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both depending on the meeting lord of the rings trilogy or matrix trilogy?

yes, it is possible. you just need to boot from your cd the same that you would do it from your floppy. start creating an old win9x boot disk (with cd-drive support). then burn all of the content to your cd, don't forget to add your bios image and your bios flasher program (it will be a waste of space ). if your computer is set to boot from cd it will automatically load and simply running the from the command-line your flasher program. don't forget to... use a boot disk with cd-reader support configure the bios to boot from cd advices... you can insert the commands to autoexec.bat so your flash program will start automatically

@prathapml and @bucketbuster well that's the thing i would never do. if your drive and your username is not the same than your firefox profile will be totally f...! i really preffer @Astalavista's way to ensure everything is correct

@Afterdawn and why not? (j/k) your code is shorter that's ok but doesn't matter if you check it 1 or 4 times

well let leave the thing like this: if you find it useful then use it for me it is, i've applied this method to my installers and some compressed programs always succesful

http://www.themexp.org/ http://browse.deviantart.com/

none for me! nba all star weekend or superbowl?

@RyanVM i suppose in that case you just simply don't need it @Astalavista they are already compressed B)

i'll definetly use 1 for reader

nice to see a "skinning guy" between us! really nice icons!

@prathapml, i'm not going to start a discussion... but... ... it is too useful for me and a simple example: administrative installation point of acrobat reader7, AcroRd32.dll... NON-UPX: 8,68 MB (9.109.504 bytes) UPX: 3,16 MB (3.314.688 bytes) after your exe files are upx-compressed the size will be nearly similar to rar compressed and now you can run the installation from your cd with a slowdown of 1sec (i haven't found any slow but maybe on old computers...)

ECHO. ECHO Installing Visualizations EnergyBliss 1 ECHO Please wait... start /wait %systemdrive%\install\WMP10\MP10_EnergyBlissViz.exe /Q Download

1 more for request...

theme is always applied the first time you see the desktop, that's why runonce is not yet "themed" mine is w9x alike, dunno were you got that screen but probably is a post-desktop shot. you can log on windows, use shutdown.exe to restart and then runonce...

@MCT , strange those switches works perfect for me @totoymola, maybe it ignores the -k switch because you used the shortcut and not the .cmd file @prathapml: 1) slower... maybe, but i preffer to open a program 1 sec later and save 4mb. the term slower does not make justice on nowdays computer 2) the mainly use of that information is the ability to reduce an .exe non-rared setup. i won't use it to reduce all of my installed programs, i want to reduce setups and it will be very helpful. about the compression ratio, well firefox.exe got down from ~6mb to ~2mb and the original xpi (firefox inside) was ~4mb and after UPX ~3,9mb so size got decresed but not too much. @bucketbuster, yeah i observed it on some .exe files. icon got compressed to and "disappeared", that's why i recommend to use UPX'ing with installers and not main programs

lol, is the most easy 1 on my unattended disk if you run your installation with "/?" you'll see the switches list REG ADD %KEY%\049 /V 3 /D "%CDROM%\Software\WMP10\EnergyBliss.exe /Q" /f

i've choosed "other". for me it's common sense: don't open mails from unknow senders and be sure where you got your files is the key

me neither i just found it googl'ing here. i used the same command line as the script did for a win32 app and supposed it will work better edit: @MCT try to add a PAUSE at the end of the script to see what happens

@MCT true, you don't need it. it's just to prevent a "possible issue" and because the original code had it . edit: this opens a new world in the unattended installations as RAR-SFX and 7ZIP-SFX did... i've reduced my firefox.exe file from 6mb to 2mb , once compressed on a rar it only saves a few kb but is a nice way to start...

This is a consecuence of the thread "Hacking WinRAR SFX for customized installers". Well you are a fanatic of "hex editing" or "resource hacking" so you'll find interesting the idea of a Send To> shortcut for UPX compression. You just need to download UPX for Windows and place UPX.EXE on System32. Then place the next 2 batch files on "%USERPROFILE%\SendTo". For MakeUPX.cmd @ECHO OFF @ECHO. SET EXT=%~x1 SET LCEXT=%EXT:~-1% SET FSIZE=%~z1 IF %FSIZE%==0 GOTO END :COMPRESS %WINDIR%\SYSTEM32\UPX.EXE -k --best --crp-ms=999999 --force %1 :END For ExpandUPX.cmd @ECHO OFF @ECHO. SET EXT=%~x1 SET LCEXT=%EXT:~-1% SET FSIZE=%~z1 IF %FSIZE%==0 GOTO END :DECOMPRESS %WINDIR%\SYSTEM32\UPX.EXE -k -d --force %1 :END Options: -k: switch will keep a backup of your original file like "file.xyz > file.xy~" --force: will force de comp./decomp. of your original file :END: down this line you can place a PAUSE line to see the result, errors and ratio. Unattended: You can place the files unattended by locating UPX.EXE on "$OEM$\$$" and "$Docs\YourUsername" but this last is known to have some problems so let me recommend to create a RAR-SFX archive or a self-destructing batch file to copy both cmds. Hope that it is clear enough . If you are interested on a direct rightclick menu entrie contact me, it will be easy. Credits: Well I personally don't like to have any credit on those things, first because I only had the idea and based it on a @jdoe's similar code ("Send To>MakeCAB") and @totoymola's thread

really lol, maybe is stupid but... no sometimes we miss the easiest solutions

really nice @totoymola ps: for upx i use UPX.EXE -k --best --crp-ms=999999 --force "yourfile" case sensitive!, but it lefts the same sizes as the original exe... am i missing something? edit: tested and working now smaller sizes

any image resized to 48x48 would be good enough here are two of mine: BioHaZaRD account Administrator account

nice info, maybe someday i could use it...

[quote name='Crispy' date='May 27 2004, 11:34 AM']For gaming I would definitly choose an highend AMD 64, some 1-2GB DDR500 RAM and an Geforce 6800U / Radeon X800 XT ... Would cost a small fortune thou ... [/quote] same for me