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Well, it's not that confusing, I just can't find a reason for Microsoft to mirror HKCR.. And about the DefaultIcon-keys, I know how to use them, but some just don't work (And I know for sure that it's not about a program resetting the associations, it's something inside Windows.)... And about [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\FileExts]. I know nothing describing the filetypes or their icon's is in there, I know it's just links to the info in HKCR, but I was just wondering why the heck it's there . Well, thanks anyway's for trying to help

Hi everyone! I've been busy customizing my file-associations lately, and changing from this: ACDSee.bmp to BMPFile, or JPGFile, etc. Some problems I'll never solve as I want it (progs tend to reset *their* assocations), but some I can, and will, try. I downloaded some really nice XP (128px/alpha) icons to use for my most used files (archives, pictures, multimedia, etc). Most work, some don't. That is, the DefaultIcon keys... For example it seems XP keeps resetting associations related to HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\SystemFileAssociations. So I started digging. And I never should have! Why have I, by now, found three places to store file-associations?! Has Microsoft gone nuts, or am I missing something here? And please don't tell me there's any more locations! I've found: [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\] [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\FileExts] [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes] The second I could understand: Maybe users want to customize their associations without interfering with other users. But why the third? And is it really a copy of the HKCR-hive or does it just look like that? If I want to customize my associations, which keys should I use? All three? How come I've never ever heard of the second and third? I've been all over the net tweaking XP, and I've been busy with 98 and stuff years ago... Thanks in advance for any enlightenment

I'll remove the icons... No prob. I'll just add them to my own install. And about 7zip: heard about it, but haven't checked it out. How would I include a custom compressor in NSIS? Do I have to compile NSIS again, with 7z support? I have no idea as to how to compile NSIS... I remember something about not having to use any external tools to compile NSIS, but I'm not sure about this, so please enlighten me! And thanks for the offer about the Firefox-installer, but I've already got that part running. After all, Firefox & Thunderbird run out of the zip... And if I'm correct, all my installer needs to do is: 1) Copy the selected files to the harddisk, 2) register the uninstaller (or *modifier*) with Windows, 3) and make shortcuts Sorry, those links we're suppost to be: http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/5176277/ http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/6956847/ One thing I'm not sure about: Does anyone know if profiles will be automatically created at first start of Firefox and/or Thunderbird?! I'm not to sure about this... And I have another idea, though I'm not to sure if this is actually a good idea... Would it be worth to include UPX, and pack all *.exe's and *.dll's, and unpack them @ installtime? Or would compression for the whole installer already cover compressing the runtimes enough ??? Peter Odding [edit] I just found out that 7zip is the same as LZMA .... : http://66.102.11.104/search?q=cache:zFZG03...s&hl=nl&start=3 I already use LZMA most of the time, so that problems solved... And it seems LZMA is better at compression of *.exe's then UPX, so that question is also answered.

Hi everyone! A few days ago I discovered unattended.msfn.org. Since then I've been working to get all my apps to install silent. It's been quite a pain, but untill now everything worked, eventually... Last two programs were Firefox & Thunderbird. I've read the post about combining the Firefox data with the Mozilla installer, and tried it. Worked perfect. But I couldn't find any info on Thunderbird 0.7.2 So I just went ahead and tried the same trick. Could have guessed it wouldn't work... Anyways, I've been busy with NSIS 2 lately, so I thougt I'd give it a shot. NSIS supports silent switches. And you can write your own switches. I'm working on it right now. My idea is to make one package for Firefox & Thunderbird. You will be able to choose (through commandline or GUI) whether to install Firefox, Thunderbird or both. And the uninstaller will provide an option to "modify" the installation = remove one of the two. So I want to know if anyone is interested. Could anyone use this package? Of course, when new milestones are released I'll make a new installer. And one last thing... I REALLY like 1600×1200 + 128px icons. And I found some for Firefox & Thunderbird. So would anyone complain if I replace the original icons ala Resource Hacker? I think the icons are about 180 KB each. Would this bloat the program-files? See below for the icons in png (linked from deviantart). Of course, if I'll use these, I'll have to ask the author ... Thanks in advance for any reactions / comments. Peter Odding ---------------------------------- http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/5176277/: http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/6956847/: [edit] If I'm actually gonna do this I'll need some space to dump the installer ... My own webpage has only 10 MB room, so I don't think that's gonna work (though I must say that with bzip2 compression in nsis2 the size is down to 12,3 MB, compare that to 35,7 MB uncompressed