Automatically enter the PID in XP Embedded Builder

If you don’t want to enter the PID in XP Embedded Builder all the time you can have XP Embedded Builder to do this for you.

For this please do the following:

1. Create a textfile named PID.txt
2. Enter the Product Key in this file including the dashes (e.g.: AAAAA-BBBBB-CCCCC-DDDDD-EEEEE)
3. Save the PID.txt to the root of a USB flash drive
4. Connect the USB flash drive to the target pc where you will boot XP Embedded Builder

Now every time you boot XP Embedded Builder with this USB flash drive connected the PID will be entered automatically from this file.

Additional functionality for custom components in XP Embedded Builder

In the version 2.1 of XP Embedded Builder new functions were included which can be used in the custom components.

For creating customer components in XP Embedded Builder please have a look here.

Create batch commands that will run in FBA at RunOnce

You can create commands that will be executed in the RunOnce phase of FBA. To do this set the action parameter in the Step section of the component configuration file to finalize:

Sample

[Step_xx]
Action=finalize
Arg0=regedit.exe /s myregfile.reg
Arg1=del myregfile.reg

Create components for XP Professional like images only

In the new version of XP Embedded Builder it is possible to create XP Professional like images with all Embedded Features included by just selecting one option during the setup process.

If you want to create a component that will be also available for the XP Professional like installation or a component which should only be available in the XP Professional like setup mode you can use the following parameters in the component configuration.

[Component]
isXPPro=TRUE
forXPProOnly=TRUE

isXPPro –> this parameter will tell XP Embedded Builder that the component can be used in the XP Professional like setup mode too.

forXPProOnly –> this parameters tells XP Embedded Builder that the component can only be used in the XP Professional setup mode.

Additional Parameter for all XPPro options:

XPProStartStep –> this parameter will tell XP Embedded Builder where it should start with the installation.

Sample:

[Component]
Name=Network
Version=1.0
Group=Network
Order=550
isXPPro=TRUE
XPProStartStep=3

[Step_0]
Action=copy
Arg0=DataWindows
Arg1=[InstallWinDir]

[Step_1]
Action=reg
Arg0=Import
Arg1=[InstallWinDir]System32configSYSTEM
Arg2=reg.reg

[Step_2]
Action=reg
Arg0=Import
Arg1=[InstallWinDir]System32configSYSTEM.SAV
Arg2=reg.reg

[Step_3]
Action=Network

If you select to install the Network component in XP Professional like setup mode, XP Embedded Builder will start the component installation at Step_3. In this case it means that it will only display the preconfigured Computername setup dialog which ships with the Network component. The rest of the installation specified in Step 0-2 will be skipped because the networking components are included in the XP Professional like version by default.