How Can I Shrink Office 2003 Sp1 Administrative ?

[4tune]

I downloaded "Office 2003 Sp1 Admin" and other administrative upadates and slipstreamed with Office 2003.

Made 7 .mst-s > Word.mst, excel, access, powerpoint, outlook, publisher and infopath.mst .

It look's like in picture I attached !

Here's the problem > I can't shrink it

1. When "shrink_lang02.exe" asks for "Office Source", I enter "C:\Office2003\" (It's the place of slipstreamed "Office 2003 Sp1 Admin", it's not the normal "Office 2003 Proff.").

2. When it asks for "Office Target", I enter "C:\Office\" (empty directory).

3. For "Office Setup Exe" >>> "C:\Office2003\Setup.Exe".

4. For Mst file >>> "C:\Office2003\Word.Mst" (it's the mst to install only word).

after that it begins:

1. Gathering required info...

2. and after that gives a lot of errors like >>> "Setup cannot find the required file C:\office\FILES\PFILES\COMMON\MSSHARED\OFFICE11\USP10.DLL".

3. Shrinking complete message, or something like that.

4. canceling... (running back).

after this:

"c:\office\" is 66.2 Mb-s. Sometimes it's 7Mb not depending what mst am I using.

I'm renaming Word.mst to unattended.mst,

deleting other mst-s,

copying Installer.exe,

archiving all in that folder with 7z (when the size is 66.2 Mb, archiving freezes at 48% and nothing can be done, so I'm terminating),

deleting all except Office.7z,

renaming Office.7z to Word.7z,

extracting finish.exe,

running command: copy /b 7zs.sfx + config.txt + Word.7z Word.Exe

Word.Exe is created ! Let's try to open !

Error !

Am I doing all right ?

I guess no

please help to correct who can......

PS. It was interesting to see that before archiving I can install Word with this command:

C:\Office2003\setup.exe TRANSFORMS=C:\Office2003\Word.Mst /qb-

[keytotime]

It's not properly slipstreamed. follow this guide exactly http://unattended.msfn.org/xp/office2003_slipstreaming.htm .

[Astalavista]

good call

[Dahi]

You need to figure out why 7zip freezes during compression. Can you compress other folders without errors? You might need to re-install 7Zip, or try WinRar instead?

If you can install Word from C:\Office then it has been slipstreamed correctly. Try this to check.

C:\Office\setup.exe TRANSFORMS=Unattended.Mst /qb

Your size of 66Mb looks about right for a Word installation.

If the size of C:\Office is only 7Mb it means that shrink didnt work, try again (probably parts of Office were installed on the PC, so you'll have to do a clean install of WinXP, or preferably revert to a snapshot in VMware)

[keytotime]

@ Dahi The office is not properly slipstreamed. That is the problem, 7-zip does not work because he has a messed up office.

[4tune]

Office is slipstreamed correctly because I can install anything (word, excel, powerpoint, outlook, publisher infopath...) using it's .mst using command:

C:\Office2003\setup.exe TRANSFORMS=c:\office2003\Word.Mst /qb (It's normal installing)

7z work's fine, I can compress anything...

I think all the problem is with shrink_lang02.exe (everything is ok before I use shrink_lang02.exe)...

can You send me the script, maybe I can understand & correct my problems if I see what is it doing and how...

[Astalavista]

shrink only works with 3 languages. what language are u using?

[4tune]

English Office 2003 Professional Edition

Without frontpage

with this serial : 7

[Astalavista]

we dont need your serial

in order to use shrink u need a clean install of xp

meaning only xp no other software.

then u run office shrink

good luck u know u really should post this in the office shrink thread.

[4tune]

My xp is with sp2 slipstreamed. Should I have installed office, or it's not making any difference ?

I felt that it makes difference.

If It is necceserry please move my topic to yours...

[Astalavista]

1. format your computer

2. install xp w/ or w/o sp2

3. run office shrink

4. blah blah blah

is that simple enough?

[Weed]

yey remove ur illegal cd key otherwise some pplz comin to ur house, lol...time 4 jail

yey y u post the cdkey??

do it on a clean xp install, best solution with VMWare

[4tune]

ok... I'll try !

And no cd-keys more !

[Dahi]

renaming Office.7z to Word.7z,

extracting finish.exe,

running command: copy /b 7zs.sfx + config.txt + Word.7z Word.Exe

Dont rename Office.7z to Word.7z

Then run: copy /b 7zs.sfx + config.txt + Office.7z Word.Exe

[Astalavista]

running command: copy /b 7zs.sfx + config.txt + Word.7z Word.Exe

if you are using my installer.exe definitely not going to work.

I the guide is so easy to follow a child could do it.