What is Windows PE? ( + How to Get It )

[@ThioJoe]

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[@uglybozo]

Firtst

[@ipostmemesforaliving]

nice your videos are useful

[@itsjavii991]

22 hours ago lmao

[@drikos]

How is that possible, how is your comment here 22 hours before you posted this video❓❓❓❓❓

[@bananapingvin7149]

it says this comment was uploaded 22h ago but video 8min :D

[@IsfarTausif]

Ah yes, I too use Windows Pocket Edition

[@freedustin]

@@suchirghuwalewala Physical Education?

[@geometryjumpfl2784]

Thats called windows 8

[@ryanexx5250]

@@phrodendekia wow

[@samuelhulme8347]

@@suchirghuwalewala Minecraft PE was made before Microsoft bought it

[@AGVYT]

@@suchirghuwalewala PE was made by Mojang itself, Microsoft just made it better/worse, depending on what opinion you have about BE (Bedrock Edition) and the Crossplay.

[@xabier652]

2011: Minecraft pe 2021:Windows pe

[@namesurname4666]

it exists since windows vista if i'm not wrong so it is before 2011

[@nsg650]

@@namesurname4666 existed since 2003-2004 but was inside microsoft

[@namesurname4666]

​@@nsg650 which is from the windows vista beta " longhorn "

[@nsg650]

@@namesurname4666 yes so windows PE existed for a while. Also Windows Fundamentals for legacy pc's installer too uses windows PE edit: typo

[@FoxSlyme]

I opened the video just to see if someone commented that

[@brrtbrrtoog4937]

Windows PE "Ah pocket edition" Thio Joe: Pre-installation Environment "Oh"

[@lester9230]

that was I was thinking lol

[@geometryjumpfl2784]

no, thats windows 8

[@luischeco3009]

I was thinking of Windows: Professional Edition

[@nexusdoesgaming126]

Same

[@toimun]

Every Minecraft player would think that :D

[@hospie]

I love that you put exactly what you searched for every stock photo used

[@charababis6321]

Windows pe always existed lol

[@cherrypepsi2815]

@@charababis6321 bruh?

[@cherrypepsi2815]

@@charababis6321 like you're absolutely correct but what?

[@_reckless_]

Last time I was this early, I was still trying to double my Internet speed for free.

[@Roeclean]

Hmm Did it work🤔🤔

[@DarrylPanji]

@DREAM GOT KIDNAPPED Noone asked buddy

[@snowball5843]

@DREAM GOT KIDNAPPED 😂

[@tifawockhardt]

@DREAM GOT KIDNAPPED dream fan

[@idkman4884]

@DREAM GOT KIDNAPPED damn you must be a comedian, im dying rn

[@matthewsmeets]

I bet that they bought mojang to use the "PE" trade

[@matthewsmeets]

@@binku09 Nah only like 0.9% of their net worth

[@Yukiyonova]

@@jellyfron742 literally said in the comment with out even edited

[@wohao_gaster7434]

"Microsoft acquired Microsoft and Mojang And Minecraft for 1.6 Billion dollars"

[@wohao_gaster7434]

@@jellyfron742 bought*

[@ItzYtanimation]

@@jellyfron742 what google transuelated it to microsoft owns the GIRL

[@picklr3893]

Dang this is the 100th Theo's video that went into my useful playlist

[@adriantheo7654]

I litteraly thought you call my name. 😎

[@glennivy9354]

Lol

[@ceperencer]

Joe: what is Windows PE?? Minecraft Veterans: oh its Pocket Edition

[@ordinaryshiba]

lol yeah, before I watched it I thought it was a special version of windows for phones or something like that

[@pngmasterko8798]

@@ordinaryshiba same😂

[@GetsaaOficial]

pog tree

[@WolfOfTheBronx]

@@ordinaryshiba same

[@hehehaha361]

@@ordinaryshiba lmfaooosame

[@ianjharris]

If anyone has an issue around 5:35 with opening the "Deployment and Imaging Tools Environment", open the first installer again and make sure the defaults are selected. I unchecked some that I thought I didn't need and it prevented me from getting this come up. Thanks for the great video.

[@sonushaikh9427]

6:31 Dude you have 80 GB of RAM. That’s insane.

