ChrisPE - a PEBakery Team release

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 -

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Credits for creating the ChrisPE project (and post #1) go to Misty
Credits for creating PEBakery go to ied206 (@joveler)

Thanks to ChrisR

(Links will be added below, when I get my edit privileges back)

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
- TehOven
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

Congratulations to the 'The PEBakery Team'
seems like an approach well worth taking, will be testing asap 

My congratulations also to the Team for their work.
A question that has not been clear to me. This means that Pebakery leaves its development and now goes to be called ChrisPE?
Or is it a variant of Pebakery? Pardon my ignorance.
Download the project right now to test it.

regards

Teik,
PEBakery's development continues, and is not necessarily linked to ChrisPE.
PEBakery is the builder, ChrisPE is "just another" project to run "in" the builder.

The PESE projects are other examples of projects that run in the builder, and are still working fine.

It would be great if some of the PESE features could be worked into ChrisPE, Explorer Shell integration would be a great start (but there are other topics, obviously).

Not liking the Run ON coding in the ChrisPE/MistyPE script(S)
And the limited number of plugins...
Ok it may build faster, give that to you..
But only need pretty much ONE build of PE, anymore..

Or maybe I am seeing this from a wrong light...

ChrisPE scripts have been recoded by MistyPE..

The listed forums have little discussion in regards to anything other, then the release

So I guess this is a New Project being promoted here or A New Builder ??

the Run ON coding

Sorry, I don't understand what you mean. What's "Run ON coding"?

all one line
lines all run together...

So why didn't you say "the lines all run together" in the first place?

Now, my second question is: Where exactly do lines all run together for you? I haven't noticed this...

ChrisPE scripts have been recoded by MistyPE..

This is making no sense. ChrisPE is the name of the new project. Nothing has been "recoded".
Nothing is done "by MistyPE". MistyPE is a different PE project, created by "Misty".

So let's not make this unnecessarily complicated... Thank you for your honest opinions, ChrisPE is a work in progress, all feedback is welcomed, and also all help from developers and enthousiasts.
Maybe you can help to make the new PEBakery builder, and the projects (ChrisPE, PESE) better.

The ChrisPE files where uploaded to github by MistyPE
MistyPE uses scripts and reference txt file....

theoven PESE Projects has the file dependices in the plugin

You should not be promoting another project here at TheOven - my thoughts....

And you should watch your tone and check yourself..
Mister I Deleted most of my other forum posts.. Here and else where...

Basically Sir. It ain't all what you seem to make it out to be..

Hi Atari800xl

as regards

all one line
lines all run together...

maybe because, if your editor is notepad, some of the scripts/plugins appear to have lost their formatting,
whilst in Notepad++  or UltraEdit the same scripts/plugins display correctly
regards APT

OH,
another program required..
Notepad not good enough..

TheOven easy to use and follow using standard windows and reading skills.....

ChrisPE seems to be credit to ChrisR for his PESE project
But also misleading as not a project by Chris

you should watch your tone

Don't tell me to watch my tone, I have been completely friendly to you.

Congratulate PEBakery Team

Building is very fast. In the first run it was 33 seconds and in the second only 21 seconds. 
Everything works without problems, great work.
A good project for the first release.
Of course, there is still a lot of work in the project to do better.
The decision to create a new project is a good choice.
It's better than continuing the code jungle.

Greetings

Kare
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ChrisPE seems to be credit to ChrisR for his PESE project
But also misleading as not a project by Chris

If some things are not clear to you, you can just ask...

The name "ChrisPE" was chosen as a tribute to ChrisR, the name is used with his full approval.

Congratulate PEBakery Team

Building is very fast. In the first run it was 33 seconds and in the second only 21 seconds. 
Everything works without problems, great work.
A good project for the first release.
Of course, there is still a lot of work in the project to do better.
The decision to create a new project is a good choice.
It's better than continuing the code jungle.

Greetings

Kare
--

Thank you so much Kare, so nice to hear that from you (for people that don't know: Kare has his own excellent LiveSystemPro builder and project).
Very nice to read your positive reply (when it would have been easy for you to "shoot it down").

So this is a NEW PE Project...
By the PEBakery Team...
As a tribute to a PESE Author..

Your project has a long way to go, to compare to all that TheOven has done..