{"id":1352,"date":"2012-04-25T00:43:29","date_gmt":"2012-04-25T05:43:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/?p=1352"},"modified":"2013-08-26T18:19:05","modified_gmt":"2013-08-26T23:19:05","slug":"introducing-windows-recovery-essentials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/introducing-windows-recovery-essentials\/","title":{"rendered":"Introducing Windows Recovery Essentials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There have been whispers and rumors <a href=\"http:\/\/www.giveawayoftheday.com\/forums\/topic\/11476\" rel=\"follow\">making<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.donationcoder.com\/forum\/index.php?topic=30401.msg286101;topicseen\" rel=\"follow\">the<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/support.macrium.com\/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=4239\" rel=\"follow\">rounds<\/a> all over the internet for the past few months regarding the licensing of WinPE. The rumors are, in fact, true: as of January 2012, Microsoft has no longer been renewing any Windows Pre Installation Environment licensing agreements with any partner companies; all of whom are now required to find alternative means of meeting their bootable environment requirements.<\/p>\n<p>As many of you are aware, NeoSmart Technologies is one of the companies licensing Windows PE from Microsoft Corp. Back in August of last year, we revealed that <a href=\"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/windows-recovery-discs-updated-reinstated\/\" rel=\"follow\">we\u2019d struck a deal with Microsoft<\/a> wherein we\u2019d be licensing Windows PE for use in our system recovery CDs, making them legally available for download for our users. Unfortunately, that agreement will not be in place for much longer, and the recovery and repair CDs in their current form will soon no longer be available for purchase.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Fortunately, we\u2019ve taken advantage of the advance notice provided by Microsoft to research and develop an alternative for the steady stream of visitors who come to our site in search of a bootable CD to repair their non-booting Windows, having access to neither installation media nor backups.<\/p>\n<p>While working on the next generation of our repair CDs, we investigated the most common points of operating system failure and designed our software to detect, target, and repair these problems. Our goal was simple: make the next version of our system repair CDs in every way better: find more problems, fix more problems, and do so with speed, accuracy, and precision.<\/p>\n<p>The next version of our system repair CDs is not just a replacement for the current WinPE-based repair CDs, but rather a whole new software written from the ground up with the express intent of fixing whatever it may be that stops your PC from booting. Windows Recovery Essentials (WinRE for short) will be a one-stop shop PC repair, fixing common and uncommon problems alike, including those that the Windows installation DVD can\u2019t or won\u2019t fix.<\/p>\n<p>WinRE is currently in private beta and will be available soon. In the meantime, here\u2019s a short peek of WinRE Beta in action:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/v7INjODBhEI?rel=0&#038;ap=%2526fmt%3D22\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"545\" height=\"307\"><\/iframe><small><em>Make sure to view in high-definition and in full-screen!<\/em><\/small><\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re interested in taking it for a test drive, be one of the first to leave a comment saying why you\u2019d like a copy, and if you make it good (don&#8217;t forget to follow us on twitter <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/neosmart\" rel=\"follow\">@NeoSmart<\/a>), we can send one your way.<\/p>\n<p><strong>UPDATE<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The current status of WinRE is soft-released. They are available for early adoption, testing, and download from <a href=\"http:\/\/neosmart.net\/EasyRE\/\" rel=\"follow\">http:\/\/systemdiscs.com\/<\/a> and have been renamed to Easy Recovery Essentials (EasyRE for short). More details forthcoming. (May 19<super>th<\/super>, 2012)<\/p>\n<p class=\"save\"><a href=\"http:\/\/neosmart.net\/EasyRE\/\" rel=\"follow\">Download Windows Recovery Essentials<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There have been whispers and rumors making the rounds all over the internet for the past few months regarding the licensing of WinPE. The rumors are, in fact, true: as of January 2012, Microsoft has no longer been renewing any &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/introducing-windows-recovery-essentials\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[543,22,840,838],"class_list":["post-1352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-software","tag-licensing","tag-microsoft","tag-winpe","tag-winre"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xDa-lO","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1352"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2594,"href":"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1352\/revisions\/2594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}