In humble reconsideration, I have re-read the entire Duality 420/RW thread and wanted to re invite Carlos into the RCS due to his ongoing support either in destroying his VM's time and time again or cause during my solo development he said thanks when no one else was helping or supporting my efforts Yes, I always saw your thanks when no one else was and that goes to show the genuine spirit I always wished to be a part of this project... Carlos your an amazing tester/troubleshooter and I appreciate all your work on my most in depth concept the check.bat concept which does automatic rearming and backup/restoration of theme. Without your help such endevours as the The Rearm Concept would have not been possible and s1ave77's brain would not be functioning at all if you weren't there to troubleshoot and give your expert advice Your invite to The Rearm Concept Group (RCSG) is in the mail Carlos Detweiller
Again..drama, this time from the older past..... We've got complaints, rightly! I don't reply for fun here and this is my last.
Those times were fun. Unfortunately, sometimes there's this pesky thing called real life. I don't have as much time as I did have in the past. Time, the most precious resource of all. Regarding your nickname, couldn't you do something about this? What editions/SKUs do require testing?
As usual from the "older past" to the "newer future" you can't admit when you are wrong Cause if you had actually read my post, you'd see where I stated what really transpired as opposed to your predisposition based, biased, demonizing opinion of me... I did everything right dealing with Compo then he started up and moderation didn't intervein to tell him that my requests we're specific and that he should offer what is requested or not help but you support others wanting to take control of developments that aren't even theirs than the actual developer him/herself projects. Like a broken record some things will never change with you ...lol Like I was trying to say these past 5 years, your still scapegoating onto the innocent and never dealing with who/whom starts conflicts and your growth as spirit is stuck there... For there shouldn't be a need for sacrifices in an infinite universe @MDL The development is now over for good as far as I can see and I don't foresee any installation/reinstallation problems due to the MS RE Local Drive Letter Switching Problem and the Product Key installation failure as we switched reg runonce for task so I think it's pretty fool proof in relation to installation factors I removed some extra code not needed in IORRT and cleaned up code regarding function readability I think I have, with the help of my "staff", done the best I can with inheriting the The Rearm Concept and accomplishing all it's design and development goals Thus troubleshooting should be just about Office 2013 having one rearm available so IORRT can install and W7 not being borked so IR7 can install This is an achievement through my perspective And this project deserves it's own Sub Forum whether it receives it or not!! Take care everyone and above all have fun...
Is the Theme Restore code still in? Because if it's not then I can test any SKU, doesn't matter which one...
For HP, Pro, Ulitmate and enterprise it is Starter/HB theme support has been dropped Check out the code it's pretty simple now regarding my check.bat concept which by the way is IR7.bat now... Thanks for your support TS
I decided to start with Starter, nonetheless; at least at a basic level (-Themes/Wallpaper) the concept should still work, right?
Here is a old theme test batch file. Code: @echo off REM Unknown to be needed setlocal ENABLEEXTENSIONS REM Unused line rem echo. >>%IR6backup%\IR6Bkup.theme REM Creates System Environment Variable (IE run > ir6backup > enter) SETX IR6backup "%SystemDrive%\Rearm\Backup" >nul REM Caputres the value of the key that states which theme is currently applied. set KEY_NAME=HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Themes set VALUE_NAME=CurrentTheme for /F "usebackq tokens=3" %%A IN (`reg query "%KEY_NAME%" /v "%VALUE_NAME%" 2^>nul ^| find "%VALUE_NAME%"`) do ( SET themefile=%%A ) REM If ir6backup folder isn't found, make it. If not exist %IR6backup% mkdir %IR6backup% >nul Rem simple backup/restore menu made with CHOICE :choice cls Echo A) Back-Up Background/Theme Echo. Echo B) Restore Background/Theme echo. echo C) Exit Echo. choice /C ABC /N /M "Select one of the options above (A-C):" if ERRORLEVEL 3 exit if ERRORLEVEL 2 goto Restore if ERRORLEVEL 1 goto Backup REM Backup procedure. :Backup CLS REM Copies theme file from its location to the backup folder REM /V Verifies the size of each new file. REM /Y Suppresses prompting to confirm you want to overwrite an existing destination file. REM ECHO F is used to surpass the FILE or DIRECTORY prompts. echo F | xcopy "%themefile%" "%IR6backup%\IR6Bkup.theme" /Y /V >NUL GOTO CHOICE :Restore CLS REM Copies theme file from the backup folder to the correct location. REM /V Verifies the size of each new file. REM /Y Suppresses prompting to confirm you want to overwrite an existing destination file. REM ECHO F is used to surpass the FILE or DIRECTORY prompts. echo F | xcopy "%IR6backup%\IR6Bkup.theme" "C:\Windows\resources\Themes\IR6Bkup.theme" /Y /V >NUL REM Adds the theme file to the correct registry key.(Unknown to be required) reg add "HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Themes" /t REG_SZ /v CurrentTheme /d "C:\Windows\resources\Themes\IR6Bkup.theme" /f >NUL REM "Applies" theme to user environment. %IR6backup%\IR6Bkup.theme GOTO CHOICE
First results are in: Starter The concept works. I'm getting two error messages when Rearm does its magic, though. View attachment 28247 View attachment 28248
Also needed to alter :backup Code: echo :Backup>>%SystemDrive%\Trial\IR7\IR7.bat echo If %%ver%%==%%I %%J goto exit echo if exist "%%systemdrive%%\Trial\IR7\IR7.theme" del /s /q "%%systemdrive%%\Trial\IR7\IR7.theme" ^>nul>>%SystemDrive%\Trial\IR7\IR7.bat echo echo F ^| xcopy "%%themefile%%" /s /q "%%systemdrive%%\Trial\IR7" /V /Y ^>nul >>%SystemDrive%\Trial\IR7\IR7.bat echo ren "%%systemdrive%%\Trial\IR7\%%theme%%.theme" "IR7.theme">>%SystemDrive%\Trial\IR7\IR7.bat echo goto :Exit >>%SystemDrive%\Trial\IR7\IR7.bat Pretty sure the %%ver%% stuff is incorrect just showing where it would go ...lol
If you was thinking about rewriting this after its been finalized as it is now- I was given some code by BentonMAN (that I have seen somewhere before) that got me thinking of a easier way to have RW written. This code Code: if "%~1"=="" goto usage if "%~1"=="/?" goto usage if "%~1"=="-?" goto usage if "%~1"=="/help" goto usage if "%~1"=="-help" goto usage could be changed around so that the batch files that are created by RW are not needed and thusly neither is having to have this kinda stuff: Code: echo echo FOR /F "tokens=2 delims==" %%%%%%%%A in ('wmic path SoftwareLicensingService get version /format:list') do set ver=%%%%%%%%A^>^>%%systemdrive%%\Trial\IR7.bat>>%SystemDrive%\Trial\IR7\IR7.bat Lets say when its time to call a batch file that is needed for checking, we call for: RearmWizard.bat /CHECK and when coded properly: Code: if "%~1"=="/CHECK" GOTO :CHECK RearmWizard will run, jump to check and run what is need, then close. This will allow for the 750 lines of code to be picked through thoroughly, removing lines that aren't need, fixing lines (if any) are broke, and removing the confussion of the multiple echo's and outputting to multiple batch files.