn't complain about missing some files. - Changed adaware.cmd - open/save file/folder dialogs now showing file extensions and hidden files and folders. Also "My Documents" now points to the system drive. - off by one browser now defaults to www.google.com - pebuilder now support wildcards in filenames Sample: *netcfg*.exe=2,netcfg.exe,1 Will take any file(s) matching "*netcfg*.exe" and copy/rename it to "netcfg.exe" Sample: *.dll=a,,1 Will copy all "*.dll" files into the folder with ID "a" v3.0.13-BETA - Added an edit button to the plugin dialog to edit the .inf file. - The "document and settings" folder is now created from hivesft.inf DEFAULT_PROFILES_DIR string so it should now have the correct name in any languages. - The ISO file setting was not preserved, fixed it. - Plugin cab files can now also have subdirectories. - Fixed a few minor things... v3.0.12-BETA - Files in plugin folder can now also be "compressed". PE Builder checks if the file exists or if a compressed version exists (ends with '_'). - Added a ramdisk plugin, default drive is B:, default size 32MB. I'm using QSoft's ramdisk, with permission from author. This version has "popups", but when keeping the size small the popups will never show... You can find/access the ramdrive using %temp%, %tmp% or %ramdrv% environment variables. - Added a Nero Buring Rom plugin. This is pretty cool. Burn/copy a CD/DVD from within WinPE. You should not "boot" using your CD/DVD writer! Boot from some other device. The Nero cache will be set to the first found harddisk. - Added some extra checks before the builder engine starts. Checking if file "win51" and "win5i?" exists in windows source path. This should prevent any "Insert Windows XP CD-Rom..." errors while booting. - Changed adaware plugin, now using %temp% (ramdisk) to run from. - Moved all programs under the \Programs folder. Updated all plugins for that. - Removed the option dialog. Move the bootfix option into a plugin. - In verbose mode the DWORD_REG data was always printed in the log as 0x0, fixed. Sep 15, 2003 v3.0.11-BETA - Added an "Add" button to the plugin dialog. This will allow you to easily add a plugin. The plugin file *must* be a .cab file. - Added a "Remove" button to the plugin dialog. This will remove any directories and files in the selected plugin. - I forgot to include all pluginhelp (*.htm) files with v3.0.10, fixed. Sep 12, 2003 v3.0.10-BETA - Added help support option for plugins. Add a "help" key to the "pebuilder" section. Sample: [PEBuilder] Name="Bart's Stuff Test (free edition)" Enable=1 Help="bst5.htm" This will launch "bst5.htm" when the user hits the "PluginHelp" button. This way a plugin writer can provide the user with information to download some files or how to use the plugin... - Added some .htm plugin help files. - Added "file must exist before you can enable the plugin" attribute (3th field) for plugins in the "SourceDisksFiles" section. This can be handy when you want the user to download some file and put it in the plugin directory before they can enable the plugin. Sample: [SourceDisksFiles] putty.exe=a,,1 The 3th field set to "1" enables this option - Changed .inf files to have this new attribute when needed. - I noticed that v3.0.8 and v3.0.9 had the wrong startnet.cmd inside. So snetcfg.exe could never have worked, fixed this. Sep 8, 2003 v3.0.9-BETA - Bugfix, the netcfg.exe was wrongly copied into snetcfg.exe (it worked but shouldn't do that). Sep 8, 2003 v3.0.8-BETA - Added 2 buttons for navigating to error/warning. - When there where errors during building the "done" dialog displayed the wrong messages. - Added snetcfg.exe support. - Added a message printing the Windows version from source path. - When you installed hotfixes to your windows kernel you will get: "File Version Mismatch (source file version is 5.1.2600.1106 and windir is 5.1.2600.1151)" This has been fixed. - Fixed complaining about wrong kernel version. Changed plugin support a little bit: - Added "name" key to this section for plugin name. - Added "enable" key to this section to enable/disable a plugin. So plugins are not being renamed to ".fni" extension anymore. - Added "pebuilder" section to the plugin .inf files to "validate" the plugin. - Changed the dynamic directory ID allocation Previous versions used the dirid value 0 (zero) to allocate a dynamic directory id. This limited a plugin to only use 1 dynamic directory id. Larger plugins can need more dynamic id's. So I changed it to use 26 dynamic directory id's per plugin. You must use an alpha character from 'A' until 'Z'. For example: Old style: "0=nu2menu,2" New style: "a=nu2menu,2" *** Warning! *** Check your "own" made plugins for these changes. Sep 4, 2003 - v3.0.7-BETA - Bugfix: Some users reported this error: Error: CreateDirectory "c:" returned error 5: Access is denied. Bug in the mkdir() function, fixed. Sep 3, 2003 - v3.0.6-BETA - Some OEM pre-install folders have no win51*.* tagfiles. PE Builder needs them. PE Builder now checks for the "win51" tag file when you enter the path to the windows installation files. - Some users reported this error: Error: CreateDirectory "c:\pebldr\i386\msapps\msinfo" failed The problem is that two directories (msapps\msinfo) are created at the same time. This has been fixed. Sep 2, 2003 - v3.0.5-BETA - Bugfix: When building from some languages like French the nettcpip.inf, netnb.inf and netmscl.inf files are in unicode format. Added an auto unicode to ascii converter to get around this. Sep 2, 2003 - v3.0.4-BETA - Bugfix: DHCP service did not start when building from Windows Server 2003 This has been fixed. Sep 1, 2003 - v3.0.3-BETA Bugfix: MoveFileEx failed when your temp folder and the PE Builder output folder where located on different volumes. The error from the log would be something like: -- Error: MoveFileEx "C:\DOCUME~1\Bart\LOCALS~1\Temp\peb27A.tmp" to "f:\pebldr\i386\inf\netmscli.inf" returned error 17: The system cannot move the file to a different disk drive. Error: delLine() failed -- Aug 27, 2003 - v3.0.2-BETA - PE Builder now "remembers" all GUI input. - Added a plugin dialog where you can enable/disable plugins. - Some other small fixes. Aug 26, 2003 - v3.0.1-BETA - Added verbose checkbox in output dialog - Added [AddLine], [DelLine] and [SetValue] section With these sections you can add/delete lines from text-based files or set/delete values from inf-based files. - Updated PE Builder to use addline, delline and setvalue to patch netmscli.inf, netnb.inf and nettcpip.inf - v3.0.0-BETA - Changed almost the entire layout of the pebuilder.inf file Sections [SourceDisksFiles], [WinntDirectories] now have different layouts see pebuilder.inf file for more info. - Removed software.inf, now in pebuilder.inf section "Software.[Add/Del]Reg" - Removed setupreg.inf, now in pebuilder.inf section "SetupReg.AddReg" - Removed default.inf, now in pebuilder.inf section "Default.[Add/Del]Reg" - Made some changes to the builder engine. Preparing it for plugin support. - In verbose mode "-v option" now all regadd/regdel lines are printed. - Sometimes the ISO build would start after file copy errors, fixed. - Added Plugin support. - Added "append" section to append a file to another. - Added auto Directory ID. When ID is 0 (zero) PE Builder will create a unique ID. A next plugin INF file will get a new ID.