System Imaging Tool W7

Not sure what you mean by

the boot image is still reminiscent of Vista

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Perhaps you would prefer a different screen res. 1024x768 will probably look a lot better.

SIW2 said:

Not sure what you mean by

the boot image is still reminiscent of Vista

/.

Perhaps you would prefer a different screen res. 1024x768 will probably look a lot better.

During the boot up process, such as the loading status bar and its color, it looks like Vista type of loading and not Windows 7.

It is from a 1024x768 screen resolution, re-sized in Photoshop and lowered the color from 32 to 16-bits to make it a small picture size for the forum.

Since it is a USB stick, theoretically I could just install the ATI driver for running the rescue disc in 1920x1080 resolution. The chances are that the answer is no, maybe some of the subsystem isn't in place for the install.Hopefully, I'll never have to use it anyway...

I've had nothing but trouble with the later versions of Acronis TIH. Their product seems to be going downhill, each version seems worse and has more issues and good features from previous versions dropped, new useless features added and a more confusing GUI interface each release. This is sad to me since when I first got it, back in version 9 I think, it was pretty good. I

The only part of Acronis that has remained good is the disk cloning. I use that frequently and it is reliable. I just cloned my system disk onto a new one last night. So I just use the free Western Digital version for that.

Apart from that I use Synctoy for data backups and Windows 7 for an image backup.

lol Croozng - i meant if you set winpe 3 screen resolution to a higher value it is more attractive than the default 800x600. You can use an xml file to set it during boot.

Nothing to do with your uploaded screnshot.

Odd you get the Vista loading bars - doesn't happen to me.

To get back on topic - you can type bmrui at macrium command prompt to start up win sys img gui - peculiarly, it only works if you made the image in 32 bit o/s.

If you type wbadmin.exe instead - you can restore win sys img irrespective of the bit version it was created under.

SIW2 said:

lol Croozng - i meant if you set winpe 3 screen resolution to a higher value it is more attractive than the default 800x600. You can use an xml file to set it during boot.

Nothing to do with your uploaded screnshot.

Odd you get the Vista loading bars - doesn't happen to me.

Oh, I didn't even realize that the default is 800x600; the pictures that I've taken with the camera were huge...

Here are some of the lousy images for the Vista loading bars:



Now, this is really lousy image since it was going by so fast:



Notice the greenish-yellow Vista color...

SIW2 said:

To get back on topic - you can type bmrui at macrium command prompt to start up win sys img gui - peculiarly, it only works if you made the image in 32 bit o/s.

If you type wbadmin.exe instead - you can restore win sys img irrespective of the bit version it was created under.

The background image is the same resolution and color depth as the original was, 1024x768 24-bit; it is actually the same size as well, 2.25MBs. And yes, I created it in a 64-bit environment, including Photoshop...

I've searched for the xml file to change the resolution of the rescue desktop, but I didn't find any. Where do you adjust the screen resolution for the desktop?

Hi,

You could mount the wim you already made, put init.xml in yourmountfolder\Users\Default\Documents

init.zip

Replace starnet.cmd ( in yourmountfolder\windows\system32 ) with this one

startnet.zip

To adjust res after you booted up you can put this in system32 , then call it up from macrium command prompt by typing:

autodisplay

AutoDisplay.zip

When it pops up, put a dot in the res. you want and click the middle button at the bottom to Apply.

SIW2 said:

Hi,

You could mount the wim you already made, put init.xml in yourmountfolder\Users\Default\Documents

init.zip

Replace starnet.cmd ( in yourmountfolder\windows\system32 ) with this one

startnet.zip

To adjust res after you booted up you can put this in system32 , then call it up from macrium command prompt by typing:

autodisplay

AutoDisplay.zip

When it pops up, put a dot in the res. you want and click the middle button at the bottom to Apply.

Thanks SIW for your help...

The autodisplay command worked and set the resolution via this command to the max at 1400x1050 32-bit color:



On the other hand starting WinPE with resolution 1024x768 did not work, despite all files had been loaded:



The picture was taken after the "autodisplay" adjusted the resolution.

This is fine as it is and your help is greatly appreciated, thanks again...