extract32/64 installer options

[The-Lone-Funman]

Love the updates and fixes in the pre-releases, miss the msi installer extract32 extract64 installation options, which helps greatly in creating portable installations -- and hope these options are added back in the future. Thanks for all the hard (and tedious) work keeping Open-Shell-Menu current!

[ge0rdi]

Hmm, extract32/extract64 command line options work for me as usual.
Running OpenShellSetup_4_4_187.exe extract64 does extract 64bit MSI.

[The-Lone-Funman]

Thankyou for your reply! Yes, I just re-downloaded it and it does work! I got the previous 4.4.187 download from MajorGeeks (hadn't known there had been any updates since 4.4.170 till I saw it there), and extract32 and extract64 not only didn't work, they weren't even in the command line switches pop-up help...

[ge0rdi]

I got the previous 4.4.187 download from MajorGeeks

Please, always download from original source, which is Github in case of Open-Shell.
We cannot guarantee that other sites provide our files in exactly the same way as we do.

they weren't even in the command line switches pop-up help

They are not listed and never were.

[The-Lone-Funman]

Please, always download from original source, which is Github in case of Open-Shell. We cannot guarantee that other sites provide our files in exactly the same way as we do.

Yes it's not something I normally do, it was just the version update that I hadn't seen here as the pre-release versions aren't listed on the main page, and I thought someone had perhaps picked it up and created a fork to add something, and wanted to investigate...

They are not listed and never were.

They sure appear to be for me, in all the versions I've downloaded here including 4.4.170 and 4.4.187 (launch the installer with parameter /? and see for yourself):

I hope there's no intent to remove this, there were quite a few people that were pleased when it was added and/or documented on the original Classic Shell site and forums...

[ge0rdi]

They sure appear to be for me, in all the versions

Ah, sorry. I must have mixed it with something else I guess.

I hope there's no intent to remove this

There are no such plans AFAIK.

[The-Lone-Funman]

I think the confusion, and I've done this too, is if you launch with /h or /? you get a different set of parameters. Thanks for replying!

[ge0rdi]

Right.
Open-Shell setup recognizes help and /? parameters and then displays its help window.
/h is not recognized and thus passed to msiexec that displays its help window.

I guess it would make sense to add /h and /help command line parameters to our setup to prevent such confusion in the future.