[missing-sync-pocketpc-talk] Installation of Files with Missing Sync (New version)

[Christopher Wall]

There is a utility called cabextract - your mileage may vary, but it can
pull out cabs from exes on most things I've run across.

http://www.kyz.uklinux.net/cabextract.php

Good luck

On Sat, 2005-06-25 at 10:20 -0500, Mike Deleon wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> Here's my biggest gripe so far with owning a PocketPC.. Installing  
> programs!  For whatever reason, active sync won't install on Virtual  
> PC (It always hangs on something called 'microsoft' at 92%  
> completion).  So I can't get at the .exe files to find what I need to  
> install.
> 
> I was successfully able to get Mapopolis on for my GPS needs (Thank  
> god I could do that) - All I had to do was install the voices  
> manually which was easy enough.
> 
> Essentially, only vendors who could get me a .cab worked.  When I try  
> the .exe thing, it's a no go since most of the time, it needs  
> activesync installed.  Places like handango usually have .exe files.   
> Sigh...
> 
> I don't know what to do!  Currently, I'm trying to check out SPB  
> Pocket Plus 2.5 and I've already contacted them for a .cab file but  
> no reply yet (sent yesterday afternoon).  I want to try out some  
> games on the PPC just to see how the quality is compared to my Treo  
> 650 and well, all .exe installers... Why do they make them  
> installable only from windows?  There should just be a pocketpc type  
> of installer so you just sync that file over (like the .cab), tap on  
> it on PPC and boom, it installs.  How does everyone here get their  
> programs installed?  Oh yeah, I want to upgrade my ROM too... I guess  
> I can't... Is using a friends computer okay (I'd want to do so  
> without putting my personal info on his/her computer through  
> synching) - perhaps in a guest mode just for installing?  In that  
> case, I can just bring my USB microdrive with the .exe files on them.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> Mike
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