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Booogy has developed a package that is beta right now that does exactly that. http://www.ryanvm.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2319

Right no sif file everything you need for a stand-alone WPI is in the WPI package. With the exception of an icon and a autorun.inf. (You dont really need those.) Since the subject came up I added in an autorun.inf and a wpi.ico to the tools archive for easy use.

Fixed the installation order problem in rc2 go get it!

Exactly what zc au said it really is that simple...

Hmmm right now WPI halts the desktop loading while it runs but we can look at it not stopping the loading process.

You really should finish that theme out it is splendid!

DO you get "such and such a file cannot be found" on all entries?

I am just curious but can you provide a screeny of the banner?

XP Pro SP2 done by me: Updated for 5.0 final...

Does WPI check for WPI.hta, WIN51 and Driver.cab <--- WPI searches for any one of those files and runs from there...

Please don't yell we are here to help and we know you may be frustated, but for gods sake please don't yell....

LOL will look further into the installation by order section. (I think I know where it is wrong at)

KInda cool theme there

Windows Post-Install Wizard (WPI for short) is a hypertext application designed for giving users choice. While Windows XP offers many ways of customizing the setup process out of the box, its major drawback is the lack of being able to select which applications an end user may install. In the past, end users and administrators needed to either download the files manually, or create overly complex scripts that could only be used once. WPI allows you to create one image, which can then be custom configured, and optionally, automated, so that end users can install any applications that have been configured into WPI. This is a gigantic release and a HUGE milestone for WPI! Mritter did most of the work on this one and it has been in development for over 3 months. Highlights: WPI now logs the installation proccess. (Default is saved at %systemdrive%\WPI_Log.txt) Nearly all text is now translatable. No WPI.cmd. Reschanger and Fontinstaller are now integrated. Custom installer window. (Even theme-able) Options menu has been fully re-tooled. Options wizard is now tabbed. Config section is extremly fast now! Execute before and Execute after sections. WPI checks for WPI.hta, WIN51 or Driver.cab and uses any one of these for the dir identifier. Newer audio player so Audio.exe and CloseAudio.exe are no longer needed. (No more false virus reports!) Notes! Your old config file is still useable just copy it to your wpiscripts folder. Your user options file is no longer useable you must resave all options. Suggested disk folder layout: With the above folder layout all your config entries should read like: %wpipath%\Install\Blah.exe 5.0.1 Changelog: * Thanks to "almulder", the wizards now have background colors and images for easier reading over the main background image. I made it fully themed, which, changed the wpi.htm theme file some and added some new images to the themes folder: OptionsBg.jpg, OptionsTabDown.jpg, OptionsTabUp.jpg Look in the wpi.css for style sheet editting. * Nearly every item is now fully style sheet compliant. Added for: <HR> for 3 types all the wizards text and buttons Look in the wpi.css for the new options at the bottom and near the top. * Took out message after saving a config file. Mouse goes busy and all buttons are disabled. Mostly for looks. * If a grayed condition is true, the checkbox is now disabled so there is no way it can be selected. * Completely re-wrote the installer code with a lot of help from user Djé. The handling of arguments was not working in all situations. RegEdit needed a little tweaking, also. * Added these new translations: German, Romanian, French, Polish, and Russian. Thanks to all the translators. * Now when the option to disable category checkboxes is checked the boxes wiil not even be shown. rc2 Changelog: * Created built-in installer with progress bar and embedded MediaPlayer. There are no known problems with MSI installers. * Created new Config Wizard with only one set of gadgets. This greatly reduces the time required to render the config because it used to duplicate the 240 lines of code for each program. Hence, if you have 100 programs, it would take 24,000 lines of code and a lot of time to display. * Changed the base theme .htm and .css files to reflect the above changes. It now checks for the minimum version required. This will require all previous themes to be updated. * All .htm files have been cleaned up and MANY coding errors fixed. * All source files have been cleaned up and MANY MANY errors corrected. * Most of the code has been touched and updated to reflect new changes. * Re-arranged some of the control buttons. * Re-arranged most of the gadgets in Options Wizard to group similar items better. * Added: Disable category check boxes. So can't select entire catetgory with one click. User request. * Added new version of Tip Message. Removed old flevPersistentLayer() code. Smaller and cleaner code. This also changed the Style[] flags a bit. * In Tools folder is a demo of Tip Message to show the possibilities by simply changing the Style[] tags. * Added option to disable showing of tool tips. * Moved Text Indent from Config Wizard to Options Wizard so it gets set globally. Having the option for every program is redundant and wastes code/memory. * Config Wizard is now "smarter". Example: if picture not specified then child gadgets are disabled and values not saved in config.js file. * Using the built-in WPIPath() instead of the ".\\common\\xxxxxx.yyy" method. * CD check now checks for the existance of 3 files. The absolute path check looks for 2 files now. * Added MAKEDIR command to go along with FILECOPY, DIRCOPY, and RENAME. * Added an extra bug tracker. Still not perfect but better than what was available. * Moved all the global variables from their respective .js file into main.js to group them all together. Easier check for duplicate names and for future enhancements. * Moved all .js files into WPIScripts. * Fixed bug in themes/wpi.htm in selecting the proper 'load_checks'. It worked for defaults, but not a specified name. * Updated bug with cat and config drop-down box selection. * Removed Reload button from Options Wizard due to a snag in the way the config lists drop down box needs to be updated. * Options Wizard: config list and check on load gadgets now work together. * Changed timer='yes'; and ReallyForce='yes'; to true/false statements. WPI still checks for both for backwards compatibilty. More consistant with rest of options. * Took out smallbart.gif and smallbarb.gif in the themes. * Removed appsPerInstallWindow. No longer needed since not using RunOnceExe. * Removed all the 'var' tags from the useroptions.js file. Redundant. * Removed sorting