Together with Windows 7, Microsoft will release a new Windows Automated Installation Kit (WAIK). The most prominent tool in WAIK is certainly imageX which is used to capture and modify Windows images. There are some new features in imageX which I will discuss today. In my next post, I will write about the new command-line switches of Windows 7 imageX.

Note that imageX which will not be replaced by the new DISM tool (Deployment Image Servicing and Management) as some sites reported. I will cover DISM which also belongs to the WAIK in another post.

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In my last post, I discussed some of the new features in imageX for Windows 7. Today, I want to talk about the new switches in imageX

I copied the imageX help file entries of the new command-line options and added some comments.

imagex /cleanup Deletes all the resources associated with a mounted image that has been abandoned. This command will not unmount currently mounted images, nor will it delete images that can be recovered via the imagex /remount command.

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