Eric666
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But it was mentioned above that Windows 8 does not support SWM files
Well, for me it worked using the FAT32 approach :grin: I read somewhere in a thread (MSDN) that the size of the first SWM is important in this matter. It should be large enough to contain the license agreement, or the installation fails. So splitting it to 3900 MB chunks worked at least for me. Note that I only used one Windows version (8.1 Core) by first exporting it to a new WIM (so only an index of 1), and afterwards integrating updates using KUC. Note that a working \sources\ei.cfg is needed, as stated in the thread.
I just saw that Akeo released a new version of Rufus, which seems to implement the very thing I requested before: UEFI NTFS support and automatic WIM splitting. Definitely something I'm going to try out.
Quote from Rufus 2.0.639 release notes:
- Add seamless UEFI boot of NTFS partitions, for Windows ISOs with large files (>4GB)
- Add support for Windows multipart 'install.swm'
Regards, Eric666
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Hi Liam,
The other way to go might be to offer automatic splitting during copy process in case of a wim larger than 4 GB (almost inevitable with current amount of updates for W7 or W8.1).
Regards, Eric666
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Hi Liam,
Well since you ask.... something that really annoys me is that when creating a bootable UEFI USB, the file system should be FAT32, or it won't work. The consequence is that any install.wim larger than 4 GB needs to be split in SWM files or it won't fit on the USB drive. This was for my Windows 8.1 installation, I used Rufus (from Akeo) to create a UEFI/GPT only bootable and WTK's WIM splitter.
Funny thing is that I also made a MBR/UEFI installation for my old Win 7 laptop. This was actually working using NTFS and an install.wim larger than 4 GB. I tried to do the same for the Win 8.1 install, but that did not work.
Any way to work around that using USB prep? Maybe I'm missing something....
Regards, Eric666
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I used Unattended Creator in the past for my Win7 Home Premium installation. After generation of the XML I added some extra locale info, so I did not have to make selections for that during install. For my Win 8.1 installation I took the existing Win7 XML, updated the serial and the image name to be used, and presto, everything worked. Note that this was done with an older version of WTK 1.4.1.27.
Or did you mean using the current version of Unattended Creator?
Regards, Eric666
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I don't think the compiler itself is the actual problem, but the dependencies in the resulting exe. Mentioned MS exe files are also built by VS201x as an installation/deployment isn't it (quite a noob on that subject, correct me if I'm wrong). In VS one can adjust a multitude of settings, and maybe one of those causes the problem, maybe it is even the version of the MSI installer of the target OS.
Seems that your settings for making a build are not offensive to XP ;-) Just my 2c, as I saw the same error happening a completely different context.
Regards, Eric666
Edit: Maybe Clarkg888 can check the IE 11 exe dependencies using a tool like dependency walker?
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I had the same problem when running a new version of some custom company product on Win XP Pro. It appears that a compile with VS2010 works fine, while VS2012 (or later?) will result in this type of error message. So the exe is probably looking for a dependency, which is not present in Win XP.
Regards, Eric666
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Hi,
Try http://www.rmprepusb.com/ Maybe this free tool can help you with your drive. Note that the author's website is also full of tutorials etc for making bootable flash drives and much more. I just don't like his use of colors, but that is merely personal preference...
Regards, Eric666
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Hi akf,
As for rendering the USB drive normal, just wiping all files or a reformat will do. Making it bootable is just adding a special bootsector and a few startup files. If I recall correctly, WTK can do this. Main -> Intermediate -> USB Boot Preparation.
Regards, Eric666
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Hi,
I was kind of having the same problem with my Windows 7 x64. It was not even trimmed, but by tweaking and tooling somehow I had indeed all features including WMP and DotNet 3.5 unavailable. I tried every normal repair method using Windows Update, standalone versions of DotNet and indeed the N-versions of WMP but to no avail. When running KUC it appeared I had so much bad packages, that windows seemed FUBAR. Komm, the author of the KUC tool suggested that in my case a bad SP1 install might be the culprit, so I even ended up trying to uninstall SP1 but also there things went pear-shaped. Finally I ended up doing a new clean install on the machine and only then all problems were solved.
Assuming you have been using W7 SP1 as a source with Winkit, SP1 uninstall would not be an option in your case. Still you might use KUC for inspecting your friends' system. Maybe it is a case of a few bad packages that can be removed and re-installed using DISM. KUC produces a series of batch files to do exactly that.
HTH and regards, Eric666
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Repticilus,
I've removed most of the components you mention on my own installation except for these 4:
- Remote assistance
- Remote desktop services (3 components)
- Remote differential compression
- Remote FX (2 components)
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Wireless networking works fine with me. Your problem is probably not the absence of those components, but as Dotfusion already said something in your router's configuration. It may even be broken....