[@barajuboor]

still can't run google chrome

[@thorbjrnhellehaven5766]

I think PE sounds kind of interesting to put in a VM, hosted by Linux. To run some odd applications, unavailable for Linux, but available as portable edition. Would be interesting to find a way to install apps on PE, not just deploy portable edition, as I have some apps requiring install. I guess I gave to stick with a full Win 10 for them.

[@neptonia]

as I run linux when I found this video, this is a good idea

[@UnifiedFriends]

Wine is currently going this route, almost everything is converted to PE compatibility.

[@stevethea5250]

@@neptonia whats pe standfor?

[@neptonia]

@@stevethea5250 no clue

[@stevethea5250]

@@neptonia PRE SOMETHING

[@hanro50]

Would be nice if ms allowed use for projects beyond recovery and stuff like that. Could be neat to pair this with, for example, the reactOS shell and use it for a VM focused windows version.

[@drcyb3r]

In our company we use a small WindowsPE to install the normal Windows on a big amount of notebooks over time. WinPE gets deployed to the notebooks and it installs Windows, drivers and all necessary programs on its own. In our case it is just a few GB in size. It runs on a ramdisk and so it gets automatically removed after Windows is installed, as it isn't needed anyways.

[@bharatmadho3742]

6:32 so nobody is gonna talk about how Thio has 80 gigs of ram

[@tonyme7426]

Why?

[@electronichaircut8801]

Doubling ram for free

[@tonycituk]

He watched "How to download more RAM?" VIDEOS.

[@aryanwasntmighty1798]

@@tonyme7426 probably for video editing stuff

[@tonyme7426]

@@aryanwasntmighty1798 My question is not to why he has it but to why should it be talked about.

[@unicorn_tamer]

It's weird, that I am using only Ubuntu three months now and I am still watching your videos about Windows

[@ananttiwari1337]

I really dislike Ubuntu. Worst distro IMO, owned by Canonical (a fairly shady company with a bad record), bloated, once added spyware by default etc etc. I don't see why anyone would use it over stock Debian, although I am here with an open mind and would love to be proven wrong

[@p6n7l]

@@ananttiwari1337 i don t really understand the appeal of ubuntu either (i use arch on my main machine and didn t ever give ubuntu a fair try) i guess it s just that ubuntu seems more begginer friendly than debian? but i feel like that s not true either so if anyone can explain that d be lovely

[@thygreek8076]

If you really want a real GNU/Linux experience man pages are a must! I recommend Gentoo or Arch, it might be hard to learn but if it wasn't it wouldn't be worth it.

[@unicorn_tamer]

@@thygreek8076 I should probably have said that from the begining. I really like Linux and I 've already heard of Arch and Gentoo( never tried one of them, but I will soon). I also like programming using shell script. Btw ελληνας; ​

[@diamondmcpro]

@@unicorn_tamer i recommend trying out arch, installing (manually, not using the guided installer) it will teach you so much about how linux works

[@Jennn]

5:45 OMG IVE BEEN BANGING MY HEAD AGAINST THE WALL FOR THREE DAYS TO FIGURE OUT THIS PART THANK YOU THANK YOU

[@markarca6360]

WinPE is the environment that boots up when you first install and configure Windows (especially in an enterprise environment).

[@apachegila5205]

In Microsoft’s disk imaging paradigm, WIM stands for Windows Image and .WIM (Windows Imaging Format) is its file extension. A disk image of the Windows OS can be captured and stored in a WIM for deployment via Windows Setup.

[@smft9147]

there is also windows TJ (windows thio joe)

[@rajendarmodi7757]

Windows tj

[@Red_Pill_Matrix]

Hands down, Joe, you are the easiest to listen to on youtube on PC's. No accent whatsoever! haha!

[@Comm0ut]

PE is outstandingly useful and there have been many custom spins like Bob's OMB (far better than Hiren's). If you want a full USB Windows installation best to make a Windows To Go drive (my main hdd is one so I can boot it anywhere).

[@esbb4u]

3 years later and still GREAT video - great job, worked like a charm - not a real tech guy and this video held your hand all the way through, thank you!!!!

[@Corrinth]

Great video, love the pacing and editing, really good informational conveyance quality.

