Before I get started, let me lay down a warning – If you reached this article because you’re searching for information on Prefetch *and* your using any version of Windows other than the embedded version (if you’re using embedded Windows, you know it; if you don’t know for sure, you’re not), stop reading right now. A short time back I wrote an article on disabling the NTFS feature "Last Access Time...

CHAT TIME AGAIN! We hosted a live public chat on Tuesday August 15th for XP Embedded Service Pack 2 Feature Pack 2007 Community Technology Preview (CTP) release. There were about 25 guests and roughly the same number of experts from the Embedded Windows team. Full House :-) The team is genuinely eager to get connected with our customers and hear about the feedback. We do appreciate that during the...

I've been waiting for months now to talk about this tool publicly, so now that we've released FP2007 CTP, I finally can. Those of you who have tried to work with CMI Explorer, the value-add command-line tool we shipped with XPe SP1, will be really happy once you finish reading this article. In Feature Pack 2007 , we're shipping a new version of CMI Explorer, renamed " Console Application for Windows...

The procedures below are copied from the xpehelp.chm to configure USB Boot on XPe in the Feature Pack . I'm copying them here to give me an easy to reference URL when people asking for help. You can download the updated help files for the new technologies from the Connect site along with the disk.iso. - Andy To boot XPe from USB, format the USB media, build the USB bootable image, and transfer...

I posted an article on troubleshooting USB Boot issues in the Feature Pack Tech Preview because people are running into several issues in the beta newsgroup. We'll update the doc as a FAQ when we and you learn more about how this is really going to be used in the real world. You can find the troubleshooting doc here. See the blog post from a couple days ago if you're interested in signing up...