Many times we edit system files like Shell32.dll, Explorer.exe, msgina.dll, ntoskrnl.exe, logonui.exe, etc to change the look-n-feel of Windows. But sometimes we want to include our edited files in Windows Setup, so that whenever we make a fresh installation of Windows, we don't loose our changed files and we don't need to make those changes again.
Here is a step-by-step tutorial on how to include your own edited files in Windows Setup:
1. Download following .Zip file and extract it:
2. You'll get "modifype.exe" file after extracting the .zip file.
3. Now copy this "modifype.exe" file to the same folder where you have your edited files which you want to include in Windows setup. Lets suppose you have copied all edited files in "D:\Setup" folder, so copy "modifype.exe" file to "D:\Setup" folder.
4. Open Command Prompt and navigate to the same folder where your files are stored, which is "D:\Setup" in our example.
5. Now provide following command:
modifype file_name.extension -c
Replace "file_name.extension" with the name of the file which you want to include in setup. e.g.
modifype shell32.dll -c
modifype explorer.exe -c
modifype msgina.dll -c
6. It'll fix the checksum of the file and Windows will accept the file without any problem at installation time.
7. Now the last step. We have to compress the file using "makecab" command. As you can see all files in Windows Setup folder "I386" are in compressed format like shell32.dl_, explorer.ex_, msgina.dl_, etc. So provide following command to compress the file:
makecab file_name.extension
Replace "file_name.extension" with the name of the file which you want to include in setup. e.g.
makecab shell32.dll
makecab explorer.exe
makecab msgina.dll
8. Thats it. You'll get a compressed file, which you can safely copy to "I386" folder of your Windows setup.
NOTE: If you want to extract any existing file from the Setup, you can use "expand" command.
expand -r file_name.extension
Replace "file_name.extension" with the name of the file which you want to extract. e.g.
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expand -r explorer.ex_
expand -r msgina.dl_
This article was posted in Windows XP.
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goldi
Cause i doesnt want any confussion in setup? to read files. anyway iwhy resource hacker doesnt able to replace the bitmap image in winntbbu.dll. why? i have selected same size & format image but not working. why? please help.
VG
^^ There will be no confusion. Just compress edited files and replace files in I386 folder with your edited files.
Reg. to replacing images in WINNTBBU.DLL, use resource tuner. It'll work.
imran
imran
goldi7515
Help VG i want to replace bitmap 103 , 153 , 193 & 194 from winntbbu.dll by same bitmaps but with text on it created in photoshop by me. but reshack says access vioilation error & it cant replace with my bitmap. they have same size & format as origional. please help me
VG
^^ Use Resource Tuner to replace the files.
goldi
Hi VG I have made windows setup disks with my modification. Just two things i missing & that are Windows vista startup bar & drive status bar. Means i want to include ur Drive status aaplication in setuip But how??? & i made all startup & shutdown look as vista But just miss 1 thing & that is startup process bar as in vista instead of it there is windows xp comes i want to remove that & what i need exactly is i want to show u tell me where can i upload image of what i need???
goldi
goldi
VG
^^ To change the startup boot screen, you'll need to edit NToskrnl.exe file. And I have not tried to include Vista drive status in setup as its a standalone EXE file.