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Friday, February 25, 2011

Download Windows XP Reskit Tools

Download Windows XP Reskit Tools: "Download the Windows XP Support Tools (12.5mb)"

Provides the InstSrv.exe utility to add and remove services

How to remove damaged Windows Service

from url

I have successfully used this with: XP and 2003.

you can also use command prompt and delete a service using following command:
sc delete < SERVICE name>

or to create, simply type
sc create
Update:
If you have space in the file path you need to use quotation marks ("). For example:
sc create "MySQL" binpath= "C:\Archivos de programa\MySQL\MySQL Server 5.1\bin\mysqld.exe"

Thursday, February 10, 2011

Map current folder location as a local drive.

@echo off
subst V: /D
subst V: "%CD%"
subst
PAUSE

Wednesday, February 9, 2011

VB6 Manifest File Follow-Up

Okay, it turns out following the advice in the previous post can produce a valid Windows 7.  Turns the problem was my version number in the manifest file did not match the actual version of the App.exe.  (Stupid stupid mistake).

So here is the manifest file I created. It was too much trouble to convert my manifest file (being XML to something that I can display in blogger, File is Manifest.txt in my BlogFiles folder on skydrive.