Installation Issues on Windows 10

[Vendaciousness]

This collection of tools is easily better than any other collection of repair tools, but I'm super confused, because isn't this project is supposed to be a bootable ISO? That I couldn't figure out.

I downloaded a file called 'MediCat.USB.v21.12.7z' via torrent. I saw the icon and assumed this was all I needed and the exe file was something I didn't download until later, because..habit, honestly. I would never, ever download/run an exe inside most torrents I see, so I guess I filtered it out.

Based on the name, I assumed it was a USB ISO image, or perhaps a DMG if it was MacOS compatible. I missed the '7z' extension at first (as will anyone who doesn't have 'Show file extensions' enabled -- which is off by default), but when I went to burn the image with Rufus, I realized it was a 7zip file. 7zip is great, but it's not something I've seen outside of Linux more than a few times in 15 years of using it. It's great, but what percentage of users have WinRAR or PeaZip installed? This raises the barrier of entry needlessly, imo.

I noticed you use a multipart 7zip file on your G-Drive as well and I'm just wondering why you aren't releasing this as an ISO.

Also, I can't find the Medcat Installer.exe file that is referenced on your site. It's not on your Google Drive only a bat file.

So I downloaded that and put it in the same folder as Start.exe and ran it. Several windows opened, but it crashed immediately 2-3 times, because I use a Deny-All firewall on new software. However, even after I unblocked svhost and lasass, I get the following error:

Updating Medicat Installer. Please wait while the new file is downloaded.
Version 3518 found
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
  0     0    0     0    0     0      0      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--     0
curl: (35) schannel: next InitializeSecurityContext failed: Unknown error (0x80092013) - The revocation function was unable to check revocation because the revocation server was offline.
ERROR: Failed to download the new file.
Press any key to continue . . .

I'm not sure why you're using these two Microsoft services, but I'm guessing the only way it will work is if I uninstall my secure firewall, or Enable All on MS services. I already set cURL and the non-MS programs to Enable All and I can't unblock those MS programs. I am running a production system with frozen updates and I can't be enabling MS update services.

And because update crashes out, now Medicat Installer.bat has been renamed to Medicat Installer.bat.bak.

That's where I stopped. You have an amazing collection of software which all worked great, so your meat and potatoes are perfect. All you need to do now is dump this whole needless install/update. Updates should not be tied to an install. If the updater doesn't work, don't update. There's no need to frag the install operation.

[mamabun]

All you needed to do was download the .bat and run it. The bat takes care of prepping the flash drive/external hdd, downloading the files, and installing them to the drive. As for an ISO, it's too big. You're recommended to use a drive that has a minimum of 32GB of space though the bigger the better. IIRC it comes out to 22GB when installed so you don't have much room for much more with a 32GB drive.

EDIT: Disabling Defender while running the .bat is also well advised since several things get flagged as false positives

[Vendaciousness]

The bat was what I ran to get the errors. Sorry if that was unclear. I ended up downloading the exe and the HASH and all the other files from the torrent and running it in that folder and it worked okay, once I had unblocked all 3-4 programs that access the internet. Once it was made, the USB is amazing. I just don't get why there's no pre-made ISO I can burn directly with UUI/Ventoy or Rufus.

[mon5termatt]

It hasnt been an ISO for a while.