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Make and boot from a Win8PE_SE ISO file Tutorials, How To's and Guides by Steve, RMPrepUSB.
 

Win8PE SE project is based on PE4 environment and will use a Windows 8 (SP0) x86 or x64 DVD.
It is better (recommended) to have the DVD copied in a folder on your hard drive.

Win8PE SE is Based on the experienced organisation and reliability of Win7PE SE. It comes as a base with only a minimal of applications.
Take pleasure to personalize it and to add your components and applications.
Link to Windows 8 enterprise evaluation for developers

Some advantages of Windows 8 and Win8PE SE:

Windows 8 Increased hardware compatibility.
Support of UEFI Unified Extensible Firmware Interface and high-speed SSD hard disk.
Native support of USB3.0
...

Win8PESE uses the very good Ex7ForW8 (Windows 7 explorer.exe for Windows 8). Thank you Tihiy for this nice work
Transparency is enabled on the Aero theme.
For the shell loader, You can choose between the great PEShell swapper and the famous Chinese Pecmd.


In PostConfig script, you have the ability to create Win8PE SE image in another folder.
This will keep the Target folder untouched.

With the following advantages:
   The small green button on scripts remains always operational.
   No problem on editing hives.
   Really usefull, you can add, edit, customize the target.
   Simply recreate the new target image and Iso 
Only disadvantage, it requires more space on hdd.



A big thanks to the precursors on Win7PESE: Yahoouk's and JFX's.
   Besides JFX continued help on numerous critical PE3 building cases and on PE4 as with WoW64 (running 32bit programs in a 64bit environment) and other...     We are happy to see him around.
With a big thank you to all those who have supported and help improve this Win7 base Lancelot, 2aCD, Galapo, Homes32 and ALL other 
Thank you very much also to sp_star with his good works, beautiful inspiration source 
A huge thanks to Galapo for the new domain w8pese.cwcodes.net 
Without forgetting Lancelot with the new Macro Library and his great support 


Thank you in advance to those who help to improve it. Have fun.

Happy New year

Congradulations   

Hello Win8PE SE

For Win8 users, well deserves  "The Best New Year Present Award"   

 

There is a problem in the first package in images.script which could prevent the good building 
The problem is fixed now after downloading the latest version of images configuration
Successfully tested "Out of the box" on Xp x86 and Win7 x64.

PENetwork was also updated with latest version 58 beta 10, thanks to Holger 

The package has been updated accordingly.

The Ms wimmount driver is always so long to mount images, after a first building (need wimmount installed) you can use once the Extract Wim Folders script in Utils folder to play with Win8pese and have a building more reliable and faster.

Project Updated: Win8PE_SE_2013-02-11

There have been many updates, improvements since the initial release, It would take too long to explain all changes

Thank you all for your feedback , they were valuable and useful. Continue as well .


Important: Always Check Win8PE SE topic post 1 to get latest updates and informations.

Have fun

Project Updated: Win8PE_SE_2013-02-13

Sysinternals Process Monitor: an advanced monitoring tool for Windows that shows real-time file system, Registry and process/thread activity. With true x64 version for x64 Arch.
Opera: version 12.14
Flash Player: for IE and for other Browsers updated, version 11.6.602.168
Create ISO, Copy to USB-Device, Copy to USB-Device BCD BootMGR: Make grub4dos silent at startup,  grub4dos-0.4.5c-2013-02-02, Bootice v1.03 20130209


Important: Always Check Win8PE SE topic post 1 to get latest updates and informations.

Project Updated: Win8PE_SE_2013-02-28

Here are some new scripts for Win8PE, known for those which use Win7PESE.

Install Packages: Installs Multiple specified packages .cab or .msu in WinPESE image (ex: WinPE-NetFx4.cab). According packages, you may need to have the Full File Copy (in Copy Files script) to operate.
2 - Shell & Config: Added Take Ownership in PE environment.
Calculator: as its name indicates
Paint: Add MsPaint to PE
Photo Viewer: MsPhoto Viewer, ImagingDevices
Wordpad: MsWordPad
MS Visual C++ Runtime: Microsoft Visual C++ 2005/2008/2010/2012 with an option to reduce the size of VC8 and VC9, by taking only the latest VC++ SideBySide.
Vss: Volume Shadow Copy Service or Volume Snapshot Service, is a set of COM APIs that implements a framework to allow volume backups to be performed while applications on a system continue to write to the volumes.

Apps:
Q-Dir Nenad: v5.49 Folder management with Quadro-View technique
MbrFix: v1.3.0.0 Perform several Master Boot Record (MBR) tasks
HotKey: Create HotKey
Attribute Changer Petges: v7.10 shell extension, it is a power user tool to change all kind of file and folder attributes, date, time.
LetterSwap: Synchronizes letters of disks Host & Guest OS
Portable Finder CMD: Batch from laddanator to get your personal Portable tasks. For use with other media than the boot one
Switch Keyboard: Switch Keyboard with HotKey with Yashied's iSwitcher


Important: Always Check Win8PE SE topic post 1 to get latest updates and informations.

Project Updated: Win8PE_SE_2013-04-04

Extended support for windows 8 source, especially those with a language pack.

DirectX: DirectX11 for Win8PE x86/x64 with LDDM Graphics Subsystem.
BitLocker: Unlock an encrypted drive. BitLocker Drive Encryption is a full disk encryption feature included with the Ultimate and Enterprise editions of Microsoft's Windows Vista, Windows 7, and with Pro and Enterprise editions of Windows 8 desktop operating systems.


And many other small things, bug fixes, improvements 


Other things are in preparation but I lack a little time right now to test them, finalize.

Thank you for not endorsing illegal copies of the project, made without demands, without giving credit or reference, values far from the open source.
Even more, when they are made for profit or request for donation.


Important: Always Check Win8PE SE topic post 1 to get latest updates and informations.

Good building