The current landlord is moving his kid in therefore we have to move out. Turned out to be a good thing. We found a unit in Sydney proper… really close to Chinatown. Yum, gotta love food from the motherland. Anyhow, I’m going to try to move my site over to a friends house for the next few weeks (DSL takes a while to get installed). Please pardon any service disruptions during this move.
I’ll make sure to put up pictures once I in.
Did you notice that Microsoft does not provide complete installation files for IE6? You have to download a tool which will connect to Microsoft and download the rest of the IE6 installation files. This is a problem if you want to install IE6 on a box not connected to the internet or if you have a slow connection don’t want the network impact on all your boxes.
Here’s what you do:
1. Download the IE6SETUP file from Microsoft. This 400K file is the IE6 installation bootstrap. If it does not have all the files required to perform the install, it will connect to the mothership and download the required files
2. Pull up a command prompt
3. Run the IE6SETUP file with the following parameters:
ie6setup.exe /c:”ie6wzd.exe /d /s:”"#E”
4. Tell the bootstrap what OS you want to install on (in my case, I wanted the W2K IE6 installation files).
5. The bootstrap will download all the required files to:
C:\windows\Windows Update Setup Files
6. Just ZIP up these files and you now have the full IE6 setup files for Windows 2000 (or whatever OS you selected).
Keywords: IE 6, IE6, Network Install, Full Install, Installation Files
Have you ever wondered yourself? Well, it pops up … I do a little research… then forget because I don’t ever refer back. Hopefully after I write this post, it’ll finally stick.
This isn’t the most technically accurate explanation so if anyone one to add details, help yourself.
Regsvr32: Registers object linking and embedding (OLE) controls such as dynamic-link library (DLL) or ActiveX Controls (OCX) files that are self-registerable. It actually loads the DLL and call a self-registering method.
This is how a COM object is installed (aka registered into a spot in the registry) onto the computer. When you refer to the object’s name, it goes to the registry to look for where the DLL actually resides and performs the call.
RegAsm: Creates a COM wrapper for a .NET assembly and registers the wrapper. Allows the assembly to be called via COM.
When the COM wrapper is invoked, the .NET assembly is loaded via the wrapper.
RegScvs: Performs the same function as RegAsm but also adds the assembly’s COM wrapper into COM+.
Keywords: Regsvr32, RegAsm, RegScvs
What for you ask? I wanted to display all the values in an enum via a combobox control
foreach (string option in System.Enum.GetNames(typeof(TheClass.Enum)))
{
comboBox.Items.Add(option);
}
The term ‘slipstreaming’ means the integration of a service pack directly into the product’s installation. I just integrated Windows XP SP2 into my original XP installation CD. This will save me having to run the service pack separately after performing the install.
Here is the procedure:
1. Create an ISO image of your original XP media. This is so you can maintain the CD-Boot feature of the CD.
2. Open the ISO image with a tool like WinISO. The tool should allow you to extract, add and modify files on an ISO image directly.
3. Copy out the i386 directory. Ensure the i386 directory structure is intact (c:\temp\i386\…).
4. Download the service pack (network install version – aka the FULL version).
5. Run the service pack EXE with the ‘-x’ switch. It instructs service pack to extract all of its contents and to not automatically run the install.
6. Run ‘UPDATE /s:’. The update.exe file should be located in the ‘update’ directory of the service pack files.
7. Copy the modified i386 back into the ISO image. Use WinISO to delete the old i386 directory then replace it with the new one.
8. Burn a new CD.
As long as you follow this procedure, you should have a bootable Windows XP with SP2 CD.
Keywords: Windows XP SP2 SP1 slipstream slipstreaming update /s i386
