hi

because i missed some features in buckeyexp's shrinker, i wrote my own office shrinker tool. in the moment my programm works in the same way like buckeye's but i'm working on another solution (something like nlite, just for office)

i'd feel happy if you could test my programm, too. it should work fine for office 2003 and english, german, spanish, dutch. i don't know how it will act with other office versions!

other languages can easily be added in the language.ini

thx!

download:

http://www.illusions-tec.de/charmin/OfficeShrinker0.9.rar

note!!!:

no error support for version 0.9!! i'm working on the other much faster comfortable maybe saver shrinking method. should be finished soon.

really nice!!

i'll test on spanish ver ASAP!

Thanks, its interesting - will try it today after getting home!

One thing I'd like to know though, is does this "shrinker" support all cds ?

I mean, the one by buckeyeXP works only for CD1 of office 2003. If you try to reduce source of frontpage, onenote (cd2, cd5) you find that you can't.

Also, what is this tool based on? not Auto-It it seems?

hmm i'm not sure if it'll work with the other cd's too .. i thought you can slipstream the other cds into an admin point install. i don't have the other cd's so i really don't know

it's based on autoit (the new beta with gui support) and i'll send you the source if you want to.

Nice work Charmin Deluxe.

i thought you can slipstream the other cds into an admin point install. i don't have the other cd's so i really don't know

Yes you can slip-stream into AIP, but its a different AIP!

Also, to confirm that your code works for every CD, try running it with the office resource kit installer.

try running it with the office resource kit installer

hmm how?

Does this need to be run on a clean xp machine?

Does this need to be run on a clean xp machine?

i'm afraid so

Wow fast reply. Okay, not a probelm.

try running it with the office resource kit installer

hmm how?

Do a "/A" (admin install) of the package - it can be found on CD1 or downloaded.

Then use the resource kit to make an MST for itself. That should do it.

@Charmin Deluxe

Looks good, will give it a go on my test machine.

ok guys dont forget to report in and tell us what happens

Question: Why does this have to be run on a clean install of XP?

because it does a test installation of office to see which files are needed. but last night i got a great idea! maybe it'll work. i'll let you know