What is Windows PE

Friends who are now installed with Ghost will definitely know Windows
PE, because now almost every Ghost disk will come with Windows
PE system, the following introduction This Windows
PE system is used.

Introduction to Windows PE
Windows PreInstallation Environment (Windows PE) is literally translated as "Windows Pre-Installation Environment", Microsoft released on July 22, 2002, its original text The explanation is: “Windows Pre-Installation Environment (Windows PE) is the smallest Win32 subsystem with limited services, based on the Windows XP Professional kernel running in protected mode. It includes the minimum functionality required to run Windows installers and scripts, connect to network shares, automate basic processes, and perform hardware verification. In other words, you can think of Windows PE as a Mini operating system with only minimal core services. Microsoft introduced such an operating system
of course because it has a different system function, if you want to explain in one sentence, compared with Win9X/2000/XP, the main difference of Windows PE is : It can customize its own bootable copy, keeping the minimum operating system
volume while ensuring the core services you need, and it is the standard 32-bit Windows API system platform.

The role of Windows PE
1. The easy-to-use bootable tool disk Windows PE boot is quite fast, and the boot environment is not high; the most valuable is that although it is called the boot disk, Its function is almost equivalent to installing a Windows XP "command line version" ”—— don't forget the network support. Therefore, for PC users, you can safely solve problems such as initializing the system by burning them on a single disc. This is especially useful for users in small network environments (such as Internet cafes). 2, interesting hard disk use function Customized Windows PE can be placed not only on removable storage devices such as CDs, but also on hard disks. Because many friends will think that it is not meaningful to put a customized version of Windows PE on the hard disk, it is not. Putting Windows PE on the hard disk should be the most interesting place, and not to mention that your operating system is damaged and cannot be accessed. Windows PE on the bootable hard disk can be easily repaired. The key is because Windows PE is on the hard disk, so in Windows. It is possible to install an application in a PE environment. Here's how to put a custom Windows PE on your hard drive (you can only place the 32-bit version of Windows PE on your hard drive). First install the recovery console: (1) Place the Windows XP Professional CD in the CD-ROM drive, specifying it as cd_drive. (2) Run cd_drive\\i386\\winnt32.exe /cmdcons in the command line CMD window. Then place the Windows PE custom bootable copy on the hard disk as follows: (1) On the target hard disk, create a directory of “C:\\Minint” (the directory must be named "Minint"). (2) Copy everything under Windows PE“root directory\\i386” to C:\\Minint. (3) Copy Winbom.ini from the root directory of Windows PE to the root directory of the target hard disk. (4) On the target hard disk, change the read-only attribute of “C:\\Cmdcons\\txtsetup.sif” to read/write. (5) On the target hard disk, copy “C:\\Minint\\txtsetup.sif” to “C:\\Cmdcons” to overwrite. (6) Restart the target computer. On the "Boots" menu, select Boot to “Command Console", the computer will boot using Windows PE. 3, Windows XP OPK CD's own job said above, in fact, we got an executable copy of Windows PE, namely Windows XP OPK (Windows XP OEM pre-installation kit) CD. I know from the name that its original job is to facilitate OEM work. If you open the CD in the Windows operating system environment, it will automatically run Autorun to install a "Windows Install Manager" toolkit for your system. With it, you can easily create a Windows installation image with the OEM logo of the computer manufacturer. Although this is the main job of the Windows XP OPK CD, it obviously doesn't make much sense to us personally. Of course, if you want to put your own Windows installation CD on your own, and dazzle it on your friend's machine, Then using it is a good idea. Of course, your own "imprint" is not as simple as the OEM logo. In fact, you can also arbitrarily set the software that Windows PE carries, and you can set these software to run when Windows PE starts; ideally you can even The defined version of Windows PE plus a graphical shell similar to Windows Explorer —— or what is it called for OEM OEMs?