[dazkrlauwste]

Can anyone tell if it is possible to modify the setup.exe file in an windows xp distribution?

I'd like to add some more functionality.

[Bâshrat the Sneaky]

dazkrlauwste, on Jul 24 2004, 11:14 AM, said:

Can anyone tell if it is possible to modify the setup.exe file in an windows xp distribution?

I'd like to add some more functionality.

I think I've seen it on this forum once, a couple of monts ago. But I have no clue who did it or where I can find it.

But I think it's indeed possible.

Just being curious - what would you like to add?

[dazkrlauwste]

i'm busy with creating a multi-boot dvd with al of the windows xp versions, i'd like to add the options to install windows xp media center and tablet pc, see the screenshot.

this one has been made with autoplay studio, but i find that to rather difficult to use, so i'd like to see if it would be easier just to change the setup.exe instead of building one from scratch.

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•  Clipboard01.jpg (141.5K)
  Number of downloads: 115

[jdoe]

I suggest to create your own SETUP.EXE in a language of your choice and just replace the one on the CD by yours.

You won't have any problem doing so.

[dazkrlauwste]

How do i do that? With what kind of program?

[jdoe]

You need to know a programming language to be able to build your own SETUP.EXE. Visual Basic have the advantage to be easy to learn and you can build functional form very fast.

I have downloaded Autoplay Studio and if you don't want to learn programming it's a good alternative. It build the ISO DVD for you and you just need to burn. I think the difficult part for you will be to program the button to start to correct program on the DVD but if you put some effort you will see that it is not so hard to do.

If you don't need a cool Graphic-User-Interface, you could also just write a batch file to start to correct program and you put them at the root of the DVD.

Exemple WINXPSP1.CMD

START .\WINXPSP1\I386\WINNT32.EXE /parameters

[dazkrlauwste]

In what language is setup.exe written and can i decompile it in order for me to see the sourcecode en adjust it to likings

[jdoe]

I don't know which language they used for SETUP.EXE , maybe C++ or MASM but anyway, just forget about decompile.

[prathapml]

You can't do much by modifying the existing autorun in the original XP cd.
At the most, you would be able to use Resource Hacker (google to get v3.4 of ResHack) to change the text-strings which call executables when you click on any of the options, and replace the bitmaps used.

A better bet is to use AutoPlay Media Studio 5.0.03 as already suggested. The latest version (v5 as mentioned) is considerably easier to use and nothing you want to do can possibly take more than 4 hours with it (whereas modifying the original setup.exe will take forever to do the right way, and will stop at a dead-end which leads nowhere).

[dazkrlauwste]

Here's a simple autorun menu that was in a windows xp pro/home cd Does anyone recognize this or know a similar one, The autorun.exe says scansoft but i can't find it nowhere on the scansoft site.

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[dazkrlauwste]

Is it even possible to decompile an autorun program created with AutPlay Media Studio?

[prathapml]

dazkrlauwste, on Jul 28 2004, 06:04 PM, said:

Is it possible at all to decompile an autorun program created with AutPlay Media Studio?

No, its not at all possible.
That autorun screenshot from a multi-boot DVD that you posted above may look like a modified version of the original XP setup.exe - but it is not, the author has taken a lot of pain to make the customized autorun look as if it was modified from the original autorun.

[dazkrlauwste]

What about my previous question about the autorun.zip file that i posted earlier.

[SnipauK]

As somebody said, your best bet is to make a new autorun using vb. If you do this be sure to put the runtimes for vb in the same dir as the autorun on the cd.

Use VB6, and not .net

=))

CuBie.

[Doggie]

really no difference to what visual basic version you use, but if you want the latest overrings, vb.net

[SnipauK]

If he uses vb.net the pc will have to have the framework - not all pc's do.

Visual basic 6 is fine for the job, theres no need for VB.Net - You dont need the classes.

Vb.net is a bad chice

With the vb6 "framework" (There called the runtimes) you can just put them in the same dir.

[CoffeeFiend]

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This post has been edited by crahak: 07 November 2006 - 07:06 AM

[Innominandum]

To add you own functionality to the setup.exe program, you will have to decompile it, find caves to add your own custom code, change jump instructions in the decompiled code to point to your code and ofcourse add your own extra radio buttons and stuff.
It requires a pretty good knowledge of ASM and executable files structure.

I agree with the others, go with Autoplay Media Studio.