It’s possible to hide the initial shell windows on startup (MDT 2010 will take care of this).
1) You need a shell that support the hidden feature – use cmdow.exe. Download it from: http://www.commandline.co.uk/cmdow/
2) You need to make a Winpeshl.ini file from were you call your “new” shell (cmdow.exe). And in the same Winpesshl.ini file you make a call to wpeinit.
It should looks like this:
[LaunchApp]
AppPath = %SYSTEMDRIVE%\Windows\System32\cmdow.exe
[LaunchApps]
%SYSTEMDRIVE%\Windows\system32\wpeinit.exe
3) Copy them to your boot image using
4) Hide the minimized shell windows that appears in the bottom of the screen as well? Edit the LiteTouch.wsf script. Go to the section called “If in PE, fix some things”. Change the number 2 to a 0, in this line “iRetVal = oShell.Run(sCmd, 0, false)”.
