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Customize the Welcome Center (Standard 7 SP1)

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7/8/2014

Welcome Center is the user's introduction to offers from OEMs in Windows Embedded Standard 7. To customize and brand Welcome Center, you must update the Oobe.xml file.

A sample of Oobe.xml is provided with Windows Embedded Standard 7 Toolkit in the \Samples directory. This sample uses the fictitious company Fabrikam and Fabrikam graphics and offers throughout the XML.

To view the sample files in Windows Welcome and the Welcome Center

  1. Copy the %PROGRAMFILES%\Windows Embedded Standard 7\Samples\OOBE\INFO folder to %WINDIR%\System32\Oobe.

  2. Copy the %PROGRAMFILES%\Windows Embedded Standard 7\Samples\OOBE\Fabrikam folder to the root of drive C, where C: is the drive where you installed Standard 7.

To view Welcome Center with the sample content

  • In Control Panel, choose System and Maintenance to start Welcome Center.

Customizing Welcome Center by Using Oobe.xml

Oobe.xml is stored in %WINDIR%\System32\Oobe\Info.

Note

You cannot edit Oobe.xml with Image Configuration Editor.

To customize Welcome Center by using Oobe.xml

  1. Open Oobe.xml.

  2. By using a text editor or XML editor, such as Notepad, update Oobe.xml with the appropriate files, paths, and content.

  3. Save your updated version of Oobe.xml in %WINDIR%\System32\Oobe\Info, or in the appropriate language-specific and locale-specific folders required for your customizations.

  4. Test Welcome Center by starting Welcome Center.

Additional Information about Oobe.xml

For information about Oobe.xml settings and the folder structure for multiple-language and multiple-region deployments of Oobe.xml, see Oobe.xml Technical Reference.

The following illustration shows Welcome Center with some extensible elements.

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See Also

Other Resources

Oobe.xml Technical Reference