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1. Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Friday, 09-Feb-2024 08:10:59 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

   ugh. I still need that retro-search engine. I'm trying to look up how to set up a windows service, and I google it hoping the result will be somewhat applicable for NT4

   NOPE! it tells me to run an NT app

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Friday, 09-Feb-2024 08:15:05 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     or I could use powershell!

     on NT4!

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Friday, 09-Feb-2024 08:16:57 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     this does seem to be the answer, btw: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/troubleshoot/windows-client/deployment/create-user-defined-service

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Friday, 09-Feb-2024 08:19:35 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     why does the NT4 SDK have a sample about how to apply ACLs to your floppy drives?

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Friday, 09-Feb-2024 08:26:31 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     I grabbed the NT4 SDK instead of the NT4 Resource Kit, not to be confused with the NT4 DDK.

     confusing

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Friday, 09-Feb-2024 12:55:38 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     now onto the next step, the thing where the answer to "how do I do this?" is "don't do that".

     I have to extract the registration of some COM objects from a windows registry so I can figure out how to re-register them elsewhere

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Friday, 09-Feb-2024 12:56:58 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     you, rightly, should never ever do this.
     you should instead use the installer that registers them in the first place.

     but I don't have the installer. it's possible the installer doesn't exist anymore in this plane of existence, and unless I find a time machine to 1997, I won't be able to get the installer.
     
     so I gotta extract the registration from the existing machine

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Friday, 09-Feb-2024 13:29:44 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • Peaceful Assembly Robot
     • Jonathon 📸

     @jonathon @StompyRobot sadly not. it's doing some weird mix of 32bit and 16bit and using EXEs instead of DLLs so nope

   • Jonathon 📸 (jonathon@masto.ai)'s status on Friday, 09-Feb-2024 13:29:45 JST Jonathon 📸

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     • Peaceful Assembly Robot

     @StompyRobot @foone If all the installer did was register the COM components, I'd expect regsvr32 to do what you need-- maybe with /i to call DllInstall (but whether you need that or not is going to vary from component to component-- try without first).

     If there's other stuff the installer did than just copy DLLs and register them, that's going to be tricker, obviously.

   • Peaceful Assembly Robot (stompyrobot@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Friday, 09-Feb-2024 13:29:46 JST Peaceful Assembly Robot

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     @foone don't most com components support self registration by invoking them on the command line with the /register option?
     Or maybe that was regsvr32?
     It's been too long :-)