Destination paths in Component Designer

i tried to create HP LJ4x50 printer driver component from .inf file of the
driver that came with the printer. the files it added for the component have
destination path of %66000% and %66002% - what are they, is there a list of
all path i can see?

after i built this component (my first try creating a omponent), added it to
the DB, added it to our image, build release image and installed it on the
system, i tried to add a printer with a new driver, but it asked me for the
files. it was looking for them in the c:\windows but i found them in
c:\windows\i386 . can i set the path where its looking for these file in the
component? how is it done?

thanks in advance

The %66000% path is c:\WINDOWS\system32\spool\drivers\w32x86. The file ID
numbers numbers are good.

Printers drivers are a little tricky. You need to include the help files in
order for the driver to work correctly. You enable help files in the
configuration's Settings->Other.

Regards,

Sean Liming
www.sjjmicro.com / www.seanliming.com
XP Embedded Book Author - XP Embedded Advanced, XP Embedded
SupplementalToolkit



"flamey" <flamey@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>i tried to create HP LJ4x50 printer driver component from .inf file of the
> driver that came with the printer. the files it added for the component
> have
> destination path of %66000% and %66002% - what are they, is there a list
> of
> all path i can see?
>
> after i built this component (my first try creating a omponent), added it
> to
> the DB, added it to our image, build release image and installed it on the
> system, i tried to add a printer with a new driver, but it asked me for
> the
> files. it was looking for them in the c:\windows but i found them in
> c:\windows\i386 . can i set the path where its looking for these file in
> the
> component? how is it done?
>
> thanks in advance

Here is some information on MSDN about Dirids:

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa506030.aspx
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms790174.aspx

You need to add all help files in the configuration - this means unchecking
the "Do not copy help files for this configuration" in the Configuration's
Settings->other settings. Just enabling the components help file will not do
it.

Regards,

Sean Liming
www.sjjmicro.com / www.seanliming.com
XP Embedded Book Author - XP Embedded Advanced, XP Embedded
SupplementalToolkit


"flamey" <flamey@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Thank you for your reply! I didn't know about the option copy help files,
> so
> now i checked it for all my printer driver components.
>
> Im still confused w/ paths, though. The "Edit Component File Resource"
> window on my PC shows %52% = C:\WINDOWS\system32\spool\drivers\w32x86, not
> %66000%, it doesn't list %66000% at all. Where can i find it?
>
>
> "Sean Liming (eMVP)" wrote:
>