option. It now always sorts the items in their category. Now it checks if installByCategory=true, then it installs in the order the items are listed in the windows (sortorder[]). Else, it will install by user's specified order. * Category checkbox is now checked at start if all sub-items are checked by default. * Updated ExtractArgs() and installer to allow spaces in path name. * Spread the Options out across 4 tabs: Interface, Installer, Tools, and Miscellaneous, to un-crowd the window. This is especially usefull on screens less than 1280x1024. * The new Tools tab includes: Execute Before, Execute After, and Restart Computer. * All the * Yes * No radio boxes have been replaced with single checkboxes. * Added Exit buttons to all the config wizards. Still can click on the button again to toggle back to main display. * Fixed a bug with ReallyForce. When hit Exit, it would install everything that was checked, not just what was set as forced. * WPI now checks for a minimum version of useroptions.js. This is due to the changing of several option's names. The old file will have to be deleted and a new one saved. * WPI now checks for a minimum version of audio.js. Updated how the file is saved. The old file will have to be deleted and a new one saved. * WPI.hta now internally sets and deletes the Registry keys it needs to run properly. * WPI now internally changes the screen resolution, depth, and refresh rates. Added new gadgets to Options->Tools. * WPI now internally installs fonts needed for themes and system use. Added gadget to Options->Tools. * With the above updates, WPI.cmd is no longer necessary. Run WPI.hta direct. * Moved, and updated, the Audio Wizard from a stand-alone screen into the Options tabbed screen. This removes the Audio Player button from the main window. This also made saving the audio list much smaller so it fits inside useroptions.js. audio.js, audiowizard.js, and audiowuizardtemplate.htm have been deleted. * Added file requesters to all options that could use it. Had to "trick" the system into not showing the textbox associated with the button. The only draw-back is that the file requester is read only, so can't set a default path and if the user cancels a file selection, it uses the last known selection. So it will throw in a previous selection if hit Cancel. * Updated the config wizard a bit to line up the horizontal rule. * Config wizard now handles pictures better: sets defaults sizes and text locations. * The config editor now automatically replaces drive letters with %CDROM% to make it a bit easier for you. ex: C:\Install\Adobe.zip -> %CDROM%\Install\Adobe.zip * The install window now has a style sheet associated with it in the Themes folder. Basic items like fonts and colors can be changed. WPI still controls the font size of the programs listing text. * By making the install window a normal window, the audio had to be removed and the old external audio player is used. * Added Extra Width and Extra Height gadgets to the Options -> Installer tab to increase the size of the install window if needed for longer text or larger fonts. The window does not resize automatically. Needed for localization. * Seperated all the Show Optional Buttons to their own option to show only what you want to see. * Added to Options -> Miscellaneous, Log Installation process. Useful for error checking of path names and such. * Re-arranged the Config wizard gadgets into a more logical order. * Added DELETE to the list of built-in commands. * If no install order specified then entries now start at 900,000 instead of 5,000 to allow for for category numbering. * When go into the Options or Config wizards, the Begin Install button is hidden so you are forced to save your work or toggle out before you can begin installing. * Fully themed the installer window via the style sheet installer.css. Images are now in the Themes folder: InstallBg.jpg, InstallProgBar.png, InstallSuccess.gif, InstallFail.gif, InstallPartial.gif * Added check boxes for Execute Before/After to disable them for testing purposes. * Split part of main.js code into core.js to have the basic routines available for installer.hta and wpi.hta in smaller chunks. Made each of those files smaller; removed redundant code. * Themed the count down timer. Uses InstallProgBar.png for the image. * Every text is now localized, with the exception of a few error messages. * If the useroptions.js file does not exists, a set of default settings will be saved. I have seperated the tools out from the main archive. You can download the tools here: Tools archive. Contents of the tools archive: cmdow Universal Silent Switch Finder PEiD WPI Config Lister CDSwitch autorun.inf wpi.ico Here is a quick start package that will set your windows disk up to use WPI with runonceex all you need is to place this %oem% folder at the root of your windows disk. You MUST have the line "OemPreinstall=Yes" in your winnt.sif file %OEM% Folder. Contents of the %OEM% archive: Media Center Style XP Theme (NO uxtheme.dll hack needed!) cmdlines.txt regentry to set MCE theme for runonceex window. runonceex.cmd Manual: Download Here. How to make a winnt.sif file. Screenshots: New Config Section Options Section New Installer Proccess Window Now that all of that is over with here is the download link: Download Here! Here is a small tutorial on how to add an app to WPI! Ok this is a sample (Very simple) configuration for Windows Defender Beta 2 This assumes you have all of the WPI files either in the WPI folder at the root of your Windows cd or all of the WPI folders (Common, Graphics, WPIScripts, Tools, Install and Themes) and the file WPI.hta at the root of your cd. Remember this is just the most basic and required entries for a program! #1 Place the desired app in the install folder. (In this case WindowsDefender.msi) #2 Run WPI.hta and choose “Config” #3 Choose at the very top above the config section “Add” #4 Enter in the name section “Windows Defender” ßNo quotes! Then click on any other section of the config area to activate the rest of the wizard. #5 You will notice the Unique ID section gets automatically configured for you. #6 All apps are selected to be installed by default right from the start so if you don’t want it selected by default you must uncheck this box. #7 Choose a category for your app to be displayed in. If you want the app to be displayed in a category you don’t see simply chose other and a box will appear that will allow the entry of you choice. #8 In the Command 1 section browse to the installation package you want to have installed. You will get (%CDROM%\WPI\Install\WindowsDefender.msi) to make this work from either a stand-alone CD or form a windows CD You should change this to “%wpipath%\Install\WindowsDefender.msi” Once again NO quotes! #9 Add the necessary switches for the program to run silently i.e. %wpipath%\Install\WindowsDefender.msi /qn #10 Select the Save and then the Exit buttons and you have now configured your first app!

