+ * format, and LZX compression format. The XPRESS documentation is acceptable,
+ * but the LZX documentation is not entirely correct, and the WIM documentation
+ * itself is very incomplete and is of unacceptable quality.
+ *
+ * A WIM file may be either stand-alone or split into multiple parts.
+ *
+ * \section winpe Windows PE
+ *
+ * A major use for this library is to create customized images of Windows PE, the
+ * Windows Preinstallation Environment, without having to rely on Windows. Windows
+ * PE is a lightweight version of Windows that can run entirely from memory and can
+ * be used to install Windows from local media or a network drive or perform
+ * maintenance. Windows PE is the operating system that runs when you boot from
+ * the Windows installation media.
+ *
+ * You can find Windows PE on the installation DVD for Windows Vista, Windows 7,
+ * or Windows 8, in the file @c sources/boot.wim. Windows PE can also be found
+ * in the Windows Automated Installation Kit (WAIK), which is free to download
+ * from Microsoft, inside the @c WinPE.cab file, which you can extract if you
+ * install either the @c cabextract or @c p7zip programs.
+ *
+ * In addition, Windows installations and recovery partitions frequently contain a
+ * WIM containing an image of the Windows Recovery Environment, which is similar to
+ * Windows PE.
+ *
+ * \section ntfs NTFS support
+ *
+ * As of version 1.0.0, wimlib supports capturing and applying images directly
+ * to NTFS volumes. This was made possible with the help of libntfs-3g from the
+ * NTFS-3g project. This feature supports capturing and restoring NTFS-specific
+ * data such as security descriptors, alternate data streams, and reparse point
+ * data.
+
+ * The code for NTFS image capture and image application is complete enough that
+ * it is possible to apply an image from the "install.wim" contained in recent
+ * Windows installation media (Vista, Windows 7, or Windows 8) directly to a
+ * NTFS volume, and then boot Windows from it after preparing the Boot
+ * Configuration Data. In addition, a Windows installation can be captured (or
+ * backed up) into a WIM file, and then re-applied later.