KMan

Hi! I am trying to convert my Installation from using XPlode to WIHU, and while i'm at it, i miss a few features: Running a Command Hidden Running a Command Asynchronisly Making WIHU a topmost window Just a few more words to why: 1. not every window that pops up is informative and it looks quite ugly when those pop up all the time while others feature a cancel button which i dont want anyone to hit accidently while installation is running, i know this could lead to wihu to freeze if something isnt configured properly, but this could happen with any app i start with a quiet parm. So i personaly dont see a higher risk in running commands hidden. And even though i know BenjaminKalytta sees this differently, i still think i should be free to chose if i am willing to take that risk. So i obsequiously ask to please reconsider in adding such an option (all risk at users side ) 2. i'm using an application that monitors a second one, which obviously needs to be started before the second one without waiting for it to finish. which was no problem under xplode, so it would be really nice to see this feature in wihu aswell 3. Basicly this is just intended as workaround for 1. just in case Benjamin would insist on not including 1, cause so at least the windows would pop up behind wihu, which would "fix" the optical part Just a few things i miss for convenience, besides that really nice app! I really would appreciate it if those features would make it into a future version of wihu! Greetings KMan

Hi! i have a problem with command lines containing double quotes: my original command line is: command.0=unzip32.exe -o %CDROM%\Unattended\Favs\Default.zip -d"%UserProfile%\Favoriten" which according to the log file is converted to: "unzip32.exe" -o %CDROM%\Unattended\Favs\Default.zip "-d%UserProfile%\Favoriten" This behaviour of wihu aint good at all, since the possition of the quotes has been chosen exacly where they need to be for the command to work. This causes quite a few of my installations to fail. Has this any purpose i dont see or is it just a Bug? besides that i personally would prefer it if the arguments passed to a command would be an own line in the ini anyways, just an idea maybe worth considering? Greetings KMan

Hi! i dont think so, the name did not matter so far while i was playing with the editor! Greetings KMan

Thank you for the new version! will got testing right away KMan

@ maxXPsoft Sorry! Didnt mean to be offensive in any way. I just wanted to tell you that it works for me out of the box. Did not want to critisize you or your registry hack in anyway, only wanted to point out that i hadnt had that installed before testing Sorry again if i wrote in an unlucky way! Sincerly KMan

Hi! Works fine for me, with winntbbu.dll aswell as with winntbbu.dl_ Used the shell extension menu, didnt had you reg applied before though KMan

ID 54, "Installing Devices" But you should know that already, you show it in the preview?! Sincerly KMan

WOW! Great Tool! This really makes it easy to edit the setup screen! Thank you!

Hi! $Progs is what i use , and it works pretty fine! Greetz KMan

Hi! sorry for the late reply but was in france last week, no internet. in case you havent noticed yourself meanwhile before going i released it here on the forum, but you should also read the post belonging to it here. Greetz KMan

Hi All! All the tests went well for me, so here it is, v1.1.0. Because my parser for the xplode file is quite basic, there is a limitation though, all the commands must be single line, i included one of the configs that i use for my unattended cd, so you can see how it should look like. Hope thats something you can all live with?!, i can! Since i am very short in time at the moment, i didnt manage to do any help, but i included 2 sample .ini's one with explenations and one without, hope this helps getting you started. Now to the how too: usage for the main window hasnt changed, but if you hit SHIFT+ENTER and the customizer is enabled you will get to the customization screen from the screenshot, with the config, that was highlighted, loaded and ready to be changed. If you ended up in the wrong config by accident simply press ESC and you will get back to the main window. When you deselected everything you dont want, just hit ENTER to start XPlode with your newly generated tmp config. The Customization window also supports a few mouse options, when you double click on a topic, it will invert the state of all the items in that section, what is selected will get deselected and vice versa. if you double click with shift pressed down, all items in that section get selected, if you double click with alt pressed all items in that section will be deselected. Thats it, (i think ), nothing more to know... Hope you'll find it usefull! Greetz KMan CSelect.zip

Hi All! I couldnt resist playing around a bit more with my little tool. Here's a little teaser what i have been up to: (need to do a little more testing before i can release though, but if tests run well i plan to release this weekend) What you see below is a new option that lets you select single items of one of the predefined configs and selectivly install those. The Colors can be changed in the ini just like in the original dialog, in the example the orange bars are the <item display Tags, and those with the checkbox before them are the single commands in between the item tag, where the format is : <command>: <DisplayTag> if the command supports a Display Tag and <command>: <commandparameters> if it doesnt, so it should be very easy to determin what you want to process and what not. Also by this simple parsing, all plugins should be supported, official aswell as third party ones. Hope you'll like it Greetz KMan

