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Install iCloud on XP PC
I'm trying to install iCloud on my Windows XP Pro (SP3) PC. Officially
it's supported only for Vista and later, but this hack is widely claimed to work: 1. Download iCloudSetup.exe from he https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204283 2. Open it and unzip its files including iCloud.msi 3. Navigate to and open the iCloud.msi with Orca. 4. In the left table select LaunchCondition. Then change in the right table “VersionNT = 600” to “VersionNT = 200” and Save. 5. Run modified iCloud.msi and install. 6. Run iCloud Control Panel, located in the Windows Control Panel, and set up as you want. I tried that promising solution in vain. It seemed to successfully install iCloud, but whenever I try to run it I get this obscure error https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/...-Problem-1.jpg After much fruitless searching I've not found out how to proceed from there and would appreciate advice please. -- Terry, East Grinstead, UK |
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On 03/15/2016 03:20 AM, Terry Pinnell wrote:
I'm trying to install iCloud on my Windows XP Pro (SP3) PC. Officially it's supported only for Vista and later, but this hack is widely claimed to work: 1. Download iCloudSetup.exe from he https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204283 2. Open it and unzip its files including iCloud.msi 3. Navigate to and open the iCloud.msi with Orca. 4. In the left table select LaunchCondition. Then change in the right table “VersionNT = 600” to “VersionNT = 200” and Save. 5. Run modified iCloud.msi and install. 6. Run iCloud Control Panel, located in the Windows Control Panel, and set up as you want. I tried that promising solution in vain. It seemed to successfully install iCloud, but whenever I try to run it I get this obscure error https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/...-Problem-1.jpg After much fruitless searching I've not found out how to proceed from there and would appreciate advice please. I don't recommend fooling with your system but if you want to try here...that's up to you https://www.dllme.com/dll/files/objc_dll.html |
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Terry Pinnell wrote:
I'm trying to install iCloud on my Windows XP Pro (SP3) PC. Officially it's supported only for Vista and later, but this hack is widely claimed to work: 1. Download iCloudSetup.exe from he https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204283 2. Open it and unzip its files including iCloud.msi 3. Navigate to and open the iCloud.msi with Orca. 4. In the left table select LaunchCondition. Then change in the right table “VersionNT = 600” to “VersionNT = 200” and Save. 5. Run modified iCloud.msi and install. 6. Run iCloud Control Panel, located in the Windows Control Panel, and set up as you want. I tried that promising solution in vain. It seemed to successfully install iCloud, but whenever I try to run it I get this obscure error https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/...-Problem-1.jpg After much fruitless searching I've not found out how to proceed from there and would appreciate advice please. Look more closely at the list of packages. ******* SetupAdmin.exe Bonjour.msi --- "Bonjour locates devices such as printers, other computers, Bonjour64.msi and the services that those devices offer on a local network" AppleSoftwareUpdate.msi iCloud.msi iCloud64.msi AppleApplicationSupport.msi --- AppleApplicationSupport_objc.dll 162,064 bytes AppleApplicationSupport64.msi ******* The Apple software has to be "knitted together", to prevent users from picking and choosing. You would expect the install to be distributed over more than one MSI file. I would at least expect to install at a minimum... iCloud.msi AppleApplicationSupport.msi The objc.dll is probably the Objective C runtime file for Windows. Just like msvcrt.dll is a native example of such a file (glues app to OS). "crt" stands for "C run time support". Paul |
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On Tue, 15 Mar 2016 05:53:16 -0500, philo wrote in
3. Navigate to and open the iCloud.msi with Orca. What is Orca? -- Web based forums are like subscribing to 10 different newspapers and having to visit 10 different news stands to pickup each one. Email list-server groups and USENET are like having all of those newspapers delivered to your door every morning. |
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On Tue, 15 Mar 2016 13:04:36 -0000, CRNG wrote:
On Tue, 15 Mar 2016 05:53:16 -0500, philo wrote in 3. Navigate to and open the iCloud.msi with Orca. What is Orca? msi editor. from MS. -- Bah, and indeed, Humbug |
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On Wed, 16 Mar 2016 11:06:57 -0000, "Kerr Mudd-John"
wrote in On Tue, 15 Mar 2016 13:04:36 -0000, CRNG wrote: On Tue, 15 Mar 2016 05:53:16 -0500, philo wrote in 3. Navigate to and open the iCloud.msi with Orca. What is Orca? msi editor. from MS. Thanks -- Web based forums are like subscribing to 10 different newspapers and having to visit 10 different news stands to pickup each one. Email list-server groups and USENET are like having all of those newspapers delivered to your door every morning. |
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Dave Doe wrote:
In article , , Terry Pinnell says... I'm trying to install iCloud on my Windows XP Pro (SP3) PC. Officially it's supported only for Vista and later, but this hack is widely claimed to work: 1. Download iCloudSetup.exe from he https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204283 2. Open it and unzip its files including iCloud.msi 3. Navigate to and open the iCloud.msi with Orca. 4. In the left table select LaunchCondition. Then change in the right table ?VersionNT = 600? to ?VersionNT = 200? and Save. 5. Run modified iCloud.msi and install. 6. Run iCloud Control Panel, located in the Windows Control Panel, and set up as you want. I tried that promising solution in vain. It seemed to successfully install iCloud, but whenever I try to run it I get this obscure error https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/...-Problem-1.jpg After much fruitless searching I've not found out how to proceed from there and would appreciate advice please. Doesn't *really* look like a .NET error, but it might be. Check you have your .NET framework as up-to-date as is possible in XP thesedays. .NET 1.1 = 4 - should all work in XP. Thanks all, appreciate the suggestions which I'll pursue. I was puzzled why I have two versions of that DLL https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/...-Ambiguity.jpg so I copied the one from C:\Program Files\Common Files\Apple\Apple Application Support to replace the older version in C:\Program Files\Safari\Apple Application Support but still got that error. Anyway, if the DLL itself was flawed, wouldn't it have given rise to other issues in previous years of daily use? -- Terry, East Grinstead, UK |