Note that to configure a router properly you need to make a wired connection first. And your NIC needs to be set to obtain an IP address automatically. If you also have a wireless NIC in your computer, use inSSIDer to check if the router is doing anything wireless at all.
Regards, Eric666
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Is it possible to publish a deep link to an executable/msu/cab on a website e.g. by using an .url file? This way a redirect to the MS server would be established. The source website would not suffer from heavy traffic (only small text files with extension .url would be downloaded) and the target MS server should be adequate enough to cope with the traffic. Unless this kind of linking is prohibited?
Why this thought? I suspect the KUC program does direct downloads of KB fixes (probably using CURL library) and even did this while Komm's website was offline, so it was probably directly addressing the MS site.
WTK would probably not have much problems downloading such reference link files and interpreting the contents so it can download from the MS target server. Is this a feasible approach?
Regards, Eric666
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The zip file he mentioned are two zip files which contain all the updates and hotfixes for 32 bit and 64 bit (like the 7z files in macrips servers http://hotfix2.cesidian.info/ )It cannot be downloaded by the toolkit, it can only be downloaded by going to the site.
Maybe KUC downloads the updates directly from Microsoft's severs.Its a lot faster than his site.
OK, I finally understand. Still, also all exe/msu/cab have been removed from his site, which were previously there, and could be downloaded with WTK. I think your guess on KUC directly downloading from MS servers is probably right.
Regards, Eric666
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Yes, I read that thread, but I did not understand that Komm meant that he removed all updates, since he talked about zips. And KUC (Komm's Update Checker) was still able to download some updates for my system. But possibly those were obtained from some other location.
Regards, Eric666
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I just checked KUC's site manually and indeed no MSU/EXE/CAB are present, only the additional TXT and HTM files. Did M$ tell him to remove all those? Or are those not listed/hidden in order to reduce traffic? Because when running KUC I can still download needed updates.
Regards, Eric666
Edit: the effect is now that all material in the update repository is moved to the Old subfolder, leaving a blank x86/x64 Update folder...
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Hi NIM,
Thanks for your quick reponse. I have tested the feed and it seems to work partially. It only goes back two days, and I see only new threads that were started in those two days, but any thread updates are not shown separately. Take this thread as an example. I see only a reference for this thread in Yesterday's section, but today's update is not shown separately in Today's section. BTW I'm using the excellent FeedDemon software, which normally does what I'm describing, so I bet this is due to feed property/definition. Any chance that the sub-forums for Requests, Add-ons and Guides could also be included?
Regards, Eric666
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Thx, I was not sure where to put the request, hence I used the WTK Requests sub-forum.
Regards, Eric666
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Hi,
Is it possible to define a separate RSS feed for Win Toolkit forums? My RSS reader is always running in the background which is easier than checking the forum by browser.
The Wincert all topics is a bit too broad...
Regards, Eric666
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Sorry to break in, just noticed that the (Un)Check All button does not work properly for the Optional Additions in t15 when they were earlier selected by hand.
Regards, Eric666
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Ah, I missed the space thingy! Works fine by me.
And with current functionality I can do anything I'd like, so this thread can be closed.
Thx again, Eric666
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Yes, this looks very neat. At least all stuff which is in the same folder is now grouped and can easily be deselected by hand. Any chance of doing this by selecting a range using shift or control key and using RMB for easy deselecting? Or should I put that in a separate request (I don't mind)?
Probably extra ordering (e.g. by date or folder) could be added if the column headers were not fixed, but clickable for sorting. That's probably a new separate request....
Regards and thx for the quick action,
Eric666
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Alternatively you could just put the folder names in the list, just like all the updates, so essentially the structure is 'flattened'. Unselecting a folder would then also unselect all sibling files.
This would probably preserve search feature and also the already existing list properties. Folders are in essence just files with some special attributes anyway ;-)
Regards, Eric666
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Yes, that would a good implementation. What do you think? Is this feasible?
Regards, Eric666
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First of all, great to see how KUC has been added to the Update catalog!
One feature I miss in this respect is to disable parts of the catalog. E.g. the IE9 folder contains Language packs for IE9, which I'm not interested in. It would be great to be able to exclude this kind of updates, which prevents a lot of unnecessary downloads. I assume the easiest way would be a per-folder selection for exclusion. Maybe it would be possible to show also folders in the update catalog, so that unchecking a folder would also automatically uncheck all the files therein?
Regards, Eric666
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USB Boot Prep Feedback
in Win Toolkit v2.x
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Pete,
Thanks for correcting my assumption. I just made a succesful installation of Windows 8.1 x64 (GPT/UEFI) from an NTFS formatted USB thumbdrive, created with Rufus. There was no need for WIM splitting, the install.wim (updated, 5.2 GB) was recognized and all went flawless. Thanks again for this great piece of SW, Pete! My life just became a little bit easier ;-)
Regards, Eric666