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There was a small bug within the latest version that prevented the tool from exporting any driver. Please download the new fixed version.

I have added a new feature to Driver Extractor that allows you to export the device information of your current device to a PMQ file. The file format is identical to the TAP (Target Analyzer Probe) output. Additionally I have added command line arguments so you can easily export all drivers from the command line. These two features allow you to export the drivers for a specific system automatically so you can import them either into your Target Designer Component Database or Windows Embedded Standard 8 Catalog and use the exported PMQ file to automatically add the drivers to your [...]

Microsofts Approaching Embedded Intelligently blog features the current version of DISMUI. J.T. Kimbell has written a fantastic post about the tool that also includes a demo video showing DISMUI in action. You can read the whole blog post here: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/windows-embedded/archive/2012/05/24/dismui-an-awesome-community-created-tool.aspx The video can be seen on Youtube here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=0i86F-XClI4  

I have created a new version of my tool Driver Extractor which is now capable of creating Modules for Windows Embedded Standard 8 CTP1. The tool allows you to extract already installed drivers from your system with just a few clicks. For the export you can also choose to package the driver into a Module (EMD) for Windows Embedded Standard 8 CTP1, a Component (SLD) for Windows XP Embedded & Windows Embedded Standard 2009 or you can just export the files. The tool can be very helpful if you just have a system that has all the drivers pre-installed and [...]

Microsoft launched a new blog called “Approching Embedded Intelligently”. Microsoft defines the goal of the blog to “bring together a range of voices to spotlight Windows Embedded new and information and reflect the evolving world of intelligent systems and specialized devices.” The first post is already very interesting because it points to very helpful tools for Windows Embedded Standard 7 (Package Mapper and Answer File Diff). To read the whole blog please visit: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/windows-embedded/

This is a minor release that contains only bug fixes for the following functions: Dependency Tree Viewer in WES7 & POSReady 7 Integration into POSReady 7 with /integrate switch Language Pack installation only when needed minor fixes

The new version of DISMUI received many updates including support for the current Windows Embedded Standard 8 CTP1. One major change is the support of Modules which are the new way of adding features in Windows Embedded Standard 8 CTP1. A module is not only a combination of features of the OS itself – a Module can also contain custom files, drivers and custom commands that are executed when installed. This way you are again able to easily add your own application to your image. Because Microsoft supports Modules only with Windows Embedded Standard 8 – DISMUI has an additional [...]

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Our new tool "Windows Offline Configurator” is now available to download as an evaluation version from our website. The tool allows you to build images offline on your development machine for Windows Embedded Standard 7 Windows Embedded Standard 8 (CTP) Windows Embedded POSReady 7 The tool can be very helpful in the following scenarios: You have a slow target device where building take a very long time You want to fully customize POSReady 7 prior installation You can add and remove feature packages before installing the image You want to fully customize your image prior installation Including Out-Of-Box experience (Username, [...]

The Community Technical Preview 1 of Windows Embedded Standard 8 is now available for download. With the new version Microsoft has introduced many great new features such as: Modules With modules you can build components for you own applications and drivers allowing you to easily add them to you embedded images – also after the image has been built via DISM! Branding You can add a customer boot screen and replace the Windows Logon and shutdown screens images so you can completely hide Windows from the end-user. Unified Write Filter Microsoft has created a new write filter – the Unified [...]