New Internet-Explorer 7 Packages

[Bugs Bunny]

Microsoft has released new IE7 setup packages that do not require activation/legitimation any more.

Download: IE7

This may be an advantage in integrating IE7 with HFSLIP.

Edited October 5, 2007 by Bugs Bunny

[jimmsta]

They also released the IE administrators kit, which seems to work quite well creating CD versions of IE7 -- I've saved myself a bunch of mouse clicks by making the IE7 CD today.

[Tomcat76]

I advise against using the new IE7 package with HFSLIP until the next cumulative update is released.

Previous package: 7.0.5730.11

New package: 7.0.5730.13

Cumulative update: 7.0.6000.20641

The problem is that the time stamp of the files in the new IE7 package is newer than the one of the files in the cumulative update, yet the cumulative update contains the newest file versions. HFSLIP can only go by the file date, so it will slipstream the files from the new IE7 installer instead of those from the cumulative update. The same problem is there with the vgx.dll update (KB938127). I can always change HFSLIP so it overwrites vgx.dll by force, but I think it's crazy to do the same for the 88 files with the wrong time stamp in the new IE7 package.

[the_guy]

Why doesn't HFSLIP look at version info first, and if that is unavailable, then look at the datestamp? If the versions are the same or not thre, then datestamp would be looked at.

the_guy

[Tomcat76]

Because DOS (to my knowledge) doesn't have a built-in command to query the file version.

I may come up with a test release one of these days to accomodate for the new IE7 installer but I prefer not to include the "hacks" into the next final.

[the_guy]

There is a program on the internet that does just the thing. It's called getver.exe, it runs from DOS, and it should be able to be downloaded with HFSLIP. I believe it is available directly from Microsoft. If not, I apologize.

the_guy

[wiliqaz]

Because DOS (to my knowledge) doesn't have a built-in command to query the file version.

For sure there was also some other tools like getver.exe (http://thunder.prohosting.com/~ladi/cmdline.zip) but the links are not working any more - http://www.computing.net/dos/wwwboard/forum/15778.html

noob

[Tomcat76]

I know about those, but it would take things too far. I don't want HFSLIP to check the version of every binary as it will run a whole lot slower...

[Bugs Bunny]

There is a new Update for Internet Explorer 7 available from Oktober patchday:

Cumulative Security Update for Internet Explorer 7 for Windows XP Service Pack 2 (KB939653)

Guess that makes at least part of the "IE7 special treatment" of the latest Test version obsolet...

Some more oktober Patchday updates:

Security Update for Outlook Express for Windows XP

Security Update for Windows XP (KB933729)

Security Update for Windows XP (KB923810)

[Tomcat76]

Not really. There are still three files that need to be force-copied:

ieframe.dll.mui (latest cumulative update)

jscript.dll (KB933873 -- not public)

vgx.dll (KB938127)

A new release candidate will be out shortly.

[DarkShadows]

Because DOS (to my knowledge) doesn't have a built-in command to query the file version.

I may come up with a test release one of these days to accommodate for the new IE7 installer but I prefer not to include the "hacks" into the next final.

You can find the FileVer.exe command tucked inside of Support.cab on the Windows XP and XP SP2 CD-ROMs. (I believe the version of FileVer.exe is the same on both CDs.)

C:\> filever /?
Prints file version information.

filever [/S] [/V] [/E] [/X] [/B] [/A] [/D] [[drive:][path][filename]]

/S	  Displays files in specified directory and all subdirectories.
/V	  List verbose version information if available.
/E	  List executables only.
/X	  Displays short names generated for non-8dot3 file names.
/B	  Uses bare format (no dir listing).
/A	  Don't display file attributes.
/D	  Don't display file date and time.

Consider using the following syntax below. The command below is actually getting the file version of Filever.exe.

C:\> filever /A /D filever.exe
W32i   APP ENU	  5.1.2600.0 shp filever.exe

So this is no hack command, it actually comes from Microsoft.