theeXeic

Hello, Could someone tell me what is the last version of WinRar supported on XP RTM/SP0 and XP SP1? I have some old laptopts that work better with SP1/SP0 than they do with newer SPs so i need to use it like this. Thank you.

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You can but I wanted to integrate it so that I wouldn't have to use wpi, setupcomplete, unattended scripts etc.

I was afraid of that. Thanks MagicAndre for your fast reply and your great tutorial. I'm going to try it on my new install. @myselfidem: yes, inside the setupcomplete but it doesn't integrate it in the install. Sorry about the category.

Using MagicAndre's tutorial on installing wpt, I installed windows's sdk and got the two files: wpt_x86.msi and wpt_x64.msi. Is there any way to integrate wpt in my windows 7 install? I know dism accepts .msu files only. Thank you

You should use icacls because cacls is now deprecated.

Highly unlikely. If you can't copy them from where they are now, the same result would apply if they were on any other partition/drive. No the best choice because: 1. windows 7 uses approx 8GB of space. Once you'll update the system, the size will increase drastically. Plus (depending on your settings and usage): hibernation file/page file size/programs and games/temporary files (ex: extracting an 4 gb file with winrar)/logs and memory dumps (I've seen dmps of 500mb) . Think carefully. Unless you want to learn how to move system folders from one drive to another and correct their paths in the registry, i would recommend that you do not try to install a programs/games on another partition. The reason is simple: it will be installed in both places (half on program files in c: and other parts in your defined drive). Beside the ownership problem, xcopy could also not copy folders because they have spaces. xcopy /M /E /I /Q /H /Y "C:\Program Files" --> only program files is enclosed in quotes. I'm thinking, if it reaches a folder in program files with spaces, then it'll skip that folder and move to the next. Just a theory. Perhaps a loop would be better: for /f "tokens=*" %%a in ('dir/b/ad "%programdata%"') do ( robocopy.exe /e "%%a" SOMEWHERE>nul 2>&1 ) and see how it goes. i hope this is the correct syntax for robocopy.

Does your win7 has only one user (you)? The problem you are having is most likely to occur because you lack authority. Even if you are an admin, you cannot access some files because they are owned by microsoft, wheather there are in use or not. Try studying takeown and icacls commands and try your batch again.