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Alienware M17x R2 HotFix for Windows 7

Discussion in 'Alienware 17 and M17x' started by GxGaNi, Feb 13, 2011.

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Hello everyone,

I was planning to work on a project on an Installer for Summing all Stuffs like Resetting Avatar, LoginScreen Background, Settings, and stuff.

I noticed in my Recovery partition that, there is a Hotfix folder, and in my Order Bill too. Like "Win7 Patch". Anyone knows where could i get the executable ?

Cause the folder having hotfixes is .CAB files. Tried using "pkgmgr.exe" to install them, but some install and some don't.

So any clues ?

PS: Random thoughts about Windows 7 SP1 ~~

GxGaNi, Feb 13, 2011

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beelsr Notebook Consultant

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you can look inside CAB and MSI files with 7zip.

LessMSI can also look into MSI and some CABs as well.

maybe there's a readme in there. i don't recall installing any alienware-win7 patch so I couldn't say if it's required...

beelsr, Feb 13, 2011

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I am pretty sure there is a Hotfix release for Windows 7. Fixing some common issues. I indeed looked into the cabs, CABs can only be installed with Windows pkgmgr. otherwise all you see is encrypted data

GxGaNi, Feb 14, 2011

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