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[BlackholeForever]

It's broken/orphaned.

(Note: I'm continuing this discussion from here.)

The modules\AddOns\__tweakui.apm script specifies:


[OperatingSystem]
WindowsVersion=2K,XP_x86,2K3_x86

and

[Installation]
(null - i.e., empty)


Thus, it's installation is dependent on a child script, for which none exists that specifies "2K" for the parameter "WindowsVersion".

This explains why it appears as a selection in the AutoPatcher utility, but selecting it produces no installation behavior. I'd be willing to hop on board and help correct this if it would help. I see that the AutoPatcher application has been re-engineered (since I last used it) to be script-driven which is pretty cool (modular/extensible). I'm not sure what kind of constraints the development team has in place for this new architecture, however. Specifically:

I believe The TweakUI infrastructure (v2.10) that's currently being downloaded is post-Windows 2000 and is not backwards compatible with Windows 2000. The child scripts correctly denote this. The last Windows 2000 compatible version of the utility is 1.33, which I cannot find anywhere on microsoft.com (surprising, right?).

Questions:
1) How does the development team address this (file origin)?
2) (Unrelated) I have not been able to figure out what determines patch order/placement in the application and was wondering what drives this?

Let me know - thanks...

[BlackholeForever]

Ok, found TweakUI v1.33 on Microsoft.com:

http://download.microsoft.com/download/win...-US/Tweakui.exe

That wasn't easy...well, actually it was (once you know where to look )

[BlackholeForever]

Ok, did a little more surfing. This articles explains a lot:

Microsoft-Killed-AutoPatcher-No-More-Third-Party-Windows-Updates

That answers the question regarding constraints on file origin and some of the motivation for the re-engineering...

[Cristiano]

actually, the version that you've downloaded isn't for wxp. and, by the way: the version 1.33 is a little bit outdated. you may found v 2.1 in here:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloa...ppowertoys.mspx

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[BlackholeForever]

 Cristiano, on Jun 8 2008, 06:03 PM, said:

actually, the version that you've downloaded isn't for wxp. and, by the way: the version 1.33 is a little bit outdated. you may found v 2.1 in here:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloa...ppowertoys.mspx

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Exactly. What's not working is TweakUI for Windows 2000. Version 2.10 does not install on my system (without error), so I believe version 1.33 is required.

Regardless of which version is required/(works), the script itself is broken under Windows 2000.

Edited by BlackholeForever, 09 June 2008 - 02:34 AM.