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LiVista Rescup, Using the Vista Setup as a live rescue system

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Jan 21 2008, 08:14 PM

Post #1

mihi

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Hello,

hope I am right here. If not please tell me

I have been tinkering with a Vista DVD for some time, tried a lot and unfortunately most things did not work for me (like mounting the install.wim from the Setup or increasing the ramdisk size while it was running).

Now I found a way to load Windows Explorer (including taskbar) from an original Vista Setup disk (with just a 300K file stored on a floppy or an USB pen). I'd like to make this even better so that you can have most parts of Windows (maybe optionally, since the ramdisk of Vista Setup is a bit small) just by booting from a disk that soon most people will have.

It will hopefully be easier to share than PeBuilder or WinBuilder (i.e. there are no m$ files in the tool, so there is no need to build again on every PC).

If anyone wants to share his knowledge with me and help me in building such a thing, post here or as a comment on my "development blog" site: http://rescup.wordpress.com

If you like the idea, please give feedback as well on how to improve it.

Download link for current version (which is mostly batch scripts and 7-zip) is on my blog site as well.

Have fun, and happy hacking,

mihi

Jan 22 2008, 07:37 AM

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was_jaclaz

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VERY interesting

jaclaz

P.S.: Rather obviously, I am not gonna download/install Adobe Reader 8 to get those files

to have a look at them!

Please feel free to post here and put the files (.zip or .7z) as an attachment.

Also, check what can be done in 800 Kb:
http://blog.kowalczyk.info/software/sumatrapdf/

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Jan 22 2008, 07:00 PM

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mihi

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QUOTE (jaclaz @ Jan 22 2008, 08:37 AM)

VERY interesting

jaclaz

P.S.: Rather obviously, I am not gonna download/install Adobe Reader 8 to get those files

to have a look at them!

Please feel free to post here and put the files (.zip or .7z) as an attachment.

Here you are.

QUOTE

Also, check what can be done in 800 Kb:
http://blog.kowalczyk.info/software/sumatrapdf/

[off-topic]
1) Latest version is 1104KB
2) This is the first site where I had to reenable cross-domain referrer sending for downloading the file (if not, I am just returned to the download page again and again).
3) That is a bit too minimalistic for me. Yes I know that there are small PDF renderers available (JPeDal lib is another example) that can render 99.9% of all PDFs. But broken fonts in the rare 0.1% cases, or even the inability of clicking intra-document links make them no real alternative for me. On Linux I use xpdf myself (and only acroread if I have to), but on Windows...
4) Is there a way to view current page number or goto page number? Or to create bookmarks inside the document? Otherwise reading long ebooks is almost impossible...
[/off-topic]

mihi

Attached File(s)

rescup.zip ( 331.16K ) Number of downloads: 175

Jan 23 2008, 08:49 AM

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TheHive

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Suggestion to include a readme with the details on how it works and stuff in the zip attached.
This is very small and interesting.

P.S! Welcome to the Community.

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Jan 24 2008, 03:58 PM

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risolutore

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I visited the blog of LiVista, but I think that we all need uou to include a readme with the details on how it works.

Mar 21 2008, 07:40 AM

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ktp

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After unzipping the zip from mihi, in fact you must first rename rescup.bat to rescup.dat, then rename rescup.txt to rescup.bat.
Then inside the Vista recovery environment, run the rescup.bat (from floppy or USB key).

Mar 21 2008, 11:44 AM

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mihi

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Sorry for the delay. I will post more info about it (and a new version) soon at http://rescup.winbuilder.net/ (yes I know the webspace is empty now, just give me one more week

)

I will announce it here then.

Mar 25 2008, 05:50 PM

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mihi

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QUOTE (mihi @ Mar 21 2008, 12:44 PM)

Sorry for the delay. I will post more info about it (and a new version) soon at http://rescup.winbuilder.net/ (yes I know the webspace is empty now, just give me one more week

)

I will announce it here then.

Okay, there is a new version, with a small exe file inside that makes it even nicer

Release is at http://rescup.winbuilder.net/download/rescup-0.0.2.zip
Readme file is included in release.

Source code of everything is in Subversion repository at http://rescup.winbuilder.net/svnroot/

What's new? http://rescup.wordpress.com/2008/03/25/making-it-better/

Homepage is still empty, but hopefully I will find time to make a nice website for it.

mihi