[@khaif.3376]

Don't you just love when you're earlier than the ones who have post notifications on

[@AAlgeria]

Early No Notification Gang (Aka PC Gang)

[@tifawockhardt]

same

[@duckyoverlord7317]

Yea

[@ananttiwari1337]

nothing is stopping you from getting notifications on pc, turn on your notifications from chrome and KZbin

[@tifawockhardt]

@@ananttiwari1337 do you know how annoying that shit is

[@Versuffe]

@@ananttiwari1337 chrome????? You make me sick. Use firefox

[@emilguillen4330]

Finally a windows that will get me on my feet

[@vladislavkaras491]

Thanks for the review! I always thought that WinPE is only the recovery partition. Looks like it is more complicated. Thanks for the video!

[@DaVince21]

I love how you start with the cake analogy and then finish it with "and then you burn it". Don't burn the cake!!

[@bonkvader]

ThioJoe : has 80 GB of RAM Me : using windows 10 on a 2 GB RAM Intel Pentium B450, *why are we still here, just to suffer*

[@dovahkiin5098]

I just download more ram

[@taktuscat4250]

Slap 16GB RAM on that and an SSD

[@bonkvader]

@The Infifinities oh

[@bonkvader]

@@dovahkiin5098 lol

[@bonkvader]

@@taktuscat4250 can't afford to bruh

[@-caihongchen75]

Window PE every PE teacher: our hero

[@ipostmemesforaliving]

Hmm never heard of windows PE also by the way your videos helped me like this video you made back then is that how to make your phone faster thank you so much your videos are useful.

[@ThioJoe]

Fastest comment in the west

[@ipostmemesforaliving]

Yes 🤗

[@dragonemperor1215]

You must have fast wifi or 5G

[@Imperial304]

How?? you have some crazy wifi

[@ipostmemesforaliving]

@@dragonemperor1215 haha no. I just keep refreshing my subscriptions muhahahhah

[@r.g7261]

I knew about ventoy for the past 3 months but windows PE is a new concept for me lol

[@shindyausmarzahn2501]

Is this compatible with my redstone computer?

[@ChessTopia]

minecraft?

[@mooshrooom1]

Yes

[@Ordlnary_Gamer]

if it has enough storage

[@Ordlnary_Gamer]

and your good at redstone

[@cool-guye]

yes

[@cheebadigga4092]

Another caveat of Ventoy is the BSDs. When you want to boot pfSense for example, Ventoy doesn't always work very well. At least it didn't for me. So it's always good to have a dedicated USB drive which you can format for these special cases.

[@TagetesAlkesta]

We now use Hiren at the computer repair shop I work at because I watched your video and suggested it lol

[@solelgammal]

Good

[@theredstormer8078]

one time my mom's computer she used for her business somehow got its hard drive corrupted. Windows wouldn't boot nor repair so we didn't know how to get the files off of it, but I ended up using the file explorer through notepad as you mentioned. It ended up being enough to get the important files and just reset windows.

[@ContentDeletedforever1]

Haven't watched yet. But I know it's gonna be good 😌👌

[@yezult]

First reply

[@ananttiwari1337]

@@yezult "no one cares please stop spamming the replies of every single fucking comment"

[@alexkalustian3450]

@@ananttiwari1337 lmao

[@sarthaksaxena1186]

@@ananttiwari1337 lol

[@yezult]

@@ananttiwari1337 make me then

[@frizziesodapop2763]

i used to watch this dude all the time back in the day he used to prank and somemore stuff its good to see hes still making youtube videos

[@kennethsrensen7706]

Very well explained . This is one of those things that most people should know . You can add lots of software you can use to repair a dammaged system . I have used ( and still use ) this WinPE ( Windows Pocket edition ) for so many years I have forgot when I started . Hirens boot and Bart PE is all Win PE and there is despite the limitations from being a fully functional Os , lot's of security software and repair tools even investigation tools ( If your computer have being compromised ) you can install and run directly from the USB , DVD , Cd or what you choose to use . Really well explained. This is something all people who use a computer should know a little about . Also a boot media ( USB / DVD /CD whatever is best ) at least one should be in their tool box so they can repair their windows if needed . In my opinion I think that for most people it would be easier to just download a version of hirens boot that match their windows version and simply burn the ISO . Ready to use . Nothing to setup or install ect ect . And you can get it with already installed software as repair tools ect . For most people that option would make most sense and also most easy . Just download it and burn it and finish . BartPE is also very easy to use but here you do have to create your own version as with the windows tools . It is a bit easier and you do not need extra software to install software on the PE because BartPE already have this functionality out of the box . Also the user manuals are not that complicated and most users should be able to do it just by readig the manuals . Using the windows tools and then use another program to add content / versions ect to a winPE is a little complicated compare to use Hirens or Bart . Hirens do have manual way to set it all up just as Bart and you can create your own but is a bit more complicated than Bart . On the other hand there is already so many ready made versions out there that you can just find one with sofware / tools ect . Find a version you like , download the ISO and burn it . It can't be easier than that . Nice video and explained good so any with no knowledge can ( should be able to ) understand how to do . More people should know such things . Edit - I forgot to say that with BartPE you are using your own windows CD / DVD To create the winPE . It extract the win PE from your own media so you to only need download Bart itself . No need to download any winPE and inatall any software from microsoft to be able to do so because you have it already on your windows installation medias . So you wont be wasting those 5GB on install those software from Microsoft before you can download the winPE . Neither you waste space on your disk for the winPE files ect . You just put your windows installation media in your pc when you create your BartPE and it take the files from there . This is the biggest Plus / reason to Use BartPE .

