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Windows Preinstalltion Environment. 32-bit or 64-bit pre-boot environment offered by Altiris Deployment Solution 6.5 and later. Provides an alternative to the DOS and Linux pre-boot environments (also supported by Deployment Solution).

Windows Internet Naming Service (WINS) is Microsoft's implementation of NetBIOS Name Server (NBNS) on Windows, a name server and service for NetBIOS computer names.

Wise Package Studio, the leading application lifecycle management solution, can help you successfully deploy reliable applications, migrate to .MSI and much more.

Wise Package Studio Professional Edition provides everything you need to prepare applications for enterprise deployment. The industry's leading packaging solution allows you to efficiently capture legacy installations, migrate applications to the Windows Installer standard, fully customize application setups, and resolve conflicts prior to deployment.

Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) is a set of extensions to the Windows Driver Model that provides an operating system interface through which instrumented components can provide information and notification.

The Microsoft Windows Script Host (originally called Windows Scripting Host, but renamed for the second release) is distributed and installed by default on Windows 98 and later versions of Microsoft Windows. It is also installed if Internet Explorer 5 (or a later version) is installed. It provides scripting capabilities far superior to batch files. Beginning with Windows 2000, the Windows Script Host became available for use with user login scripts.