Maybe you didn't know...

[boxig]

... but keep it a secret and tell no one.

IExpress.exe - wow !

IExpress is a tool that creates custom, self-installing, self-extracting

packages (.cab) of applications (exe).

You will find it in:

C:\Windows\System32

To use IExpress, click on "Start", open the "Run" box and type: iexpress.exe.

What else you can do with it ?

Pack your show with "Unregistered" message so you don't have

to make any change to your show.

Hope it will help someone.

Granot

[liebgott]

Granot hi

Can you be a bit more informative. How would you use the program and why?

Barbara

[boxig]

Many people buy or install freeware program like this while on win200/xp you have it already on your machine. This is a setup program which makes exe from your files and allow you to add messages including a Readme file. If you include an exe file it will run it. Aside from using it for what it was intended, you can find other uses.

There is also a Help file called "IExpress.pdf"

Download Help File here (right click and "Save Target as")

Granot

[quietstorm]

Here is some more information about IExpress

There are limits, when IExpress extracts the files to a temporary directory and runs an installation command it watches the command it ran. When this process is finished, IExpress removes its temporary files from the drive. Often times you see (Mcafee's Anti-Virus 4.0.3 for Windows 95 is an example), the installation application will spawn multiple installation programs while running. IExpress will attempt to delete all of the temporary files, thus stopping the installation that is running by way of a crash in most cases. If you choose to only extract files, you cannot include a directory structure. The files in IExpress extract to one directory only and will not allow creation of a structure on the drive. There is no security in the file, the files compressed in your output executable cannot be stored with a password and can be extracted by anyone who has decompression software for cabinet files.

Some command line switches:

/Q Specifies quiet mode, or suppresses prompts, when files are being extracted. This switch does not suppress prompts when Windows Update Setup is running.

/Q:U Specifies user-quiet mode, which presents some dialog boxes to the user.

/Q:A Specifies administrator-quiet mode, which does not present any dialog boxes to the user.

/C:<UNC location> Specifies the path and name of the Setup .inf or .exe file.

/R:N Never restarts the computer after installation.

/R:A Always restarts the computer after installation.

/R:S Restarts the computer after installation without prompting the user.

/T:<directory path> Specifies the target folder for extracting files.

[LumenLux]

Thanks Granot and Bart - This is what we pay you such high salaries for.

[Merlin]

Thank you all for sharing

Merlin