[jcarle]

ALL UTILITIES HAVE BEEN MOVED TO THIS FORUM

THANK YOU MSFN.

This post has been edited by jcarle: 14 August 2006 - 02:28 PM

[glent]

OMG this is just wot i Need! thnx

[jrzycrim]

Nice. This will come in handy.

[Aaron]

Very nice indeed, good job!

[wass]

OMG!!! VERRY NICE utilite for lazy people like me
I LOVE it!!!!

Thank you dude!!!!

[jcarle]

If anyone finds any bugs and such, please let me know.

Now, to think of another util to make.

[bucketbuster]

WOW, great tool!
Can I put this in my rightclick-menu?

[Aaron]

Found a bug, was curious what it would do with makecab unchecked, this happens with any file:

See the end of this message for details on invoking 
just-in-time (JIT) debugging instead of this dialog box.

************** Exception Text **************
System.ComponentModel.Win32Exception: The system cannot find the file specified
   at System.Diagnostics.Process.StartWithShellExecuteEx(ProcessStartInfo startInfo)
   at System.Diagnostics.Process.Start()
   at CBin.formMain.OpenFiles(Array a)


************** Loaded Assemblies **************
mscorlib
    Assembly Version: 1.0.5000.0
    Win32 Version: 1.1.4322.573
    CodeBase: file:///c:/windows/microsoft.net/framework/v1.1.4322/mscorlib.dll
----------------------------------------
CBin
    Assembly Version: 1.1.4235.0
    Win32 Version: 1.1.4235.0
    CodeBase: file:///C:/Program%20Files/jcarle.com/Compression%20Bin/CBin.exe
----------------------------------------
System.Windows.Forms
    Assembly Version: 1.0.5000.0
    Win32 Version: 1.1.4322.573
    CodeBase: file:///c:/windows/assembly/gac/system.windows.forms/1.0.5000.0__b77a5c561934e089/system.windows.forms.dll
----------------------------------------
System
    Assembly Version: 1.0.5000.0
    Win32 Version: 1.1.4322.573
    CodeBase: file:///c:/windows/assembly/gac/system/1.0.5000.0__b77a5c561934e089/system.dll
----------------------------------------
System.Drawing
    Assembly Version: 1.0.5000.0
    Win32 Version: 1.1.4322.573
    CodeBase: file:///c:/windows/assembly/gac/system.drawing/1.0.5000.0__b03f5f7f11d50a3a/system.drawing.dll
----------------------------------------

************** JIT Debugging **************
To enable just in time (JIT) debugging, the config file for this
application or machine (machine.config) must have the
jitDebugging value set in the system.windows.forms section.
The application must also be compiled with debugging
enabled.

For example:

<configuration>
    <system.windows.forms jitDebugging="true" />
</configuration>

When JIT debugging is enabled, any unhandled exception
will be sent to the JIT debugger registered on the machine
rather than being handled by this dialog.

[jrzycrim]

Aaron, on Aug 22 2004, 06:27 PM, said:

Found a bug, was curious what it would do with makecab unchecked, this happens with any file:

I was going to ask a question about this but I really don't know anything about .net framework. Think I'm going to check out the SDK...

[battleangel3222]

dude thats EXACTLY what needs to start happening, instead of manual stuff we need programs for the n00bs. Heres some ideas to get you guys going

1) A Program with a big database of switchs
2) Better way to make an answer file with more options
3) Program to install drivers easily, including things like ATI Control panel, etc...
4) Easier ways to do anything!

GREAT ideas, good start jcarle!

[CoffeeFiend]

battleangel3222, on Aug 22 2004, 06:40 PM, said:

dude thats EXACTLY what needs to start happening, instead of manual stuff we need programs for the n00bs. Heres some ideas to get you guys going

1) A Program with a big database of switchs
2) Better way to make an answer file with more options
3) Program to install drivers easily, including things like ATI Control panel, etc...
4) Easier ways to do anything!

GREAT ideas, good start jcarle!

