Suggestion for nLite

[LeveL]

I read somewhere you should arrange the hotfixes in nLite by date,

this way it goes through and slipstreams 2004/2005/2006/2007 so

there is a smooth slipstream.

BUT

This doesn't always work out, and if you have addons too, they get mixed in randomly.

Although without addons also, the hotfixes are not necessarily in date order, I can only

blame Microsoft for this, naturally!

So my suggestion is simple: A "Move Up" button and a "Move Down" button so you can sort

these odd hotfixes and addons out yourself. The buttons would simply link to whatever hotfix

or addon you have highlighted.

I ask this because I am including a WMP11 hotfix and it might get slipstreamed in before the WMP11 addon.

Edited April 24, 2007 by LeveL

[Mandarin]

You can click and drag them to the position you want them.

Oddly enough this was a feature in earlier versions of nLite - wonder why it isn't there now?

[tap52384]

I thought that nLite keeps the latest versions of the updated files found in the hotfixes, at least from my basic understanding. Wouldn't this, in theory, be somewhat equivalent to your suggested feature?

Edited April 24, 2007 by tap52384

[nuhi]

It has the move up/down buttons on the right, look closer.

[LeveL]

It has the move up/down buttons on the right, look closer.

Sorry Nuhi, my mistake!

This helps a great deal because now I can get that stupid IE7 hotfix put to the

bottom where it belongs, its "IE7-KB928090-WindowsXP-x86-enu.exe" and it

does not have a build date on it. Because its an IE7 hotfix I think it has to be

slipstreamed AFTER any IE7 addon (which is why I need this hotfix, because

I am adding on IE7) the hotfix number "928090" is STILL the highest number

even though this hotfix was released in February.

[Breezer]

If you sequence the updates by date (which seems logical), I wonder why Microsoft uses this numbering system.

You would start for instance with KB800001 and end with 900000.

As the numbering of new hotfixes is sometimes out of date-sequence it might be better to sort from low to high numbers.

If anyone could try it both ways and tell whether this makes any difference?