Win10XPE - Build Your Own Rescue Media [2]

junaid said:

Can you share the script file of Acronis as bat and reg, I want to use it in WimBuilder2

Your best bet for such a *.bat file is the Wimbuilder2 Project as the Win10XPE Project uses *.script files

Tony, you can Pin Shortcuts to "Taskbar", "Start Menu" , "Desktop" and "Start Menu Folder"
How much more of a program quick launch does anyone need? - asking for a friend...

JFI

Ventoy 1.0.69

for those who like to play

new feature in version 1.0.66/69, Ventoy supports boot image files (.iso/.wim/.img ...) on local disk.

Release Notes

Well clearly you do not understand the drawbacks to using a full OS....
Kinda like every time MS tells you that you can't do that or when MS tells you that you do not have permission to do that...
But what ever floats the boat, is all that matters.. But would like to keep the topic Win10XPE related...

Kyhi said:

Tony, you can Pin Shortcuts to "Taskbar", "Start Menu" , "Desktop" and "Start Menu Folder"
How much more of a program quick launch does anyone need? - asking for a friend...

With the smaller QL icons, I fit usually about 25 in Quicklaunch tray in real Win10 and in Win10PESE. Includes shortcuts to most used apps, ShowDesktop, certain DriveLtrs like C, X,Y,. In real Win10 I use QL for Netflix streaming, and Netflix DVD. Takes less than half of screen width. Most importantly, they are all still visible when the main part of the screen is cluttered up with a bunch of windows so I don't have to search for Desktop shortcuts or use the startmenu.

I was crestfallen that Win10XPE didn't seem to support QL area at all. The standard plugins didn't have an option, and some had it clearly commented out as if it was once in there and then removed as a choice. I didn't think I should mention it, but I was looking for a workaround for me; yeah, it took quite a while but yesterday it actually worked!
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Somewhat related to this, XPE (really, macro.script's AddShortcut) also took out (it used to be in PESE's Macro_Library.script Add_Shortcut) the ability to add icons to VBScript, BATfiles, cmdfiles, and PS1 files. Only EXE with their built-in icons look "pretty".

My workaround to this point has been, for my desktop shortcuts , is to make them in advance in running XPE, changing the icon via Properties while the arbitrary icons are stored in X:\Icons\ and the finished shortcuts are stored in X:\Icons\Shortcuts\. Then after XPE boots up, a plain looking Batfile [manually, I haven't tried Autorun yet] copies all the stored "pretty" Desktop shortcuts to the current Desktop (overwriting some and adding some new ones) and deletes itself.

If Add_Shortcut was still available, any startmenu BATfile, cmdfile, ps1 file would be able to have any icon too, because it supported the last parameter (full path to icon):

If,%CheckBoxSM%,Equal,True,Add_Shortcut,StartMenu,%pTextBox1%,"%PE_Programs%\%ProgramFolder%\GVNremo te6.bat","Host ProductVer C",,,"%PE_Programs%\%ProgramFolder%\WindowsLogo.ico"

XPE fails gracefully and makes the shortcut using default icon for batfile.

I understand PESE and XPE are for a 'rescue stick' and WinPE is 'not a real OS' but
YOU GUYS HAVE MADE SOME FANTASTIC STUFF OUT OF THEM !!!!!

Thanks for all your efforts


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I just thought of another instance for assigning different icons. For EXE files. Has anyone else noticed the latest SysInternals apps, when in the QLaunch toolbar, have such blurry, pastel colors?? I extracted the icons from the OLDER versions, storing the OLD icon in the appropriate SysInternal folder. Then did the Properties, ChangeIcon thing, Easier on the eyes now.
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jimbo45 said:

Hi folks
Seem people are making this project to "replicate Real Windows" more and more.

jimbo

Me! Me! A replicate of Real Windows is not a bad thing.

For the last few years, Win10 has been constantly updating itself (I have Home version, not Pro) at the wrong times. Sometimes it asks permission, other times (most of the time) there is a arbitrary waiting period from the time I turn on the machine but before I can do something.

Win10 still FailsToBoot now and again. so it has to be "repaired" before meaningful things can be done. This is a real buzzkill when I want to stream Netflix on older hardware but its time for ... something from MSFT, so important that it doesn't ask to update, it just DOES. I sit there and wait.

So, in self-defense, I try to put as much into the builds as possible. Portable apps (don't write to Registry), audio, video, all Frameworks, all runtimes, all tools, etc. This way I'm never completely shut down. . I finally saw the light and now I keep a run-flat version of my rescue stick in a separate partition on each computer so when Win10 FailsToBoot yet again, I can do SOMETHING USEFUL with the computer other than swear at it. LOL.

Tony,

Code:

AddShortcut,Desktop|StartMenu,(StartMenuFolder),(Path\FileName),(Title),(Parameters),(Path\IconFile|IconIndex)

We choose to depict most to all of Lancelot's excessive use of code - thus we were able to get the same end results in half (or less) the amount of scripting

Note:
WimBuilder2, LiveSystemPro, Azin, CT Magazine > Now follow Win10XPE
Which speaks volumes to the success of the Win10XPE Project..



The Option for Command Batch Files already exists