[@heaintrocky]

tysm

[@donaldschuster9304]

I remember using Win PE tools early in my IT career. Hirens saved my butt countless times.

[@XPVM]

i use windows, and know (almost everything) about it. i never knew this!

[@ghostly9548]

Oh yeah? Well do you know about the 1D 10-T error?

[@sk8rain]

Ah yes, the "Idiot" error

[@ghostly9548]

@@sk8rain shhhh dont spoil it for him

[@sk8rain]

What? I didn't

[@er3n._.]

Joe: Windows PE Me: WINDOWS POCKET EDITION!?

[@ShowierData9978]

Why your name

[@krischalkhanal2842]

Hey ThioJoe, this is from previous video about important bootable pen drives! I have a question about it. Does using same USB drive (32gb) and partitioning it in order to make bootable drive on each partition work?

[@KSPAtlas]

As long as you use the same boot manager for all of them then yes

[@ThioJoe]

I think so, not sure how to do that off the top of my head though

[@KSPAtlas]

@@ThioJoe You mentioned ventoy in the video. Will that work?

[@credit0880]

@@KSPAtlas PE, Windows and Linux ISOs will boot off of Ventoy

[@faithanddevotion]

I went back through and figured out what I was doing wrong and I now have my bootable USB ready to go, thanks Thio Joe.

[@msgamer157]

windows poket edition , lol

[@yezult]

This comment will be one of the top comments and will get alot of replies and likes, and I'm the first reply 🤠

[@Preinstallable]

I mean, u could put it in your pocket

[@vexilewastaken5557]

Windows MCPE bruh

[@aerodynamix1507]

I hope this isn't windows phone all over again

[@denizylmaz8131]

Bruh

[@Windows_98]

Thx, veri helpful, now whats command prompt? I have MS-DOS

[@brockmead4448]

Man I thought it was Windows Pocket Edition as in you could run it on a phone

[@ExecooteOfficial]

Mindset: Windows PE - "Windows Pocket Edition" Minecraft PE - "Minecraft Pre-installation Evironment"

[@vuurkoning]

when i saw "windows PE" in the title i immediatly tought "theres a windows pocket edition now?!?!"

[@omegadomega]

I mean.... It is pretty portable

[@youtissoum]

windows Pocket Edition ???

[@DrewHowdenTech]

I personally find Balena Etcher much easier to use (especially for non-tech-savvy people who don’t know how to create a bootable drive) than Rufus.

[@Avighna]

Windows: Pocket Edition??!?!

[@_____alyptic]

Windows PE/RE has been modified into a functioning OS before. Although there was a limit that shut it down after a certain amount of time.

[@Whising]

I wish i get a heart by Thio one day

[@lazarcezar5708]

thank you for the clear and on point explanation! I was struggaling to make the copype stage for a couple of hours:(

[@HeadshotEXE]

LOL, I thought it was gonna be Windows Pocket Edition XD

[@ShowierData9978]

Me to

[@Rzgar67]

Same lol

[@darkChristian]

YOU ROCK & ROLL, THIOJOE KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK MAKING A GOOD SIZE OF MONEY FOR YOURSELF, YOU DESERVE IT!!!

[@HeyHammadAusafi]

Q: What is Windows PE? A: The Physical Edition of Windows. (:

[@mjthepro9163]

No windows pocket edition

[@HeyHammadAusafi]

@@mjthepro9163 listen… i did my GCSEs in this. i know what i’m talkin’ about.

