Hello friends, I have just completed the theoretical portion of the ITNR diploma program at a local career college, and am now a third of the way through a practicum. Here is the obstacle I 'm up against: The bulk of the work my practicum host has for me to do involves repairs to Windows [i.e] troubleshooting and fixing virus/malware issues, general software repair. He would like to have a live boot cd of Windows XP and another of Windows 7, as he would find these more useful than conventional safe mode. This is a tool I would need as well, unless the same things can be acomplished with Linux. I was able to make one bootable win 7 cd with something called make_pe3, but it has no audio support and no way to let you inject drivers. I have bashed away at WinBuilder for a week with various "ready-to-build" projects, and have had zero success and wasted 9 dvds. Either the resulting cd fails to boot, as if the boot loader is missing, or, when I try to burn the ISO by right-clicking on it and choosing "Burn Disk Image", Windows indicates that the ISO is invalid. I am using NVDA 2012.1 and SAToGo for screen reading. My test system is a MacBook Pro with Windows 7 running in the bootcamped partition. Any light on this would be tremendously appreciated, as I have lost much sleep, mealtime and normal living time :-] to intense research not counted as practicum hours. Is a Windows live boot worth persuing, or might I be better off concentrating on Linux? Thank you in advance for any and all input.
Dear sir, Here is direct download link to download Windows7 reliable and fully functional live PE3 based project. https://dl.dropbox.com/u/15279728/win7PEnvda%281%29.7z You can not use Windows7 X86 SP1, it is necessary to use Windows7 .iso image as installation source without SP1. In other case, audio will not work. The build in audio support is made to support USB audio headsets. The universal USB audio driver is included. It is not easy to add driver for other sound carts at this moment. For virus and spiware removal, i Am recommending You to use Microsoft safety scanner. X86 release can be downloaded from here. http://definitionupdates.microsoft.com/download/definitionupdates/safetyscan... The project is including one antirootkit, but unfortunately, adding many drivers to support network carts is not easy. So updating virus database from running live project can not be completed from live PE environment if system is not containing compatible network cart. The very reliable live XP project, which can support many sound drivers can be downloaded from here. https://dl.dropbox.com/u/15279728/LXC.102011.exe To support sound cart of Yours choice, I Am recommending YOu to use USB flash drive, create The drivers folder on The root partition of this USB stick And add .sys and .inf sound drivers files to this folder. Or You can use .iso editor to add drivers folder directly to The .iso image. Poweriso or isomaster for Linux can be used. Please remember, that using live environment for virus removal is having one issue. Thanks to NT kernel, which is respecting The permissions set to files stored on NTFS volumes, some files can not be scanned. Microsoft have made his own special tool based on live PE, which is using WIndows defender. Unfortunately, this tool is not including audio support and explorer.exe is not being used as shell, and modifi this environment to support visually impaired is too complex for us. The direct download link for this tool is here. http://download.microsoft.com/download/3/3/4/3345B0CD-A4BC-4E8D-B6F0-CE68626... The best antivirus solution is to use GRML with persistent feature and with AVG for Linux. You can discuss with Me by using my E-mail address chmeljanusz@seznam.cz grml_2011.05.iso Or earlzer versions can be used, newest GRML is not including Speakup with software speech. I AM ready to constructively help You, contact me at any time.
If You would like to try registry editor for Linux, which is able to edit Windows registry, here is direct download link to The precompiled binary of this program. https://dl.dropbox.com/u/15279728/GtkOfflineRegistry The source code of The program in C language is available from here. https://dl.dropbox.com/u/15279728/GtkOfflineRegistryEditor-0.1.tar.gz This registry editor is written in C language, and it's GUI is being created by using GTK, so it is compatible with Orca. The safety and reliability of this tool is un known, so use at Yours own risk. I Am highly recommend You rather to use registry editor for Windows from running live Windows environment. To run registry editor, use remote regedit link when running some of XP or Windows7 live environments. When building live projects, disable AVG or other antivirus, some included .exe modules are being claffied as a hacking tools.
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