Here is the official themes thread. Please use imagevenue to host your pics and place them as thumbnails here. No posting full size images! I will delete them and replace with a thumbnail. Keep this thread for theme releases. Any requests can be made in the regular forum section! First is mritters personal theme! It is a modified copy of Glossy with an embedded media player at the bottom. Updated for 5.0 final

Please post all translations here as an attachment! I have attached the english section for you to use as a template.

Post all of your bugs here!

Post all of your wishes for future releases of WPI here!

Yup I was just on the phone with mritter about an hour ago making sure we had all of the last changes done before release of 5.0rc1. Boy are all you translators going to love us! Nearly EVERYTHING is now translatable! (162 lines of text!) But most of that is one or two word statements.

Nope sorry. Actually my bad I did have it on a backup disk so here ya go! Download here

No it is the way I have done it for awhile now...

You could always find a reg file to register hta files and run it before you run wpi.hta. Something like this: [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\htafile\DefaultIcon] @="C:\\WINDOWS\\system32\\mshta.exe,1" [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\htafile\Shell\Open\Command] @="C:\\WINDOWS\\system32\\mshta.exe \"%1\" %*"

Yes you need to be an Administrator to use WPI.

No way possible No matter how much I would like it to run on the other browsers the whole thing would need to be rewritten from scratch and I have no clue of the coding needed for the other browsers. It is way to embeded in hta and html code to run on other browsers.

Here is a link to v1.41 --> http://members.chello.be/sf15418/MEEDIO.1.41.setup.exe