[@krishenbhatti]

Finally, a guide that will actually help

[@user-ew5vj1sl1u]

I want to see Windows Pocket Edition Theo: "Windows Pre-Installation Environment" "My pain is immeasurable and my day is ruined"

[@keilithdevine]

Lmao 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@aarushdeshpande2995]

Many people say windows is for NOoBs, but your informational videos just roast them all 🔥🔥🔥

[@drikos]

We're no strangers to love You know the rules and so do I A full commitment's what I'm thinking of You wouldn't get this from any other guy I just wanna tell you how I'm feeling Gotta make you understand Never gonna give you up Never gonna let you down Never gonna run around and desert you Never gonna make you cry Never gonna say goodbye Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you We've known each other for so long Your heart's been aching but you're too shy to say it Inside we both know what's been going on We know the game and we're gonna play it And if you ask me how I'm feeling Don't tell me you're too blind to see Never gonna give you up Never gonna let you down Never gonna run around and desert you Never gonna make you cry Never gonna say goodbye Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you Never gonna give you up Never gonna let you down Never gonna run around and desert you Never gonna make you cry Never gonna say goodbye Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you Never gonna give, never gonna give (Give you up) We've known each other for so long Your heart's been aching but you're too shy to say it Inside we both know what's been going on We know the game and we're gonna play it I just wanna tell you how I'm feeling Gotta make you understand Never gonna give you up Never gonna let you down Never gonna run around and desert you Never gonna make you cry Never gonna say goodbye Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you Never gonna give you up Never gonna let you down Never gonna run around and desert you Never gonna make you cry Never gonna say goodbye Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you Never gonna give you up Never gonna let you down Never gonna run around and desert you Never gonna make you cry Never gonna say goodbye

[@gorg212]

BRuhhh

[@drikos]

@F4 Nxhid lmao

[@TamjeedFN]

BRuH

[@mamad_f1471]

Thanks brother, I have been looking for a guide for using windows ADK and found your video which is helpful and gave me a general idea of what windows ADK does and how does it look like and work after installation.

[@GhassanA]

Me after seeing the thumbnail: is this windows version used for PE classes in school?

[@jacksonmontoya1687]

0:47 A Sponsor Of A Sponsor XD Also 5:40 I Think That Is Used For Applying Images In The Windows Setup

[@bobux5393]

Windows: Pocket Edition

[@AnAverageRobloxian123]

Why do we need that when I can fit like a hundred normal windows installs in my pocket with micro sd cards

[@Fried_Cheese_Official]

Didn't know Windows was so athletic.

[@vaibhavkhurana215]

who'all thought pocket edition lmao?

[@AlphaBlog1]

Me!!

[@windowsxp1802]

Minecraft PE: Minecraft pocket edition Windows PE :Windows pocket edition Fbi: WAIT THATS ILLEGAL

[@XxRizzMaster69xX]

noti gang

[@bassanup]

that stock photo search keywords was very helpful.

[@dsouth7754]

I sort of salivate at the idea of having something like Hiren's Boot CD as a PXE boot option. I just wish I had enough machines to manage to make such a thing viable. And I can't imagine many organizations that would be cool with booting to third-party images for root level maintenance. A man can dream, though.

[@alienJIZ1990]

As someone who's worked in support for a very long time, I always appreciate and notice when people account for the common questions you might get, like "even if it's Intel, you still choose amd64" We all love to trash AMD sometimes but never forget that they gave us the x86-64 instruction set, and if not for them, we'd be using Intel's ia garbage

[@pausechar4387]

Thank you so much for the very helpful video. Used as guidance step by step and downloaded + installed WindowsPE successfully.

[@ATechGuy-mp6hn]

You can literally pull any win10 disk and put it in any machine? the first boot will be longer but it works fine basically defeating the need for a PE environment except for requiring less resources to run. I pulled an ssd out of an i5 laptop which then went into my amd desktop with amd gpu and 2min after booting up the screen flashed for a second and it already installed the amd drivers :)

[@mineland8220]

as someone who is mostly a linux user who repairs laptops from time to time this will be useful

[@supdan]

My probably most useful rescue disk is MSDaRT (Diagnostic and Recovery Toolset), which is actually MS-official. It has a TON of stuff in it, runs on Windows PE and, although it has everything from the normal Windows advanced boot, it also has new things, such as File explorer and a program that RESETS any password, even if it's easy to do without it. It should be paid software, but... you know... everything can be cracked these days. Simply search "How to install MSDaRT 10" and you'll be good to go. This thing saved me really too many times, you have to check it out. The fact that it's official is even cooler.

