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Can anyone verify that this works? I tried using it on the example file downloaded by TEST-is7unpack.cmd, but it doesn't do anything. is7unpack.exe reports that it "is a valid InstallShield 7.x exe-file!", but it doesn't extract any files. When I scan the downloaded file with PEiD, it reports that it's an NSIS installer. From the looks of it, it's an older version using bzip2 compression, which UniExtract (via 7-Zip) doesn't support. I don't know how this relates to InstallShield. Very odd. Can anyone confirm this either way? Alternatively, can someone please post a file that is7unpack.exe supports, but isXunpack does not? Thanks.

Thanks, freeko. However, I think you misunderstood what I was asking. In addition the the programs, I actually need archives and installers to test with. Eg, i3comp is supposed to extract InstallShield 3.x *.z files, right? Well, I need a file in this format to test against. Ditto for everything else. Btw, I'm already using using IsXunpack 0.99. I will, however, look into the rest of them and see what I can use. Thanks especially for the stix and is7unpack archives. Now I just need some samples to work with. I'll look into it. Thanks for reporting it.

_philosopher, I don't know the answer to your question, but I just just wanted to let you know that your English is fine, and perfectly understandable. I know several native Enlish speakers that don't speak that well. Hope you get your answer.

I don't fully understand how you're setting up these boxes (installing vs. imaging, etc.), but you should be able to bypass the Interactive Logon prompt by deleting these registry keys: [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\policies\system] "legalnoticecaption"=- "legalnoticetext"=- Of course, next time group policy is applied the values will be overwritten, but it should allow you to login without being prompted that first time.

I do something similar with my flash card reader. It adds four 'drives' to Windows explorer, but the only one I ever use is the SD reader, so I disable the other three and reassign the SD reader to the next drive available. The following method works for me, but there may very well be an easier method. I have a line in the GUIRunOnce sectino of my winnt.sif that calls a batch file to run a bunch of commands post-installation: [GuiRunOnce] "a:\postsettings.cmd" Then, in the postsettings.cmd file I have a line to call diskpart.exe, which is a command line interface to Windows' disk management utility: start /wait %systemroot%\system32\diskpart.exe /s a:\diskpart.txt This command instructs diskpart to run in script mode, using the commands specified in a:\diskpart.txt. I have the following commands in diskpart.txt to remove the unusued drives and reassign my drive letters: rem diskpart script to delete unused USB card reader "drives" rem reassign CD-ROM drive letter to E:, and SD drive letter to F: select volume 3 remove letter=e select volume 4 remove letter=f select volume 6 remove letter=h select volume 5 assign letter=f select volume 0 assign letter=e You'll need to play around with diskpart on your system to make sure you get the proper volume numbers and drive letters. To get started, run 'diskpart' in cmd.exe, then enter the 'list volume' command to see your current volumes and letter assignments. Like I said, they're very likely an easier way to do it, but this method does work for me. This should be doable through winnt.sif, but I have had only marginal success in getting it to work correctly. I can get it working, but then on the next reinstall it seems to have broken again. I don't know what the deal is. If you'd like to try yourself, look in the winnt.sif help file under the network section. Here's a snippet from my file: [NetAdapters] Adapter1 = params.Adapter1 Adapter2 = params.Adapter2 [params.Adapter1] ConnectionName = "3com 3cr990" ; INFID = "pci\ven_10b7&dev_9903&subsys_990310b7" INFID = "PCI\VEN_10b7&DEV_9903" [params.Adapter2] ConnectionName = "Intel 82559" ; INFID = "pci\ven_8086&dev_1229&subsys_10428086" INFID = "PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_1229" You'll need your PCI device ID, which you can find through Device Manager. As I said, that's supposed to work, but I can't get it to work reliably. Don't know about displaying the icon by default. If anyone else knows, please post. I'd certainly like to know how to do this as well.

