Windows Preinstallation Environment: Difference between revisions

Windows Preinstallation Environment (edit)

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This article needs to be rewritten, as it includes incorrect information. WinPE was introduced in Windows XP, not Longhorn.

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 {{Infobox Windows component
 |name = Windows Preinstallation Environment
-|introduced in = [[Windows Longhorn build 4001]]
+|introduced in = [[Windows XP]]
 }}
-'''Windows Preinstallation Environment''' (Windows PE) is an operating system that Windows Setup uses to install [[Microsoft Windows]] from build 4001 of Windows Vista and up. [[Windows Recovery Environment]] also uses Windows PE.
-== Description ==
+{{WIP}}
-Windows PE is a minimal install of Windows with many files removed. It normally runs on a RAMdisk.
+'''Windows Preinstallation Environment''' (also called '''WinPE''' or '''Windows PE''') is a minimal version of Windows used to install, deploy and recover Windows versions. The first version of Windows PE was released along with [[Windows XP build 2600|Windows XP RTM]] and was designed to be a replacement for [[MS-DOS]] boot disks. It can be run from a CD, DVD, PXE boot, USB drive or hard disk, and it runs from within the device's physical memory (RAM).