Re: Windows Movie Maker

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JohnD wrote:
I overlooked that when I searched the install CD's that I have, although I hadn't overlooked it when I searched the SP3 CD.

But, having taken that into account now, a summary of what Install needs and what I have is:

On two XP Pro and three XP Home install CD's: Moviemk.ex_, moviemk.ch_, moviemk.in_.
(All of which expand fine.)

Missing from these CD's and wanted by Install: Any DLL's starting with WMM2
Filters.xml (.xm_)
Empty.txt (.tx_)
Blank.txt (.tx_)
Two .png files (.pn_)
Two .jpg files (.jp_)

On the SP2 disc and SP3 disk: moviemk.pdb.exe
all the .dll's, but with .pdb.dll extensions
None of the above files that Install wants: Filters
Empty
Blank
2 .png files 2 .jpg files with any kind of extensions.

Any further ideas?




JohnD wrote:

Thank you for that advice. Unfortunately, the file that Install wants - moviemk.exe - is not on my XP Pro install CD either.


"Paul" wrote:
Did you remember to search for "moviemk.ex_" ?

In a previous post, I tried to explain compressed files, and naming
conventions. The uncompressed file would be "moviemk.exe". If it
is stored compressed, they change the character on the end to an
underscore character. That is how you're supposed to know it is
compressed. It also screws up searching for that file by name.
Which is the reason, when I'm searching for files, I don't add
the extension to the end. If I'm searching, I look for "moviemk"
with the search command, and just accept the fact I'm going to
get all sorts of stuff.

You can expand a file using the system utility called "expand".
For example, let's say you find a copy of moviemk.ex_ . Open
a command prompt window, and first try

expand -D moviemk.ex_

That will cause the utility to print the name of the file as
it would appear when unexpanded (always a good plan to verify).
Next, you can use that name information, to do the actual expansion.
This step makes the file you wanted, from the compressed one.
(And if you lose track of what you did with the output file, just
search on the name again.)

expand moviemk.ex_ moviemk.exe

The program prints this out in response to the command.

Expanding moviemk.ex_ to moviemk.exe.
moviemk.ex_: 1243742 bytes expanded to 3558912 bytes, 186% increase.

Now you have a moviemk.exe, all ready to pass to your installer.
But you still have a whole pile of other files to expand. I tried
to explain before, that the INF file contains a list of stuff to
do, and from that file, you can guess at what files it is going to
need to finish the installation.

I use 7ZIP for expansion tasks, as it is a tiny bit easier
to use. Still not as efficient as I'd like, but better than
the command window and the above method.

HTH,
Paul


WindowsXP-KB936929-SP3-x86-ENU.exe 331,805,736 bytes

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=5b33b5a8-5e76-401f-be08-1e1555d4f3d4&DisplayLang=en

Download WindowsXP-KB936929-SP3-x86-ENU.exe , as I'm seeing things like this
inside. Using 7ZIP, I see the following inside the .exe. Using 7ZIP,
I can extract the contents of the EXE, without starting an install.

moviemk.in_
moviemk.ex_
moviemk.ch_

wmm2ae.dl_
wmm2eres.dl_
wmm2ext.dl_
....
wmm2res2.dl_

filters.xm_
empty.txt <--- this one isn't compressed :-) because it is "empty"
Redmond's idea of a joke.

and so on.

So what you want to do is:

1) Find the standalone SP3 download.
2) Extract it, but do not run the main .EXE
3) Extract all the files into a folder. Then right click
on the ones ending in an underscore, and use 7ZIP to
expand those. With a lot of work, you should be able to
assemble all the needed files (by trial and error if needed).

This doesn't open everything, but it is a very nice tool.
Move your WindowsXP-KB936929-SP3-x86-ENU.exe file into a
separate folder, before you extract it. You can do all your
work in that folder, until you have all the files you need.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/7zip

Good luck,
Paul
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