[tc8224]

Sorry about the shouting didn't reall even think about it.......i've done the PDF file...several times but is there anything wrong in the code?

[Astalavista]

just reviewed your coding

guess u did not read this

http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?act=ST&f=80&t=36580&st=0

dont be banned for not removing your serial.

u hv been reported to the moderators for violation of MSFN rules

[itdevil]

buckeyeXP, on Mar 15 2005, 07:00 PM, said:

i checked your log files and i couldnt find any problems.  what exactly is the error that you are getting and when do you get it.

Thanks BuckeyeXP, great tool for office, finally made it to work, it always missed some file and didnt copied it. now everything is working Great


Thanks Billion

[maxkerr]

Hello~ buckeyeXP

I wish that Office Shrinker can support Chinese Traditional...
I’ll send you the log file.

Thank you!

[Lobo2k]

Hi buckeyeXP, and thanks for this great program...

Unfortunately, I can't get it to work: it doesn't behave as it should, and couldn't find any reference to my problems in this thread...

This is what happens:

After I launch your app, the Office 2k3 installer is started:

Window Title: Windows Installer
Window Text: Preparing to install

Then, the windows changes to this:

Window Title: Microsoft Office Professional 2003
Window Text: Please Wait. Configuring Microsoft Office Professional Edition

At this point your app gets immediately terminated!
(While the Windows Installer goes on to present -after a while- the usual "Ignore-Retry-Cancel" window)

Any Idea?

This  Shrink_logs.zip (6.29K)
Number of downloads: 83 is .zip with all the log files created in C: by the app (since this is office ITALIAN, i've also included the corrected .ini file, in case you plan to hard-code it into your app).

Many Thanks in advance

L

[jacksont123]

nice program and tutorial

after following every instruction in the tutorial
this is the problem i have

problem: Office Shrink isnt really shrinking that much
office xp does work after the shrinked version is installed
but the shrinked version is 288mb!

im trying to shrink office xp pro w/ frontpage

i made the administrative point
and slipstreamed sp3
and made my mst

after that i decided to test it before shrinking it:
the installation worked perfectly fine before shrinking it
i was able to have everything i wanted setup perfectly without any problems
im able to use the programs installed

after shrinking on a new virtual formated system on vmware for the 3rd time
(which meant i had to format the virtual pc 3 times!)
the shrinked version of office xp totalls up to a whomping 288mb!
shouldnt the actual filesize be from 100mb - 130mb
this isnt really shrinking
i tryed to 7zip it down to ~36mb by using asta's instructions and the file size became 201mb!

my office shrink logs are attached to this post

What am I going to do?
somebody help me please!
im begging

Attached File(s)

•  officeshrinklogs.rar (78.5K)
  Number of downloads: 41

This post has been edited by jacksont123: 28 March 2005 - 11:13 AM

[buckeyeXP]

jacksont123, on Mar 27 2005, 07:22 PM, said:

problem: Office Shrink isnt really shrinking that much
office xp does work after the shrinked version is installed
but the shrinked version is 288mb!
<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

All this program does is take out what you do not want to install. Therefore you contol your own destiny. If 288mb isnt good enough for you leave something else out.

Besides i think that 288 is much better than 600+

jacksont123, on Mar 27 2005, 07:22 PM, said:

after shrinking on a new virtual formated system on vmware for the 3rd time
(which meant i had to format the virtual pc 3 times!)

actuall if you dont install office there should not be a need to reformat.

jacksont123, on Mar 27 2005, 07:22 PM, said:

i tryed to 7zip it down to ~36mb by using asta's instructions and the file size became 201mb!

What am I going to do?
somebody help me please!
im begging
<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

I dont know what to tell you about 7zip are you sure you used the highest compression? Other than that i dont really know how much smaller you can make it unless you take more out.

Everybodys results are different. Dont go expecting the best results when you have an entirely different configuration.

[jacksont123]

alright i guess i could leave some things out
and yes i chose the highest compression method in 7zip
thanks for the tip about reformating

thanks a lot for your help

1 more question if i was to shrink again, do i have to reformat my formated virtual pc even though i fully uninstalled office xp?

[bober]

i have office xp sp3 7zipped to 135 megs. when in try to install it ,i get a message
"Windows XP Setup
Please go to the Control Panel to install and configure system components "

then installation stops at that point. what have i done wrong or left out?

[jacksont123]

@bober

is office xp already installed?

[buckeyeXP]

jacksont123, on Mar 28 2005, 12:26 PM, said:

1 more question if i was to shrink again, do i have to reformat my formated virtual pc even though i fully uninstalled office xp?
<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

yes

[jacksont123]

thanks

[bober]

@jacksont123

no office xp is not installed. i tried it on a fresh installed hd and an older installed hd. i got the same message on both boxes.

[jacksont123]

@bober

what message?

[bober]

@jacksont123



http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=16709&st=380

[jacksont123]

perhaps you should talk to the experts
and ask them for help

im so sorry that i was not able to help

[bober]

i got it fixed. i was using old .pdf file and old tools. i got a silent install of office xp pro sp3 full @75megs. thanks for the help and the programs guys.

[jacksont123]

wow thats great!
i got mine with sp3 7ziped to 96megs

[iwod]

I was wondering if one could make a Office that will work on most system. So that we don't have to remake our office everytime we slipstream update / or make changes to the disc?

[_Shorty]

Office 2003 + SP1 + hotfixes inc. FrontPage, Visio, Project, OneNote
installed w/ 'typical' except Outlook and Office Assistant

untouched totals
1.69 GB (1,819,569,631 bytes)

ISO reduction via removal of redundancy
927 MB (972,058,624 bytes)

officeshrink
866 MB (908,480,291 bytes)

officeshrink w/ ISO reduction via removal of redundancy
625 MB (656,277,504 bytes)

using WinRAR for each of the 5 individual install routines, for unattended CD/DVD
342 MB (359,617,479 bytes)

and I'm sure if I didn't make 5 individual WinRAR SFX packages it would be even smaller, but this way I can have seperate installers for different situations.

30/03/2005 05:47 AM 68,239,465 FrontPage2003shrunk.exe
30/03/2005 05:47 AM 134,647,968 Office2003shrunk.exe
30/03/2005 05:48 AM 30,956,536 OneNote2003shrunk.exe
30/03/2005 05:48 AM 42,848,576 Project2003shrunk.exe
30/03/2005 05:48 AM 82,924,934 Visio2003shrunk.exe

Thanks a ton for your time and effort with OfficeShrink! Only problems I encountered were with FrontPage/OneNote/Project/Visio and an xml file that made the installer think it was corrupted. Copied the xml files over to the proper directory in the target and tried it again, and it worked just fine. Woot!