Note on Bootable System Diagnostic Disc - Live bootable windows on a cd
Heres a useful general tool that has saved my butt a few times. It is a compiler which creates a minimalistic version of windows that can be run from CD with certain windows compatible software. The compiler has a plug-in interface for easy software installation (provided the plugin has been created).
I did not investigate much time into finding a solution to effectively work with spyware apps, but it's worth a look. On the other side, I've found it especially useful to work from a windows interface that bypasses the system's configuration when I want to edit the registry, run certain scans, change windows user passwords etc..
Heres what the website (www.nu2.nu/pebuilder)says:
"Bart's PE Builder helps you build a "BartPE" (Bart Preinstalled Environment) bootable Windows CD-Rom or DVD from the original Windows XP or Windows Server 2003 installation/setup CD, very suitable for PC maintenance tasks.
It will give you a complete Win32 environment with network support, a graphical user interface (800x600) and FAT/NTFS/CDFS filesystem support. Very handy for burn-in testing systems with no OS, rescuing files to a network share, virus scan and so on.
This will replace any Dos bootdisk in no time!
PE Builder is not a Microsoft product and does not create Microsoft Windows Preinstallation Environment ("WinPE"). Using PE Builder does not grant you a license to Microsoft WinPE or to use the Windows XP or Server 2003 binaries in a manner other than stated in the End-User License Agreement include in your version of Microsoft Windows XP or Windows Server 2003. Microsoft has not reviewed or tested PE Builder and does not endorse its use."
