The safe mode sometimes is not safe enough when trying to eliminate viruses, recovering files, delete system components, and a lot more.
Microsoft created a PE (Preinstalled Environment) for this special situations. It’s basically a minimal win32 with a few services which is burned in a bootable CD or DVD.

But there’s some limitations in this Windows PE. A guy named Bart Lagerweij (http://www.nu2.nu) from the Nederlands made something a lot better and more useful than Microsoft’s. He built Bart’sPE.

For example, Windows PE is command line only, that means no graphic environment, no mouse support, etc. Bart’sPE is a graphic environment with the choice of using command line if you want/need it.

Another one: Windows PE is for OEM users only, and Bart’s PE is free for everybody. All you need is the Windows installation files.

You have to download the builder, run it and point to the location of the Windows installation files. The program can burn the CD directly or you may choose to create the ISO image to burn it later.

Once you boot your PC with Bart’s PE you get a complete Win32 environment with network support, a graphical user interface and FAT/NTFS/CDFS filesystem support.

If you still use that MS-DOS cd to make a clean boot, you may want to replace it with this one.

System requirements:

1. The files from your Windows Installation CD-Rom.
   Supported Windows versions are:
   • Windows XP Home Edition (must be slip streamed with Service Pack 1 or higher)
   • Windows XP Professional (must be slip streamed with Service Pack 1 or higher)
   • Windows Server 2003, Web Edition
   • Windows Server 2003, Standard Edition
   • Windows Server 2003, Enterprise Edition
2. PE Builder runs on Windows 2000/XP/2003/BartPE systems.
3. CD/DVD writer if you want to creat a bootable CD/DVD.

Click here to download Bart’sPE builder.