RyanVM.net Discussion Board

Mitsuko Aninikkou

Heh, I wouldn't have noticed from just your name, but the other Malcolm Taylor also uses his first name as his signature

Let us know if you run into any problems, and feel free to ask about anything.

Mitsuko Aninikkou

Most of the time, yes. There are some special cases, such as combining .NET switchless installers - that creates conflicts, but they've been solved in the all-in-one installer by RyanVM (although there's still an issue with the useless webclient service, but nevermind that). Anyway, once you're done...

Mitsuko Aninikkou

What he meant was that you should download an addon someone else made, -not- a switchless installer. For instance, get XPSysPad. You'll notice the file is a .cab; other addons will be in .zip, .rar or .7z format.

Mitsuko Aninikkou

Well, it's easy to make a switchless installer out of inf files. Easiest way I know of is to include a DefaultInstall section, then make a sfx in WinRAR with the following lines in the commentary: Setup=rundll32.exe advpack.dll,LaunchINFSection [the INF],DefaultInstall TempMode Silent=1 Overwrite=1 ...

Mitsuko Aninikkou

Or, y'know, get this. But I think everyone else already knew that

Mitsuko Aninikkou

If the "Common Files" folder is the one pointed to by %COMMONPROGRAMFILES% maybe you could use that instead.

Mitsuko Aninikkou

I still use it, as WLM looks like crap IMO.. also it crashed loads for me last time I tried it (but that might be better with the latest version)

Mitsuko Aninikkou

Of course, this addon also includes both hotfixes.

Mitsuko Aninikkou

We know.

Mitsuko Aninikkou

Thanks ^_^ Just a minor note, the release date in the topic title is a month off

Mitsuko Aninikkou

Yours was second actually, you posted about 11 hours after this guy

Mitsuko Aninikkou

By the way, as I recall AMD's DC Optimiser actually adds that switch to the boot.ini on its own if it isn't present already.

Mitsuko Aninikkou

I would like to see a list as well - as I have some experience with writing infs, perhaps I can figure out what's messing up. If not, it'll still be a good reference.

Mitsuko Aninikkou

Does nLite support this too? (not that I have anything against the Integrator, certainly, but having to combine it with nLite would be a bit of a hassle)

Mitsuko Aninikkou

Ok his has a couple of .dlls I seem to have not found yet (Actually like 3). Plus his updates a couple of pre-existing windows .dlls His runs as a silent installer, mine is integrated into the disk Both of them can be used at anytime I include the usp10 from Vista for better windows unicode support...

Mitsuko Aninikkou

ENU_user wrote:hush-match

I think you'll find that's 'hash'. Hushing someone means telling them (gently) to be quiet.

Kel, how does your latest pack compare to RogueSpear's Alternate Runtimes 1.4?

Mitsuko Aninikkou

Why do you think there's a seperate WGA addon? No, it's not included in the pack.. on the page that contains the download link for it is a list of everything that -is- included.

Mitsuko Aninikkou

Not to my knowledge (not that that helps much), but nLite can directly integrate it. Ryan is expected to make a true addon out of it eventually, which will be preferable when more updates come out for it.

Mitsuko Aninikkou

Kel, maybe you could do something like adding a batch file to install it at runonce.. the problems happen during the windows install, right?

Mitsuko Aninikkou

Aah, I suspected you meant something like that.. What my tweak does is open a console window inside the folder the file is located in. So you can still run the file with those switches. The only difference between this tweak and the others is that here the console window is opened pointing to the di...

Mitsuko Aninikkou

5eraph wrote:That's a good idea, MA. My only problem with it is that if I want to run a file from the console then I usually want to add parameters to the command line.

Not bad, otherwise.

Could you elaborate? What parameters would you use?

Mitsuko Aninikkou

:P it's like a race.. Edit: Some formatting for my post so it resembles 5eraph's release (looking good, mate :) ) Open Command Prompt Here Addon Detail : Integrate with RyanVM Integrator v1.4.3 or nLite 1.2.1 (or later versions of either). Download : Link: Mitsuko_CMDHere_Addon.7z Size: <1 KiB MD5: ...

Mitsuko Aninikkou

Yeah, but personally I think it's much more useful to be able to right click on a file (such as an executable you want to run in a command window) while you're already inside a folder, and tell it to open a command window there. Of course that's just my opinion, so take from my .inf file what you ne...

Mitsuko Aninikkou

Here is an inf file I use myself to add the appropriate entries into the registry. It's not an addon, though I can make one out of it if you wish. [Version] Signature = $Windows NT$ [DefaultInstall] AddReg = Registry [Optional Components] CMDHere [CMDHere] OptionDesc = "CMD Here" Tip = "Lets you ope...

Mitsuko Aninikkou

cab or 7zip is not messy. The process of compressing the archive is only used during integration. So the final i386 will not be messy. ;) Hmm? Oh, no, that's not what I meant. I have a package I maintain (for my personal needs) that contains several true addons. They're all .in_ + .cab combinations...

