[Charmin Deluxe]

hi
because i missed some features in buckeyexp's shrinker, i wrote my own office shrinker tool. in the moment my programm works in the same way like buckeye's but i'm working on another solution (something like nlite, just for office)

i'd feel happy if you could test my programm, too. it should work fine for office 2003 and english, german, spanish, dutch. i don't know how it will act with other office versions!
other languages can easily be added in the language.ini

thx!

download:
http://www.illusions...Shrinker0.9.rar

note!!!:
no error support for version 0.9!! i'm working on the other much faster comfortable maybe saver shrinking method. should be finished soon.

[SiMoNsAyS]

really nice!!

i'll test on spanish ver ASAP!

[prathapml]

Thanks, its interesting - will try it today after getting home!

One thing I'd like to know though, is does this "shrinker" support all cds ?
I mean, the one by buckeyeXP works only for CD1 of office 2003. If you try to reduce source of frontpage, onenote (cd2, cd5) you find that you can't.

Also, what is this tool based on? not Auto-It it seems?

[Charmin Deluxe]

hmm i'm not sure if it'll work with the other cd's too .. i thought you can slipstream the other cds into an admin point install. i don't have the other cd's so i really don't know

it's based on autoit (the new beta with gui support) and i'll send you the source if you want to.

[totoymola]

Nice work Charmin Deluxe.

[prathapml]

Charmin Deluxe, on Jan 23 2005, 05:30 AM, said:

i thought you can slipstream the other cds into an admin point install. i don't have the other cd's so i really don't know

Yes you can slip-stream into AIP, but its a different AIP!

Also, to confirm that your code works for every CD, try running it with the office resource kit installer.

[Charmin Deluxe]

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try running it with the office resource kit installer

hmm how?

[keytotime]

Does this need to be run on a clean xp machine?

[Charmin Deluxe]

keytotime, on Jan 22 2005, 06:30 PM, said:

Does this need to be run on a clean xp machine?

i'm afraid so

[keytotime]

Wow fast reply. Okay, not a probelm.

[prathapml]

Charmin Deluxe, on Jan 23 2005, 05:57 AM, said:

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try running it with the office resource kit installer

hmm how?

Do a "/A" (admin install) of the package - it can be found on CD1 or downloaded.
Then use the resource kit to make an MST for itself. That should do it.

[MAVERICKS CHOICE]

@Charmin Deluxe

Looks good, will give it a go on my test machine.

[Astalavista]

ok guys dont forget to report in and tell us what happens

[gamehead200]

Question: Why does this have to be run on a clean install of XP?

[Charmin Deluxe]

because it does a test installation of office to see which files are needed. but last night i got a great idea! maybe it'll work. i'll let you know

[Astalavista]

can u pls give more info on how this works. how is it different from officeshrink?

[Charmin Deluxe]

as i said in my first post this version isn't really different to buckeye's version

[prathapml]

gamehead200, on Jan 23 2005, 10:19 AM, said:

Question: Why does this have to be run on a clean install of XP?

Well, it runs the office setup, and sees which files are needed to be copied to install it. And keeps those alone and dumps the files that you don't need (because many of the files are older versions than comes with XP, and files for older versions of windows)

If you were to have already had office installed, an example is unicows.dll which you'd already have installed (when you re-install office, the residue files won't be copied over again). So then office-shrink will not notice that file is needed to be copied during a fresh re-install - and when you install a "shrunk" office source on a fresh windows install, you will see that complaint of a DLL missing.

[MAVERICKS CHOICE]

Seem to be getting an error 25003 source corrupted install aborted, taken off my slipstreamed sp1 disk that works perfectly otherwise?

[prathapml]

Errors?
Does Office Shrink work fine for you? If that works fine and this doesn't then Charmin Deluxe has some work to do.