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Fix your problems and make upkeep easy.

No doubt I have not been complete in everything and you have some questions. This page is meant to help you through your troubles. So with that said lets get down to business. If you have a question email me at
Common Problems:
  1. WAIT! What is this "Address Bar" you speak of ?
  2. Hey PEBuilder just hangs in the process!
  3. Programs crash when running bartpe (Network support doesn't work!)
  4. All well and good! I have the system built but now things are out of date!


WAIT! What is this "Address Bar" you speak of ?

The address bar adds to windows explorer a location bar similar to that of a web browser. It shows you where you are and helps to navigate around your many folders that are deep within each other. We use the bar to speed up the process of getting places and to keep from needing to guess where files are. There are two things you can do:
1) Turn on the address bar.
2) Ignore the process of typing into the address bar and then later just browse for the files at the run prompt.
If you pick one here is what to do:
  1. On an open folder (explorer window, open My Documents if nothing is open)
  2. Click on view
  3. Hilight toolbars and wait for the menu to pop out
  4. click on address bar if it doesn't have a check mark.
    Image of Address bar location based on above instructions
If you picked 2 then at the run window click browse and then go hunting for your files.

Hey PEBuilder just hangs in the process!

Are you an administrator? PEBuilder must be run as an administrator to properly build the disk and burn if that option is selected. Once the disk is built you do not need to run as an administrator to build a new ISO. Building the disk and building and ISO are completely different. If PEBuilder hangs, exit and do a run as. If that doesn't work try a new version of PEBuilder or you may need to hit the forums.

There are forums available for people to post in. 911cd.net hosts the forum. Check out the BartPE section for help.


Programs crash when running bartpe (Network support doesn't work!)

Hmm. Ok. Lets take this one at a time.

Network support: Not all cards may have their drivers available to the windows environment. If a card doesn't work then it either will not initalize or the drivers are not working. If that is the case then you will have to do without network connectivity. There are network driver packs for bartpe available and they may help the problem.

Programs Crashing: The first thing to look at was if there was an error message. Most of the time it will complain that something is missing or that it didn't like something that bartpe did/has/didn't do/doesn't have. Most of the time it is something missing. Lets go through one at a time.
  1. Did it say something was missing. You probably didn't enable some sort of support. Most likely you are here because Hijackthis is saying a file is missing. Make sure that the VbRun pluggin is enabled in the PEBuilder.
  2. If it just says error, was the program that crashed CWShredder? If so launch it from the menu and you will most likely need to use the first or second option (Not those with the "non-ramdisk" option. I do not know why this happens but it does. I do not have an explanation for this.
  3. Something else went wrong. Well i believe it is time to head to the forums. There is bound to be a post there and if not start one.
If all else goes wrong start from the beginning or follow number three above.

All well and good! I have the system built but now things are out of date!

1) Clam down.
2) Get yourself an autoupdater script to make getting the updates a snap.

Yikes! Scripts and autoupdaters what madness do you speak.
Relax  it is simply a windows batch command that will run around and get the files you need. Then it will copy them to where they need to be. All you have to do is simply go in and build a new ISO in PEBuilder.

This is what you will need:
For those who could give a dang less and would like to steel my bandwith simply download this file for the three files you need. NOTE!!! Downloading this is not enough. You must edit the files according to where things are placed.

UpdateUtils.zip
 If you are building your own then you will need to make a file with the following and save it as updates.txt

http://download.nai.com/products/mcafee-avert/stinger.exe
http://download.lavasoft.de.edgesuite.net/public/defs.zip
http://www.trendmicro.com/ftp/products/online-tools/cwshredder.exe
http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/files/Merijn/HijackThis.zip
ftp://ftp.mcafee.com/pub/antivirus/superdat/intel/sdat*.exe

Next copy and paste the following into a file called getUpdates.bat

wget -i updates.txt
copy stinger.exe ..\pebuilder313\plugin\stinger\
unzip -o hijackthis.zip -d ..\pebuilder313\plugin\HijackThis\files
unzip -o defs.zip -d ..\pebuilder313\plugin\adaware USE ME\Files
copy cwshredder.exe ..\pebuilder313\plugin\CWShredder\files

del stinger.exe
del def.zip
del hijackthis.zip
del cwshredder.exe
del defs.zip

copy sdat*.exe ..\pebuilder313\plugin\mcafee\files
del sdat*.exe

cd ..\pebuilder313\plugin\mcafee\files
ren sdat*.exe sdatxxxx.exe
sdatxxxx /e
del sdatxxxx.exe

pause

But before you close out of the editor (notepad works best) you will need to modify some lines of code above. The key is the location of the builder files. In the file above it is in the "pebuilder313". Another key is the location of the folder. If you notice that there is a "..\" meaning that the update folder is in the same location of the pebuilder. If you are really confused and about to throw up your hands and scream then look at this:
Old folder list. 

Here is a text  version with explanations

Antidisk  <<folder to hold all of the downloaded files.
    | 
    --- pebuilder313     << PEBuilder program folder with plugins within.
    |
    --- UpdateUtils       << Automatic updater location.

They need to be in this configuration. If they are not then it will break and not work and you will need to figure out the paths or copy by hand (but then it wouldn't the automatic version we are going for).

This updates the DISK build files not the ISO. Create another file called isoUpdate.bat and put this code in:

wget -i updates.txt
copy stinger.exe ..\pebuilder313\BartPE\Programs\stinger\stinger.exe
unzip -o hijackthis.zip -d ..\pebuilder313\BartPE\Programs\HijackThis\
unzip -o defs.zip -d ..\pebuilder313\BartPE\Programs\adaware\
copy cwshredder.exe ..\pebuilder313\BartPE\Programs\CWShredder\

del stinger.exe
del def.zip
del hijackthis.zip
del cwshredder.exe
del defs.zip

copy sdat*.exe ..\pebuilder313\BartPE\Programs\mcafee\
del sdat*.exe

cd ..\pebuilder313\BartPE\Programs\mcafee\
ren sdat*.exe sdatxxxx.exe
sdatxxxx /e
del sdatxxxx.exe

pause

This will update just the ISO build files. Now go into the PEBuilder as anyone (if you plan on using the burning abilities you will need to be an Administrator) and tell it to rebuild the iso by going to Builder > Build ISO/CD (F5)
Build iso (F5)

That should keep you on the cutting edge. Good luck with your cleaning endeavors.

(c) 2005 -- Hal Hockesmith