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Reengineering a Windows Embedded Image

Peter
January 22, 2012

When you need to change a pending Windows Embedded Image without a configuration or you have lost your configuration set (really a bad scenario :-() you have luck. Microsoft provides a tool where you can restore the configuration set at any time ((e: is the device where your Master Image is located):

pkgscn /Get-Packages /Image:e:\ /ConfigSetDir:c:\temp

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