hi
because i missed some features in buckeyexp's shrinker, i wrote my own office shrinker tool. in the moment my programm works in the same way like buckeye's but i'm working on another solution (something like nlite, just for office)

i'd feel happy if you could test my programm, too. it should work fine for office 2003 and english, german, spanish, dutch. i don't know how it will act with other office versions!
other languages can easily be added in the language.ini

thx!

download:
http://www.illusions-tec.de/charmin/OfficeShrinker0.9.rar

note!!!:
no error support for version 0.9!! i'm working on the other much faster comfortable maybe saver shrinking method. should be finished soon.

really nice!!

i'll test on spanish ver ASAP!

Thanks, its interesting - will try it today after getting home!

One thing I'd like to know though, is does this "shrinker" support all cds ?
I mean, the one by buckeyeXP works only for CD1 of office 2003. If you try to reduce source of frontpage, onenote (cd2, cd5) you find that you can't.

Also, what is this tool based on? not Auto-It it seems?

hmm i'm not sure if it'll work with the other cd's too .. i thought you can slipstream the other cds into an admin point install. i don't have the other cd's so i really don't know

it's based on autoit (the new beta with gui support) and i'll send you the source if you want to.

Nice work Charmin Deluxe.

Yes you can slip-stream into AIP, but its a different AIP!

Also, to confirm that your code works for every CD, try running it with the office resource kit installer.

hmm how?

Does this need to be run on a clean xp machine?

i'm afraid so

Wow fast reply. Okay, not a probelm.

Do a "/A" (admin install) of the package - it can be found on CD1 or downloaded.
Then use the resource kit to make an MST for itself. That should do it.

@Charmin Deluxe

Looks good, will give it a go on my test machine.

ok guys dont forget to report in and tell us what happens

Question: Why does this have to be run on a clean install of XP?

because it does a test installation of office to see which files are needed. but last night i got a great idea! maybe it'll work. i'll let you know

can u pls give more info on how this works. how is it different from officeshrink?

as i said in my first post this version isn't really different to buckeye's version

Well, it runs the office setup, and sees which files are needed to be copied to install it. And keeps those alone and dumps the files that you don't need (because many of the files are older versions than comes with XP, and files for older versions of windows)

If you were to have already had office installed, an example is unicows.dll which you'd already have installed (when you re-install office, the residue files won't be copied over again). So then office-shrink will not notice that file is needed to be copied during a fresh re-install - and when you install a "shrunk" office source on a fresh windows install, you will see that complaint of a DLL missing.

Seem to be getting an error 25003 source corrupted install aborted, taken off my slipstreamed sp1 disk that works perfectly otherwise?

Errors?
Does Office Shrink work fine for you? If that works fine and this doesn't then Charmin Deluxe has some work to do.

It does.

Same here - reports a 'corrupt installation source files' error.

nice idea! ill test it out soon!, it'd be nice 2 have a tool like nlite for office

hmmm k wait guys. i think i'm nearly finished with the new nlite like method. just give me one or two days. if anybody of you could send me the aip (admin install point) msi's of other office versions, it would be much easier to add support for office 2k/xp (other languages are also interesting)

mail: charmin-deluxe@freakmail.de

thx

edit:
does anyone know a commandline tool that extracts tables of msi files or a tool for exporting mst settings into a txt file or something like that?

You have mail.

does your office shrinker tool support sp1? for office2k3, cuz i had problems with it with buckeye's version

nice tool like nLite for office?
buckeye's is already that since so many months.

office shrink (buckeye) support for o2k3 SP1 ?
its already working fine. Try it again on a clean VM. Here o2k3-SP1 is 40 MB compressed now.

i think what hes trying 2 do is have it so u can select what u want/dont want in the office source? it'd be nice tho 2 have an option for 7zip support

ive tried several times 2 get it 2 work with buckeyes version

Not being pushy dude but is this prog a goer or what ,anyone else had this error??

nice

i'll try it on my French version of Office 2003
as prvious Shrinker wasn't working on my PC

thx


you're right. zip support is planned also


hmm maybe the SKU011.XML was copied in the wrong place.