You can try Install Watch Pro: http://www.epsilonsquared.com/

Where can I download PhotoStory3.exe? The only thing I've been able to find is the Photo Story 3 installer from Microsoft, which is an MSI file named PStory.msi. It installs a file named PhotoStory3.exe, but that's the application itself, not an installer. If there's something else you're looking for, please send me a link to download and test it. Otherwise, I have to mark this off the list. I don't think this will be possible, but as I said previously I'll be happy to look into it. I do need a sample to work with, though. Please post a link to a file that I can download and test. Thanks.

can anyone provide samples for these files? My understanding is that i6comp completely supercedes i5comp, and will read from both data1 and data2. Is this not correct? Can you show me an example that works with i5comp but not i6comp? I can't find i7comp. You sure it exists? Where can I download it? Ditto for isunpack. I'll also need a sample to test, so I can distinguish between this an other versions. Thanks. Thanks, both of those are now supported. As long as other hotfixes of either identify themselves the same way, they should all be supported. If you find anything that still doesn't work after the next version is released, please report it.

Thanks, freeko. I just uploaded a new version that should support Opera files as well. You can download it from the same location that I posted earlier. Does anyone else have feedback?

I just updated the extractMHT.rar file. It now includes a few fixes to support MHT files generated by Word and Excel. By the way, this program feels extremely slow to me. I don't know what the deal is. I don't exactly have much prior experience with this kind of stuff, so I don't know if it's supposed to be this slow, or if my program is just terribly inefficient (I'm thinking it's the latter). So, I'd also appreciate some feedback on how this runs on your systems. Any coders should also feel free to voice suggestions for improvement. I included the source code in the RAR file.

I'm not quite clear on what you're trying do here. It sounds like you want all applications installed into "C:\Software", and you don't want "C:\Program Files" to exist at all. Is that correct? Another part of the confusion comes from the title of your post. I take that to mean "change the default location of %programfiles% during Windows installation." According to the body of your post, though, you seem to mean "change the default location of %programfiles% for newly installed applications". If you could provide some more details, it may help clear up the confusion.

Quick update regarding a couple new feature requests. MHT support Thanks for the links, freeko. Unfortunately, I couldn't use any of the programs you suggested UniExtract (just wasn't technically possible). However, after I realized that the MHT files are simply plain text files split into encoded parts, I decided to just write my own decoder/extractor. w00t. This seems to work fine with the 4 example MHT files that were provided, but it could definitely use more testing. I'm attaching a standalone version to this post. Please download and test it on some various web pages saves as MHT archives. If you find any bugs, please post your test results here, along with the specific MHT file you were testing against. I'll fix any issues found, then roll it up into the next version of Universal Extractor. OLE I've played around with this and I don't see an issue adding OLE2x to UniExtract, but I'd like some feedback concerning how exactly I should do it. For example, what filetypes can contain OLE files? Whould I add a context-menu entry to ALL possible filetypes, or only the most common ones, such as Microsoft Office documents? Also, what should I do about MSI files, which contain both archived files and OLE files that can be extracted? Are there any other files like MSI that need to be specially addressed? Any and all feedback is always appreciated. Thanks. Edit: Nevermind. I have a 4.88 MB quota, but can apparently only attach 150 KB to any given post. Weird, and annoying. Anyway, here's a download link for it: http://www.legroom.net/~jbreland/transfer/extractMHT.rar

How do I extract MHT files? Do you know of a specific utility for this? NSIS compressed with bzip2 cannot currently be extracted. 7-Zip does not yet support this, and UniExtract relies entirely on 7-Zip for NSIS support. I'm still looking into InstallShield3. PEiD detects many, many more filetypes. Is there any particular reason I should switch to TrID? Does it support something that PEiD doesn't? The AviExtract link is dead. What exactly does it do? Also, I think the filetype detection option is a good idea. Probably won't make it into the next version, but I'll keep it in mind. Thanks.

I always get an error when trying to do it, "This page cannot be save." Don't know what the deal is. I use nLite to rip a hell of a lot of crap out of my system, though, so I could've broken MHT support in the process. I'd appreciate it if someone could post a link to sample file. Thanks.

Yeah, but I still wanted to be certain. I'm all up for saving a couple MB here and there. Thanks for the feedback, Giorgio_ap. Yeah, I know, I followed your earlier instructions to create a zip/bzip2 test file with 7-zip, and should have that working now. However, I still wanted this file to ensure that I also have any variations covered. The more test cases I have to work with, the more robust format support will be overall. I'm doing exactly that, now. I also saw the new 7-Zip alpha releases; however, at this time reliability still seems pretty questionable. I'd rather hold off until the next stable version, unless they add support for a new format that I simply can't live without (such as the NSIS support in the v4.40 beta). I'll be keeping an eye on it for sure, though.