[@ThioJoe]

I know about that but you have to be subscribed to Microsoft's enterprise service or something to get it

[@supdan]

@@ThioJoe Yeah, but that is what you have to do _theoretically._ In practice, you just have to get the installer. After that, you can burn it just fine.

[@mtbevins]

Do not discount the WIM file process. This is a very important tool in building enterprise windows builds. It is how you can transport entire installation directories to be part of the build. It is how you update your image with the latest patches. Your discounting this lowers your stock.

[@Yas_Sin]

Hey there, great video as usual, i have a question for you, do you know of some way to boot windows 10 directly from a flash drive ? i'm not sure if i already asked about this here, so i'm sorry if this is a repeated question, from what i was able to find, this feature was only present in windows 10 enterprise, i think they got rid of it now, but it's pretty useful in some instances, thanks again, great content.

[@DaemonForce]

Mostly yes and some minutia no. Windows ADK is a necessary nuisance in this era and it shows with each iteration. In my day the only ways to acquire this were through a Microsoft license as an OEM System Builder or extracting WinPE from Windows Setup. The issues with advanced software and WinPE are a little complicated but primarily memory related. The early builds could be premastered to run on systems with very LOW memory but could only open a few programs like notepad and a browser simultaneously no matter how much memory is installed and up to 24 hours of runtime. These were all 32-bit builds and each flavor could still fit on a mini-CD if you were smart. Booting a copy of this without a ramdisk or write filter was a major nuisance but these days we don't have WinPE booting raw from a CDFS partition and a lot of early development into the file based write filter made other memory issues obsolete (like registry startup execution issues and whatever else guys like Sherpya and Pierre discovered). Since the typical target disk is now a flash drive with a few boot files and a single WIM package, you don't need to worry so much about packaging issues anymore. The inclusion of DISM has also made routine backups and images sane again. It's not just about adding in packages but running some elite commands. I still prefer the old i386 heirarchy when developing software but these days you don't really need to do anything outside of mounting the whole project locally, drag and drop files, load some preregistered hives, add the new entries, unload hives, commit changes and save the whole WIM. I've been a Preinstallation Specialist for the longest time, longer than any of this even existed and I don't even think about it anymore. To me, WinPE has been for setup and routine maintenance since Windows XP/2003 era but it didn't become genuinely important until Longhorn 4074 and it didn't become super important until I recognized issues with ReFS versions in Windows Server 2012 (not R2). 20 years ago I would say that a new WinPE is created for each Windows successor at the service pack level and recommend building and using the newest version only to experiment with software that requires these SPs. Now that Windows 10 is the gold standard, the only dependency is Windows 10 vs Server 2016/2019 check flags so build according to what is needed. I frequently use the AMD64 version of WinPE on these modern systems but it took a while for me to get there. Now you just need compatibility checks when loading any unsigned drivers but I haven't run into any problems. There are some touchscreens and network devices that depend solely on 64-bit Win10 drivers and I load these in before deploying Windows or pulling images from a remote share. Oddly, networking support is still one of the most important and temperamental components in WinPE. Make sure you have this covered for whatever system you need to prepare and you shouldn't have any problems, even on slates that can only connect over Wi-Fi. It's also important to keep a few runtime scripts handy for automatic deployment on systems that lack keyboards and mice. Ventoy looks fun, I'll have to try that later. The program you're using to Deploy Win10XPE is a product of Bootland from Nuno Brito. He's another smart guy from back in the nu2 days that went a different direction like I did with my commandline PE-Bolts, which you won't find anymore. The idea is close enough but WinBuilder allows you to toggle the features you want. This is why you press a big PLAY button to get this started. WinBuilder takes the necessary components to make the preferred boot environment and adds the beneficial packages through some very aggressive scripts that may or may not trigger antivirus flags. I shouldn't have to say this to people anymore but do not use drive letters when building these projects or you could risk wiping an entire partition. It's actually preferred to run this software on a technician computer instead of something you use daily but if you can't do that, just be sure to have the same kind of militant awareness that you would in any other project that pulls and writes data like the aria2 scripts to pull those adguard isos. If you run out of space or the app crashes, it will wipe the work directory upon exit, including every file at that directory level. I recommend you run it in a separate directory. Everything else is spot on. Thanks and have fun.

