Hey there! This seems like the most active forum around Sergei Strelec WinPE. I'm so glad to find this WinPE it's great after coming from HBCD. I just created an account here to ask a question about a problem I've come across. Whenever I boot from Strelec, and then go back to my permanent Windows 10 installation, I notice that my OS partition has lost about 4 or 5 GB of storage space. It seems kind of sloppy for Strelec to be doing that. But I won't care much if I can figure out what has been added so I can remove it and free up that much needed space. What's is being written and where are the directory locations, so that we can clean up after using this WinPE? Thanks
It depends on what kind of actions you take, once you boot Strelec. What exactly are you doing, partitions maintenance, cloning, etc. ?
Just a quick PSA - I used the latest Strelec (2023.04.18 Eng) to reset a forgotten password on a bitlocker encrypted HP 840 G8.. It booted fine but none of the apps ( password reset, HD managers etc..) could see the bitlocker drive.. I used CLI and all the mounting tools I could think of.. dead end.. I could not see it... For whatever reason I booted the 2023.01.30 Eng version (on exact same make/model SSD drive) and,.... everything worked as expected,.. could see drive, decrypt, reset password, job done. I know the wallpaper has changed,.. but I think some of the PE boot environment has changed too... Beware of deleting old copies of strelec. Awesome tool btw.
I knew both and some other similar PEs. But Strelec is always king with few or no errors. But for safety purpose i maintain 5 or 6 different PEs in a Ventoy USB.