I’ve been working on a PDF printer driver recently. It was installed as part of another product – a crumby old InstallShield setup.exe that didn’t install or uninstall silently (and response files didn’t work). As such this blog post will … Continue reading
My current client uses the standalone InstallShield repackager to snapshot applications on virtual machines. When we copy the captured project back to the host machine and try to build the project, we sometimes see an error where InstallShield could not … Continue reading
Sometimes after installing a setup.exe with limited command line switches, we may want to clean up the Windows start menu. Usually as part of our Application Packaging best practises we remove ‘Uninstall’ shortcuts, ‘Update’ shortcuts, and shortcuts to readme’s and … Continue reading
This post continues from part 1 of the driver signing series found here and part 2 of the series found here. Part 3 of our driver signing guide deviates slightly from the self-signed certificate approach. My current client uses Active Directory … Continue reading
This post continues from part 1 of the driver signing series which can be found here. Part 3 of the series can be found here. It’s been a while since I looked at signing un-signed drivers I must admit. In … Continue reading
Creating a symbolic link can be achieved using the MKLINK internal command. Internal commands are native to the windows command shell and are NOT executable files. As such, we must call these commands via the windows command shell as follows: … Continue reading
With a Windows Installer there are a couple of ways we can create a URL shortcut, but I like to create a URL shortcut using the IniFile table. In this example, we create a file called ‘Alkane App.url’ on the … Continue reading
Description: This post describes how to access a Windows Installer property in a Deferred Custom Action. Deferred, commit, and rollback custom actions can only access a limited number of built-in Windows Installer properties – CustomActionData, ProductCode, and UserSID. In brief … Continue reading
Description: This post shows how to use VBScript to amend the the Hosts/Services or any other text file. It contains two scripts to add/remove lines of text. This example adds to the C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\Services file. Source: N/A Script: Add to Services file … Continue reading
This post describes the process of compressing files into an external .CAB using WiMakCab.vbs. WiMakCab.vbs is part of the Windows SDK, and can be used to compress external files into a .CAB file. We recently used this approach to compress … Continue reading