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    Can anyone try to decode this file?

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by lloco73, Oct 29, 2010.

  1. lloco73

    lloco73 Notebook Consultant

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    Hi there

    For those digging inside the preload folder of your acer notebook you might allready crossed with a bunch of files with extension .enc. Well these files are xml encoded files with install instructions for all the stuff preloaded with your notebook.

    Take an example:
    You bought your notebook and made the recovery DVDs (1 or 2 for the OS and one with drivers). Let's see the drivers one. When you insert it it appears a windows with the option to choose drivers and documents.
    As you all know drivers that come with notebooks are not the latest ones, so if you choose to update the driver on dvd (let's say make a updated new one) you will see that if you delete that enc file on a folder it will not show on de dvd autorun window or if you update the driver on the folder and burn a new cd the driver number version is the old one and not the updated one.

    Well my question is can anyone decode and reencode this *.enc file to/from a xml one?
    I attached a sample from my notebook to see if anyone can investigate.

    The possibility of doing this is to update the drivers cd with the latest drivers.

    Cheers
     

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