Just to give everyone a heads up, I made some progress on the next version over the weekend. I've posted my current todo list below for anyone interested (completed items are at the bottom). Note that probably not all items on this list will be incorporated in the next version, but it'll give you an idea of what I'll be working on. In the meantime I could use some assistance on a few of these items: 7-zip version, NSIS support I'm currently using v4.40 beta. The current version is 4.42 stable. The issue is that v4.40 extracts the .nsi script along with the files for NSIS installers, whereas v4.42 only extracts the files. This change was made in version 4.41 because of objections raised by NSIS users. My question - should I continue to use version 4.40 for the .nsi script extraction, or should I move on to the latest stable version? Is .nsi extraction really necessary for anyone? Personally, I'm far more interested in getting the files than getting the .nsi script. Sample archives I need sample files for the following archives/installers in order to test and/or add support for new formats. Please list download links for each of them, the more the better. Setup Factory (need separate versions, v5, v6, and v7) "type-1" and "type-2" Microsoft hotfixes (please distinguish between the two) ASprotect MHT NSIS compressed with bzip2 4nt fix clauderenaud reported an issue with UniExtract when using 4nt as the default system command processor vs. cmd.exe. Apparently he figured out how to fix it, but I'd like to know how so other users can benefit from the fix as well. clauderenaud, could you please post how you fixed this? investigate better InstallSheild .exe extraction (include support files in addition to MSI) - comment 98 7-zip version - current beta version being used extracts .nsi - newer versions do not. Preference? separate associated file types for Windows Explorer sorting? - comment 116 add support for Setup Factory installers (need samples) - comment 121 get 4nt shell solution from clauderenaud - comment 154 link to Chinese port - comment 161 add internationalization support? - comment 161 fix support for "type-2" hotfixes - comment 166 can PhotoStory3.exe be supported - comment 169 support ASprotect files? (need samples) - comment 169 add support for InstallShield3 (*.z), old-NSIS(compressed in BZip2), MHT-files - comment 170 Incorporate output within AutoIt GUI rather than spawning external shell(s) add Chinese version to website troubleshoot cdcbase275.exe - comment 172 add InstallShield 3 unpacker? - comment 184 troubleshoot comment 185 add option to open destination folder after extraction - comment 193 add additional InstallShield decompilers - comment 195 add OLE extraction support? (need download link for olex_d)- comment 195 add JPEG extraction support? - comment 195 - check 7za.exe to see if current version supports all 7z.exe formats - typo - IstallShield package - upgrade PEiD to 0.94 - use innounp to extract embedded Inno Setup files - comment 114 - PEiD - run deep scan, then hardcore scan - PEiD - support external signatures - decompress packed files - UPX, Aspack - comment 102 - support Zip archives using Bzip2 compression - comment 151, 153, 177 - add support for UHARC - comment 177 - investigate KGB archiver support - comment 182 - added - can skypesetup.exe be supported? - comment 154 - nope

freeko, where can I download this? A google search for olex_d returns your post as the only hit. Thanks.

ggf31416, is there any chance you can repost this file? I didn't download it when you originally posted it, and now it's expired. It sounds like a good test case to work with. Thanks.

Sorr, ma$e, I don't know what could be causing that problem off the top of my head. Let me give it some more thought and see if I can find a way to replicate it on my end. That's not a bad idea. I think it might be nice to have a small options page where you can set this option, whether or not you want it to maintain your history in the registry, etc. I wouldn't want to set it by default, though, because it would probably get it my way more often than not. Thanks, freeko! I'm always on the lookout for better programs to handle extraction. I'll be sure to check these out and see what improvements I can make. Got it, thanks. It's still on my todo list, just been very busy with other things. The curious are welcome to check out my software page to some of the other stuff I've been working on: http://www.legroom.net/mysoft

