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Just in case someone stumbles across this again... innounp.exe (v0.14) had different switches now, -x will extract all the files and the script Repacking with a modified script worked well, but I had more changes to do than I thought I would have to (most likely because the original is packed with an older version) Things I had to change: I Had to add DefaultGroupName=eXtreme Movie Manager at the top of the script to fix the install group name. Types also gave me some problems. They were comma separated: Name: "main_program"; Description: "Main Program Files"; Types: custom,compact,full; The commas have to be replaced by spaces like such: Name: "main_program"; Description: "Main Program Files"; Types: custom compact full; Else it won't even compile. I also had to add a [Types] section before [Components]: [Types] Name: "full"; Description: "Full installation" Name: "compact"; Description: "Compact installation" Name: "custom"; Description: "Custom installation"; Flags: iscustom Also, some "dangerous" DLLs (like WININET.DLL, which probably shouldn't be included anyways...) had to have the allowunsafefiles flag added for the project to compile. DLL wise, I noticed also that the installer overwrites blindly DAO360.DLL with the included version (no version checking, rather unprofesionnal of them). I changed it to onlyifdoesntexist instead. (let's hope it doesn't REALLY rely on DAO for database... scary thought!) Finally, somehow when I use it with /SP- /VERYSILENT (no need for /LOADINF anymore) it still runs the app after installing. So I had to take out the [Run] section... (I decided to leave the desktop icon in there and to delete it post-install) To sum things up, I wouldn't say it was hard to fix by any means, but it sheds some light on a sub par installer. The app itself might be good but the author ought to fix the installer - the runtimes part anyways... As a reward, I get a functionnal (and unattended) non-broken, non system files overwriting installer. I had been waiting on that for all too long. One less of my few "problem apps" to install on my to-do list (at least, most others can be easily captured/repackaged) Inno setup is quite nice after all. I might use it more soon [edit] After finally including it on a unattended disc. It turns out it will prompt for some of the DLLs (mostly MDAC ones) to keep/replace still. I'll try adding onlyifdoesntexist to all the system DLLs or perhaps taking the obviously useless out (might be a better option after all...) Oh well.

@ZoSTeR: thank you VERY, VERY MUCH! After looking for a simple way to install extreme movie manager for a while you came up with my answer! -I couldn't really repack it, as there was a bunch of unknown runtime DLLs (and nowhere was a list of them to find...) -You couldn't use AutoIt either as, you would get messageboxes for every tuntime DLL that's already on your system. Not always for the same DLLs, and not always the same messageboxes... Anyways, it was VERY frustrating to even think about it! Until I found out it's using INNO setup and that I remembered your post. Now that I unpacked it, I know exactly how to proceed: -The program files can just copied over (ie: $OEM$\$Progs) or make a sfx with them (including your current DB) -There are no registry entries -We also have to remember the start menu shortcuts (Or even better - use /SAVEINF so it doesn't install the runtimes, it works great) -Finally, we can recopy DLLs without overwriting (just the ones missing from the list, and regsvr32 when needed, which is easy to do with a .cmd or vbscript...) I got the list of runtime DLLs (already!! 41 of them) ASYCFILT.DLL (VB Runtimes) CMCTLIT.DLL (VB Runtimes) COMCAT.DLL (could be unsafe to install) ComCtl32.ocx (VB Runtimes) COMDLG32.OCX (VB Runtimes, not safe to overwrite) DAO360.DLL (part of MDAC, and let's hope that app doesn't use DAO... scary!) DOWNLOADCONTROL.OCX (can't find any references to that, must be renamed) expsrv.DLL (part of MDAC) MSCMCIT.DLL (VB Runtimes) Mscomctl.ocx (VB Runtimes) msexch40.DLL (part of MDAC) msexcl40.DLL (part of MDAC) MSFLXGRD.OCX (VB Runtimes) mshtml.TLB (comes with IE) MSINET.ocx (old internet xfer control) msjet40.DLL (part of MDAC) msjetoledb40.DLL (part of MDAC) msjtes40.DLL (part of MDAC) msltus40.DLL (part of MDAC) mspbde40.DLL (part of MDAC) msrd2x40.DLL (part of MDAC) msrd3x40.DLL (part of MDAC) msrepl40.DLL (part of MDAC) mstext40.DLL (part of MDAC) MSVBVM60.DLL (VB Runtimes, could be unsafe to install) MSWinsck.ocx (old winsock control) msxbde40.DLL (part of MDAC) OLEAUT32.DLL (could be unsafe to install) OLEPRO32.DLL (could be unsafe to install) RCHTXIT.DLL (VB Runtimes) RICHED32.DLL (not safe to overwrite) RICHTX32.ocx (VB Runtimes) STDOLE2.TLB (could be unsafe to install) TABCTIT.DLL (VB Runtimes) TABCTL32.ocx (VB Runtimes) VB6IT.DLL (VB italian file...) WININET.DLL (already on any system with IE4+, not safe to overwrite) winmm.DLL (old multimedia dll) xpControlAdv01.ocx (can't find any references to that, must be renamed) xpControlAdv02.ocx (can't find any references to that, must be renamed) xpControlBase.ocx (can't find any references to that, must be renamed) (Right now I'm even considering rebuilding it, using the onlyifdoesntexist flag and no confirmoverwrite flags... That should fix it) Anyways, you made this possible [edit] after going thru all this, when I look at the list of DLLs, it's sad to say that all of it except about a half dozen OCX'es shouldn't be needed on most systems... Lots of very old stuff too (Win 3.1/DAO technology "under the hood" type of app)

