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Ell
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 Exe shrinker Hi all Is there any good EXE shrinker out there.
Warm regards
Elli
CW5peB,TPS,Legacy , win98
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| Tue, 23 Mar 2004 04:10:53 GMT |
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Robert A. Heal
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Exe shrinker Neo Lite by NeoWorx..... http://www.neoworx.com/ Works on EXE's & DLL's makes them much smaller, run faster and makes it
impossible to reverse engineer them.
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Bob Healy
Matrix Information Systems
www.softwarebymatrix.com
Quote: > Hi all > Is there any good EXE shrinker out there.
> Warm regards
> Elli
> CW5peB,TPS,Legacy , win98
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| Tue, 23 Mar 2004 04:06:32 GMT |
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Ron Schofiel
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Exe shrinker The following was posted on August 17,2000 by Friedrich Linder..
In my opinion it is *NOT* a good idea to shrink 32-bit EXEs and DLLs.
Having a smaller EXE seems to be an advantage but then your application
requires *MORE* memory!
When you start a 32-bit program on Windows 95/98 or NT/2000, the OS
does not load everything into memory to keep it there until the
program terminates. Windows only loads what is needed and it frees the
memory, if another application needs (more) memory.
But if you use a "shrinker" software then all the code is directly
loaded (decompressed) into the memory. The Windows paging system does
not work on shrinked apps and it is also no longer possible to share
code between multiple instances. This is not very cool.
Try to start multiple instances of the same (shrinked) app and tell me
what's going on with your system memory ;-)
JAT
Friedrich
Also, any person who is capable of reverse engineering can take the
decompressed image in memory and save it, then work on that uncompressed
image of your EXE or DLL. There is very little increase in speed on
network machines and actually slower to start on a standalone machine as
it needs to be decompressed before use.
Ron
Quote:
> Hi all > Is there any good EXE shrinker out there.
> Warm regards
> Elli
> CW5peB,TPS,Legacy , win98
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| Tue, 23 Mar 2004 04:33:27 GMT |
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James Cook
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Exe shrinker Thats pretty interesting. --
Kind regards,
James Cooke
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Quote: > The following was posted on August 17,2000 by Friedrich Linder..
> In my opinion it is *NOT* a good idea to shrink 32-bit EXEs and DLLs.
> Having a smaller EXE seems to be an advantage but then your application
> requires *MORE* memory!
> When you start a 32-bit program on Windows 95/98 or NT/2000, the OS
> does not load everything into memory to keep it there until the
> program terminates. Windows only loads what is needed and it frees the
> memory, if another application needs (more) memory.
> But if you use a "shrinker" software then all the code is directly
> loaded (decompressed) into the memory. The Windows paging system does
> not work on shrinked apps and it is also no longer possible to share
> code between multiple instances. This is not very cool.
> Try to start multiple instances of the same (shrinked) app and tell me
> what's going on with your system memory ;-)
> JAT
> Friedrich
> Also, any person who is capable of reverse engineering can take the
> decompressed image in memory and save it, then work on that uncompressed
> image of your EXE or DLL. There is very little increase in speed on
> network machines and actually slower to start on a standalone machine as
> it needs to be decompressed before use.
> Ron
> > Hi all
> > Is there any good EXE shrinker out there.
> > Warm regards
> > Elli
> > CW5peB,TPS,Legacy , win98
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| Tue, 23 Mar 2004 05:07:17 GMT |
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Ell
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Exe shrinker Ron In intent to use this for a 3 procedure app that gets E-mailed with
compressed WMF's , so the EXE size matters a bit , but under normal
circumstances i really cant seee the purpose for shrinking EXE's
On Thu, 04 Oct 2001 17:33:27 -0300, Ron Schofield
Quote:
>The following was posted on August 17,2000 by Friedrich Linder..
>In my opinion it is *NOT* a good idea to shrink 32-bit EXEs and DLLs.
>Having a smaller EXE seems to be an advantage but then your application
>requires *MORE* memory!
> When you start a 32-bit program on Windows 95/98 or NT/2000, the OS
>does not load everything into memory to keep it there until the
>program terminates. Windows only loads what is needed and it frees the
>memory, if another application needs (more) memory.
> But if you use a "shrinker" software then all the code is directly
>loaded (decompressed) into the memory. The Windows paging system does
>not work on shrinked apps and it is also no longer possible to share
>code between multiple instances. This is not very cool.
> Try to start multiple instances of the same (shrinked) app and tell me
>what's going on with your system memory ;-)
> JAT
> Friedrich
>Also, any person who is capable of reverse engineering can take the
>decompressed image in memory and save it, then work on that uncompressed
>image of your EXE or DLL. There is very little increase in speed on
>network machines and actually slower to start on a standalone machine as
>it needs to be decompressed before use.
>Ron
>> Hi all
>> Is there any good EXE shrinker out there.
>> Warm regards
>> Elli
>> CW5peB,TPS,Legacy , win98
Warm regards Elli
CW5peB,TPS,Legacy , win98
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| Tue, 23 Mar 2004 05:24:02 GMT |
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Russell B. Egge
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Exe shrinker Use LinderSoft's compressor for packaging. Then it will be no problem. --
Russ
"My spell checker makes it read more better"
Ron
In intent to use this for a 3 procedure app that gets E-mailed with
compressed WMF's , so the EXE size matters a bit , but under normal
circumstances i really cant seee the purpose for shrinking EXE's
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| Tue, 23 Mar 2004 07:49:37 GMT |
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Darron C Pitma
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Exe shrinker Eli, Aspack - works a treat been using it for a few years and its cheap toooo
http://www.aspack.com
Quote: > Hi all > Is there any good EXE shrinker out there.
> Warm regards
> Elli
> CW5peB,TPS,Legacy , win98
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| Tue, 23 Mar 2004 07:55:50 GMT |
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Carlos Gutierre
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Exe shrinker One of the best, and free: http://wildsau.idv.uni-linz.ac.at/mfx/upx.html
http://upx.sourceforge.net/
Quote: > Hi all > Is there any good EXE shrinker out there.
> Warm regards
> Elli
> CW5peB,TPS,Legacy , win98
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| Tue, 23 Mar 2004 09:29:47 GMT |
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Ron
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Exe shrinker I have found UPX to sometimes be troublesome. Ron E
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> http://wildsau.idv.uni-linz.ac.at/mfx/upx.html
> http://upx.sourceforge.net/
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| Tue, 23 Mar 2004 10:02:53 GMT |
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Ben E. Brad
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Exe shrinker I have been using NeoLite for about 2 years on all of my Clarion applications without any problems whatsoever. They have a new product that has just been released called NeoLock which has all of the functionality of NeoLite as well as password protection and encryption for the application. I am currently testing it. www.neoworx.com
Ben E. Brady
Brady & Associates, LLC.
Quote: > Hi all > Is there any good EXE shrinker out there.
> Warm regards
> Elli
> CW5peB,TPS,Legacy , win98
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