• BurnAware Free 4.5
• BurnAware Free 4.5 Spanish
• GPU-Z 0.5.8
• MediaInfo 0.7.53
• MediaInfo x64 0.7.53
• PDF-XChange Viewer 2.5.201
• uTorrent 3.1.0.26671
• uTorrent x64 3.1.0.26671

The uTorrent x64 installer is not the native 64-bit version. I just labeled it like that because it’s configured for people on Windows x64 because the path to store .torrent files and downloads are inside the Program files (x86) folder.

You can download them in the Custom Installers main page.

I haven’t had the time to add website links and notes for each of my installers, but I plan to do so this weekend.

Also, I just finished rewriting the old iTunes without QuickTime page. It is now called just iTunes and contains information about the modifications I make and some troubleshooting tips.

All comments about my iTunes installers should be posted there to keep the comments section of the main Custom Installers page for all the other applications.

I decided to write a quick guide on how to do exactly that. It’s easy and takes a couple of minutes, depending on how long you take to find or make an icon that suits your taste or skin/theme.

Finding a suitable icon

You can use any icon you want, but it has to be 16×16 in size, as all other tray icons. You can use a free icon editor to export just the size you need. My choice is Greenfish Icon Editor Pro, which is free. Open you icon, select the size 16×16, right click on it and choose Export page. Now you have your icon in a proper size.

I haven’t tried to use an icon with different sizes embedded, but if you do and it works, please let us know in the comments and I will update this little guide.

The icon can be anywhere you want, but I recommend using the default path for skins, which is C:\Users\YourUserProfile\Documents\Rainmeter\Skins.

I use a folder inside that path called TrayIcons.

Editing Rainmeter config file

You need to add a few lines in the Rainmeter.ini file. The quickest way to access this file is to right-click on Rainmeter’s tray icon and selecting Edit settings. This will open up that file in Notepad if you don’t have any other editor installed.

Add the following lines anywhere in that file.

; Change tray icon
[TrayMeasure]
Measure=CALC
TrayMeter=BITMAP
TrayBitmap=TrayIcons\YourIcon.ico

The first line is a comment. You can use ; as a comment delimiter to keep track of your changes.

That’s it. Save the file, right-click Rainmeter’s tray icon and select Refresh all.

The new tray icon should be displayed.

Here’s how mine looks like right now:

There are other free apps (or even websites) that can do this, but this is the fastest and simplest I have found. Give it a try.

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The updated installers this time are Maxthon, MKVToolnix and Notepad++. Read a few notes about them after the break.Remember that MKVToolnix has header compression disabled by default and my installer includes MKVExtractGUI to extract any kind of track inside MKV files.

My Notepad++ installer now comes with a new theme and font (Consolas) by default, which I use everyday because of the legibility and contrast of a black theme. I hope you like too, but it’s easy to change it to something else if you prefer a white background or other color scheme. The Consolas font is recommend even if you change the color scheme. Try it.

The Custom Installers page is still missing things like a general description of what they are and links to application websites, but I will add them this week. There’s still some stuff to do with the design, but I’m working hard at it to focus solely on having some of the old content back.

I hope you enjoyed the holidays with family and friends.

For this tutorial, I will show you how to modify Freemake Video Downloader to delete some shortcuts and to prevent the installation of Firefox and Google Chrome extensions. Remember that this is being made to suit my personal needs. You may want to delete shortcuts and preserve the extensions. It’s up to you.

Extracting the files

The first thing to do in order to edit the installation files is to extract the files. For this, I use Universal Extractor, which can be downloaded in the Custom Installers page. My installer always includes the latest version of Innounp, which needs to be updated from time to time when new versions of Inno Setup are used in the installer you want to modify.

Open Universal Extractor and select the installer you want to extract and the folder you want to use. After that, you will have a hierarchy like this in Windows Explorer:

Editing the .ISS script

The .iss file is the Inno Setup script. To edit this file you need to install Inno Setup, which comes with its own script editor. This same editor will be used to compile the new installer at the end of the tutorial. I prefer to edit the scripts in Notepad++, my favorite text editor. Open the .iss file in either Inno Setup or any other text editor.

The first thing I do when modifying Inno Setup installers, is to set an Icon file for the new setup instead of the default one. To define a new icon file, you need SetupIconFile command and the patch to the .ico file you want to use. This command need to be placed in the [Setup] section.

