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HI guys, just wanted to ask you guys if any of you had any success silently installing the latest NVIDIA drivers 60.77, cause I haven´t. The strange thing is, the earlier versions all worked fine using the usual OEMPnPDriversPath method. Even the 60.76 drivers worked that way as did all the unofficial builds before that one. But the 60.77 drivers do not install at all. After Unattended Setup is complete, Windows ( XP SR2 RC2 ) will have installed the usual Microsoft driver instead of the Nvidia drivers. That´s my winnt.sif: DriverSigningPolicy="Ignore" NonDriverSigningPolicy="Ignore" OemPnPDriversPath="Drivers\01_IntelInf\;Drivers\02_ViaInf\;Drivers\03_NvidiaInf\;Drivers\04_3Com3C940\;Drivers\06_USB2Seriell\;Drivers\07_GrafikNVIDIA\" All the drivers except for the last ones install fine so I guess the line is correct. I also tried without the slashes at the end of the paths but it did not make any difference. I think the problem lies with the newest drivers from NVIDIA .... ? Bye, Alex

Hey Alanoll, have you had time to fix that bug I mentioned ? ( Winamp not playing any music but showing the titles of the folder only ) Gonna create a new Unattended CD tonight and would just like to know if I should download your msi again or leave Winamp out for now ... Thanks, Alex

@Mazin: that would be cool, thanks ! @DarkPhoenix: I am a newbie with scripts so it probably won´t look familiar but I will give it a try Thanks, Alex

How about the Wihu homepage ? Wihu Homepage

Hi Benjamin, I would have, but those are features I have no experience with so far ... you on the other hand seem to know a lot about them so why don´t you do it your way and let us critisize it afterwards ? Just kidding Bye, Alex

Ok, you convinced me to give AutoIT a try, Dark Phoenix Better be easy to learn ... Thanks!

Hey Guys, thanks for your help ! I will check out the software although I would prefer if this could be achieved via vbs or js .... not yet another program Thanks, Alex

Glad I could help ! Bye, Alex

Hi again, well, uninstall info was added now. Don´t know what I did wrong the first time. But I found a more serious problem unfortunately. Look at my screenshot. I just installed Winamp silently and somehow Winamp registered itself for a few very strange extensions. Those get selected if I choose "Audio only". Worse yet, I wanted to start playback of some music inside a folder name "Jerry.Goldsmith.(1977).Contract.on.Cherry.Street.(eac.ape.cvrs.dataex)" by right clicking on it and choosing Play in Winamp and instead of playing the files, it actually only added each of the words between the "." to the playlist and did not play the files inside. The same happened with other folders ( and mp3 files ). This never happened with the original installer. I have no idea what could have gone wrong. my ini file is not very exciting: [Setup] Xlibrary=1 Xintex=1 Xmodernskin=1 Xaudio=1 Xextra=1 Xregopt=1 XStartmenu=0 XNAME=xxxx XKEY=xxxx .... The only other "strange" thing I noticed is, that "Launch Winamp for Audio CDs" is not set to on by default, as is the "Show Winamp in Systray" option although according to your explanation earlier in this thread if setting the parent to 1 all the children should be installed too, so my above ini should install both CD playback and systray, if I am not mistaken or anything Bye, Alex

Hi guys ! Maybe someone has an idea since I am an absolute newbie with scripts ... I would like to make sure that a user cannot interfere while a script is running and installing an application. So I would like to temporarily block keyboard and mouse until the script is finished. If the script is finished it should of course restore mouse and keyboard use again Would this be very hard to achieve ? Thanks for any ideas ... Bye, Alex

Hey Alanoll, I realized that installing through your msi does not add any uninstall information to controlpanel/software so uninstallation would not be that easy for users ... Any chance for adding this or is it too much work ? Thanks, Alex

Ah ... Hi Alanoll, I got the same 1720 error as Bonedaddy. I am also running from runonceex like this: REG ADD %KEY%\025 /VE /D "Winamp 5.0.4 incl. Plugins" /f REG ADD %KEY%\025 /V 1 /D "%CDROM%\Setup\Winamp\Winamp_5.0.4.msi /qb INI=%CDROM%\Setup\Winamp\winamp.ini" /f and my ini looks like this: [Setup] Xlibrary=1 Xintex=1 Xhotkey=1 XJump=1 Xtray=1 Xmodernskin=1 Xaudio=1 Xwma=1 Xmid=1 Xmod=1 Xogg=1 Xaac=1 XMp3enc=1 Xmp4=1 Xcdplay=1 Xsonic=1 Xcddb=1 Xwav=1 Xextra=1 Xsignal=1 Xwritewav=1 Xcdout=1 Xregopt=1 Xdircont=1 Xtypecont=1 Xaudiocd=1 XStartmenu=0 XNAME=xxxx XKEY=xxxx etc. Any ideas ? By the way, thanks for your work ! Alex

Hey Benjamin, wanted to ask you this before already .... what is this: (see pic ) ? Bye, Alex