AutoIt is best for things like that. Not only it can click at specific coordinates, but also on control with specific classes names. vbscript cannot send WM_ messages or mouse clicks in any other way. I think if you try AutoIt once, you will adopt it. It's very similar to vbscript, plus a some functionnalities...

InstallRite would work and is free (it records changes to the system, and wraps it all up in an installer package) If you got serious money to spend, then there are other, much more powerful (and much more complex) apps by InstallShield/Wise/...

At T-13 your registry isn't finished creating yet afaik. It installs fine at GUIRunOnce or using RegOnceEx... No big deal (I only install one app at T-13)

Hypersnap uses a proprietary installer, ie: no switches will work. Several things you can do: -copy the files and export reg entries... -use a script (like this one) -capture install and repackage as .msi file (...) As for vueprint pro (never used it), if it works like vuescan, just copy the installed files (the license is a file inside the directory) and the shortcuts. (Althought it seems like it adds a bunch of reg entries/shell integration - that you could easily capture with something like RegSnap - that's if you want to keep it) You could make it into a sfx too (or again capture the install, or autoit, ...) (asking for them over and over again will not magically make the installers have switches to install them silently... sometimes, there just aren't any)

There's many possible ways to fix your issues. One thing could be simply resizing your partitions. As for the moving temp files, it depends on each specific app. In phoshop, you can set the disk for it's memory: edit > prefs > Plug-Ins and scratch disks, and change it to whatever you want. As for IE (you mean, some people use IE? for real? ) I'm not sure as I don't use it at all ([edit] after not much searching at all, I stumbled across this. Why anyone would want to use IE it still beyond me...) You could also make sure to empty your temp files (start > run > %temp% [enter]) - it gets pretty out of hand sometimes. There's a few more things you can do temporarily to cut down on hard drive usage, such as uninstall some apps if you can, or deleting the help files (in %SystemRoot%\Help - c:\windows\help in most cases). The help files sometimes take up more space than you'd think... As for your Virtual Memory Minimum Too Low problem (especially if you use photoshop lots like I do), you might want to consider adding more ram. I'm not the type of person that tells everyone to get tons of ram no matter what (the kind that thinks/preaches it's ok to run a 8086 CPU - as long as you got a gig of ram ) but photoshop is clearly the exception. When working with some pano images over 80MP with a few layers and complex selections, photoshop can take over 500mb of ram by itself... I'm considering adding another GB of ram to my photoshop PC very soon to help with that, it's the worst memory eater of all the apps I ever used.

You need the matroska pack, plus the appropriate video/sound codecs to play it back. Try installing the K-Lite codec pack and it should play fine. Otherwise, GSpot would tell you what codecs you need to play it back.

Oh, I thought that the RC's were PRIOR to PR ... The names don't say much, and their download page offers PR as latest, kinda confusing. After searching a bit, I found their roadmap. They're already planning for v1.1... By the timeline, 1.0 final is due in 3 days I guess I'll just wait then @totoymola: thanks for cleaning things out!

Just wondering, does your network drop - even for a split second? I see that happen sometimes, especially with big transfers.

