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Hello Benjamin, I am relatively new to unattended setup, in particular to WIHU.
I have done some experiments with WIHU, and it seems to be an
ideal utility to run after a full unattended setup, especially for
changing 'Registered Owner' name, creation of new accounts, and
continue installing favorite applications. Thanks very much for offering
the neat tool.
I have a couple of basic questions on invocation of wihu that I felt was
not addressed in the help page (http://www.kalytta.com/wihu.manual.php)
which I browsed some time ago.
Where the command line that invokes wihu.exe should be placed
in the unattended setup process for installing applications from CD?
I have guess on this. As the name suggests (post installation), I felt that
the command-line should be placed such that wihu.exe is invoked during
first logon directly from CD. An example script would be
$OEM$\CmdLines.txt
[COMMANDS]
wihu_start.cmd$OEM$\start_wihu.cmd (pseudocode only)
cmdow @ /HID
@echo off
for %%I in (C D ... Z) do if exist %%I:\WIN51 set CDROM=%%I:
SET KEY=HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnce
REG ADD %KEY% /V WIHU /D "%CDROM%\BasicApps\wihu.exe" /f
exitwhere all application installation EXEs are placed in the folder tree with
%CDROM%\BasicApps folder as root.
I hope I am right? I felt calling wihu through CmdLine.txt is better since it runs as a
system service as opposed to 'logged on user service' in the case of '[GuiRunOnce]'
part of winnt.sif. [From ref.chm of xp tools deploy.cab]
Such an invocation clearly makes wihu run during first logon.
However I am begining to get doubts on my understanding after I read a post
[Wihu CreateProcess] that mentioned something about running wihu during T-12
minute stage of XP setup. I am not clear about it. Can wihu be invoked by
GUI setup process during T-12? Should not all applications be installed only
after first logon into some account?
Could someone throw some light please?
Thanks very much
Ganesh
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Where in the unattended setup? Invoked at T-?
in WIHU
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Thanks very much for the clarification.
Ganesh