ePEffigy is a SMB (Small to Medium Business) and personal use OS imaging and WinPE tool. ePEffigy utilizes OEM imaging concepts, specifically recovery partitions and OS restore functionality. It can be used to create single partition systems as well, however the power of ePEffigy is truly unleashed with the ability for users to maintain, backup*, and restore* multiple images from a recovery partition. These images are not limited to the same OS version, users can store Windows XP, Vista, and Windows 7 OS images on a single recovery partition and maintain, backup*, and restore* from any of these OS versions.

This can be accomplished from a customizable Windows Boot Menu or in stealth mode by using a "hot key" that the user defines to be used at computer startup. ePEffigy is also a great tool for troubleshooting pc's in a WinPE environment, very similar to other PE utilities but with added functionality and ease of use. Users can query the currently installed OS for network settings to use for connecting to networks or they can use native WinPE DHCP for network support.

Mapping of network drives is supported and these settings can also be stored for future use so that the user does not need to type in lengthy net use commands every time they boot into ePEffigy. They can simply select from a previously used mapping.

PE applications are also supported in ePEffigy. Users can add PE applications to their flash drive and then add shortcuts to launch these applications with ease. Great for adding malware removal tools or registry cleaners to ePEffigy flash drives.

Not only is ePEffigy a great tool it is also easy to install and build flash drives to boot from. The ePEffigy Builder application that users download is a Microsoft .Net application that is supported on XP(32-Bit) and Vista/Windows 7(32/64-Bit). ePEffigy will build out the entire environment with a click of a button.

Microsoft WAIK for Windows 7 is required for ePEffigy. This can be downloaded from the ePEffigy Builder interface.

There are 2 free pre-requisites for ePEffigy:
1. .Net Framework 2.0 or greater
2. Microsoft's WAIK for Windows 7

NOTE: There is a web browser in ePEffigy Builder with a button to assist in downloading the pre-requisite software as well (If you do not have the .Net framework installed you will not be able to utilize this download from the interface because this is a pre-requisite for ePEffigy Builder).

The ePEffigy builder application will also make USB flash drives bootable for users if the ePEffigy Builder applicaton is installed on a Vista or Windows 7 technician pc. This is also accomplished with ease as the user only needs to plug in their flash drive, click a button, and then browse to their flash drive.

Once the bootable flash drive is created they can click a button and ePEffigy Builder will copy all of the pre-configured files and settings to the flash drive and the user is ready to boot into ePEffigy and image pc's or use any other WinPE task they choose.

Architecture Information: 32-Bit ePEffigy flash drives will work on 64-Bit systems. This includes all of the imaging functions. This is actually the recommended drive architecture for ePEffigy flash drives as they can be used on both 32/64-Bit systems and there are more external applications that will work on the 32-Bit drives.

Note: Only single hard disk systems are supported for imaging functions. Itanium platform and multi-disk systems are not supported by ePEffigy as this is free software that was created with "typical" systems in mind. This does not mean that those configurations are not technically possible.

Bit locker partitions are also not supported as Imagex is a file based imaging tool and not sector based. This prohibits the copying of hard disk partitions. ePEffigy has the ability to create partitions but advanced configurations such as hard disk encryption are not supported by ePEffigy.

The license of this software is Freeware, you can free download and free use this system maintenance software.