I'll read it with attention (also due to mother-tongue issue) and I'll do other trials in order to increase my (little) knowledge about S.A.D.!
However my firts attempt with S.A.D. has been very interesting and impressive (yes, uncompressed folders).

Btw: I will search for Warmsnow's post too...

SAD ported to fast media wins.
DVD are slow.

Let's suppose you do this.
You look in hardware manager, detail, find the HWID, copy that, paste it in a txt search and run it across the uncompressed D\ folder content.

You may find more than one result. (it will also show you why it takes XP so long to search a CDROM and all other MRU folders.)

now, here's the beauty of DPinst.
You can run it off thumbsticks.

When you run DPinst run it across the uncompressed D\ folder content it will search recursively through all folders and subfolders, and it will also do the same 'balancing" act minisetup does in order to find the better PnP driver. (it weighs them)
So, you can uncompress all with 7zip, and then you would have over 1600 Mb of drivers in D\subdirs... and run DPinst.exe

BUT, the DPinst cmd tool on the source you built will handle a few special exceptions.
(the 'few' exceptions we write will launch a SFX and that can make a big difference.)

there are VERY few SFX, tho, which means a good many get installed properly without our magic.
OH,
OverFlow mentioned we should most likely get rid of SFX files anyhow.
How we will do it (and do we do it for all of them?) gets decided in the near future.

The cmd DriverPacks BASE puts on the source was triggered by an idea warmsnow had.
Warmsnow wrote his version to do this without using DriverPacks BASE.

please at least attempt to find stuff on your own

You are right, but really I was googleing my search and it had pointed me on your quoted post... then I do not connected the "SAD disc (Stand Alone Driver) - A DriverPacks Drivers Only CD / DVD guide" title in the FAQ with my search itself...
Thank you for your quick reply, really is very easy to obtain a SAD disk.

Let me ask another question: with "DPINST.exe" is very simple to automatically update all drivers on a machine, and on the other hand with "\D" folder burned on CD/DVD then I can select one single device and then I can point device manager to search for "Search removable media"...

How can I do the same thing (one single device updateing) if I copy the "D" sub-folder on an USB Flash Drive?

Thank you in advance, again!

but here is the description / how to...

http://forum.driverpacks.net/viewtopic. … 159#p20159

Have a great day and welcome to the forum

PS (it is stickied in the FAQ forum... please at least attempt to find stuff on your own)

So what we have after all the smoke and mirrors is a way to install DriverPacks on any system (BlackBox) at any time.
(you could even add it to your logon script and update your drivers every day - tee hee) 

THE SCRIPT IS \OEM\DP_Install_Tool.cmd (or \$OEM$\$1\DP_Install_Tool.cmd for M1)

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It's a one click solution to update ANY win2k winxp or win2k3 box with the DriverPacks!
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Hi all!
I'm a DP newbie (although I've already integrated some DriverPacks in XP SP3 Install CD-ROM with success) and now I'm interesting in DP integration on existing XP SP3 installation: if I'm not wrong in this thread you are just talking about that... but I would like to be pointed in right direction because I do not well-understand how to do.
I think DP is a great project and I thank you so much for your efforts.
Also many thanks in advance for any suggestion about topic that will be very appreciated!

drop your install disk in a machine and double click on
\OEM\DP_Install_Tool.cmd

it will update every device in that machine against the driverpacks and run the finisher
if the KTD setttings are enabled on your disk it will also add that when the finisher runs.

more about this in the how to make a drivers only CD topic ( S.A.D. makes us happy! ) =P

We have had a hundred requests for this feature...

You are the FIRST one to notice it is now included...

and it looks like you tested it, and it worked for you, and you reported.

AWESOME! Thanks for posting! 

PS it is cool...

Actually, I didn't test it, I was just 'saying' that it's a nice feature to have.

The reason I am posting is to ask 'how' I can actually acomplish this...

I 'somewhat' managed to get this working by editing presetup.cmd to extract the packs, then invoking the fininisher to create the PNF's. From there, I would uninstall all unknown devices in my system and reboot. Then, devices would be found by the hardware installation wizard.

But this doesn't necessarily update all drivers for all hardware, just the ones that were unknown. I still have to manually invoke 'update driver' on already known hardware and then an updated driver would be chosen.

I am assuming there is another way?

I belive i am supposed to populate each of them with english when i create a new gui item.
I belived english would be substituted if it was not found in a current lng file.
now i know better...

PS i just thought of a good reason to not add gui items there is like 20 language files... lol

("It's just one button - how hard can it be" grrr...)

Ps did you mean to post this elsewhere ??? it seems OT?

edit >> today Jeff and I went through the translation files and we saw the reason for the translation error pop-up in many of them.

I'd think so.

A lot of Translators haven't updated their files lately (including myself with a long-time delay...).
Thing is, there we quite some changes (new entries) to the LNG files, however, there never was an official announcement send out to the translators.
Now, I did catch news of this because I try to read all of the forum posts (Mod duty), so I noticed the complaints, plus, I was notified by two users via my contact details from my forum profile.

While there is info given about any Translator in the about section, either no one has taken the task to notify them (don't be shy, I'm sure they'll be glad to be told about it!) or they just aren't around anymore.
As there wasn't much to translate for a long time, many probably became lurkers or don't read the forum regularly at all and simply forgot about their "job" (which mainly was thought to be a one-time task anyway).

While I do parle un peut Français, I'd rather not try messing with the LNG file as it would probably turn out to sound too Germanesque, scarring some Frenchmen away

So, either try getting in touch with the original Translator or just edit the file yourself.
I'd suggest contacting an Admin if you want to become a new/additional Translator for a langauge and I doubt any of the old Translators do mind continuing to work on their file if they do not reply to your request within one week (whows they either lost interest or are busy otherwise).

The issues I've seen with the Sigmatel driver and others were generally for computers from about 2003 to 2005. What happens is the inf file references a couple of Windows' own inf files which are used to identify some files from the Windows multimedia subsystem that the driver needs. Somehow when using dpinst or even my own tool that used DIFxAPI, those windows files were not found and the driver's installation failed half way through. Retrying dpinst would fix the problem, but it never worked for me during the finalization of my unattended install.

I wrote a tool some months ago that fixed the problem by copying those files to the driver's preinstallation directory but I had a slight accident with my partition and lost all the source. Now I pretty much finished rewriting its core and improving it but it needs to go through some cleanup. After that I'll have no problems giving you guys a copy of the source. God knows the driverpacks saved me hours so it's only fair.

I had hoped another team member would build the pack with that file, and it has not happened yet.
But, I am seriously interested in the work you did, because we recently learned that the scanners we use are not perfect, and you could help?
(for instance, the graphics drivers.. when I use spotlightutility05.exe scan tool on Nvidia, I get zero output. )

abdou
I have also problem with french translation,I think its not complete because I have an error when i choose it and apply and clique NEXT...

(I don't know about the French translation.. I looked at the dutch today and considered it superb, but don't know if the french translator caught on to all the changes.)
(the pop up bug exists.. is this for bugtracker??)

edit >> today Jeff and I went through the translation files and we saw the reason for the translation error pop-up in many of them.