does anyone know of a tool that will read the fields in file properties tabs?

I have both 2000sp4 oem and the 2000 resource kit cd&book.

I see from http://support.microsoft.com/kb/318764 that MS tool "fileversion.pl" comes close (reads only version tab - so at least it has date and version, but not installer type for patches & upgrades). It is available in Windows 2000 Server Resource Kit Supplement 1. Arghhh. It requires installation of a perl driver.

thanks

I know a Total Commander plugin. Might not be suitable for your purposes (standalone, command line, batch, etc.)?

GL

I installed fileinfo ... but how do I launch it? F3 still opens the lister view window?

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oh yea ... I love my TC ... couldn't imagine a computer without it, and it just keeps getting better ... each improvement being an impossibility in its own right ...

I have been using lefteous' ShellDetails (a content wdx). It is pretty darn cool, but I wanted to modify its .ini to add a field or two, for "FileSizeAllocation" to confirm download size, and maybe CRC as well, and haven't been able to figure out how to do it.

I have 450 or so patches for w2k ... about 100 are still applicable. I am trying to sort them out in preparation for an unattended batch (my first). So mainly I wanted to pull the publish dates so that I could batch them in publish-date order. I am aware of the hard work by other list keepers ... http://www.msfn.org/board/windows-2000-upd...37.html&hl=

If possible, I also wanted to pull out the file type, to setup the switches (/quiet /norestart ...) since switches are apparently different, hotfix versus update patch.

that way I could use a nircmd setfiletime and a spreadsheet to write the batch strings

so, then I can start burning coasters and having some real fun!!

after I make a cd the hard way, maybe I'll try nLite or hfslip ... but first I WANT to do it the stupid way ...

TC's new copy custom columns to clipboard is awesome feature ... I was so happy with 6.54a, I never tried 7 or 7.5 until now.