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Terry Pinnell wrote:
Dave Doe wrote: In article , lid, Terry Pinnell says... I'm trying to install iCloud on my Windows XP Pro (SP3) PC. Officially it's supported only for Vista and later, but this hack is widely claimed to work: 1. Download iCloudSetup.exe from he https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204283 2. Open it and unzip its files including iCloud.msi 3. Navigate to and open the iCloud.msi with Orca. 4. In the left table select LaunchCondition. Then change in the right table ?VersionNT = 600? to ?VersionNT = 200? and Save. 5. Run modified iCloud.msi and install. 6. Run iCloud Control Panel, located in the Windows Control Panel, and set up as you want. I tried that promising solution in vain. It seemed to successfully install iCloud, but whenever I try to run it I get this obscure error https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/...-Problem-1.jpg After much fruitless searching I've not found out how to proceed from there and would appreciate advice please. Doesn't *really* look like a .NET error, but it might be. Check you have your .NET framework as up-to-date as is possible in XP thesedays. .NET 1.1 = 4 - should all work in XP. Thanks all, appreciate the suggestions which I'll pursue. I was puzzled why I have two versions of that DLL https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/...-Ambiguity.jpg so I copied the one from C:\Program Files\Common Files\Apple\Apple Application Support to replace the older version in C:\Program Files\Safari\Apple Application Support but still got that error. Anyway, if the DLL itself was flawed, wouldn't it have given rise to other issues in previous years of daily use? Let's use virustotal.com on it. You pretend objc.dll is infected, and upload it for analysis. https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/4...ab30/analysis/ Then, look at the "PE exports" list. It still won't list all of them, so there are 165 missing from the list. Block_size NXCompareHashTables NXCompareMapTables .... _objcInit _objc_autoreleasePoolPop _objc_autoreleasePoolPrint _objc_autoreleasePoolPush _objc_deallocOnMainThreadHelper _objc_empty_cache _objc_flush_caches _objc_getFreedObjectClass _objc_init_image2 ----- _objc_load_image2 ----- .... 165 more exports Now, your error says you're missing "_objc_init_image". This probably means the objc.dll in question, is designed or intended for some other situation. You'd need to find an older version which had the first design in it. So what you might do, is if you find two of them, upload both of them to virustotal.com , and if there is a PE Export list, verify which one has "_objc_init_image". You might need to find a tool that does a better job of listing PE Exports. Even a hex editor, and search on _objc_init_image might be better than nothing. And if you were to select the AppleApplicationSupport.msi from some other version, what are the odds that will align well enough to work with a newer iCloud.msi ? Paul |
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Paul wrote:
Terry Pinnell wrote: Dave Doe wrote: In article , lid, Terry Pinnell says... I'm trying to install iCloud on my Windows XP Pro (SP3) PC. Officially it's supported only for Vista and later, but this hack is widely claimed to work: 1. Download iCloudSetup.exe from he https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204283 2. Open it and unzip its files including iCloud.msi 3. Navigate to and open the iCloud.msi with Orca. 4. In the left table select LaunchCondition. Then change in the right table ?VersionNT = 600? to ?VersionNT = 200? and Save. 5. Run modified iCloud.msi and install. 6. Run iCloud Control Panel, located in the Windows Control Panel, and set up as you want. I tried that promising solution in vain. It seemed to successfully install iCloud, but whenever I try to run it I get this obscure error https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/...-Problem-1.jpg After much fruitless searching I've not found out how to proceed from there and would appreciate advice please. Doesn't *really* look like a .NET error, but it might be. Check you have your .NET framework as up-to-date as is possible in XP thesedays. .NET 1.1 = 4 - should all work in XP. Thanks all, appreciate the suggestions which I'll pursue. I was puzzled why I have two versions of that DLL https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/...-Ambiguity.jpg so I copied the one from C:\Program Files\Common Files\Apple\Apple Application Support to replace the older version in C:\Program Files\Safari\Apple Application Support but still got that error. Anyway, if the DLL itself was flawed, wouldn't it have given rise to other issues in previous years of daily use? Let's use virustotal.com on it. You pretend objc.dll is infected, and upload it for analysis. https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/4...ab30/analysis/ Then, look at the "PE exports" list. It still won't list all of them, so there are 165 missing from the list. Block_size NXCompareHashTables NXCompareMapTables ... _objcInit _objc_autoreleasePoolPop _objc_autoreleasePoolPrint _objc_autoreleasePoolPush _objc_deallocOnMainThreadHelper _objc_empty_cache _objc_flush_caches _objc_getFreedObjectClass _objc_init_image2 ----- _objc_load_image2 ----- ... 165 more exports Now, your error says you're missing "_objc_init_image". This probably means the objc.dll in question, is designed or intended for some other situation. You'd need to find an older version which had the first design in it. So what you might do, is if you find two of them, upload both of them to virustotal.com , and if there is a PE Export list, verify which one has "_objc_init_image". You might need to find a tool that does a better job of listing PE Exports. Even a hex editor, and search on _objc_init_image might be better than nothing. And if you were to select the AppleApplicationSupport.msi from some other version, what are the odds that will align well enough to work with a newer iCloud.msi ? Paul Thanks a lot, Paul, much appreciate the time you put into that. I'll follow up on your suggestions, although I'm technically rather out of my depth here. -- Terry, East Grinstead, UK |
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