April 2, 200917 yr I don't mean to get into the habit of solving my own threads...but I figured it out and perhaps someone will gain something from my experience...Use MS built in makecab.exe using syntax makecab /D COMPRESSIONTYPE=LZX /D COMPRESSIONMEMORY=21 C:\mysource\myfile.inf C:\mydestination\MYFILE.IN_I've unpacked the archive with 7zip and simply removed the ie7 entry...but how do I compress the file back to a *.IN_ file? I've heard of something called MS "Diamond" archiver that is supposed to accomplish this. Has anyone heard of this archiving utility or a way to save the file as a *.IN_? The file appears to be using LZX compression...if that helps.I would prefer not to run through nLite all over again... Edited April 2, 200917 yr by mrquincy
April 2, 200917 yr This is a little SFX, that adds "makecab" and "expand" to your contextmenu:http://www.file-upload.net/download-156488...Expand.exe.html
April 2, 200917 yr Author I can see how having makecab in the context menu would be convenient...but since this file was originally compressed using an LZX:21 alogrithm wouldn't we still have to use the command line variables? Will windows have issues extracting using mszip algorithm rather than LZX:21? Edited April 2, 200917 yr by mrquincy
April 2, 200917 yr It is "makecab" in Windows that is used by these 2 contextmenu-entries - no extra-tool or extra-stuff.So everything should work fine - I`m using this for years to compress/decompress inf-files.
April 2, 200917 yr makecab /D CompressionMemory=21 /D CompressionType=LZX /L E:\UnattendXP\XPCD\I386 E:\UnattendXP\XPCD\I386\uxtheme.dll
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