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What's a GUI file?
With a subscription to the Lynda.com website, one downloads their tutorials' movie files directly (and, if a premium subscription, the accompanying exercise files as well). Only the purchasers of their DVDs are able to make use of a menu system or graphical user interface (GUI) to view the movies. The GUI makes the presentation of the movies more efficient, especially as movies within a chapter can be played sequentially with a single click. Unfortunately, Lynda tutorials shared through bittorrent often lack the corresponding GUI files so replicas have to be created to restore their functionality.


So how do I use these?

* First, you need to download the actual tutorial movies. These are often distributed as ISO images (an archive file representing the entire contents of an optical disc). Many can be found on Demonoid.
* Second, download and unrar (ie. decompress with WinRAR) the corresponding GUI file. This will create a folder with the necessary subfolder structure on your hard drive.
* Next, you need to extract the movie files from the ISO and copy them to the appropriate locations in the GUI folder structure. Often this will be accomplished by mounting the ISO as a virtual drive, however, WinRAR is also able to open ISO files and extract their contents. Once you have located the movie files they should be copied into their corresponding "..\data\movies\chapxx" folders in the GUI. For example, Movies that begin with 00_ should be copied to the ...\chap00 folder, movies that begin with 12_ should be copied to the ...\chap12 folder, etc.
* Finally, the exercise files can be extracted to the ...\exercise files folder.

Please remember that the total path cannot exceed 255 characters or you will get an error message when you start up the windowmode.exe file!!!
the error will be:
"Unable to load movie playlist. Does the .INI file exists

But if you are using a Mac...
Included in this collection is a Mac Gui Apps.sit file. Unstuffing the contents to the root folder of any GUI should enable Mac functionality. Sorry I don't have a Mac and can't advise you further.

Some menus are fugly!
Well, they did evolve over time, but if you want to replace my meager efforts your own creations, you will also find a folder with blank background art to assist you.