. Most existing 16-bit and MS-DOS-based programs were originally written for Windows 3.0 or Windows 3.1. Windows 7 runs these older programs using a virtual machine that mimics the 386-enhanced mode used by Windows 3.0 and Windows 3.1. Unlike on other recent releases of Windows, on Windows 7 each 16-bit and MS-DOS-based application runs as a thread within a single virtual machine. This means that if you run multiple 16-bit and MS-DOS-based applications, they all share a common memory space. Unfortunately, if one of these applications hangs or crashes, it usually means the others will as well.
You can help prevent one 16-bit or MS-DOS-based application from causing others to hang or crash by running it in a separate memory space. To do this, follow these steps: 1. Right-click the program’s shortcut icon and then click Properties. (If the program doesn’t have a shortcut, create one, and then open the shortcut’s Properties dialog box.) 2. On the Shortcut tab, click the Advanced button. This displays the Advanced Properties dialog box.
Select the Run In Separate Memory Space check box. Click OK twice to close all open dialog boxes and save the changes. NOTE: Running a program in a separate memory space uses additional memory. However, you’ll usually find that the program is more responsive. Another added benefit is that you are able to run multiple instances of the program—as long as all the instances are running in separate memory spaces.
Run Dos Programs In Winpe
When the Windows PE phase of Windows Setup is running, you can break into a command prompt window running under Local System context by pressing SHIFT+F10. This is cool because it lets you view Setup logs and run commands like regedit, diskpart, robocopy and other stuff. And you can even do other neat stuff like popping in a USB flash disk that has some additional tools on it you want to use. On the other hand, if you’re an admin deploying Vista workstations in an enterprise, you may not want users to break into a command prompt when Windows PE launches on their computers.
Fortunately Microsoft also provides a way for you to prevent this from happening, see KB 929839 at for more info. For more information on deploying Vista, see my series of articles on WindowsNetworking.com starting with. Mitch Tulloch was lead author for the Windows Vista Resource Kit from Microsoft Press, which is the book for IT pros who want to deploy, maintain and support Windows Vista in mid- and large-sized network environments. Mitch was also the author of Introducing Windows Server 2008 and technical project lead for the Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 Resource Kit, both books also from Microsoft Press. For more information on these and other books by Mitch, see.
Use Target Analyzer to produce a comprehensive hardware inventory of your device. There are two versions of Target Analyzer, Tap.exe, and Ta.exe. Use Tap.exe to provide the most comprehensive listing of hardware on your device. It is a protected Microsoft Win32-based application that runs on Microsoft Windows XP, Windows 2000 Service Pack 2, Windows PE, and Windows Vista.
Note Ta.exe, located in the same folder as Tap.exe, is a real-mode 16-bit version of Target Analyzer that can be run by using Microsoft MS-DOS. Only use Ta.exe when you cannot use Tap.exe, such as for 16-bit MS-DOS devices. To run Target Analyzer. Boot the device by using Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows 2000 Service Pack 2, or Windows Vista.
Note You can also boot by using Windows PE and running Tap.exe. For more information, see. Navigate to the folder that contains Tap.exe. The default location is Program Files Windows Embedded utilities folder on your development system.
Run Tap.exe. From a command line.
or - Double-click the Tap.exe program icon. When Target Analyzer has completed the hardware inventory, Devices.pmq appears in the same folder as Tap.exe. Copy the Devices.pmq file to the development system.
For example, use the xcopy command where is the.pmq file and is the location of the development system.
Ok, The first code window is a batch file. So simply copy and paste it into a text file and remame the file with a.bat extension, for example Ramdisk.bat You have to edit the first line of this batch file to point to your iso set isoroot= c: winpe iso so modify the part in blue to point to the root of your iso before you make the image As far as the registry part, I don't know how you create you registry files.
There are three Main registry files that you can edit SetupReg.hiv - isoroot I386 SYSTEM32 = HKLM System Default - isoroot I386 SYSTEM32 CONFIG = HKCU (current user) Software - isoroot I386 SYSTEM32 CONFIG = HKLM Software Sam and Security I have never used. When you run the batch file(mkimg.cmd ) that makes the winpe iso it creates the above files that later turn into the Winpe registry when you boot it. (with me so far?) There are two ways to edit these files. You can edit them before or after they are created.
Mkimg.cmd creates the registry by settings stored in config.inf. One line in this file reads setupreg.hiv =. This means that it uses winpesys.inf addreg section to create the setupreg.hiv file.
Mp3 splitter joiner freeware. The best part is that you do not need to input the start and the end time manually for splitting. For cutting blocks of song section, you can use the built-in player and then shift the borders to trim them by 0.1 to 0.01 seconds. You can simply select the part that you want to trim suing the mouse, simply scroll or zoom to find the desired sound portion.
So, if you add the lines of code after setupreg.addreg from the second code window above to winpesys.inf. The next time you run mkimg.cmd to create your iso, the SetupReg.hiv will have those keys added to it.
Yes it's confusing, but that's wipe for you. In order to edit the SetupReg.hiv after it has been created you have to import it into the registry.
So run regedit click on HKEYLOCALMACHINE go to File and select Load Hive Find the hive file and load it. It will ask you what you want to load it as. You can use any name except for the ones that already exist. Eg, software,system. From there you can use a.reg or.inf file to import settings. Use the previous post for further directions Hope it helps, Sorry I coldn't be any clearer. Sometimes I get all tied up in the Acronyms myself!
Thanks Spawn! I had also tried the same thing. It did not work for me. What are you using for source code? I am tring it with WS03 and I enabled the ram drive. I get the error: 'The system file is not suitable for running MS-DOS and Microsoft Windows applications.'
I will try to compile it with XP source code next. However, I am trying to do this with the server version to enable network driver support better.
One thing that I noticed is that 3 of the files are not in the server source mapi.dll, rasapi16.dll and vcdex.dll. In XP the first 2 files are not there but vcdex.dll is. Where did you get these files from? Guess I wasn't Clear. You got most of it right though.
Since you are doing the winpesys.inf method. All you need to do is remove these lines from your modified winpesys.inf DefaultInstall AddReg = Setupreg.addreg setupreg.addreg Notice My Previous post says: add the lines of code after setupreg.addreg from the second code window above to winpesys.inf To clarify, Add the lines below setupreg.addreg from the second code window above to winpesys.inf but DO NOT include setupreg.addreg or anything above it.