Mitsuko Aninikkou

If you're making a true addon pack, using cabs can keep it from looking 'messy', though it'll probably end up bigger as 7zipping the whole thing won't compress it much and 7zip compression is usually better than cab. I prefer to use CabPack for my cabbing needs

Mitsuko Aninikkou

Seeing that Windows thinks the error is HDD-related, it -sounds- like it's the SATA drivers. Do you have any other versions of those you could try? And do they work (on the effected computers) with an otherwise vanilla Windows XP SP2?

Mitsuko Aninikkou

Interesting.. any idea what the problem with it is? Are there many different versions of it available?

Mitsuko Aninikkou

You guys are using non-English versions of Windows XP, aren't you? (crocodilechris uses German, from what I could see) Perhaps one of the runtimes needs a native version on your systems, one of the runtimes updated/added in 2.1 (if that's when the problem started)

Mitsuko Aninikkou

Added\Updated usp10.dll 1.626.6000.1 What is this file for? Is it being properly installed? I don't see any reference to it in the inf and all the entries.ini is doing is compressing it.. (I combine your addon with various others in my own, private, custom pack, so I'm wondering if this is right)

Mitsuko Aninikkou

So far as I know 6.0 (or 1.6.0) should supercede 5.0 (1.5.0).. But that's just off the top of my head, I don't really have any sources backing it up.

Mitsuko Aninikkou

Actually, it doesn't show any error messages.. but I don't think it does anything. For some reason you got the old version 1.0; the new one uses AddReg, which should be correct (though redundant for Arial and Times New Roman, but I'll leave it up for reference)

Mitsuko Aninikkou

Damn, misread the first post a bit; my pack contains some redundant information, but it'll show you how to register the fonts you want to add.

Mitsuko Aninikkou

Here's something I whipped up quickly.. no experience with registering files, so this is my best guess (no error messages, atleast) You can install it directly from the inf, but you'll have to move FontInst.cab to a subdir called "i386" first. If someone could please try it and let me know if it wor...

Mitsuko Aninikkou

Only asking because I haven't seen a post about it yet.. will these make it into the next version of the update pack?

(info & DL here)

Edit: doh, just noticed the post about it in the UP 2.1.2a topic.. question still stands though, I guess.

Mitsuko Aninikkou

So far as I know you can use any compression level you like.. Store for best (de)compression speed and best for the smallest size (obviously)

Mitsuko Aninikkou

Great, I'll be sure to seed this as necessary.

Mitsuko Aninikkou

Great. Thanks for your work on maintaining this useful addon!

Mitsuko Aninikkou

Could you also post a changelog so we know what you've updated?

Mitsuko Aninikkou

Might even be related to a lousy BIOS; I updated the BIOS for this mobo once and it did something whacky to my RAM, making it corrupt basically everything.. had to go back to an earlier version to fix it. But I expect updating to a newer version is -usually- better.

Mitsuko Aninikkou

the_guy wrote:Maybe also include the files above recommended by me and Kamil.

Also, just discovered KB918898. It appears to update all of the runtimes from Visual Studio 2005 to version 8.0.50727.163. Maybe try to get that hotfix as well for this pack?

the_guy

Do you intend to include this, Kel?

Mitsuko Aninikkou

I suggest nLiting out some network-related stuff; eventually you should atleast find what windows component is causing the delay, if not why... (besides, I find my network much more accessible with all the windows crap nLited out.. simple file sharing especially)

Mitsuko Aninikkou

I know it needs to create the folder... But I have no idea why it doesn't work with the Quick Launch folder, because if I try placing a shortcut in a folder that doesn't exist yet from windows, it's works fine.

Mitsuko Aninikkou

Hmm... Using DefaultInstall it has no trouble creating a new folder. (though I didn't check with the Quick Launch folder) What language Windows XP are you using? It could have to do with the environment variable I use not being in your version of Windows XP. I changed some things around that will ho...

Mitsuko Aninikkou

Hmm, that's odd, maybe it won't create the Quicklaunch folder like yours? I'll run some tests later on, but I'm surprised it doesn't work, as I use this method for all my Quicklaunch shortcuts (unless I made a typo somewhere; the DefaultInstall version worked though)

Mitsuko Aninikkou

Not working , apparently. I'll run some tests later. Since this -is- the Update Pack Addons forum, and yours is technically a switchless installer one (and 'cuz I felt like it), I made a true Addon that does the same thing... get it here: http://www.mytempdir.com/674967 MD5: 20047EB93B24052595B453B...

Mitsuko Aninikkou

The file for viewing asian languages has also been updated... though was that included in this release in the first place?
<-- *too lazy to check*

Mitsuko Aninikkou

I tend to find programs by looking at comments people made to other programs (usually buggy shareware ones, where people recommend freeware programs like these)

Edit: Uh, oh and, thanks for the addon pack!

Mitsuko Aninikkou

Did you try Common~1?

Mitsuko Aninikkou

Dependancies often don't matter though, if you just install the application. For instance, I integrate RegScrubVista, which requires .NET 2.0, but as my inf just copies the files, I only have to install .NET after installing windows and it works fine. Edit: Actually, this is one of the pros of appli...

RyanVM.net Discussion Board

Search found 185 matches

Re: [Release] Kels' Runtimes 2.2 ->2007/01/05<-

DirectX October runtimes