BartPE is neato
Today I got a chance to play around with BartPE; a very cool tool for assembling a WindowsPE environment from a standard Windows XP disc. I was very impressed with the functionality that the WinPE provides, and it really got me thinking about how we could potentially leverage this when helping students with virus or spyware infestations.
You get all the advantages of being detached from the file system, yet you can still run the latest versions of adaware or mcafee. Typically we have students boot into safe mode and run the tools from there, but getting them to press F8 at the right time is sometimes tricky, and they always freak out when they get a black screen with big icons. It would be waaay slick if they could just pick up a cd, pop it in, and have the whole process automated.
Also, I can’t help but start wondering if I can somehow use this to rid myself of my dependency on the dos based ghosting software. The ghost client itself isn’t too bad, but ghostwalk is atrocious. Ghost32 is certified for WinPE environments, so I think I’ll download the trial and see how it goes.
October 10th, 2006 at 6:13 am
great blog, keep it comming.