I just nlited my Win2k and removed as much as possible including IE CORE since I need every spare free RAM I can get.

I knew B4 removing IE CORE that SFX WINRAR archives will take a long time to open without IE CORE

My question is is there a workaround for this?

do u really think iexplorer core will waste any ram?

and are u sure u want to remove it? because alot of applications depend on it..

according to VORCK's site yes. And I also agree.

The laptop with the following specs works great with the slim down Win2k.

PIII 1GHz

128MB RAM

10G hdd.

So every MB counts. But would still like to fix the WINRAR issue?

Yes I am aware of this Winrar issue, noticed it when the selfextracting exe is ran there is a big delay until it's started.

Haven't tried to fix it yet since I considered it as a dependency...and weird one, I mean if it didn't start ok, but it goes slowly...what's up with that.

hopefully a workaround will present itself

I also run a stripped down version of win2k and have the same issues with self-extracting rars. If I need a self-extracting archive, I use 7-zip (http://www.7-zip.org/). I also use UPX to compress the 7z.sfx file to make the 7z.exe file smaller.

Hi

Just a quick comment. As far as I know Winrar does Not use the IE core. At least it does not on Win98SE with out the help system or IE installed. THAT SETUP I have used a lot. You use the Win95 shell instead of the 98 shell with IE. Have run Winrar without any problems on it.

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Edited December 1, 200718 yr by moogt