ChrisPE - a PEBakery Team release

[Taviruni]

The PEBakery Team are proud to present the ChrisPE project. Use this project to create WinPE 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 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 and developed over the past two months and is now ready for a public beta release. The PEBakery Team anticipate ongoing development and the ChrisPE project is likely to continue to evolve. This may result in changes to some of the core features such as the menu system and supported shells.

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 managed 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.

This project has been developed as a base from which to add additional features.

Please note that it's been developed for use with the PEBakery builder and will not work in winbuilder as a number of commands are not supported.

Please download from the ChrisPE github repository - https://github.com/pebakery/chrispe

Instructions are included - please check the documentation in the download (readme.htm).

If you are not familiar with github - use the Clone or download button and select the Download ZIP option to download the project.

Feedback is welcome.

Please have fun.

The PEBakery Team (ied206, alacran, Atari800XL, homes32 and Misty)

Screenshot of ChrisPE with WinXShell -

EDIT: Not all the programs are in the basic download, there is a complementary pakage of scripts, I have it almost ready for upload and will be available for download very soon, new scripts are finished and working now, but under test to prevent any malfuntion, the pakage contains 25 new scripts.

 

Taviruni from PEBakery Team

 

The ChrisPE project is forum independent. We would like to reach as wide a target audience as possible - not everyone posts here. The release post is duplicated across the following forums (listed alphabetically) -

MSFN

My Digital Life (MDL)

reboot.pro

theoven

We will endeavour to cross reference useful information from other forums.

The scripts released with the project are a random sample we put together for testing purposes. Alacran/Taviruni is working on a number of scripts for release.

Build time using Windows 10.0.16299 source (aka Fall Creators Update, aka Version 1709) with all scripts enabled (including WoW64 in the 64-bit build) -

32-bit = 43 seconds

64-bit = 90 seconds

Test system - Lenovo X230 with 4gb RAM and a 64gb OCZ Agility 3 SSD.

1.1 GB of disk space was required for the 64-bit build - this includes a bootable .iso file.

ChrisPE uses a different approach to many other projects -

The same project can be used to create WinPE from a range of sources from Windows 7 onwards.

The wimlib library is used to extract the required files only - reducing disk space usage and saving time.

Source files are not cached. Delete the ChrisPE.Files and ProjectTemp directories to reclaim disk space.

For any developer out there, the Pebakery documentation (see here) is a very useful resource thanks to the fantastic work of homes32, ied206 and alacran.

The plan is to continue development - we need your help to achieve our future goal of adding support for the Explorer shell.

The PEBakery Team

[Taviruni]

Complementary Scripts updated to v2.0 to make them compatible with new improvements on ChrisPE-Develop:

Free Applications Pack containing 23 scripts with very useful applications.

Proprietary Applications Pack containing 4 scripts for software you must own and provide by yourself and have the appropriate Licence from Author in order to be able to run them, this are:

CalculatorPlus
Ghost
Ghost Explorer
Acronis TrueImage 2018

Please read this before download.

Taviruni

From ChrisPE Team

[dhjohns]

Do you think you could change the interface colors?  They are very bright which makes the whole program a bit difficult to use.  Perhaps we could choose our own colors?