The WinPE customisations keep coming, wanting more information about the system you are running WinPE on?

If you are familiar with BGInfo, you already know that it is a great way of displaying information about a system and you probably already use it in your base server build (for those not in the know check out BGInfo on TechNet). But what you may not know is that it works in WinPE and you can draw that same information out and display it on the screen.

Simply add the BGInfo executable and custom layout file to your WinPE scripts directory, modify your unattend.xml to include "X:\BGInfo.exe /accepteula /timer:0 /iqX:\WinPE.bgi /silent" and you are up and running.

To get you started I have added my layout file for download WinPE.bgi (1.96 KB).

NOTE: BGInfo is a 32-bit executable and since WinPE 2.0 64-bit doesn't support WOW it will only work in a 32-bit WinPE environment.