ET Customized Menu Cleaner, tool for ET Options

[-=Medic=-]

Seeing some people coming to our forum asking how to remove et customized menu cuz they couldn't connect to our server or don't like customized main menu ingame or especially who don't know how to remove them (F|A one or any other clans menu) I decided to make little tool (SFX winrar with little batch file) to clean ET game from any menu, so it's easy after you finished playing you wanna clean your game just hit ET Menu Cleaner shortcut on your desktop after installing it.

One thing, there is no way you can stop those customized menus to be downloaded again since almost a lot of clans set them on their servers so people will have to download them again if they ever want to play on their servers, clans wants to give an easy access to their servers, which is great because for the most players who loved their server... they want to keep easy connect to it without wasting time looking around and also if they forget the IP, but also some people don't want to have those menu and that's why i made this tool so you can delete those menus if you want after finish playing.

it's about give any player the Choice to keep or not the ET customized menu.

also added to the bat file this line del /s /f /q *.pid (this to clean your game from profile.pid) about what's pid file check below the explanation, this happen almost all time for player with ET v2.55 installation. so better update to 2.60b. my personal advice

***when you first install this it will make a clean at first, so if you have any menu you don't wanna lose better make a backup before install the cleaner***


Download:


this is not a real setup with uninstaller it's only extractor for a .bat file to ET game folder and create little shortcut for it on your desktop, so to remove just delete the file and the shortcut.

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About del /s /f /q *.pid!!! I found this great explanation long time ago on rtcw.jolt.co.uk:

Resolution Changing to 800x600, or "check.com crashed"
If you keep losing your settings -- most noticeable by your resolution being changed to 800x600 -- and/or notice sometimes that the the startup window shows (check.com crashed) beside the text, then it's probably because of a error in the way ET handles mods. Basically each time you run ET it creates a file "profile.pid" in your profile folder, and sometimes this file doesnt get deleted like it should when ET is closed, which frequently happens when you wre last playing a mod. The result is ET detects the file is there (when it shouldn't be), and presumes that last time the game must have crashed, so it resets most of the configuration to default settings.

To 'fix' this issue you can keep deleting the .pid file
but there's a simple workaround, which is to make ET redo the settings again automatically. I much prefer the workaround.
When you have the game setup how you like it, open up ET/etmain/profiles/yourprofile/ folder and copy the file called "etconfig.cfg". Rename the copy to "settings.cfg" and place in the "etmain" subfolder of your ET installation. Now, edit the autoexec.cfg file (use notepad or, preferably, wordpad). If there isn't already this file in "etmain" then make a new .txt document using notepad and rename it to autoexec.cfg (make sure its not .txt.cfg, especially if you have set your OS to hide known file extensions). Now simply open it and enter exec settings.cfg.
When you load the game, it automatically runs autoexec.cfg, so everytime you run ET it should now reload all your settings from this file. However it's important to note that if you make any changes to your game configuration you will have to set that in settings.cfg file aswell, or it may overwrite it next time you run ET. If you are comfortable with .cfg configuration files it may be better to simply put the settings you have changed from their default values into the settings.cfg

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This post has been edited by -=Medic=-: Apr 24 2010, 06:12 PM