This is how it should look after an icon is set to be used by the compiler:

[Setup]
AppName=Freemake Video Downloader
AppVerName=Freemake Video Downloader
AppVersion=3.0.0
DefaultDirName={pf}\Freemake
DefaultGroupName=Freemake
OutputBaseFilename=Freemake Video Downloader 3.0.0.9
SetupIconFile={app}\Freemake Video Downloader\Uninstall\icon.ico
Compression=lzma
WizardImageFile=embedded\WizardImage.bmp
WizardSmallImageFile=embedded\WizardSmallImage.bmp

You can read how to modify other things and learn about variables here. I’m editing this application to remove shortcuts and browser extensions only, but feel free to customize everything else if you want to.

The next step is to edit the MinVersion variable. As this variable is set for every file in the installer, I will use Find & Replace to quickly edit this.

Make sure you replace  MinVersion: 0.0,5.01.2600 Service Pack 2 with MinVersion: 0.0,5.1.2600 or the compiler will throw an error when compiling your installer.

This particular application uses a variable to set its interface language. As I want it to be show in English regardless of the language of the computer is it being installed on, I will edit the  GetLang function in the [Registry] section.

[Registry]
Root: HKCU; Subkey: "Software\Freemake\FreemakeVideoDownloader\SystemSettings"; ValueName: "Culture"; ValueType: String; ValueData: "en-US"; MinVersion: 0.0,5.1.2600;</pre>
To remove the Firefox and Chrome extensions, you need to delete the following registry entries.
<pre>[Registry]
Root: HKLM; Subkey: "Software\Mozilla\Firefox\Extensions"; ValueName: "fmdownloader@gmail.com"; ValueType: String; ValueData: "{app}\Freemake Video Downloader\BrowserPlugin\Firefox\"; Check: "isInstallFirefoxPluginCheckboxChecked"; MinVersion: 0.0,5.1.2600; Flags: uninsdeletevalue
Root: HKLM; Subkey: "Software\Google\Chrome\Extensions\bpegkgagfojjbcpkihigfmkojdmmimdf"; ValueName: "path"; ValueType: String; ValueData: "{app}\Freemake Video Downloader\BrowserPlugin\Chrome\Freemake.Plugin.Chrome.crx"; Check: "isInstallChromePluginCheckboxChecked"; MinVersion: 0.0,5.1.2600; Flags: uninsdeletevalue
Root: HKLM; Subkey: "Software\Google\Chrome\Extensions\bpegkgagfojjbcpkihigfmkojdmmimdf"; ValueName: "version"; ValueType: String; ValueData: "1.0.0"; Check: "isInstallChromePluginCheckboxChecked"; MinVersion: 0.0,5.1.2600; Flags: uninsdeletevalue

I don’t need a shortcut on the desktop or one to uninstall the application. I will just leave one inside a Freemake folder under All programs in the Start Menu. Delete all the shortcuts you don’t want. This is how my [Icons] section looks like.

[Icons]
Name: "{group}\{cm:YTP}"; Filename: "{app}\Freemake Video Downloader\FreemakeVideoDownloader.exe"; WorkingDir: "{app}\Freemake Video Downloader"; MinVersion: 0.0,5.1.2600;

Many installers show checkboxes to perform an array things like running the installed application, placing a desktop shortcut etc. In this case, I will remove two checkboxes to prevent an error in the compiler. This needs to be done because I would need to define functions for these checkboxes to work but as I’m running it with silent switches, I don’t need them.

Search for the Check: variable and delete all the entries found. In this case, there are only two left after deleting the unneeded shortcuts: Check: “isStatCheckBoxChecked”; and Check: “not isStatCheckBoxChecked”;

Compiling the new installer

To make a new installer, you need to compile it using the edited script file. To do this, open the file in Inno Setup editor (if you used another editor, like me) and click the Compile button in the main toolbar. This command is also located in the Build menu.

You new installer will be inside the Output folder. You can then use run it with /silent /norestart switches or normally if you want.

That’s it. You can use this tutorial to edit the basic settings in the vast majority of Inno Setup installers out there.

I hope you find this useful. If you have any doubts, read the Inno Setup Help referenced earlier in this tutorial or post a comment and I will do my best to answer any questions you may have.

My best wishes. Merry Christmas!

ajua

The next stetp is to import almost all the previous content the old site had, like posts, articles and comments. However, It won’t be easy because the new theme and the newest versions of WordPress have features not available in older versions. I will try my best to import selectively the articles and posts that I consider important, along with their comments.

So, if you were looking for a particular post or article, chances are that it will be available in the next few weeks.

The new Custom Installers section is working right now, but it lacks the website information for every app. I will add it in the upcoming days, along with a few notes for each installers that will include information about what I changed or modified, the type of installer and any other info I find relevant.

I hope you will find the new site more useful. If you have any comments or suggestions, please send me a message through the Contact page.