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You have created more setups than I, so I bow to your wisdom and higher post count sir. @Lost Soul As evilvoice says /S works, I use it for the main program setup and the additional British dictionary, I also install Premium skins, registry tweaks to add my own identities and copy all the saved and sent mail The only thing I cant figure out is how to register it silently (Still trying), I have to run incredimail and click on my license to do so, this complicates things because I always forget to remove the licence before a fresh install and have been refused activation once due to too many activations so if you have any ideas or have your own method I would be interested to know.

I use Incredimail myself and finally got tired of messing, there are that many build releases to keep up to date is a drag, running the extraction switch does not extract all the files, most of them are gifs and bitmaps, the exes are not there. What is it about the setup you want to customize? probably all the s***e they dump everywhere on the desktop and start menu @JohnS Sometimes it is that simple, some installers just extract the files to the directory you specify and add shortcuts, there are default preferences for the program in the exe and sometimes the reg keys are not added until you open the options dialogs and close them. With flashget as you said sounds and other things are missing as is the ability to right click and download all in IE or the Flashget toolbar, which Avast AV flags as Adaware. If you don't add a serial number to the registry, ads\banners are shown in the program and the ads directory is created whilst running the program, you could run the program for a while and see if you encounter any problems.

You could use this switch /DIR="x:\dirname" check ZoSTeRs post here, but I'd take boooggys suggestion and learn to edit the iss file, there is a lot more you can do by editing.

Use regedit.exe and add /s if you want to import the entries silently, In Windows XP and Windows Server 2003, Regedt32.exe is a small program that just runs Regedit.exe.

Use the force, Lost Soul, and fix it you will. to know it works Glad I am

I always have a problem with the languages and just delete any references to them in the script or on the files themselves via the common tab on the file properties. Languages: en,nl,brpt,cz,dn,fi,fr,ga,gr,it,no,ru,sl,sw; I downloaded the program and edited the iss file removing all the extra language entries. I added a name in the Program Tab under options so that when the shortcuts are created the folder name will not be "default". and set solid compression and ultra level. The program compiled silently after I deleted 3 more files from the install run section and ran when clicked so it seems to work, I'll let you fully test it Registry_First_Aid.iss

@ Lost Soul In the iss file goto the Install Run section, files there execute after installation, just delete the {app}\rfagent.exe and any others that you dont want to run.

Nice, resized the bitmap could be used to replace innos default

InCtrl5 my inno setup. As for the registration, you can export the reg entries to a reg file, and import the reg file into ISTool. Click on the Registry section in ISTool, right click and select import from file, just be sure to check the values are the same I have had times when binary values in hex format wont enter when the setup is run, and there are sometimes double quotes around file paths. Another way is to click on the Registry section, right click and select New Item, there you can select the different hives and and enter subkeys and values.

good to know, you have done more setups than I, I had forgotten how many of my apps were inno conversion or alterations :-Alcohol (bit of a cheat), Avicodec, Beyond Compare, bennersvideokit, cdimage, CDR-Win, dvdregionfree, Editpadpro, Folderbox, InCtrl5, lavasoft Ad-Aware, Mailwasherpro, Mozilla Firefox (another cheat),Grabit (ISP tweaked), Parameteriser, Quickpar ( Contains Quickpar, FSRaid, glue and Powerrenamer), Regcrawler,Regsnap, Resourcehacker, Sspybot, Spywareblaster, Tmpgenc, Trackseraserpro, Viceversapro, Wassociate and winrar

@evilvoice I know what you mean about the reg entries, the hardest one I had to do was a Video kit for DVD ripping and video conversion containing :- AC3Machine, AVICodec, CloneDVD2, DivFix, DVD Decrypter, DVD Santa, DVD Shrink, DVD43, Dvd95Copy, G Spot, DVD Guides, headac3he, TMPGEnc, videocalc, VirtualDub and html how to guides found on the web, edited then converted to pdf Trying to find the minimum files and reg entries needed is a ballache, you can just back up the reg keys and keep all the language files but I like my exes to be as small as possible

