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Tomcat76, yes you are right of course. Heheh, I checked the files myself now and they are indeed newer versions. So I have removed them from my installation source now. Thanks

7zip is not usable on older systems which have low amounts of ram. Otherwise I would probably use it. (I have some legacy machines I use for developing and testing.) I have been bugging the UPX developers to make the --exact switch really make files exactly as they were (byte for byte) before compression. I have done some tests with it as is, and with .exe, .dll , .ocx and .scr files it gets far better compression ratio than either winrar or 7zip if the files are precompressed with all options including the resources. This could be scripted inside a batch or cmd script to uncompress the executable files, and make the compression ratio even higher. It would also allow for compression of windows component files and other things which have crc checks and must not be modified in any way. The AbodeReader installer uses such a technique with a modified UPX, to obtain it's very small installer size.

I don't have these operatings systems , so I couldn't say. Wanna try it?

Again, he wanted Acrobat, not AcroRead. I want to know how to do this too. Been fuddling with it for quite some time.

yes, it works fine on windows2000 and XP.

I prefer my way, the installer is MUCH smaller, and I can import my settings.

Tomcat76 I just do not see those hotfixes covered in the update rollup. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/891861 so I will keep them in my installation source for now. However HFSLIP does not seem to support them. Windows2000-KB820888 Computer stops responding (hangs) when it tries to mount an NTFS volume after you restart the computer Windows2000-KB822831 BUG: Driver installation program does not install device drivers I guess these are optional ones. Cheers

I do it like this. extract vmware; setup.exe /a /s /v /qn TARGETDIR=%systemdrive%\vmware This will extract the vmware installer into C:\vmware (or whatever your system drive is) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Create a batch file called install.bat Place these lines in it @ECHO OFF start /wait /i vmware.msi /qn REBOOT=REALLYSUPPRESS ADDLOCAL=ALL DESKTOPSHORTCUT=1 SERIALNUMBER=XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX copy /y preferences.ini "%userprofile%\application data\vmware\" Put your serial number there at the end replacing XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX Don't forget the dashes. Place your preferences.ini from your current vmware installation into the same directory you extracted vmware into You can see that path above, this might be C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Application Data\VMware for instance. Place install.bat into the same directory you extracted vmware into. I use winrar to create the sfx with the following settings. (you can use whatever you like) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ sfx settings; archive name = vmware.exe create sfx create solid archive compression = best sfx advanced options; general; %userprofile%\local settings\temp\ absolute path don't save and restore paths run after; install.bat modes; unpack to temporary folder hide all overwrite all files ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ hope this helps, cheers.

Thanks! does windows script 5.7 replace 5.6?

Hi! This is my first post to the forum. I have been using the excellent HFslip now for sometime and it's a fabulous script, thanks TommyP! I was wondering if you could add functionality for a 3rd type of service pack which requires the /U /Q /Z /O /N switches. js56nen.exe KB820888 - Volume Mount Hangup Issue KB822831 - Device Driver Installation Issue Q818043 - IPSec NAT-T Update These and some other service packs and add-ons require these types of switches. some extra stuff you might want to know... Q817472 - IDE ATA and ATAPI disk time out/CRC error PIO mode fix uses -u -n -o -z -q type switches also. dotnet 1.1 and 2.0 (probably 3.0) use just /Q switch for silent install. KB928365 RCE Vulnerability in .NET framework 2.0 uses /qn /norestart Cheers