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QuestionHow do you write a boot-time utility for Windows 2k / XP? Pin
Paul Evans25-Oct-04 4:13
Paul Evans25-Oct-04 4:13 
How do you write a boot-time utility for Windows 2k / XP?

By this I mean tools like chkdisk, partition magic and some defragmentation tools – that appear in a console-style window before the logon screen, allowing them to move around system files and do things without the system having many locks on files.

I’ve hunted around a bit and can’t find any guides, set of apis or anything open-source that would help. It would make great fodder for an article if anyone could see there way to writing one.

Specifically I think it would be quite an interesting exercise (!) to be able to write a defragmenter that runs at this time.

Really I would like to know how to write this kind of utility because I believe it would be a useful thing to know really!


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