This project has evolved from the Winbuilder Mini-WinFE project. A move has been made to the PEBakery build engine, with the ChrisPE project used as a core fileset. Use this project to create WinFE from a range of 32-bit and 64-bit Windows sources, including -
Windows 7
Windows 7 (SP1)
Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1
Windows 8
Windows 8.1
Windows 8.1 Update
Windows 10
Windows 11
Windows RTM source files are recommended. The sources in the above list have been tested, other source files may also work.
This project has been internally tested. Some of the current features include -
No caching of Windows source files - resulting in reduced storage space requirements on the Host OS used to build the project.
.wim support using internal PEBakery commands - the wimlib library is used for managing wim support. The full contents of the the Windows source and WinPE .wim files are not applied (extracted) to a local directory - resulting in significant time savings.
Support for a range of shells including bblean, CMD, LaunchBar and WinXShell.
WoW64 support.
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