I've been installing many PC's all at once and I found that installing ppGames took the longest, so I decided to compress the X:\ppGames folder and make the Start Menu into a SFX, then I run Regenerator post extraction to make the ppGames function. here are the results... Looks like I'll be done a LOT faster working on these PC's in the future: 13.4GB Compressed ppGames AIO, Uncompressed 21.8GB: USB3: 5:32 - 6.06 - 34 minutes 7:15 - 7.17 - 2 minutes USB2: 7:57 - 8:08 (Extracted) 8:12 - done 14 Minutes 8:17 - 9:25 - Done 68 Minutes So what I am saying is the overhead of working with a large collection of ppGames (or even ppApps) it would be much quicker to combine them into an Essentials pack, rather than being at least 5 times slower (on USB 2, and on USB3, the speed difference between using ssWPI/SetupS and just using a script to extract a 7z is just insane. Keep this in mind for your own projects, if your going to be choosing the same items over and over again.
How to replicate my results... x:\AllInstallppGames\ contents: Code: _x64 _x86 Default Menus AllInstallppGames.cmd Category.ini GamesShortcuts.exe MenuDefaults.ini ppGames.7z Regenerator.exe SetupS.exe SetupS_x64.exe SetupScp.exe ssConfig.ini ssControlPanel.exe ssControlPanel_x64.exe ssCP.exe ssRegen.exe ssRegenerator.exe ssRegenerator_x64.exe ssTek.chm ssUpdate.ini SystemIconRefresh.exe I copied the content of ssWPI\Tools from the LastOS's into a folder, I then compressed with 7z set to Fastest compression the whole D:\ppGames folder and copied that into the new folder as ppGames.7z GamesShortcut.exe is a winrar sfx: Code: ;The comment below contains SFX script commands Path=C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs Silent=1 Overwrite=1 The content of the archive is my "C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\- Games" folder. AllInstallppGames.cmd Code: @echo off cd /D %~dp0 _x64\7z x ppGames.7z -oD:\ -aoa GamesShortcuts.exe ssRegenerator -ppGames -AllDrives=Yes -TrayOnly
In theory you could combine the contents into a SetupS app, say a AIO ppGame. but as this saves so much time, I don't mind manually running it so I can choose it if I want to.
