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Can the T-12 thingy be changed? In older versions (pre 2.xx) WIHU was able to run, without being greyed out.

I have been trying this myself for about a year now, non of the methods/packs that are posted here seem to work on this board (P4C800 Deluxe, not the -E- version). During textmode install the drivers are loaded and the harddisks are recognised. GUI-mode install also works, but when Windows wants to boot for the first time after that, it crashes because of the missing drivers (it displays the Windows logo screen for one second and then resets the pc). When i connect that drive to the motherboard (ICH5 chipset) connector it normally boots to windows without problems. After manually installing the Promise drivers, and connecting the drive back to the Promise controller, it works normally without resets. All methods result in this problem. Is there anyone with this board that got it to work in sata of raid mode?

Thanks for adding this, tried it and works perfectly!

I am using the "settings" part of wihu to give a user an interactive option to create a new primary user. I pre-fill the dialog boxes with defaults for username/password/etc. That way, if no user input is detected, the program will continue and create a default user. Is there a commandline parameter to enable "Add administrator rights to new user", or is it better to use the .ini file for setting these defaults? If so, then how would i add a user to the Administrator group? Another question, is it possible to remove/hide/disable the "load" button?

About the not installing xpi part... When running CMD.EXE, using (*.xpi) assumes you are already in the right directory. This is most likely not the case. So the command should be changed to scan the correct folder for xpi's. Maybe somthing like (c:\install\firefox\xpi\*.xpi).

Thanks, handy to have these in one file.

You can do a silent install using: lusetup.exe /q

Have you tried using RegMon to find it?

I have an external 80GB USB 2.0 harddrive and it is seen by text mode setup. My 256MB stick is not seen. Maybe text mode setup only shows drives big enough to install windows on.

@Alanoll / Benjamin: Look here for an example tree view. This looks VERY good Almost can't wait for this to be implemented

@Dali In this beta you could use the "Hide" command for this purpose. In the sample "install.ini" file of v2.0 beta change: [Multiple command.x Test] .... hide.0=1 hide.1=1 hide.2=1 The result will be 1 description line [....] which will execute 3 commands when selected. @Benjamin: I actually requested the hide option to have a possibility to always let commands be executed (hide an entire section). This way, the user can NOT DEselect these commands. In the latest beta you always(?) have the [.....] description, and you ARE able to (de)select this line. Are you still planning to inplement the old functionality to hide an entire section ? Another question, are you planning to implement "Windows Explorer" like Expand/collapse [+] , [-]. The way you display the list now, my software list has gotten twice as long I am sorry to say, but the way the latest beta operates/works now, i prefer the old version Only missing thing there is the "skip software installation dialog" part Otherwise, you are doing a great job i am sure things eventually work out.

I like the look of the app as it is now, could be a little bigger though. But if it's to much of a hassle you can leave it the way it is. It's fine by me.

@PoloDude: Did you try using "C:" instead of "%systemdrive%" ? It could also be a bug in the beta versions of .Net and Visual Studio.

Benjamin, two questions: 1. Correct me if a am wrong, but using the /admin=<name> commandline parameter it is not possible to create a new account and rename the default Administrator account into that. Maybe that could be realised by adding a checkbox "rename default Administrator account" next to the "Administrator rights" one. 2. I can check a file using the File.x= line in the install.ini file. Can this command also be used on files without a version number. If not, could you please add that. Not all files have a version number (e.g. some MS Powertoys). Only checking if a file exists is enough sometimes.

@PoloDude Starting progams from cd\dvd is possible. Just start WIHU from cd and it will search on the same drive for the programs. You don't need to use %cdrom% in your install.ini, instead use a command like this: [Miranda IM] command=miranda\Setup.exe /S description=like ICQ In the folder where wihu.exe is located it will look for the "miranda" folder and start "Setup.exe /S"

@pastl: That would be a great feature. It could also be user to register programs through a .reg file. You know, first install and then register the installed program. That way you wouldn't need a seperate install option to register the installed software.

> Satus/Error log view were added Is it possible to output this log to a file (e.g. c:\wihulog.txt) ? Maybe through a setting in the install.ini file.

I run WIHU twice. The first time from cmdlines.txt, here i let the user setup an account and use the parameters %NewUserName% and %NewUserPassword% in the install.ini file to run a batch file which sets up autologon for the newly created account (optional through checkbox, default = enabled). Through cmdlines.txt i setup a runonceex event for after first logon. After first logon WIHU is run again. This time the account part is skipped (/SkipSettings) and a version with a different install.ini is run. Here the user can select his software and install it (see a few pages back for the install.ini file). As MacroTips said here is where you want a countdown timer, so that after the selected software is finished installing the program doesn't do an instant reset but waits for a while before resetting the pc. Temporary option is to run shutdown.exe through the install.ini file, but it would be nicer if this was integrated in WIHU. Syntax_13

There seem to be two versions of renuser, one here and one here.

Benjamin, maybe you could add a 'rename account' checkbox which calls this renuser program ?

No problem benjamin. Actually, there are some other things i'd like to be added: 1. a commandline parameter to skip the software install part. That way i could run your program twice. Once through cmdlines.txt to create an admin account and setup the computer settings. The second time after first logon with the new account to just run and install the software part, here it would skip the account screen. 2. an option to rename the default Administrator account instead of creating a new admin 3. a possibility to use the name and password of the newly created account as variables in the install.ini file (e.g. %newuser%, %newpassword%). This is used in the cmdlines.txt part to run a batch file which injects the autologon parameters into the registry and thus lets you autologon using your newly created account.

Very nice, but.... your program seems to have a limit somewhere. I don't see anything wrong, but for some reason it stops listing programs at "msn messenger". The checkbox parameter is also ignored. See the attached ini file. install.ini

Great I'll be waiting for it !

Of course i meant CDIMAGE.EXE (v2.47). It's exactle my problem you descibe. I first thought is was a Virtual PC problem, but on a real pc it didn't work either. Try it with Nero. Downside is that you need more room on the DVD. So until someone comes with another solution.....

I have had exactly the same problem. It was occuring while making a multi-bootable DVD with the dos makeiso.exe When i passed about 2.2GB i ran into the same problem. Turned out to be a bug in the program because when i created the DVD with Nero it worked.