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You might want to post your comments about your experiences over at the Driver Packs forum. They might have some tools or other suggestions on how to implement things the way you want even quicker and more automated. To me, the solution might be to implement the "duplicates" as shortcuts or hard links so that there is really only one copy of each file, even if there are more than one place to access it. There are also some duplicate finder type apps, Auslogics Duplicate File Finder and Digital Volcano Duplicate Cleaner are two free ones that come to mind, that might be able to do a quick search for true duplicate drivers, that is if they are really identical. Cheers and Regards

I'm not sure if this is right, but one possible explanation of why there might be duplicates in some of the Driver Packs files would be for the convenience of users who only choose to include the ones that are marked for their OS in order to minimized the size of the driver folder they include on their install media, ie someone with Vista might just include the drivers marked for Vista, while someone with Win7 might only include the ones marked for Win7. Does that make sense? Cheers and Regards

LOL Sorry, I thought you said above that you had done it in 30 minutes. I must have misunderstood. Cheers and Regards

Oh, Hey cluberti!, i definitely recognize you from MSFN, as I assume you do me? No offense was meant my friend. What you say is most definitely true and very applicable for Enterprise, small businesses, and even home users with multiple computers to keep updated. While folks think about using the Updates ISO for the first two, those are its intended target users I believe, people probably don't think about the third group being able to use it as well. Thanks for the reminder. For those with just one or two computers, an updated ISO would be much more convenient and less prone to error for less experienced users. Otherwise, just using a tool like Win Toolkit is an easier option. Cheers and Regards

Could this, (turning all selected updates into a Rollup Pack), be a feature that could be added to Win Toolkit? Just wondering. Cheers and Regards

I'm one of the ones that "gets it", even though I don't like it. But your friend doesn't "get it" either: That is an updates ISO, while Lego was proposing an updated ISO, a very huge difference in storage space and install time requirements. As I said, I fully understand the legal aspects, so I know it probably won't ever be done here, but I definitely hope it will eventually be done legally by someone somewhere since this problem of a an ever growing list of updates to integrate/install for Win 7 is only going to continue to get worse. Cheers and Regards

@myselfidem, I have not checked your attached file, Everything_Schedule.bat, but if the same errors are in it as in the code you posted, I don't see how this can work: (1) Looks like two lines got run together. As a result I don't think %ERRORLEVEL% will be set correctly (2) I don't think ver_vista will be found because of (3) (3) Looks like two lines got run together again. Cheers and Regards

duplicate post, sorrry

Many, many congratulations for the success with this absolutely wonderful app. Best wishes for a continued bright future for many, many years to come. Cheers and Regards

For those Updates that are not able to be integrated into the offline image but rather are automatically moved to the silent install tab by Win Toolkit, as they should be, it might help new users if a note was left in the update tab area to that effect so the new users would learn to look around before they assume something wasn't updated and needlessly post questions here for the umpteenth time. Just a thought. Cheers and Regards

Wonderful post, absolutely wonderful! The reasons you mentioned are exactly why I choose to remove nothing at all, just disable what I don't want. With the sizes and prices of today's memory and disc drives, it just doesn't seem to matter as much as it used to to or be worth it to go to all the trouble and deal with all the potential hassles of removing components that might effect something you don't expect. Even though I hate the amount of bloat that today's OS have accumulated, it is much less trouble in the long run. Unless you are willing to spend the long period of time and do the detailed testing required to ensure the removals will not cause any problems in your system with your set of apps you like/need to use, you are much better off just leaving things alone. But a thread where everyone can post their experiences of what they discovered they should not remove, along with posting why, such as because it effects xxxx app, is a great idea and would be a good reference for those that want to try removals for whatever reason they feel they are necessary. Cheers and Regards

The fileforum link still says it is 5.0.2. What gives? EDIT: Thanks for fixing the link! Cheers and Regards

Sorry, N1k, I forgot. Was thrown by this from above: Cheers and Regards

@stsaerox, you need to fix your link in the OT spoiler. I'm assuming you did a straight copy/paste when you should of done a copy link address/paste. Cheers and Regards

Yes, I believe you still need .NET3.5.1 updates even if you are installing .NET 4.5. The only thing that .NET 4.5 replaces is .NET 4.0, nothing else. kb976932 IS SP1, for installation on a live system running Win 7 RTM, not for use in Win Toolkit on an SP1 WIM image. Cheers and Regards

This thread should probably be appended to that one then so all the info is in one place. Cheers and Regards

On the same page as the download gadget link, a warning note to be careful, with a link to the msdn page, should satisfy everyone, since they are not officially supported by MS any more. On the http://gallery-live.com/ home page is still a link to the old http://gallery.live.com/ page which then has a link to the msdn page http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/security/advisory/2719662 so people can't say they weren't warned. But thank you very much for the redirect to the new page. As I said, I think that Win Toolkit should be all about options. Cheers and Regards

Depending on how the removals are done, the iso size might not change very much. Besides, I think that how much space the installed OS takes up is much more important than the iso size, but then I don't usually remove anything. Other opinions? Cheers and Regards

You still need to fix it above in the thread. LOL Cheers and Regards

Liam, you need to adjust your link, it's broken. (Then you can delete this post so as not to clutter things up unnecessarily.)Cheers and Regards

Good question. Gadgets, widgets, or whatever you want to call them, have been been around since Vista was in development and used internally at MS since 2000, according to Wikipedia. I don't usually use them, but some people like the convenience of having things like weather reports, stock info, email or IM notifications, PC system info, etc handy at a glance. I would hate to see those go unless there was an alternative way to get that info for the folks that wanted it. Even if MS no longer supports their use, if people have gadgets that they trust and use already downloaded, then maybe Win Toolkit should allow their use with a warning notice as to the possible danger? Anything that can be done to make their use as safe as possible should be done, and if there is a safer alternative that should be encouraged. But Win Toolkit is all about giving people options. Also, I question some of the motives of MS. While I don't doubt that there is some danger of there being code vulnerabilities in some Gadgets, that is true in any piece of software from the OS to any app. I personally think that this is one more way that MS is trying to force the switch to "Metro" apps. http://en.wikipedia....Desktop_Gadgets I could be wrong, but... I have also found that all of the old gadgets that used to be hosted at http://gallery.live.com/, are now hosted at http://gallery-live.com/, and are available for download. My interpretation of info on their home page is that they are using the words of the MS service agreement to prove that MS has inadvertently allowed this behavior: http://gallery-live.com/ So maybe just change the Win Toolkit links to the gadgets, but still with a warning since they are not officially supported? Just a thought. Cheers and Regards

Please add me to the list. Thanks! Cheers and Regards

I believe that MS has removed all gadgets and the Windows sidebar from any of their websites citing the possibility of nefarious code to compromise your system through them. http://www.theregist...says_microsoft/ http://technet.micro...dvisory/2719662 Cheers and Regards

Seems like he just deleted the older .exe version of Win Toolkit and dropped in the new one. Maybe a conflict was caused with the old ini or config files or registry setting and the newest version of the exe? I know it's always safest to start completely over with all new stuff when you change versions, but it's handy to keep the older settings to enable you to build just like you've built before. Is there some kind of list of "the only files you should keep" or "the files you should definitely NOT keep" when changing versions to prevent mishaps like this, or do you think that this was just a weird fluke? Cheers and Regards

To me, this code "perfecting", though very tedious at times, can give a huge amount of satisfaction to the programmer for a bit of code that is expected to last a long time. Not to mention how it usually helps find bugs, makes it easier to maintain and update, and improves your skills as a programmer for future projects. Keep up the GREAT work! Cheers and Regards