@ Lost Soul The files like the icon.ico and side bmp are custom images you can specify under the Options - Appearance tab in ISTool, these changes and a few others are not saved if you extract the iss file from the exe so I always save mine, I have upped them here. To cut down on size I have removed things like extra languages as I only need the English, and I have added a couple more skins that I have downloaded. What other files, apart from the side.bmp and icon.ico are you missing? Here is one for Spybot v1.4, again with a few tweaks and skins removed\added english lang only spybot.iss

For Ad-Aware SE Professional 1.06 I just monitored where the files installed to and created my own iss file. ad_aware.iss

Here is a setup for unpacker that puts an entry on the context menu that extracts the exe (if created with inno). @boooggy I haven't done the final version but did the 1.4 beta. When I get time I will be doing it.

mine or the original?. Do you have inno unpacker installed?

@boooggy I forgot to mention that in my last post, my exe also has a registry entry added [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\SpywareBlaster\Settings] "TutShown"=hex:ff,ffthis will stop the tutorial when spywareblaster starts up. You could add the registry entries for the IE protection as well but it would be a ballache to keep it updated with each new version or database

@JohnS open the iss file using ISTool, click on "options" in the toolbar, then select the Program Group tab and add the directory you want to use to the "Default Group Name" box, which should be blank which is why Default is created.@Lost Soul If spywareblaster.exe is in the {app} folder which was created when you extracted the setup, make sure the iss file and the {app} folder are in the same directory, that's all I can think of. Here is the setup I use, the desktop icon creation has been removed, the databases are the latest versions (6/7/05) and an uninstall icon has been added to the group icons.

You could try DivFix

For Nero I use <program>#SOURCEDRIVE#\Applications\nero\setupx.exe</program> <arguments>/no_ui /silent /noreboot</arguments> </execute> and X-Setup Pro is an inno setup, or at least v6.5 is so /verysilent /sp-

the /silent will install without user interaction but you need /no_ui to hide the extraction process.

Just a question first, why do you need to use start /wait?, xplode waits before running the next program by default. If you post your logs or xml file again please remove serial numbers etc, your Nero key is shown. I noticed you have some bat files running, could you not incorporate the events in the batch files using the xplodes own commands, if not you could use <hide>true</hide>to prevent the dos box flashing up. Whatever installs after java503.exe is creating this error <fileiodelete> should be <fileio-delete> and </fileio-delete> As for the files not found, the ones installed after ad-aware seem to be the problem, you are using the systemdrive variable, is something in your ad-aware kill.bat changing this value? Hope you sort it Just realised xplode is not told the location of start.exe in your program tags

Rename the m2v extension to mpg and they should play in WMP or Powerdvd etc.

If thats is all that is in your file it won't work, you need to add this to the top of the fileWindows Registry Editor Version 5.00

I agree it can be wrote easily enough, but, as you said people are using xplode that maybe haven't gone through the progression of batch files and RunOnceEx and the xml creator would certainly make a dent in the posts from people whos xml files are misspelled, typed or contain unclosed tags, this can always be checked by opening the xml in your browser but some people may not know this.I vote for the conditional statements, and would like to ability to merge all of my xml files into a single one and call the appropriate xml section via the commandline, i.e I currently use the selectedinstall method and have 3 xmls, a cmdlines (runs @t12), a main (runs before first logon) and a cleanup. Now if it were possible I could call xplode with the commandline used now such as XPlode.exe /xml:cmdlines.xmlbut instead of opening cmdlines.xml it would open xplode xml and run the cmdlines portion of the file. I don't know if this would be possible or feasable, just hoping

Use resource hacker to open sysdm.cpl in the windows system32 folder and edit the text in Dialog 101, the file is protected by Windows File Protection so it will be replaced unless you turn off WFP