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I installed WES7 under VMWare 4.1 and it works great, I also installed it on a slower pc and it also works great (using the thinclient template), the only think I find annoying is that the option 'search' is not there anymore.. I mean searching folder and files, search box on explorer, etc... no way to search files by name... do you know any way around it? I installed a bunch of applications and they all work great.

You can have Windows Search - here's how:

In the Image Builder Wizard, after you have selected the Thin Client template, your language and keyboard, you reach the "Summary of drivers and features" screen.

On this screen, you can select the "Modify Drivers" and "Modify Features" check boxes.

The next screen deals with Device drivers, and you can add a "devices.pmq" file (an XML file like an answer file generated by Tap.exe, detailing the devices installed, or residing on the target machine. Found in the "Panther" subfolder.) for the machine you are installing upon, or automatically detect them, or ignore the additional drivers.

I have so far found that selecting drivers manually leads to a failed install usually, so I leave the unmapped devices on the next screen alone.

You then get to the feature packages screen, where there are two branches to open, Feature Packages, and Language Packages.

Near the bottom of the tree there is the "User Interface" feature set, and the bottom feature is "Windows Search" - which you want to select. You may want "DVD Maker", too, but you do not want to select "Command Prompt Shell with Custom Shell Support", since this is not compatible with the "Windows Shell" which contains the graphical user interface which we all know as "Windows".

A few other features in Embedded which are not compatible with "standard" Windows 7, and should be unchecked for the closest approach to normal windows are:

"Boot Environments" - Uncheck "Enhanced Write Filter Boot Environment", and check "Windows Boot environment"

"Data Integrity" - check all

"Embedded Enabling Features" - Uncheck "Enhanced Write Filter with HORM", "File-Based Write Filter (FBWF)".

"Security" - check "AntiMalware", and "Bitlocker" if you plan to use it.

All else is up to you, and whether all the dependencies and conflicts are resolved. Make sure the "Resolve optional dependencies" and "Include applicable updates" are checked and then click the "Resolve Dependencies" button, and with luck nothing will pop up. If you cannot resolve any issue, you may need to take a note, and to reselect the packages which are in conflict.

The next screen is another summary, with the difference that the Estimated OS Footprint size has changed.

The following screen, "Where do you want to install Windows" gives a list of your installable partitions. NEVER RELY ON THE DRIVE LETTER - The Drive letters can change depending on the system currently booted
ALWAYS LABEL DRIVE VOLUMES with unique meaningful names - this can be done in Windows Explorer, Disk Management Console or from the command prompt with utilities like Diskpart and Format.

Although the screen states "To make changes to partitions, restart Windows from the installation disk", it is possible to invoke the command console by pressing Shift F10 at the same time, and to use command-line disk utilities, even at this stage.

That's all - the next screen starts the file copying and installation.

When you have used the IBW a few times, you may wish to graduate the the ICE - Image Configuration Editor - where you could customise logon, resume, and shutdown screens, etc., to a high degree, and add third party applications. Another way is to add features to the working system, use sysprep, then to take an image (wim) of the drive, which you can clone to another machine. I think you can use sysprep in this way 4 times.

radio pisze:co do NetFramework i kodekow do WMP to tu jest opis co i jak by zainstalowac

funcek pisze:Przecież nie powiedziałem nie-wiadomo-co na ten system -.-
Bratu na netbooku nie działają obrazy płyt.