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I think this is a great idea, and I dont necessarily want to step on your toes, but you contradict yourself...the first paragraph you say that the current office shrinker problem is that you can only install on clean windows (which is false btw more on that later though) and in your last paragraph you state how this method will only work for that OS and computer??? so why exactly is your method going to be better? Now for office shrinker comment I made...You can install office 2003 at any time. the reason a lot of people in that thread state to do it with a clean window install is because you may not install every machine the same way. Some may have .net some may not. If you build the office 2003 shrinked installer with .net installed, you better be sure that every machine you want office 2003 on has .net installed. The same is trun for other programs, hell you could do a whole unattended install and have all your other programs install before office 2003, then run the shrink method, create your shrinked.exe and run it at the end (the exe will be even smaller now because some dlls were installed with the unattended programs installed before. But again, if you shrink it like that you MUST make sure you install those programs on EVERY machine before you install office 2003. So this theory that office shrinker can only be done on a clean windows is false.

thats cuz youre looking for the wrong file...its sfcfiles.dll that allows deleting empty folders.

so why the need for a06lp's last note in the first post? I assumed it was something else, like a registry problem, or something, but if using setupcopyoeminf.exe on the windows\source\drivers dir will make it so windows does not prompt for the cd when installing NEW devices, then Ill use that method, just thought it was more in depth.

ya know Ive only seen an ad for the site on 1 and only 1 page...hmmm, makes me wonder about you prathapml, do you like irc? And if that isnt where its from, then I need to visit more pages LOL. (without posting the page itself, I hint at what the page contains or is about..I know there arent webpages in irc...)

I dont run as admin, I run as Default User...figured a lot of hackers wouldnt expect that, since its supposed to be an account you can never use.

or longer LOL

what do you mean by idle-mode? does that mean that if I inclue extracting the 7zip archive using Run.Wait it will idle at DetachedProgram? Also, why the need to input the cd when using this method for any devices that were not connected during install...is it because of a registry setting? Im just asking if it is something we can change because I copy the driver directory from the cd to hard drive just for the purpose of not needing the cd again.

OK. This is finally nearing it final stage (as far as on my end)...I see nobody has any suggestions, thats fine. I decided to go with OEM folder with one level directories...meaning all apps are in OEM\Applications\Appname\App.exe...and so forth and so on. I am leaving the text where it is on the page and with the font I chose. I have included audio support (ogg only, no mp3, but allows for 14 ogg files all titled 01..14) so there is something to listen to while its installing. I should have a prototype and instructions tomorrow for anyone wanting to test for me...the more pc's it finds itself tested on, the more I will know about how it will act on all pc's. More info coming later, right now, Im going back to finish up everything I want it to do...any suggestions are welcome.

Well, noone in the world wants to help me (AMS Support forums keeps either not letting me register or deleting my username...oh well, I found some things that they are either doing wrong in their scripts or dont know how to do, and I was gonna post my findings but my user was deleted by the webmaster, so thats fine...just makes me not want to help people), thats fine...I figured out most things on my own. 1. This has commands to first look on hard drive for file. If not found, then it searches cdrom (cdrom variable is read from HKLM\S\M\WNT\CV\SourcePath and then only the first 2 chars are read [string.Left]) for the moment, this will have to do *since im not getting any help* I may even include for downloading from a predefined website, which then all the code will change and itlll be replaced by getting the file from the download site and manipulating it. 2. I have found a way to resize the application windows to any screensize and the background autosizes with it. The text object is on top now(uses Paragraph object and some windows/paragraph set manipulation on both project and page actions). 3. The text box has nothing in it initially, but before the program finds the file, the textbox changes to installing whatever program its trying to find. I use what I think is a pretty font, though kind of hard to read...also, it is in upper left hand corner...not sure if this is its final place or not. 4. Found a function to killprocess, so I use that when I need to kill a process, not quite sure on if it will work the way I hope it does as there are some things about the instructions i didnt understand completely or things that were never explained...like when setting file.run to wait until program finishes, that means the script does not continue to the killprocess command until after the "install process" is no longer running, right? Oh well, after testing a few things im going to test in vmware and see what that does. Can I at least get a suggestion on what folder, from cdroot to folder of app, I should place the files on cdrom...right now im using $OEM$\Applications\appname as an arbitrary place. Now that I fixed the text issue, im going to work on adding my cleanup to this...see if I can get it to all run without the need for multiple files. Also, not 100% sure if this can run at anytime or not, but the original idea was to just have it run at runocneex.cmd...Will have to test that once everything else is done.

you might want to edit out your s/n in the download...just a suggestion...Also, you may want to edit your post to remove any hint of a keygen. AFAICT its ok to use in your autoit script, but prolly looked down upon talking about it in an open forum

whats the problem with using alanolls? its the same version, customizable...just some difference in the size.

