OEMIZER and reg entries

[vMAC]

Well what I have done is take a cab and extract it to your computer. Then take a clean phone and export the registry. Then take a copy of the cab and install it on the phone. Do a search on the phone for the file names that you extracted on your computer. Export the registry on the phone and run a winmerge against it and the previous export of the registry.

Then plug that all into OEMizer. Make sense? I probably should be more clear but my wife is calling me for dinner.

[InvincibleLiving]

Originally Posted by vMAC

Well what I have done is take a cab and extract it to your computer. Then take a clean phone and export the registry. Then take a copy of the cab and install it on the phone. Do a search on the phone for the file names that you extracted on your computer. Export the registry on the phone and run a winmerge against it and the previous export of the registry.

Then plug that all into OEMizer. Make sense? I probably should be more clear but my wife is calling me for dinner.

Yes can you break this down further for us? winmerge? thanks in advance.

[vMAC]

Ok here's what you do:

Desktop / Laptop:
1) Extract the .cab or .tsk to a folder on your computer. So you should have all the files in a folder.
2) Download WinMerge (awesome utility for many other things other than what I'm going to use it for) www.winmerge.com

your device:
3) Export your registry to a file that can be converted to a txt. On my Titan I use PHM RegEdit to export into a rbk which can be read as a txt.
4) Now install the .cab on your device
5) Export your registry again and send it to your desktop
6) Use the search program and do a search for the files that you got from step 1. This will give you the folder names that these files should be stored in.

Back on your laptop/desktop
7) Open OEMizer and drag those files into the box
Assign those files to the proper folder based on what you found out on step 6.
9) Go into winmerge and compare the registry dumps from step 3 and step 5 to each other. It should then highlight every section where the two vary.
10) Copy those missing registry sections (in the correct syntax) to the registry box in OEMizer


Those 10 steps make it sound pretty easy but it's sometimes a long process. This is the whole reason why I have created this thread is because converting the registry keys to the right syntax is hit or miss, and for some of the small cabs that I have OEMized it's easy to just play around with it until I get it right. For the large ones (SPB Backup) has 28 entries it takes me longer, but I can just about convert any .cab. Someone helps me with converting the registry entries and I can do any .cab someone throws at me.

[InvincibleLiving]

WHEW... thanks for that, this is definately something i'll play with more! quite intriquing stuff! and by the looks of the stuff you're doing i need to be asking you all the questions in this thread from now on!