It's a disk size issue, not partition. You need more than 40 bits (hence the new 48 bit LBA) to address the part over 137GB (128 "real" GB) of the disk.

You're welcome I can attest to that. It takes me almost as much time to maintain/update it as it takes to create it...

I'm using 1.0 PR and it's working flawlessly for me (all 34 install fine!). The only thing I got issues with is the prepare.cmd. If I include a user profile like that, when I type a URL it opens a new window that doesn't do anything. Kinda messed up. But, there are many alternative ways to install firefox and user profiles. I'll be definately looking deeper into this when the final comes out (think it's due for the 18th, isn't it?) Installing the main app and the plugins is a non issue as far as I'm concerned (I don't use skins on anything at all). The only "complex" thing is the user profile, which seems to create several issues... I've seen various scripts and ways, but it takes a while to test all this with several users accounts. I plan on having a deep look at the GlobalProfile way of deploying a profile, see if that will work better (I hope so!) But again, it'll have to wait till the final is out. I see little point of doing all this work now and having to redo it all in a little over a week from now. I might make a different guide than SiMoNsAyS' - probably a bit easier too (mostly simplified, but just for english systems...) Perhaps It'll have the scripts and modified files pre-made for download too... We'll see! BTW: welcome to MSFN

See full article here B)

You're looking for either VMWare or VirtualPC (I like VMWare better).

And it might be a good thing after all... Now if I could only get UltraVNC to register the service unattended (without popping that messagebox)... oh well.

There are a few things you can edit with winnt.sif (branding), but you could make your very own IE build with IEAK. Peronsally I only use IE for windows update and firefox for everything else

Hmm, perhaps try typing SET [enter] at the command prompt and check what they're set to? Or perhaps a typo or not having enclosed properly in double quotes? ... There is no apparent reason why this wouldn't work... [edit] I doubt using: del %systemdirve%\documents and settings\desktop\*.lnk really works better (what was I saying about typos already? ...)

Yep, I've seen other similar demos of about that size too. The textures and other data is all generated in memory at startup (hence the delay to start). Don't we wish some companies like M$ took example and not overbloat everything so ridiculously? ... (btw, why would you post this in "media center" instead of "Gamer's Hangout"?)

Moving MFT to the front - agreed. As for diskeeper, I'm not sure if it really does that properly (haven't looked into it much as I really don't like it and wouldn't use it anyways). I know for a fact perfectdisk will move the MFT and metadata to their proper locations. It will leave the MFTRZ alone too. The thing with defrag MFT and moving it is, it can only be done during offline defrag (boot time), which I hardly do. But again, I find what matters most is how well and how fast it defrags - which is a bit hard to quantitize, especially when it comes down to things like MFT defragging, not like you can very easily tell how well it defrag'ed it. And the numbers might vary a lot in cases where partition's filesystems were converted or resized (shrinking a partition usually does not shrink the MFT back, which can cause issues and tons of issues like that) or different partition sizes and many more factors... What I know is, PerfectDisk seems to do a great job at defragging and pretty fast, I haven't had issues with it at all. O&O was my previous pick (over Diskeeper - which I'd rather not even comment onto) and was pretty good too, but it's not quite PerfectDisk On a lighter note, I just checked the defrag status and OMG, with the exception of the MFT zone - everything's RED! (File fragmentation factor:9, Directory fragmentation: 10) Guess it's about time I defrag it...

I've never had to edit any ini files for PowerDVD to install silently. The old -r to create and -s to install worked perfectly, no serials asked either... As for the -f2, it's only needed if you run the install from the CD/DVD as it can't create the logfile on it. If you have problems installing, look inside the log file for the ResultCode. That will tell you what's hapenning.

Norton stuff must have been asked over a hundred times already... Searching would have most definately found this one...

Definately posted in the wrong section ... Also, you could check forum rules #12...

NOD32 detection rate isn't very good. Check the spyware.info tests, it's around 80%. Kaspersky has the highest detection rate of them all, followed by McAfee. There's nothing surprising here at all. MANY MANY times I've ran kaspersky on systems that had NAV, NOD32, AVG, (...) before and most of the time it's found more stuff. Happens all the time, and no, not a single false positive before. (kaspersky is also one of the best when it comes to defs updates) NOD32 settings or not, it just seems to cut corners a LOT.