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-=- How to make an updated NET 4 Framework installer (Client version is explained, but same goes for the Extended version) -=-


1. Download the following:

* SoLoR's prepped NET4 package:
http://hotfix.chris123nt.com/Windows.7/A…Full_x86_x64.7z

* Latest NET4 updates:
x64 Client: http://hotfix.chris123nt.com/Windows.7/A…xes_Client_x64/
x86 Client: http://hotfix.chris123nt.com/Windows.7/A…xes_Client_x86/

* Ricktendo's pre-made .mst slimmers:
http://www.mediafire.com/?99h1jj6k8f9pq13

* InstEd It!:
http://apps.instedit.com/releases2/InstEd-1.5.12.21.msi

* Universal Extractor:
http://www.ryanvm.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=8201

* Ricktendo's "Silent Switch Maker":
http://www.mediafire.com/?ltlyta8l5mh3ev4 ('config.txt' file already configured)

2. After extracting SoLoR's prepped NET4 archive, place the NET4 .msp updates in the "Hotfixes_Client_x64" and "Hotfixes_Client_x86" folders, and place Ricktendo's .mst slimmers in the NET4 package main folder.

3. Run "ApplyHotfixes.cmd". This will integrate all the NET4 .msp updates and generate new .msi's ("netfx_Core_x64.msi" and "netfx_Core_x86.msi").

4. Install InstEd It! if you hadn't already, and open "netfx_core_x64.mst" (you can do this by double-clicking the .mst file after InstEd It! is installed). An "Select Base File" dialogue will appear, whereupon you will select and open the "netfx_Core_x64.msi". You then click "Transform" from the menu bar, and click, "Save transformed." Just name the new .msi you will now save differently (as you cannot overwrite the original .msi's), something like: "netfx_Core_x64-NEW.msi" or what have you. Do the same with the "netfx_core_x86.mst" and save the x86 msi with a different name as well.

5. You can now delete the original msi's ("netfx_Core_x64.msi" and "netfx_Core_x86.msi") and give your new .msi's these names to avoid confusion and to tidy everything back up.

6. Now you're ready to do an MSI administrative install of both the "netfx_Core_x64.msi" and the "netfx_Core_x86.msi", using the program called "Universal Extractor." Open the x64 msi with Universal Extractor and choose the "MSI Administrative Installer" option, which will create a folder called, "netfx_Core_x64" which now contains your newly updated NET4 x64 files. After this (or before, order doesn't matter) open the x86 msi with Universal Extractor and do the same thing, which will create a folder called, "netfx_Core_x86", which will contain your newly updated NET4 x86 files.

Now, since the x64 NET4 files contain all the x86 counterparts as well, we do not need any of the x86 folder's files, except for the x86 MSI (netfx_Core_x86\netfx_Core_x86.msi). Get this x86 msi and place it in the newly created "netfx_Core_x64" folder, which already contains the "netfx_Core_x64.msi" file as well. So the content of the "netfx_Core_x64" folder now looks like this:

ProgramFilesFolder
Windows
netfx_Core_x64.msi
netfx_Core_x86.msi

7. Select the above (2 folders, 2 msi's) and create a .7z archive out of it with 7-zip (give it any name). You now have your updated NET4 archived.

8. Use Ricktendo's "Silent Switch Maker" app to create a silent installer from your updated and archived NET 4. Unrar Silent Switch Maker and configure the "config.txt" file inside of it as follows:

;!@Install@!UTF-8!
RunProgram="x86:netfx_Core_x86.msi"
RunProgram="x64:netfx_Core_x64.msi"
GUIMode="2"
;!@InstallEnd@!

Save the config.txt file.

This code will cause the .msi with the appropriate architecture to run (dependent on the architeture of the OS you are using).

After having configured and saved the "config.txt" file as indicated above, select and drag your updated NET4 .7z archive and drop it on the "drag&drop_on_me.bat" file, and your silent NET4 installer will automatically be created.


You now have an updated and silent NET4 Framework Client dual-architecture installer.