[sadicq]

Would you like to have an automated language detection so WPI will start for each computer with the language it detects?
Although English is not my mother tongue, I use it in WPI ... So, I want to hear your opinion about implementing this feature (because it's very easy for me to do it).

[sadicq]

How about making font integration easier?
I mean we could use the same function as for the audio part.
The fonts.ini looks exactly like a playlist, so that should be easy to do.

[Kelsenellenelvian]

Hey grand idea! Definatly a good one!

[Wesmosis]

using WPI only by keyboard (Ticking, Moving, Begin Install, Exit)
suppose that we don't have a mouse !

[mritter]

Already talked to Sadicq about his ideas.

Keyboard shortcuts: I tried some a few weeks back but could not get all to work. Still have it on my to-do list.

[ideas]

excellent tool, however am just asking does this hav a UNDO option?
OR a option to add these to the boot menu: Safe Mode, Last known....,
profile 1, recovery console, use another boot.ini, Hal repair or
replacement etc?

[Kelsenellenelvian]

WOW ummm what do you mean by an undo option?

None of the other abilities you mentioned are built into WPI but could be posssible to do with cmd files and vbs scripts.

[oneless]

Soon WPI 5.9 will replace Windows
(any version , just you will check what you want : 3.1, 95, 98SE, Me, 2000 , XP, Vista...)
the next version 6.0 will replace also Linux , Unix any version, OS2 and more others OSs
version 6.5 will include WPIOFFICE , WPINERO,WPIWINDVD ... and nothing for free
for every click on WPIOS your PayPal account will increase (contextual) with 10 or more $...

[RJTPlomp]

This last week I have been puzzeling and playing a lot with getting Windows Media Player 10 installed via WPI v5.1.

It failed and failed. Trying many switches for installing WMP10 silently. It didn't work. Pretty soon it was clear to me that the install command line and switches I used were fine. For those who want to know I use:

MP10Setup.exe /q:A /c:"setup_wm.exe /Q /R:N /P:#e /DisallowSystemRestore"

Installing it by executing this command via RunOnceEx gave no trouble at all. So I knew it had to do with what WPI was doing to the install.

See a resulting forum link, where we solved the puzzle:
My tries... and a helping hand

It seems WPI v5.1 executes a part of the Windows Media Player, no matter if you configure it to play music during install-selection or install-execution, or not. As a result of that, during installation of WMP10, some parts of WMP10 don't get installed cause WPI keeps files of Windows Media Player (9) open. And as a result of that the installation of WMP10 fails. As the following error-message shows when you try to launch WMP10:

Windows Media Player
The file wmploc.dll has a version number of 10.0.0.3802 where 9.0.0.3250 was expected.
Windows Media Player is not installed properly and must be reinstalled.
Do you want to install the Player from the Microsoft Web site?

Sadicq helped me out here. He removed the code that executes the Windows Media Player. And now it installs like a dream. But a functionality that's certainly fun.. listening music during install.. is now left out. Not a big deal, but I guess it was put in there with a reason. So why not try to continue to keep it working.

So I wonder if it would be possible to make both functionalities work. So AND being able to install WMP10 from WPI WHILE listening to music. The last not during the actual install of WMP10 is done. So I'm looking for a way to totally shut down Windows Media Player (9) only during install of newer versions of the Media Player. After that specific install Media Player could continue to play again.

I can imagine an checkbox in the config-part of WPI that tells the installer-script to shutdown Media Player just before installing the application that has that checkbox checked, and starting it after the install is ALL finished. As a maybe simpler alternative I can imagine that the installer-script looks for a certain text -say 'WMP'- in the application name to 'know' that on installing that application Media Plyer must shutdown completely.

Looking forward to version WPI v5.2!

Regards,

Roland
Dordrecht, The Netherlands

[thern]

two sugessions about order of programs(entries) in WPI...

1. there could be two horizontal indicators beside the configuration of programs(entries), so we can manage wich program must first or last or between them... etc.
/|\
| pr1
pr2
| pr3
\|/

2. also order[pn]=[..] could be two or three characters
like order[pn]=[02] not order[pn]=[2]
or order[pn]=[023] not order[pn]=[23]
it also will be good if in config.js those entries will be sorted (easy to review or manage manually)

again.. sory for my bad english

This post has been edited by thern: 27 July 2006 - 03:44 PM

[MarcodfRUN]

I know that in some way you can do it wit the actual version but i see it as an interseting feature to be able to reboot between installations and therefore to have in the configuration also domain/computer username and password for the automatic logon.