Images not working in 64-bit WinPE (ADK 1803) - mscms.dll not part of WinPE image

[jrbarnes]

Images not working in 64-bit WinPE (ADK 1803) - mscms.dll not part of WinPE image

[MikePohatu]

Hi James,

This is a limitation in WinPE not having certain features from .Net. I haven't pegged down what causes that specific exception, but often you can workaround the issue by saving the image in a different format e.g. .bmp and this gets things up and running.

[jrbarnes]

Hi Mike,

Thank you for the workaround! Using a .bmp does indeed work totally fine. My assumption (based on the StackOverflow link above) is that C# calls back to a different library for handling the image depending upon the file type.

Would you like me to close this issue, or would you like to handle it differently yourself?

[jrbarnes]

Limitation of mscms.dll not being included in WinPE's .NET content, which appears to be required for presenting PNG-formatted images.

Workaround: use BMP-formatted images in TsGui branding for WinPE compatibility.