Windows Imaging Format

File format

Also known as .wim · .swm · WIM

Instance of: disk image format

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The Windows Imaging Format (WIM) is a file-based disk image format. It was developed by Microsoft to help deploy Windows Vista and subsequent versions of the Windows operating system family.

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File extension: wim
swm
rwm
Developer: Microsoft
Media type: application/x-ms-wim
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1.gitlab.freedesktop.org/xdg/shared-mime-info/blob/Release-1-12/freedesktop.org.xml.in#L4005Retrieved 2019-07-27
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