Thanks, that did it ! I was just confused because you put the explanation of DefaultHome inside the [users] section of install.ini. Thanks ! Thanks ! Alex

Hi Benjamin, tried your latest beta but somehow this DefaultHome" variable did not work or maybe I am doing something wrong ? This is my install.ini: [users] DefaultHome=%Personal% [Environment] Personal=D:\%ThisUser% My Video=D:\%ThisUser%\Eigene Videos My Music=D:\%ThisUser%\Eigene Musik My Pictures=D:\%ThisUser%\Eigene Bilder Favorites=D:\%ThisUser%\Favoriten Theoretically, every user created in Wihu will now have a home variable pointing to their Personal folder, right ? But it did not work. First, nothing appeared under "Private Umgebungsvariablen" in Wihu and after the user had been created and I logged in as that user there was no "home" variable and Homedrive and Homepath still pointed to C: and the standard userprofile. One more suggestion ... it is maybe becoming a bit complicated now ... you have a users.ini plus 2 user specific sections in install.ini [user] and [user] .... couldn´t this be somehow combined into one place ? Just a suggestion .... Thanks, Alex

Hi Benjamin, Thanks for the explanation ! I call this batch file I made at every bootup using the Run command in HKCU so maybe thats why it works fine ... Mhh, can this be used in the [Environment] section in install.ini also so that it will affect each user ? Something like this: Home = %Personal% ( if %Personal% is defined before ) Thanks, Alex

Hi Benjamin ! Thanks for your new version ! Getting better and better ! :-) Since you are implementing user specific environment variables .... There are so called "Volatile Environment" variables in HKCU\Volatile Environment. There you can find Homepath and homedrive variables for instance. Would you mind supporting those too ? I would still love to change Homedrive and Homepath dependent on the Personals folder of that user. To do this I currently call a batch file which reads the Personals folder from the registry and assigns the drive letter to Homedrive and the path to Homepath: FOR /F "TOKENS=3" %%i in ('reg query "HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User Shell Folders" /v Personal') do REG ADD "HKCU\Volatile Environment" /v HOMEDRIVE /t REG_EXPAND_SZ /d "%%~di" /f FOR /F "TOKENS=3" %%j in ('reg query "HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User Shell Folders" /v Personal') do REG ADD "HKCU\Volatile Environment" /v HOMEPATH /t REG_EXPAND_SZ /d "%%~pnj" /f However, it would be much nicer if this functionality could be somehow integrated into Wihu. By the way .... maybe it is the right time now to think about making the user creation/shellfolder/environment variables part of Wihu available as a cpl ? Wihu is already much better than the Windows user creation tools ! Bye, Alex PS: I will donate something in a few weeks ( as soon as I get some money ! )

THANKS !

Well, I have added my shell folder definitions to Environment section of install.ini of the latest version. Users.ini is all commented out. If the above 3 points you agreed to are right this should mean that all users in Wihu will get those shell folders from install.ini. But any user I create in Wihu has empty shell folder dialogs. See the picture. I also tried %ThisUser% instead of %NewUserName% and I tried the [users] section instead of the [Environment] Section .... The settings page below is from Peter2, but it is the same as the one from Peter. Bye, Alex

Well, I hope I am not doing something wrong again but point 1 is not working yet ? Could that be ? Thanks, Alex

Ah, I understand now ... well, I would say pairing was good before we had the possibility to define shell folders in install.ini. But it is less useful now. But you may wait for other people´s opinion. There should be an override though if people specify "My Video" to be on a different drive than "My Music" that should be allowed. Cool, thanks. So to sum up a bit: 1. Defining shell folders in install.ini applies to all users if not changed in users.ini 2. Defining shell folders in users.ini for the default user applies only to the default user ( which is the first user created in Wihu ) 3. Defining shell folders for additional users in users.ini overrides the shell folders in install.ini for those users. Is this correct ? Wow, you are great, man ! Sorry, for my slow thinking today ! Bye, Alex

I am not sure I know what you mean .... Man, am I slow today Bye, Alex

Hey again, ok, so after I changed this little detail in users.ini, I can absolutely live with the new solution. No need to change back to the old behaviour just for me, Benjamin! Wihu 2.1 does the same as Wihu 2.0 now. But it would be nice if those "default shell folders" used for the "default user" would be somehow default for all new users created directly in Wihu ? Alex

Oh I am such a dumbass ! :-) I did not remove the ";" in front of defaultUser in users.ini ! Sorry, Benjamin !!! Alex

Das stimmt schon, aber wie du beim angehängten Bild sehen kannst, wird sowohl der default user angelegt ( Bernd ) als auch der "New User" der in users.ini drinsteht. Oder ist das nur ein Bug ? Oh, ich bin schuld ! Ich find deine Idee das userspezifische in der users.ini zu machen ned schlecht, es sollte nur eine Möglichkeit geben übergeordnete Shell folder zu kreieren die dann für alle user gelten ( die in der user.ini angelegten und die in Wihu angelegten ) ausser man setzt sie manuell in Wihu und/oder in der users.ini für einzelne user ausser kraft. Ciao, Alex