After having several emails with the developer of WinBuilder (http://www.boot-land.net/), the WinFE build process will have a working project on the WinBuilder website. This is good news for anyone not comfortable with using the command line to build their WinFE ISO and good news for having more Windows features included with the WinFE build.
So what does this mean?
The build process remains the same with using batch files as detailed on this website. The use of WinFE remains the same as described as well. However, a GUI build process will be developed using WinBuilder, which will give you an option to choose between using a CLI batch file or a GUI program to build your WinFE. It also gives access to the WinFE project to several THOUSAND more users.
WinBuilder provides for many many features in a WinFE build that I believe will be the primary method of building your WinFE ISO. Colin Ramsden’s work is expected to also be part of the WinFE WinBuilder build, so the best of everything in one GUI. Bitlocker and VSS easy access, disk management (ReadOnly/ReadWrite), etc…
For all things related to WinFE, insofar as updates, use and information, this site will still exist, but for the build process using WinBuilder, there will be a forum setup specifically for WinFE on the WinBuilder site.
Just wondering if this is on the WinBuilder projects list yet. Interested in checking it out.
The project itself is only getting started. Since WinBuilder is new to me, it may (will) be a slow start to get used to the script writing. For anyone interested, help is welcome in developing WinFE to be built using WinBuilder. We need to select a project and build upon it. WinFE is more than just a registry change as there are other features to be added through WinBuilder.
hi brett, how to email you, no link anywhere. Now you got mine, drop me a line. regards peet
Excellent, I’ve just started using WinBuilder as well after years of BartPE.