by the way can the xp driver working with this too?

I also downloaded the newest AMD HD driver and cab'd it, and it still worked fine.  However I don't think NVidia's would work because many of the files are already cab compressed.

I will continue to test and post my results if any issues come up.

This is the latest command line I've used:

FOR /R %%X IN (*.exe, *.ax, *.dll, *.sys, *.dat, *.drv, *.rtf, *.htm, *.html, *.txt, *.xml, *.man, *.lrc, *.ico, *.inx, *.iss, *.mst, *.mui, *.nvi, *.tvp, *.oem, *.nvu, *.pop, *.pnf, *.resources, *.rfx, *.rom, *.s3, *.strings, *.svc, *.tip, *.uda, *.vxd, *.msi, *.wav, *.wmv, *.wma, *.mpg, *.avi, *.bmp, *.jpg, *.png, *.gif, *.tif, *.xsd, *.bin, *.cfg, *.config, *.cpl, *.cur, *.cpa, *.cva, *.deb, *.def, *.din, *.dir, *.ds, *.forms, *.h, *.hdr, *.hgp, *.icm, *.js, *.lib, *.lng, *.sf2, *.sfb, *.sfm, *.syn, *.tag) DO CD /D "%%~dpX"& MAKECAB /V2 "%%X"& DEL /F /Q "%%X"& ECHO %%~dpX%%X>>"%~dp0makecab.log"

FOR /R %%A IN (*.*) DO IF %%~xA NEQ ._ IF %%~xA NEQ .cmd IF %%~xA NEQ .cat IF %%~xA NEQ .ini IF %%~xA NEQ .inf IF %%~xA NEQ ._ IF %%~xA NEQ .vp IF %%~xA NEQ .cab CD /D "%%~dpA"& MAKECAB /V2 "%%A"& DEL /F /Q "%%A"& ECHO %%~dpX%%A>>"%~dp0makecab.log"

There is however one problem.  This will not exclude any files that have already been cab compressed (*.*_).  Batch IF statements don't support wildcards, so I do not know how this could be done without an external program.

So for now I will probably just stick to my previous example that won't double compress any files.

use  NOT or NE  or <>

You'll need to test a little to see which syntax works as expected.

Also used it on an older Pentium D machine, it installed 3 drivers just fine.

This is after cab'ing all files mentioned in my previous post plus *.ax files.

Please revisit my original advise.

instead of INCLUDE, do EXCLUDE. (not equal to)

and exclude these...  "_",  "AX", "VP", "CAB", "CAT", "CMD", "INF", "INI", "EXE"

I'm afraid I'm not a programming wizard and only know a little batch...  how would I do this?

instead of INCLUDE, do EXCLUDE. (not equal to)

and exclude these...  "_",  "AX", "VP", "CAB", "CAT", "CMD", "INF", "INI", "EXE"

The best news is it looks like it works just fine !

It didn't work on the 660 because the official drivers don't have support for the 660.
Check out each subforum for beta packs that have newer driver releases.
The beta driverpacks are larger as they contain more drivers.

Ah, Okay.  I'll grab those beta's and try again.  Thanks!

Rats... I was trying to make it easy for ya, sorry.

Don't bury yourself in code, keep it simple we just need proof of concept .

I can do this very easy if it works.

Does it work???

I tried it last night on a fresh install on an ASUS P8Z77-V.

It worked on every driver except the video card (NVIDIA GTX 660).  So I think some video drivers may have to be left untouched.

These are the drivers that I remember installed:  Intel USB 3.0 Controller, Asus Wifi-N PCI card, ASmedia Mini-wifi, Intel Gigabit NIC, SMBus, USB 3.0 Extensible, Creative Audigy 2 ZS, and a couple others I can't remember.

I will keep testing it on more machines, but I think it works just fine on drivers that don't require a setup.exe to run.

So maybe if Setup.exe's are excluded it would all work fine?

Don't bury yourself in code, keep it simple we just need proof of concept .

I can do this very easy if it works.

Does it work???

Actually it doesn't work, throws errors about extracting the packages.  I assume it's because of the directory names being different.

then you can see how much space is saved and test that the existing method is also valid for NT6.

and not have to write any code ...   Quick and easy

I'm trying to carve out some time for updating BASE SAD and Finisher soon. if it works with the test above then i can code it fast and easy to just do nt6 packs. i can also add and remove extensions from the list, or add exceptions for specific files / folders.
Jeff

It can process recursively if we add the "/s" switch to DIR.  However, then it dumps everything in the root directory.

I think I've come up with a script that will process all files recursively, name them correctly, and not process anything twice.  Plus I've added a log with the names of the compressed files.

@ECHO OFF
SETLOCAL ENABLEEXTENSIONS ENABLEDELAYEDEXPANSION

DEL /F /Q "%~dp0makecab.log"

CD /D "%~dp0"

FOR /R %%X IN (*.dll, *.sys, *.rtf, *.htm, *.html, *.reg, *.txt, *.xml, *.man) DO CD /D "%%~dpX"& MAKECAB /V2 "%%X"& DEL /F /Q "%%X"& ECHO %%~dpX%%X>>"%~dp0makecab.log"

ECHO.& ECHO.& ECHO Finished& ECHO.
PAUSE
ENDLOCAL

I kept the file list more conservative this time around until I can test more file types.  Also added level 2 verbosity to makecab.

Before:
http://i.imgur.com/yRki1qE.png

After:
http://i.imgur.com/DXGdNhK.png