Hello Benjamin, I am relatively new to unattended setup, in particular to WIHU.
I have done some experiments with WIHU, and it seems to be an
ideal utility to run after a full unattended setup, especially for
changing 'Registered Owner' name, creation of new accounts, and
continue installing favorite applications. Thanks very much for offering
the neat tool.

I have a couple of basic questions on invocation of wihu that I felt was
not addressed in the help page (http://www.kalytta.com/wihu.manual.php)
which I browsed some time ago.

Where the command line that invokes wihu.exe should be placed
in the unattended setup process for installing applications from CD?

I have guess on this. As the name suggests (post installation), I felt that
the command-line should be placed such that wihu.exe is invoked during
first logon directly from CD. An example script would be
$OEM$\CmdLines.txt


$OEM$\start_wihu.cmd (pseudocode only)

where all application installation EXEs are placed in the folder tree with
%CDROM%\BasicApps folder as root.

I hope I am right? I felt calling wihu through CmdLine.txt is better since it runs as a
system service as opposed to 'logged on user service' in the case of '[GuiRunOnce]'
part of winnt.sif. [From ref.chm of xp tools deploy.cab]

Such an invocation clearly makes wihu run during first logon.
However I am begining to get doubts on my understanding after I read a post
[Wihu CreateProcess] that mentioned something about running wihu during T-12
minute stage of XP setup. I am not clear about it. Can wihu be invoked by
GUI setup process during T-12? Should not all applications be installed only
after first logon into some account?

Could someone throw some light please?

Thanks very much
Ganesh

If WIHU is called at T-12, there are some restrictions. "System" account is used for application install which means:

1. Every registry change goes to Default user profile
2. Some applications which requires administrator privileges don't work

This also means, you can infact create new user accounts during T-12, but you can't set a primary user i.e. you can't run your setup's under one of this newly created user accounts.

So I would recommend to start Wihu in [GuiRunOnce] section.

Thanks very much for the clarification.

Ganesh