Unattended Codec-Pack - Win98

[MtK]

Hi,

I'm trying to use swgreed's Unattended Codec-Pack on Win98.

the installation has a few problems: (at least i had)

• %systemdrive%, should be changed to %windir%
  
• REG command does not exist in Win98
  
• reg files should be changed to version 4, instead of 5
  
• regsvr32 does not work from a batch file
  

that's it for now...

any one has a solution 4 me?

[MHz]

%systemdrive%, should be changed to %windir%

No %systemdrive% variable in 98?

%systemroot%, should be changed to %windir%

%windir%, this is the full path variable to windows directory.

%windir%\system\regsvr32

This is the full path to regsvr32.

[MtK]

C:\windows\system\regsvr32

neither this worked for me from a batch file...

& we still have to do somthing with the REG command...

[evilvoice]

add all the reg add stuff to a reg file, and have all your regedit /s at the end...so something like this

regedit /s quicktime.reg

regedit /s real.reg

regedit /s codec.reg

regedit /s regadd.reg

no more need for reg.exe now (I did this is my installer...make sure the stuff is regsvr'd first before executing the reg files)

about regsvr32.exe - do a find files and make sure you have it on your hard drive...if so, find where it is...then use that shortcut...also, open a command prompt and find if the options are the same...they may not be...just regsvr32.exe /? should work. If you dont have regsvr32.exe, then we will have to come up with another idea.

UPDATE: I checked, as far as I can tell regsvr32.exe does not exist in win98...one site says you can copy regsvr32.exe from a winnt machine...so get nt4sp6a, look in there for regsvr32.exe, extract it and run it in a command prompt with regsvr32.exe /? to find out the commands and options it allows. If you dont really wanna change the cmd file around, try copying reg.exe from winxp to win98 and see if it will run...it may or may not, but winxp is the only OS with reg.exe and I know it works on win2k.

[MtK]

add all the reg add stuff to a reg file, and have all your regedit /s at the end...so something like this

regedit /s quicktime.reg

regedit /s real.reg

regedit /s codec.reg

regedit /s regadd.reg

of course that's the way around, it just need to be tranformed...

about regsvr32.exe - do a find files and make sure you have it on your hard drive...if so, find where it is...then use that shortcut...also, open a command prompt and find if the options are the same...they may not be...just regsvr32.exe /? should work. If you dont have regsvr32.exe, then we will have to come up with another idea.

You might be right about those settings, I forgot Win98 has different settings for each command window...

UPDATE: I checked, as far as I can tell regsvr32.exe does not exist in win98...

YES it does exist, in: %WinDir%\system32, like in any other version of Windows

[MtK]

another question, but still related:

I have a movie that can be played on another machine with the same codec-pack, but on this machine it doesn't.

does it matter the kind of machine? (maybe slower)

[evilvoice]

I was at a site and they said you need to move regsvr32.exe from a winnt machine over to win98...so there must be something different about them...I did notice that nt4's regsvr32.exe is even better than winxp's because it offers a commandline output (/c)...but I would try moving nt4's regsvr32.exe and winxp's reg.exe over to win98 and see if that doesnt fix it...or if you want I can give you one huge reg file to run at the end, instead of using the reg add and the regedit already in the cmd file...

[MHz]

@MtK

Is that 1st edition of windows 98 that you have?

I got the location from windows 98 2nd edition.

Look for regsvr in your system directory.

It's name may be regsvr instead of regsvr32?

[MtK]

I have Windows 98 Second Edition, & I do have regsvr32