Sorry guys, have been out of town for a couple weeks. Let me try to catch up on some replies. Surfer, I cannot download Install Shield 3 unpacker from the link you provided. Can you please verify? As for the other suggestions, as you mentioned, they only work with TotalCommander. If someone can figure out how to make them work indepently of TotalCommander then I'd love to integrate them into UniExtract, but so far I haven't had any luck doing that myself. I'm not familiar with it, but if you can figure out how to extract files from any of their installers from the command line, please let me know and I'll be happy to add support. ma$e, I don't know what's wrong off hand. I'd recommend uninstalling UniExtract completely (to remove all existing UniExtract registry keys), rebooting (to force Windows to forget about any associations), then installing it again. If that still doesn't work, let me know. MisterH, that's pretty generic filetype. It could've been compressed using a variety of different options. The way I handle those now is I have 7zip and InfoZip both try to list the contents of the file; if either can do this, then it can extract the contents as well. If they both fail, then it displays the error message that you're seeing. Now, it's possible that there may be some other way to extract the files, but I'd need to do some specific testing on that file. If you send me a link to download it, I'll check it out and see if I can find any way to do it. Boomer, the same information applies here as well. I think I've tried messing with aspack stuff before and didn't have any luck with it. However, I wouldn't mind trying again to confirm that. Can you send me a link to the file?

Surfer, can you please provide a little more detail? I've never seen that error message before with any application. I have absolutely no idea what could cause it. Can you please give me an example that I can follow to duplicate it? NSIS support is already included, though it could still be considered expiremental as there are certain types of NSIS installers that it still cannot extract. I believe I've already looked at KGB and determined that it couldn't be supported. I don't remember the details, though, so I'll add it to my list to check again. ggf31416 had requested support for UHARC archives a few posts ago. I'll look into it as well.

I've added that issue to my todo list. Thanks for reporting it. While I agree that the dialgos are not hard to understand, if you cannot speak the language at all then even the simplest prompt can be incomprehensible. I tried playing around with Clippit's version, and even though I wrote the program I still had no idea what it said. With that said, I'm not at all discounting your opinion that it's not needed. So far you're the only one that's commented on it, and obviously you feel it's not worth the extra work. That's exactly what I'm trying to guage. Thanks for giving your opinion. I agree that this would be extremely useful, but there's currently no way that I'm aware of to get this data. Keep in mind that Universal Extractor relies entirely on 3rd-party programs to handle all extraction - if there is no existing method available to extract a given archive format, then UniExtract cannot do it either. If you ever do come across a utility that can do this, though, please post it here. I'd be very happy to include support for it.

Ok, I'm starting to plan my change/improvements for the next version. I've gone through each forum post since the last version was released and jotted down all suggestions, which I've listed below. Of course, the anything listed here is not guaranteed to be implemented, but I'll at least look into it and see if it's feasible and/or technically possible. If you have any other suggestions, please speak up now. Btw, I never did get any feedback to my internationalization question in post 161. Is there sufficient interest in this to make it worth my time? If not, then I'm just going to leave it as it is. Thanks.

Has anyone on this board ever dealt with reporting false positives to virus companies? I know I'm a bit late in tackling this, but I'd like to essentially submit copies of the binaries that have been reported as infected with a virus to the major virus companies so that they can (hopefully) validate them and fix their definitions. My time is still rather limited at the moment, though, so I was wondering if there was any fast/easy way to do this, rather than looking up contact info for one company at a time. Any suggestions or previous experience with this topic? Thanks.

Thanks, I'll check it out. clauderenaud, I saw your post about this on my website as well. Could you please post the tweaks you made? If possible I'd like to include support for this by default. I still have yet to investigate this. If you already tried via command line, then it very probably can't be done. I've seen a few Inno Setup installers like this, and unfortunately I have yet to discover a workaround. medzik, are you talking about being able to specify the destination directory for extracted files from the command line? That capability is already supported. Run 'uniextract.exe /help' for information about command line usage. Clippit, this is very cool. I have no problem with this port, and will link to it during my next update. I have a couple questions/requests, though. First, for everyone else's sake I'd like to list the URL for the port. Clippit sent this to me via PM, which is why no one else saw it. http://zlthooray.googlepages.com/universal...lp:introduction Specifically for Clippit: are the first three links on the download page for the original/unmodified version? If so, would you mind redirecting them to point to the my copy of the binaries rather than hosting your own? This way the links will automatically point to any updates I release, and I'm also able to keep track of download statistics. For everyone else: it looks like Clippit made this port by modifying the source code and recompiling. That's a very effective way to do it, but obviously rather time-consuming. If there's interest in creating ports to other languages, I can try to build a translation framework into the next version. I only speak English myself, so any translations would have to come from volunteers, but if there's sufficient interest in this I'll be more than happy to add it to the next release. Please let me know.