![]() ![]() PETITE is the perfect tool that will help us make our SFX file smaller.ġ) Run the file PETGUI.EXE and open your SFX file.Ģ) Uncheck “All non icon/version-info…”, check “Backup”, and set the compression to Level 9.ĮDIT: UPX'S compression is better. Because the bigger your SFX file, the bigger SFX archive you will have. You have to make your SFX file as small as possible. Here are some pictures to help you follow the instructions if you are lost. Clck “Action Replace Bitmap” and replace the default bitmap. Click “Action Replace Icon” to replace the stock icon.ģ)ĝo the same thing with the bitmap. Please note that you CANNOT use the Default.SFX of a GUI patched version of WinRAR.Ģ) Open your SFX file with ResHack. Just in case you don’t know, this file is actually an EXE with the. Or you can just download the file at the bottom of this page. ![]() Or if you have WinRAR installed on your system, you can get that file from your. Axialis Icon Workshop – to edit your icons (you can use other softwares if you want)ġ)Ğxtract the file “Default.SFX from the original WinRAR installer and rename it to WHATEVER.SFX.PETITE – to compress the EXE OR UPX which has a better compression (Thanks to RyanVM for introducing UPX).Banner (24bit bitmap, 93x302, and as small as possible).Default.SFX (Download at the bottom of this page.).By the way, I would like to thank sixpack for giving me the idea of working with SFX files. In that way, you can help me learn from my mistakes, and discover new things. If you have any suggestions or corrections, please let me know. This is what I’ve learned from my experience. You can do this if you wan’t to have a custom look on your repacked SFX’s. So if you wan’t to create your custom installer of Nero (Please visit SiMoNsAyS' guide) and you still wan’t to make your installer look like the original, this is the best way to do it. But the SFX window has a Nero banner on it and the EXE has a custom Nero icon. As we all know, Nero uses WinRAR to compress it’s setup files. A good example of a customized SFX is Nero. Plenty of theme documentation labels out the framework of themeing in MIUI, it's quite fantastic.Hacking WinRAR SFX for customized installers - INTENDED FOR BEGINNERSĬreating a customized look for your WinRAR SFX archives is a very easy task, but not all people know how to do it. ![]() Good Luck, and let me know if you have any further questions. If you are to re-post your setup make sure you give credit to anyone's work that is to be included. Apply it to just the icons, or apply the entire theme, it's up to you. Finally push it to the /MIUI/theme folder, open it in theme manager. Delete anything else that doesn't pertain to the icons (unless you want the other theme styling too). It shouldn't be too difficult to figure it out, once it's opened. Make sure you edit the description.xml file with a text editor. Make sure they're sized right, and whammy. Icons packs are all over the web, check deviantart or to figure that out(or just take the icons from the theme you want). You can take apart a big theme mtz to see how this is accomplished (Just open with winrar/winzip, it's really that easy). If you read up on how a theme structure looks like within a zip file you can accurately replace app icons based on the of app. Not a missing feature, maybe just unknown. ![]()
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