CABTOOL - Anyone know what it depends on?

[slippykillsticks]

nLite is great. I use it to strip out services, lots of OS/network stuff, and to do registry tweaks, etc.

However, I keep removing *something* from Windows XP that causes CABTOOL to say "Can't initialize cabinet module." Does anyone know off-hand what CABTOOL depends on?

Thanks in advance for your assistance.

P.S. CabTool is a program that can be found here and there is a thread about it on MSFN here.

Last_Session.ini

Edited June 27, 2006 by slippykillsticks

[Camarade_Tux]

Please attach your lastsession.ini.

I've just tested on my 120MB CD install and I have no error.

[slippykillsticks]

I edited my first post to include my last session. Hope it helps.

[RyanVM]

I'm pretty sure it uses cabinet.dll

[slippykillsticks]

But the thing is -- cabinet.dll is present on my ISO as well as my install in C:\WINDOWS\System32

[RyanVM]

OK, let me fire up Filemon quick and see.

EDIT: OK, that's not helping at all

Edited June 27, 2006 by RyanVM

[slippykillsticks]

Thank you.

[the_guy]

I just put it through dependency walker, and it needs msvbvm60.dll installed to work.

the_guy

[slippykillsticks]

That file is also present on my ISO and my install too.

[slippykillsticks]

Question: Has anyone here removed COM+? In the MSFN thread I mentioned in my first post, jDoe mentions that he uses compression from catsrvut.dll, which is part of COM if I'm not mistaken. Could this be the problem?

[slippykillsticks]

I think I found the answer:

http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?s=&amp...st&p=478848

jdoe (creator of CABTOOL) says that catsrvut.dll and setupapi.dll are required for the program to work. Also, a registry key is needed called Makecab.Makecab.1 in HKCR that I don't have.

What can I do to fix this? Not remove COM?

P.S. Can someone make a .reg file of that key and attach it?

Edited June 27, 2006 by slippykillsticks

[Camarade_Tux]

You may try this reg file but if CABTOOL needs COM+ it's gonna be harder. :/

makecab_hkcr.reg

[slippykillsticks]

Thanks. Later tonight I'll try to do the exact same session but keeping COM+. I'll let y'all know how it goes.

[jdoe]

I think I found the answer:

http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?s=&amp...st&p=478848

jdoe (creator of CABTOOL) says that catsrvut.dll and setupapi.dll are required for the program to work. Also, a registry key is needed called Makecab.Makecab.1 in HKCR that I don't have.

What can I do to fix this? Not remove COM?

P.S. Can someone make a .reg file of that key and attach it?

Hi there, I was loosing time looking at my site stats and I saw this link.

I don't think COM+ is the same as COM. COM is deeply a part of Windows so it can't be removed because important part of it wouldn't work without it.

Let me show you a way to do it (but it is untested).

Make sure catsrvut.dll is not removed by nLite. All the registry keys and values will be added if you register catsrvut.dll with this command "regsvr32.exe catsrvut.dll" (after or while the setup process).

That's all.

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I'm pretty sure it's going to solve the problem.

Let me know

Edited July 4, 2006 by jdoe