WAIK and OPK
The Windows® OEM Preinstallation Kit (OPK) and the Windows Automated Installation Kit (Windows AIK) have been updated for SP1. These kits include two new tools that you can use when creating images:
Boot critical driver tool (PostReflect.exe). PostRevlect is a command-lin tool used to reflect all boot critical device drivers out of the driver store in an offline image. Driver reflection is the process of installing a driver on a computer that might or might not have a device for that driver. Typically, this involves copying the driver files to the destination location so that the driver can be loaded by the operating system during the boot process. If all of the boot critical drivers are reflected in the image, it can be deployed to various hardware configurations. After SP1 is applied online and an image is created for the computer, this tool must be run on the offline Windows image because SP1 contains boot critical drivers for the hardware abstraction layer (HAL) and matching changes to the kernel. If the changed versions of boot-critical drivers for the HAL and the kernel are not correctly installed on the computer that you are deploying to, the operating system will not boot, nor will the image boot on any computer that has a different CPU or hardware configuration.
Windows Vista SP1 File Removal tool (Vsp1cln.exe). An optional tool that you can run after you install SP1 to remove older versions of components that have been upgraded to new versions in SP1. You may want to run this file because installing SP1 increases the amount of disk space that is used by the operating system (since the older versions of components are stored in case you need to uninstall SP1). Typically, you should run Vsp1cln.exe if you want to reclaim this disk space after applying SP1 and if you will not need to uninstall SP1. You can use this file both online and offline, but you must have SP1 installed. You cannot uninstall SP1 after you run this tool on an image.
To obtain these kits:
WAIK. The WAIK is located on the Connect website, in the Downloads section of Windows Beta Programs . The download file is named: "Windows (6001-16659-070916-1443) Windows AIK - EN-DE-ES-FR-JA".
OPK. The OPK is available as a download to a limited number of OEMs and system builders. To obtain the OPK, contact Technical Account Manager.
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