Plugins and Addons ?

I apologize as I'm brand new to the forums and this project.  I've been reading the last 2 days about win7pe.  My primary goal is to get my favorite imaging software "drivexml" working with this project.  After that I hope to branch out and starting adding all my other preferred programs.

When I go to the projects page and click the link for "win7pese/apps/hdtasks/imaging", I get a page with the error "It appears that you are trying to use a resource that you are not permitted to access at: /Projects/Win7PESE/Apps/HD%20Tasks/Imaging/ . If you entered that URL manually, please do not do it again."  Since I am trying to find DriveImageXML plugin to use with this project, am I doing something wrong ?

Also, since I am so new, if someone can point me in the direction of good tutorials and/or threads to help me learn better, Im open to any input.  I've found the one by irongeek and am starting there.

Thank you !

Seems there is a DriveXml plugin available on the Gena project. You can download that plugin and add to Win7PESE using the sharescript plugin.

Thank you for the reply.  I used the sharescript process as you noted and as described in the FAQ.  I added the Gena script for DriveImageXML and a couple other program scripts.  I've created a working Win7PESE.  Which is awesome and "thank you" to this forum !!!

My knowledge on how winpese and the scripts work is small.  I'd like to ask a question:

Question -->  If I didnt feel like rebuilding in more portable apps, is it even necessary to integrate them with winbuilder ?  For example, with the program driveimagexml, I found that even if it is not integrated and just sitting in a seperate folder on the computer, I can still run the .exe for it.  It runs and does its job under win7pese.  It seems like it would be simpler to just have a seperate folder on the USB drive with all the programs you would want to run, and just open and run them from there.  So what is the purpose of building the scripts for the different apps ?  Is it simply to make them visible as part of the start menu and/or another program menu ?  Will some apps simply not run by just launching the .exe file under win7pese ?

Thank you for advice and input :)  Being able to work with Win7PE builds is fantastic for me, so thank you again.

WarZ, that is an EXCELLENT question!!!

YES, there are a a lot of programs that just work "out of the box", when you just put them in a folder. The way I normally do it is put all my portable apps in an iso file, then (automatically) mount that iso at (PE) runtime. Having one big iso instead of hundreds of loose files just copies a lot quicker to iso, I found... But if you just have a few program files (a few exe's, dll's, ini, etc), your method is perfect, and pretty much exactly how I normally do it.

The only stuff I build in the Winbuilder "Apps" tree are Autohotkey (because it needs to be put in the autorun folder and launch a sort of "autorun" file, which, you guessed it, mounts my "Portable.iso" file as drive Q:), then only a tiny few more, like the Acronis driver files (needed for True Image), and a few more (will tell you about those later, in a hurry now...)

Some of the stuff I use in this "portable" manner are mentioned in other posts I made here, but to name a few: XYplorer, TCCLE, UltraISO, Office97mini, Sumatra, TrueCrypt, WinNTSetup, WinRAR, FSViewer, HWInfo, many, many more.

A lot of Disk Imagers are portable, too!: Terabyte, Active@, etc (really have to go now, later...)

Fantastic, that will certainly make this work easier. 

I look forward to your list of programs that need to be built into the "Apps" tree to run properly.