Ok, im working on creating an AMS5.0 based Application installer...it will be a lot like xplode but with some differences...mainly I am doing this for myself, but I have no problem uploading a completed version for other people to edit. The ways it will differ from xplode is that xplode can be run at any time, this will only run from runonceex; it will not include a config file, everything is coded within the executable. THIS IS NOT TO BE IN DIRECT COMPETITION WITH XPLODE...please dont write back to me or Wraith saying one or the other is better...in my opinion, xplode is far more superior than this will ever be. So please dont compare this to that...or any others for that matter. This is in its infancy stage as right now I have only tested it installing applications. I will be working on it to include installing from both hard drive and cdrom/2nd cdrom. I am also looking into having some text display that tells what you are installing and changes as the installer finishes. I have only begun to use AMS and dont know a whole lot about how to code things in it. I understand some stuff like the if...then and the actions. Mainly what I need help with is how to get it to find the cdrom drive. I see a whole bunch of ideas on how to get all the drives, or that type of thing, but nothing on how to tell it to look for a file on all drives and return with the correct drive letter. I can probably figure out how to get the text to first display and also to change when programs finish installing. Hopefully I can bust this into a single executable, but we will see. So if someone could help me out that knows some stuff about AMS, it would be greatly appreciated...and I will continue to update within this topic about progress on it and post some screenies when I get something more than just a background image...(this isnt going to include any buttons since its supposed to be unattended, but it looks pretty bland without the text on it )

actually, id much rather have it all contained in the autoit script...mainly because of the "RunWait" command...the problem with presetup.cmd is that windows setup DOES NOT pause when executing it, so you could potentially end up with only half the drivers extracted when windows hunts for drivers (at least I heard that was the biggest problem)

how is it childish when it was a hacked copy? You should know msfn does NOT allow that type of stuff here...so explain how that is childish???

couldnt we include support for 7zip archives?

NVE and NeroDigitalPro are in fact the same product...the md5 hashes match...so i guess if you want to vc, you can remove it LOL...may not want to tho just for those who download nerodigitalpro thinking its better than nve.

I know about the space saving not being that big...the main reason I started with this line of thought was that langpack 2 could not be installed correctly, so I was trying to come up with a way to have it install...and I only use english, so have no idea how the main nero installer works with other languages. Im going to think on how to get the 2nd language pack to install...it may just involve a few lines in the nero installer cmd file. But im going to think about it for a while and see if its worth it or not...I may just do it for myself and pm you with my findings and leave it up to you, since you have done such great work so far. How about renaming setup.exe for the 2nd langpack to setupl.exe? Sidenote: If you rename both the cfg and exe file, it will error out...so setupnve.cfg would still need to be renamed to setup.cfg and then run setupl.exe...this adds 104KB but allows us to use both langpacks.

i think you missed what I was saying...basically the only thing you would need to do is not copy setup.exe/setup.cfg from the lang files...you already have the code to remove the language files when removing the app...and since nero will copy the lang file anyways (at least for english it does) then there is no reason to run the setup.exe for each language pack set /p choice=Do you want to remove CoverDesigner (y/n)? if not '%choice%'=='' set choice=%choice:~0,1% if '%choice%'=='y' goto Yes if '%choice%'=='n' goto No :Yes if exist vcNero86 ( copy nul "%TMP%\Ahead\CoverDesigner\NeroCoverDesigner_%lang%.chm" >nul copy nul "%TMP%\Ahead\CoverDesigner\covered-%lang%.nls" >nul )

uhm, not sure how this ties in with unattended windows...but how did you lose them? If you deleted them yourself, then no idea...if you used something to slim down your xp and you do not have a backup of your original, then youre out of luck.

why not just use 2 commands...if exist photoshop md test...if exist illustrator md test...you say or, you dont say both have to exist...and with md, it wont overwrite all your files, itll just error saying dir already exists, so no big deal there. PS..Im gonna assume this ties in with your post in the Applications subforum...why not keep everything in one place...it makes it easier if everyone has all the info needed.

actually vcBlackBox, and this is just for your info...but if you "copy" the language files to it respective nero folder, nero will install it just the same...I actually never used the setup.exe for any of the language packs (well, until your builder)...

actually BoardBabe, Bilou Gateux's code works...just when using set, you dont get an output...as I said, you are gonna have to add whatever you want to do with the SID within the batch file as it is not permanent. Also, I find it funny that when people try to add more things to a simple batch, it fails to work...not that Im trying to stifle you Yzowl...I just dont see what was wrong with how I had it or how Bilou had it.

oh wow, TheTruth is here too...well HELLO TheTruth ltns.

hmmm, i trust your instincts...but I would use a hex editor to do this...if it were me...there are free ones out there that work wonders...hhdsoftware has a great one that I use...never caused problems...I just dont see how some combos work and others dont...especially if your keeping the same characters and only 4 of them...just seems weird to me.

no, i mean overwrite mode or insert more...using hexeditors, there are 2 methods for adding...in insert if it says i386, you put the cursor on the i and type 3, it says 3i386...in overwrite mode it says 3386.