Win10XPE - Build Your Own Rescue Media

Thanks.. will advise OP in thread as appropriate. Also useful to know for future.

I remember seeing the same problem doing a dir C:\* from Win 10, WinXPE was not involved. Definite problem with getting hung on circular references of hardlinks and junctions. This was 5+ years ago, maybe more. I've not done it in a long time because of that problem and part of the reason I moved to using Everything.

defrag.exe is in \Windows\system32 of WinXPE so it should run from a Elevated Command prompt.

we have had No luck with MS Defrag and limited success with other 3rd party Defrag Apps within a PE Environment..

Also in regards to hardlinks/junctions - I will pose the question to ChrisR (when he returns from Holiday) as that is more his thing..

Also with XPE you are working within an Elevated Environment..

been here before in another life but i cannot remember log in details and it seems i used an obsolete email addy so will start again

brilliant project - have been playing with this and PE_SE for a few weeks - prefer the XPE build as it allows taskbar icons but theres 2 desktop icons i cannot get not to show - there must be a way as the image in post 3 does not have them

so can anybody help to get rid of the cmd prompt icon and the keyboard choice one that seem to be added to the desktop whatever i do

apart from that i am sorted

thanks

On Build Core Main Interface > select "Edit Pecmd.ini"
and browse down to _SUB Shortcuts

Markout ( // ) the > LINK %Desktop% < line for those two Apps

Code:

//LINK %Desktop%\Keyboard Layout,%WinDir%\System32\KeyboardLayout.cmd,,%WinDir%\System32\shell32.dll#173
//LINK %Desktop%\Command Prompt,%WinDir%\System32\cmd.exe