cmd to exe possible?

[sixpack]

hi

i have a cmd and want it to be convert to a exe

the code below is for excuting for a exe

on a cd with out knowing the cd drive letter.and works 100%

because the cmd icon is ugly i want a exe with a nice icon

the cmd is copyt during the install of windows xp to the desktop

is this poseble,can somone help me with this?

cmdow @ /HID
@echo off
ECHO.
for /f "tokens=3" %%i IN ('reg query HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Setup /v "SourcePath" ^| findstr "REG_SZ"') do set SOURCE=%%i
SET SOURCE=%SOURCE:~0,2%
%SOURCE%\install\soft.EXE 

EXIT

thanks for reading this

[prathapml]

There's any number of tools which can do this! Searching for it on google will give hundreds of good results. Moreover, compiling a batch file into executable will speed up what it does too.

Attached is one such compiler, test it first before deciding that it works properly.

Bat2Exe.ZIP

[sixpack]

thanks prathapml works

but how to insert a icon file?

[Bâshrat the Sneaky]

Hmm, nice! Can be helpful for me too

Maybe a dumb question, but is it possible to merge everything together? Like this:

------------------------------

batch.cmd------------------

commands_and_stuff.txt-- >>>> Mini-program.exe

------------------------------

This is not possible with IExpress, as far as I know...

[RyanVM]

thanks prathapml works

but how to insert a icon file?

Google Resource Hacker

[sixpack]

Google Resource Hacker

nope doesent work

tryed it

[prathapml]

huh?

Whatcha mean? Resource Hacker 3.4

Get it, and open up the compiled EXE. Then edit the icon resource, and replace what is already there with another of equal number of bytes.

Does work!

[sixpack]

huh?

Whatcha mean?

there is nothing to edit:

[prathapml]

Well, then - I dunno! Ideas anyone?

[Innominandum]

It won't work with resource hacker or any resource editing program,

because the executable that bat2exe makes is a DOS program not just a console program. So no luck there.

You can try Batch File Compiler (google it) but I haven't tried it so I can really say for sure.

Any way , good luck and if you find anything post it here so we all learn the trick.

[radhus]

Did you get any error messages when you opened tha file?

If not:

Use some of the menus and choose insert or something, insert an icon and name it 1 i think. Try that...

[Innominandum]

I don't think that will work because the executable doesn't have any code to handle resources. Doing this you will probably damage the file.

But then again, you won't know until you try.

[sixpack]

I don't think that will work because the executable doesn't have any code to handle resources. Doing this you will probably damage the file.

But then again, you won't know until you try.

try it no luck

well i have a workaround

i did pack it up in a sfx rar file and give it a nice icon

[Innominandum]

try it no luck

well i have a workaround

i did pack it up in a sfx rar file and give it a nice icon

Clever

[sixpack]

i have now Quick Batch File Compiler

this one hase resources

but i dunno how to ad the icon resource, if i at one and save it it does not diplay the icon

btw the icon resoursrce is in the exe file but the name is 0

and i can not change it

Ideas anyone?