[@kd-CarvingAway]

Nice explanation. What are some of the pre-made tools you referred to?

[@G0lden07]

Hey thio Joe I have a suggestion. Try making a video about turning the Windows installation disk into a fully usable copy of Windows with Windows Explorer.

[@masteroogway4701]

16:03 How do you get that start menu? I remember a video where you ran a powershell command for that but don't really remember it well.

[@Melody666]

That program doesn't work for me. It always says that there was an initialization issue because of missing or corrupt winpe components whenever I boot the WinPE media, no matter what I do it always happens. I tried following the original MS guide instead and it works perfectly fine. No idea what's happening there.

[@anthonynorton666]

Are their an caveats about using this on an older machine using a Linux distro, just to have a short lived Windows environment to perform tasks that require a basic Windows set of tools for a short time? Also, could you suggests what features to add a novice might over look, that would be useful in that scenario? Thanks, I am a subscriber and appreciate your instructional videos versus the infomercial-type fakes.

[@NeoGeo822]

USB drives are important. Microsoft does have cloud download for factory reset which is pretty good but I'm not sure if it is the perfect solution like USB boot is. Windows 10 is like 6 years old almost yet it still feels new.

[@AR-vf7vg]

is "Sergei Strelec nr1 WinPE" an alternative? ( I'm only just envisaging study the usefulness (to me) to learn all about WinPE and bootable usb-key. I'm woried to walk into malware territory).

[@Null0Programmer]

The Win10XPE website says need to log in, they changed it but there is no way around it and I don't think there is a way to make any sort of login

[@cesarjimenezsalazar9322]

thank you so much, I was so confused with all this and you cleared it up very well

[@ShadowScoutSwede]

Great video and i have never heard about windows PE before and thanks for the information you have by the way a great channel.

[@rbkhyvc]

I get error "'xcopy' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file. ERROR: Unable to copy boot files: "C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\Assessment and Deployment Kit\Windows Preinstallation Environment\amd64\Media" to "C:\WinPE\media". Failed!"

[@billsee476]

in the old days computers booted first from the floppy drive then the hard drive in turn. then it was cd drive then the hard drive in turn all set in the boot menu. you could alter it so it booted from the hard drive first. so in saying that doesn't most computers start from the hard drive ? putting a thumb drive in the computer to boot from should mean you have to change the boot sequence to look for that first?? let me know please

[@deldarel]

The FitnessGram Pacer Test works on PE, I heard.

[@PatMo1888]

Thank you for that - i'm not techy but having problems with UEFI, so I'm grateful. Now that I have WinPE on a USB can I uninstall the ADK?

[@Ashura96]

My previous employer used Windows PE for server deployment and hardware testing running custom scripts. Instead of USBs it was downloaded and stored in RAM via PXE boot. My current employer we use HBCD for Windows password resets lol.

[@almedogjurgji]

Great video. Would like to make an important question in my case concerning these dell computers that come with raid as an active drive controller (intel rst active) and not ahci. The problem is that whenever i try to boot into these machines in a winpe environment with the Strelec package if you know that, in order to reset the admin password if i cannot log into it or just backup the data of a user into an external hdd before reinstalling windows if the precedent os is damaged and cannot be repaired, the internal hdd-s or ssd-s of just the os directories into the drives are invisible. I click on “This PC” and there’s only my usb visible and nothing else. I made a search on the internet and it seems it has something to do with the intel rst driver that abstracts the hdd from the os. Please help me, what should i do in this case in order to be able managing the pc even when the pc is unbootable or just the admin password is not recognized.

[@mohammedhadhe]

Hey @ThioJoe Can you make a video on a backing up whole windows 10 in an external drive... and can you suggest for which ssd should I buy for 256 gb

[@MPG187]

In college I got an ISO of what I later found out was called "Bart's PE" (The source was just listed at Windows PE) that was a live ISO of Windows with bunch of programs and utilities, one was a tool that could reset "forgotten passwords", as a joke I went and disabled all the accounts on my friend's HDD at school (the computers had IDE hard drive caddies and each student had their own HDD they would put in the caddy on the PC they would use). He was freaking out and I was like relax, I can fix it...

[@-johnny-deep-]

Oh, wow! Ventoy is just what I was looking for!