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Is it possible to disable a windows service via command prompt or vbs script?

Question about VBScripts and the RunOnceEx... Ive noticed that if I create an unattended vbs script that runs an installer than simulates keystrokes with SendKey, the runonce seems to think the vbs script is complete as soon as the executable is launched and starts the next item even though the previous vbs script is still simulating the keystroke install... anyone have this issue? better yet.. anyone know how you can make runonceex know when a vbs is actually complete? Thanks

Found this thread and using this instead. Works like a charm... no cmd prompt to worry about either... http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=32227

Thanks a bunch...

Looks like the location for configuring windows auto updates is in a different location in XP2. Think I found it here: [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\WindowsUpdate\Auto Update] Question is, Im comparing a PC that hasnt been configured to one that has and the keys within this Hive are extremely different. Anyone know exactly what keys need to be set/deleted/added if I wanted to set my pc to autoupdate at say 3am everyday? Thanks.

Is it possible to hide the command-prompt looking window it creates when run?Tried using CMDOW @ /HID in the batch that uses this, but all it does is hide the batch window itself and not the one sleep.exe creates.... Thanks.

Youre the man tguy.. thats exactly what the problem was. Originally tried 30 secs, but it still didnt work... tried 50 and sure enough, works like a charm. Thanks a ton... this is going to help out big time.

Posted a similiar question in "Unattended Install" with no responses, so hoping people with a bit more understanding of vb script, who ready this category, may have some ideas... Ive created a VBScript that I want to run in the RunOnceEx.cmd of my unattended install. Ive noticed that many commands in my script simply dont get executed when run from this. I created a VBS Script that uses WShell.Sendkey to pass keyboard commands at a couple different portions of the runonceex and they dont seem to work at all... When I run the script normally from windows it does exactly what I want it to do. As a test, I created a VBS script that opens notepad and passes it some text using the WShell.Sendkey command. Sure enough.. I launch it from windows and it works like a charm. I add this to the RunOnceEx registry and all it does is open notepad and doesnt actually pass the keys. I also noticed it doesnt appear as though WScript.Sleep doesnt work either. Ive tried using a batch to call this script from runonceex as well with no luck. Anyone have any idea as to whats so different about this part of windows that would not allow VBS scripts to function as they should??? There are a couple key points in my Unattended that having this functionality will truly help a ton, so Id really like to get to the bottom of this.... Thanks guys and sorry for the double post....

CDROM works fine during installation and once the pc is up and running. Ive only got 1 CDROM on secondary IDE and 1 HDD on Primary IDE. So in other words the cdrom thats prompted as "new hardware" is the exact same cdrom that had been performing the installation all along! Not using VirtualPC or VMWare... this happens on the real deal.

nope... not at all... im just having a hard time figuring out why it would be prompting that this is "New Hardware" when it obviously worked just fine to install windows to begin with. Its also strange that its the only piece of hardware that brings up this wizard. I mean the first couple times I ran my UA install, I didnt have the drivers to a couple of other pieces of hardware, which windows doesnt natively have as well, and it didnt prompt to install these pieces of hardware at this point. any other ideas are greatly appreciated!

ide... and old hitachi dvdrom drive that im having a b***h of a time finding the drivers for...

Trying to do a silent install of the nforce drivers but the problem is the setup for it doesnt let you choose if you want to reboot or not... it just automatically does it. Anyone found a way to get around this?? Thanks!

Very strange occurance happening here.... After Windows completes the initial install and reboots to start the runonceex stuff, it prompts that new hardware was found... my cdrom drive being the new hardware. So Im forced to click next, next, finish of the "Add new hardware" wizard and it installs the native windows drivers for it... once it completes, it prompts for a reboot, which I of course choose no to so my my runonceex, which is still running during all of this btw, can complete... any ideas???

So Im trying to use a vb script: 'Set CreateObject Set WshShell = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell") 'Launch Notepad WshShell.Run "notepad" 'Wait 5 Secs WScript.Sleep 5000 'Bring Notepad window to focus WshShell.AppActivate "Notepad" 'pass text WshShell.SendKeys "Testing123" WshShell.SendKeys "{ENTER}" When I run the vbs script normally, it does what its supposed to- open Notepad, wait 5 secs, type "Testing123", then press Enter. When I try to run this from RunOnceEx, all it does is open notepad and doesnt pass the text... any ideas?

Is it possible to run a vbs using vbscript from the runonceex?

hrmm.. howd i miss those? and ussf?

Yea... to bad VPC eats up all your resources so it takes 5 minutes just to open explorer... vmware smokes it....

1. How can you tell what kind (windows, wise, etc) of installer a program uses? 2. I know of the windows installer setup.iss way of re-directing the installation path of the program, does anyone know what paramters the other installation packagers require? Thanks.

Which key is this? Cant find one called "taskbarxp" Thanks Alanoll

sure enough... it was a FF extension. WebCompose extension to be exact was the culprit.

So is this method the only means of applying this modification? Im currenlty not using an NTUSER.DAT file for my UA Install and noticed that the file also has some other reg entries in it and dont want it to overwrite tweaks ive already applied... should I worry about this? is there another way to apply this setting? THanks!

you woulda thought searching for "task*" would have brought it up, but noo.... sigh... thx alanoll http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showto...3512&hl=taskbar

Thanks Tsunami, but again.. looking for the thread as it had some other info in it Im looking for as well... but I know the thread referenced this page numerous times... in fact the guy whos page this is posted several times as well, was it you? is that your site?

I know theres a lengthy thread around here someplace that discusses how to make youre taskbar 2 rows during UA... again my searching skills are sucking so can anyone lend me a hand here? (really looking for the thread and not the answer so much as the thread also had some other useful info) thanks as alaways....

Yea... screw Virtual PC... that was a **** nightmare... Just got VMWare the the thing cruises! MUCH better than that piece of hell MS Software... (if i had a dollar everytime Ive said that...) Thanks guys.