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  1. The Windows Guy

    The Windows Guy MDL Senior Member

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    Now, you will be able to get a bit more information about the Windows image when you apply it with the PE Helper:

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    During testing, I was able to get meaningful information about those 4 properties with PowerShell, and in a way that would not take a long time. This will come soon with the latest nightly installers. More testing will be done and, if it works correctly, it can also be backported to 0.6 as part of Update 1.
     
  2. The Windows Guy

    The Windows Guy MDL Senior Member

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    Now, Disk Space Checker reports will feature proper terminology for disks and partitions and not the mount point letters assigned by the system that started installation. This is possible thanks to an extensive use of WMI queries:

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    Feel free to try this out with the latest nightly installers. Also, additional improvements for the PE Helper will arrive in future 0.6.1 previews, mainly a more visual representation of the installation progress of drivers installed with the DIM, and the ability to automatically copy ISO files to Ventoy drives
     
  3. David Retzloff

    David Retzloff MDL Novice

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    I finally had the opportunity, this weekend, to test out the latest nightly and the latest Windows insider build. Very pleased with your work to eliminate PS boxes stealing focus. In addition everything just feels a lot smoother. I'll hopefully get to testing the WinPE functions shortly. Thank you for all your hard work. This is a very useful tool and much appreciated.
     
  4. The Windows Guy

    The Windows Guy MDL Senior Member

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    Experimenting with Ventoy drive support for the PE Helper:

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    Currently, this is only available as a flag in the script itself, and no UI option has been added to the ISO creator. Expect a nightly installer with this feature fully implemented soon, though.
     
  5. The Windows Guy

    The Windows Guy MDL Senior Member

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    Experimenting with internationalization for HotInstall:

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    This is being done with a simple, yet effective, INI parser library. Here are the (notoriously) incomplete results so far:

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    This library will also be used for something else in the future. Guess what it will be.
     
  6. The Windows Guy

    The Windows Guy MDL Senior Member

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    Now, the PE Helper will show a more visual progress of driver addition:

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    Experience this, and more changes, with the latest nightly installers
     
  7. The Windows Guy

    The Windows Guy MDL Senior Member

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    The ISO creator will now detect the architectures that are compatible with the Windows ADK that is installed in a system:

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    This is in the latest nightly installer, alongside some internal changes to DynaLog and HotInstall