Windows PE & IE

[Ivor]

I wrote an application to run on Windows PE. The VB.NET
application can be used to format, image or troubleshoot
the current PC. One of the applications I shell out to
requires IE 5 or higher. Does anyone know how to include
IE in a custom version of Windows PE?

Thanx

Ivor

 

[Rob]

I'm relatively certain you cannot get IE to run in PE. PE is not XP, it's a
very minimal OS subset and many of your standard Win APIs aren't even
available. Ask these guys over here, they can tell you for certain:

http://communities.microsoft.com/ne...newsgroup=microsoft.communities.oem.windowsxp

 

[Guest]

Thanks, I didn't know that a site for OEM stuff existed.

 

[Rob]

it's well hidden

 

[Johan Arwidmark]

You cannot add IE but you can add support for HTA (which uses some of
the IE components).

The HTA files can be build using the buildoptionalcomponents.vbs
vbscript

If you just need a browser from within Windows PE you can use the
following free programs:
offbyeone webbrowser
K-Meleon (based on Mozilla 1.5 and Gecko)

You should also add a ramdisk for storage of temporary files...

regards
Johan Arwidmark

Windows User Group - Nordic
http://www.wug-nordic.net

 

[Mike Kolitz]

Jonathan has it right - an HTA application would be the preferred way to do
this in Windows PE. Along with that, there is no support for the Microsoft
..NET CLR in Windows PE, so a VB.NET application would not run.

--
Mike Kolitz MCSE 2000
MS-MVP - Windows Setup and Deployment

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[Guest]

Where can I download BuildOptionalComponents.VBS?