Come off it, WinPE/RE is a true dog. I'm sure you're writing this just to buy an argument.
Come off it, WinPE/RE is a true dog. I'm sure you're writing this just to buy an argument.
As I said in my posts elsewhere, this solution, at best, is barely better than nothing.
Essentially, Microsoft has never provided a decent and proper solution, fixing a really stuffed Windows O/S is little more than pot luck. When everything goes belly-up M$'s solution effectively is to format and reinstall.
Why is it pot luck you many well ask? Well, the reason is VERY simple, opening up the O/S to this sort of scrutiny makes it easier for peopled to bypass DRM, copyright licensing etc. etc. all of which requires the enormous obfuscating capability which Windows has in abundance.
Not only M$ hides stuff in Windows--registry and elsewhere--but most commercial programs also do so. Unfortunately this obfuscation ALSO makes it much easier for root kits viruses etc. to hide within the O/S.
I won't bore you with lessons on how Microsoft could easily have solved this problem with the use of authentication, encryption, Chinese 'fire' walls between the O/S, program and user files together with the use of file encapsulation and better file system etc.
Suffice to say, what Microsoft has done INTRINSICALLY makes it easy for ROOT KITS to HIDE in the O/S.
Why did M$ do it this way instead of doing it correctly? Einstein go home--even a person with a room temperature IQ knows this was done purely for commercial reasons--that of maximizing profit.
Protection of user's data files and the susceptibility of Windows to root kits, viruses etc. fell a long way short of that key commercial objective. Whilst necessary, these hundreds and hundreds of security patches which have needed to be installed in Windows are little more than window dressing in the big schema of things. Had appropriate engineering been used in the initial design of Windows, then most of them wouldn't have been necessary.
Right, Microsoft has made us users own the problem!
Rootkit blamed for Blue Screen patch update snafu
