CPBO Tool is not working with Windows 7

[Kegetys]

I have heard there is some odd feature in Vista/Win7 where it will stop cpbo from extracting the files where they belong and instead they end up extracted in some kind of "virtual" program files directory under your user home dir. I dont know how it works since I use XP, but I would assume there is some way to disable that from Windows. (Though it should only happen if you are trying to extract PBO files under Program Files).

[Evil_Echo]

No way to disable the virtual program files - that part of Vista and beyond's core security. The notion of using the program files area for data is basically dead - that stuff really needs to be under the user folder space.

[Chammy]

Oops, I forgot to check this thread and I opened a new thread about the same thing , my bad

Admin, I guess you can delete or lock the topic I made. I have no idea how to delete it

Thanks guys. I've been having trouble packing/compressing pbo files in ArmA2

[Chammy]

Well I downloaded Kegety's updated version and still no dice

[Evil_Echo]

I use Vista and can get cpbo to work. But don't bother with file associations etc, just run it from the command line.

[Chammy]

just run from command line? nuxil had explained that earlier but I don't quite get it. I tried to use Eliteness with no luck, even placing the dll file into the system32 folder didn't work. I tried to pack a pbo file (the sound file heh) and I loaded it, the game loaded fine but i didnt hear any sound effects , just the voices.

[PuFu]

CPBO works fine for me. Just run it as administrator *RMC

[Palehorse1]

"tools06062009" and 64bit Win7 RC function together properly here.

Right clicked the cpbo, ran as administrator and it installed and associated with right click menu as desired.

Your mileage may vary.

Best wishes,
Palehorse1

[Watter]

Works on Vista and Windows 7 but now the 1.05 patch stops it from working, i think BI has changed something in the pbo files

[[APS]Gnat]

See other threads about new PBO file ascociation