Wpeutil Command-Line Options (Standard 7 SP1)
7/8/2014
Wpeutil is a command-line tool that enables you to run various commands in Windows Preinstallation Environment (Windows PE) 3.0. For example, you can shut down or restart Windows PE, enable or disable the firewall, set language settings, and initialize network components and drivers.
Wpeutil Command-Line Options
Wpeutil uses the following conventions.
wpeutil {command}[argument]
For example:
Wpeutil shutdown
Wpeutil enablefirewall
Wpeutil SetMuiLanguage de-DE
Command |
Description |
|---|---|
CreatePageFile [/path=<path>] [/size=<size>] |
Creates a page file to a specified path and size. You must specify at least one argument, path or size; for example: |
DisableFirewall |
Disables the firewall. Does not require any arguments. |
EnableFirewall |
Enables the firewall. Does not require any arguments. |
InitializeNetwork |
Initializes network components and drivers, and sets the computer name to a randomly chosen value. |
ListKeyboardLayout <LCID> |
Lists the supported keyboard layouts (Name and ID) for a given Locale ID (LCID) value. For a list of valid Locale IDs, see Locale IDs. The following two examples show how to use ListKeyboardLayout: |
Reboot |
Restarts Windows PE. |
SetKeyboardLayout <keyboard layout ID> |
Sets the keyboard layout for Windows PE. To obtain a list of supported keyboard layouts, run |
SetMuiLanguage <language-name>[;<language-name>] |
Sets the language. <language-name> uses the international language code format (for example, en-US for the U.S. English). You can specify multiple languages in priority order by separating them with a semicolon; . for example: |
SetUserLocale <language-name>[;<language-name>] |
Sets the user locale. <language-name> uses the international language code format (for example, en-US for U.S. English). You can specify multiple languages in priority order by separating them with a semicolon;. for example: |
Shutdown |
Shuts down Windows PE. |
UpdateBootInfo |
Updates information about the method that is used to start Windows PE. Information is stored in the registry in the key HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control. The results of this operation might change after you load additional driver support. |