Hi! you are setting 3 Times : MaxConnectionsPer1_0Server MaxConnectionsPerServer Max your Internet Explorer's simultaneous downloads to 10 (default was 2) -> (to 0x0a) More Concurent Connections for Web Page Loads -> (to 0x20) Broadband Tweak for Windows XP -> (to 0x20) also exacly the same are: Stores more DNS entries so that your computer doesn't have to look them up as much & Do not cache failed DNS lookups just a first quick look, but it seems you can slim down a little more there Greetz KMan

Hi! this also can be a timing issue, i had this when testing on a VMWare Enviourement, increasing the reboot time form 60 to 90 seconds solved this issue for me once and for all, so might also be worth a try! Greetz KMan

Hi Guys! for this very reason i replaced the RunOnceEx steps with calling XPlode which you can find here on the forum, nice custimizable GUI and some neat additional features, you might want to check it out, btw there are also other tools with alike functionallity here on the forum, just a matter of taste. As said my favourite is XPlode, but check out yourself. Greetz KMan

Hi! you will have to either add a documentclass for xml (cant hurt anyway, syntax highlighting makes life easier anytime ) or edit the standard document class, from TextPad 4.7.0 and above the header writing for Unicode files has been turned off, i am translating from german so i am not sure the option is called exacly like that but there should be something like Write UTF-8 BOM Header if you enable this, you will be able to edit XPlode configs in TextPad again without any problems. You can always check after writing if you .xml is ok with a HexEditor (or with TextPad when opening as binary) the first two bytes of the file need to be the header which is FF FE Hope this helps Greetz KMan

Sure! thats why i asked if anyone else is interested! keeping my fingers crossed that i have better luck uploading today! here goes... Greetz KMan CSelect.zip

Hi All! i started to fill a gap for my personal needs. I did a small Programm which lets you choose between different configfiles for xplode while installation. I only tested this on the [GuiRunOnce] step sofar, and it worked just fine. Its constructed pretty simple, but it keeps the idea of an unattended installation aswell, since you can specify a default config and a timeout value after which your default config is automaticly choosen and installation continues by itself. you cannot control individual steps of the installation, but it gives you at least a little more control, cause you are able to choose between proir created config files for XPlode. Basicly i only did this for myself, but if anyone else is interested and has a use for this little toy, i would be more then willing to share it with you. I attached an example screenshot, you can choose the colors, font , pic yourself, just by changing the .ini of my programm Greetz KMan

I'm to lazy! i answered that already in your post in the 'Application Switches' Thread, look it up there Greetz KMan

Hi! did you check the file after copying it ? it would be helpful to know what actually changed. is it really converted back to ansi, or did it loose its unicode header ? and this might be a little extraodinary for such a little problem, but you might also consider, instead of copying the file to its new location, create an sfx and let it extract at the proper time to its new location. This is not elegant, but at least might be a soltion if you need one quickly! Greetz KMan

Hi! The Information is stored in the 'Cdrwin.dat' in your Cdrwin Installation folder, easiest solution colud be using the oem structure to let it copy it there. But i am uncertain if the installer overwrites it or not. but i believe it doesnt, cause an update installation doesnt either. Greetnx KMan

Hi! on an additional note: <item display='Registry Tweaks for *****'> <!-- note the username and password --> <execute display='Applying tweaks...' program='regedit' arguments='/s "%systemdrive%\install\tweaks.reg"' username='*******' password='*****' /> </item> wont work either, you will have to specify the full path to regedit in order to execute it when username & password are given! And as a little tip on testing, since you already use vmware, try building the required file structure on a vmware client system and test your xml with xplode there, that makes debugging a lot easier! Hope this helps a little Greetz KMan

Hi! Yep, you can use these tweaks, the registry keys are just the same for each language version of the same windows version. no difference there, they only differ sometimes between the different os's and sometimes even between different service packs for the same os. Hope this helps Greetz KMan

Hi Again! a friend of mine was kind enough (after i bugged him a little ) to quickly put me together what i needed. I just thought i would share with you, in case anyone else is interested. And 10x to my friend TheMadGuy for being so quick Greetz KMan Edit: sorry, upload always fails on me half way only get 14k of 32k through will try again later! Edit 2: O.K.! It worked now, redownloaded and everything seems ok! XPlodeINIWrite.zip

Hi All! considering my nearly zero knowledge of C++ and the missing access to any c++ compiler at all, i thought maybe some pro can do this in a few minutes. What i was thinking about is this: A PlugIn for XPlode that would allow to edit an .ini file, basicly just calling WritePrivateProfileString, with the needed arguments (Section,Key,Value,File). and maybe as an extension also reading from an .ini to an enviourment variable, but thats just a nice to have thing... This idea surfaced when i was installing some apps that created ini files while being installed, and since they also stored some paths in them, just copying preconfigured .ini files aint an option. And yes i also tried removing the lines with the fixed paths, but for some reason not all apps update the ini when they already find one... for the case that i am not the only one who could use such a thing, tia to whom ever will make it real. Greetz KMan