Iexpress in All Language

For all international developers I have prepared Iexpress tools in all Windows 95, 98 and Me languages as they are specified at http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/referen...locversion.mspx

The zip file contains:
ADVPACK.DLL 6.00.2800.1106 - localized
IEXPRESS.EXE 6.00.2800.1106 - localized to 10 languages only: Brazilian, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese and Spanish.
MAKECAB.EXE 5.1.2600.1106 - always US English
W95INF16.DLL 4.71.704.0 - always US English
W95INF32.DLL 4.71.0016.0 - always US English
WEXTRACT.EXE 6.00.2800.1168 - localized

Most files are from ieak6sp1 for the specific language, wextract.exe is taken from MS updates, some languages has been added (Basque, Catalan, Slovak, Slovenian), some were corrected (Greek wextract.exe).

I hope everything will be OK:

Arabic
Basque
Brazilian
Catalan
Chinese (Simplified)
Chinese (Traditional)
Chinese (Hong Kong) - I never seen any Hong Kong version of IE or update
Czech
Danish
Dutch
English
Finnish
French
German
Greek
Hebrew
Hungarian
Italian
Japanese
Korean
Norwegian
Polish
Portuguese
Russian
Slovak
Slovenian
Spanish
Swedish
Turkish
Vietnamese - I never seen any Vietnamese version of IE or update

Enabled Windows 9x versions (Arabic, Hebrew, Thai) use US English version of Iexpress.

Installation instructions: Just unpack to any folder, add this folder to the path for your convenience, it is not necessary.

mirror for all files above [4.58 MB, single ZIP]:
http://www.mdgx.com/files/IEXPRS60.ZIP
INF/SED/Iexpress info, guides + tools:
http://www.mdgx.com/add.htm#INF

Also, when you have time, try the new IEAK 6.0 SP3 [from XP SP3 = all available languages]:
IEAK6SP3.ZIP (4.11 MB).
I've tested it extensively, and so far works 100%. This is the build I'm using now for all my IExpress-based installers. Works also under Vista, 2008 + 7, if the fix was created under 9x/NTx [95, 98, ME, NT4, 2000, XP or 2003].

The only catch with newer Vista, 2008 + 7 IEAK 7/8/9 is:
installers created under Vista/2008/7 do *not* work under older 9x/NTx [95, 98, ME, NT4, 2000, XP, 2003] OSes.
[I'm sure there is a way to bypass this limitation, eventually a little known compatibility mode, but I need to install Win7 to experiment further.]

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This is (presumably) your first time using iexpress, we’ll select the first option and click Next.

The next screen will ask you the type of package you want it to create.
iExpress can create a package that runs a command after it unpacks all files to a temporary location, or only extract the files to a location that the user specifies. The first option is useful if you want to, for example, run a script to make changes to the registry before the user runs your program for the first time.
There is a third option to create compressed files only but that is only applicable if you’re distributing Active-X controls. iExpress displays a handy description below each option so you can read that if you’re still not sure which about which option to select.

The next step is to give a name to the package that you’ll create. Enter the name in the text box and move to the next screen.

This step will let you display a confirmation message to the user installing the application. If you want to display a message to your user asking for confirmation if he/she wants to go ahead with the installation, then type in a message in the text box provided and when you’re done click Next.

Now, you will be able to select a license agreement which the installer will ask the user to adhere to. If you have a license agreement for your application, then type it in a text file and provide that here or else select the “Do not display a license“� option and move on.

This is where you actually select the files that will be installed by the installer that you’re creating. You can select as many files as you want here. Add files to the list by clicking on the Add button.

Now, you can safely move forward a few steps and keep clicking on the next button till you come across the Package name and options screen. This is where you select a name for the actual EXE file that gets generated and decide whether you want to hide the extraction process from your users or let them see all the gory details. You can also generate a log files for the installation process.

In the next step you can choose to create what iExpress calls a Self Extraction Directive file. This is needed if you want to later change some of the options that you chose and create another modified installer. Since, we don’t want that right now, we’ll choose not to create an SED file.
That’s it.  iExpress will now go ahead and create an EXE file for you. Wasn’t that easy?
What other tools do you prefer to make exe files?