Read the article from Heath. You can extract the _Storage but what you could end up with is just a bunch of binary delta patches which would be useless.
I like his idea of performing an administrative install and then patching it. A program could be written that: 1) Performs Admin Install to DIR A 2) Clones it to DIR B 3) Patches Admin Install in DIR B 4) Diffs the directories and creates a DIR C containing files that differ. Probably shouldn't take too much time to write. I wonder if Heath ever got around to writing his tool to do the extraction. Christopher Painter, Author of Deployment Engineering Blog Have a hot tip, know a secret or read a really good thread that deserves attention? 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