chilicoke

I finally got around attempting to extract the .exe today because my windows failed to boot all the sudden. however I am experiencing trouble with Universal Extractor 1.5, attempting to extract "INDOTH-01035100-US.EXE" Intel® 945GM Chipset Driver for Sony VGN-SZ330P: with the first Sony Driver I am extracting, using "E_Wise Unpacker" and "WUN Unpacker" methods both get me this error message: using "Wise Installer /x switch" left me with these files (not sure what to do with them) "Wise MSI extraction" seems to simply run the .exe "Unzip extraction" also brings me this message: any help would be highly appreciated.

Many thanks Cti, I'll be doing this later tonight and I really appreciate your help.

Thank you Cti, I have read somewhere about extracting the .exe but wasn't getting any results with WinRAR. What are you using to do the extraction?

Thanks for the input Ponch and I agree completely, I actually had to lean that the hard way as my first few strips were way over done. However this copy I used was very lightly stripped, kept almost all functionalities, only removed windows annoyance. I was just hoping someone would know what part of Window does VAIO's softwares check before installing.

Today I finally decided to do a fresh install on my laptop (Sony VGN-SZ330P). First install with an unaltered Windows XP SP2 went smoothly and was able able to install all drivers/programs from Sony's support site. Naturally I wanted to strip my SP2, tried many versions of my nLited SP2 (ranging from lightly to heavily stripped) and none of them allowed any of Sony's drivers/programs to install. This is the error message I get: What should I preserve to make sure all drivers/manufacturer's (Sony's) programs will install? any help would be greatly appreciated. Brandon