Questions discussed include:
- Is there a tool other than System Deployment Image File To Hard Drive (SDI2HD) for extracting a SDI file? I don't really like the idea of working in MS-DOS to do this.
- XPe uses a restart method of sending 0xFE to the keyboard controller. Why can't it also set the bit in I/O port 0x92? Some embedded systems do not support keyboards.
- The Windows Media Player 11 component brings in many other components that I don't otherwise need (Internet Connection Wizard, Microsoft Data Access Components, etc.) If my application only needs to play WMF through DirectShow is there a smaller footprint component that will work?
- Now that the Update Rollup 1.0 is completed, can you give us any insight into what the XPe team is focusing on?
- Are there any plans to cut a single-disk release of XPe with Service Pack 2 (SP2), Feature Pack 2007 and the Rollup package, rather than having a series of disks and installs that must be done to recover a database?
- Is there any tool (graphical or command line) that given an SLX file will show the network of interdependencies of the included components?
- Is Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) in XPe yet?
- I have a watchdog timer that requires me to "Tickle" the INT15 0C3h periodically. How would you start writing this code? Anyone know of a general-purpose Windows driver that might work?
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