1) I've just started on that today (as well as for registry tweaks).
2) Hmm, the sp2 deployment tools work pretty nice, and a search an fix the couple issues left pretty quickly
3) Well, drivers ARE already easy to install, unless you mean unattended in which case, all your PCs need to have the same hardware (to require the same drivers) or it would have to determine your HW first... I've been thinking about taking care of making a ATI/NVIDIA detection app - so it installs one or the other accordingly. Wouldn't be hard...
4) Erm, I think we're basically all open to good suggestions

[jcarle]

I can't seem to reproduce the bug. I think it could be because modifype.exe is not in your path?

[XtremeMaC]

is that http://www.theultimateguide.ca/ is down or something?
I cannot dl it

[jcarle]

Nope, maybe just a bad route to host from your location.

[jcarle]

Bug should be fixed now. New build posted.

[MCT]

Quote

1) A Program with a big database of switchs

i would be interested in helping build the database if someone would make the gui part


example:

in section 1, there could be a browse button, 2 look 4 the file

in section 2, there could be a list of switches, then it outputs it 2 an inf/ini file & u have it run from inside the program with a switch like /silent or something?

programname.exe /silent /loadinf=whatever

? maybe a thought

[DisabledTrucker]

I notice you say:

jcarle, on Aug 22 2004, 02:51 PM, said:

This utility allows you to drag and drop any file to it's window and have it run modifype and makecab with the LZX compression at it's highest setting (equivalent to the compression used on the Windows CD) on the file. The file is compressed and written to the same filename in the same location with an underscore replacing the last character in the filename. IMPORTANT: modifype.exe and makecab.exe MUST be in your path (preferably \windows\system32).

But when I attempted to use ModifyPE.exe to compress a .bmp or a .jpg file for inclusion into the i386 folder, (fyi, I was trying to replace the default files for the wallpaper,) it only gives an error that it wont work with them. Are you able to overcome this with this utility? Does the .jpg and .bmp files not need to use the ModifyPE.exe program to compress them? Mind you, I used it seperately and not using your program, as I have just now found it. TIA.

*EDIT*
Also, will using the LZX compression actually benefit those files?

One more thing inref:

jcarle, on Aug 22 2004, 04:48 PM, said:

Now, to think of another util to make.

How about a way to do them in batch form? Such as multiple files at a time.

[jrzycrim]

DisabledTrucker, on Aug 23 2004, 12:21 AM, said:

But when I attempted to use ModifyPE.exe to compress a .bmp or a .jpg file for inclusion into the i386 folder, (fyi, I was trying to replace the default files for the wallpaper,) it only gives an error that it wont work with them.  Are you able to overcome this with this utility?  Does the .jpg and .bmp files not need to use the ModifyPE.exe program to compress them?  Mind you, I used it seperately and not using your program, as I have just now found it.  TIA.

*EDIT*
Also, will using the LZX compression actually benefit those files?

Compressing a bmp seemed to work fine for me, with and without modifype.

LZX will give you better compression than the Makecab default which is MSZIP.

[DisabledTrucker]

I dont think I mentioned that I didn't use this to do anything with the ModifyPE, I was just using the ModifyPE program itself, and it refused to work with all the .bmp's and .jpg's I tried it with, (about 5 of each). Maybe I was using it wrong, or didn't use the correct switches when using it, but I couldn't make it work. I knew that the LZX compression was better than Makecab alone, but I didn't notice much in size difference than using it alone when I was compressing them all last night. (About 30 in all.) Could be the files I was attempting to compress were already compressed quite a bit to start with being the reason, as I used Jasc PSP to assure they were as small a file size as possible before I included them.

[CoffeeFiend]

MCT, on Aug 22 2004, 09:41 PM, said:

Quote

1) A Program with a big database of switchs

i would be interested in helping build the database if someone would make the gui part

I've already made a similar database, and I'll be working on the GUI (front end) soon (as soon as I'm done with registry tweaks lol)