Dislocated Time Posted May 28, 2008 Share Posted May 28, 2008 (edited) I'm totally new to WPI and want to delve deeper into the matter.Here's a problem that I don't know how to solve.I installed WPI. I've gotten it to the point where it begins installing programs.Careful now, get this: I'm testing this on a W2K PC for later installing XP on a notebook with the extra proggies installed by WPI.The first program that I wanted to install was MagicISO - the setup filename being renamed to setupMI.exe. A popup appeared that told me I'd have to reboot.I have understood that the W2K operating system does not have the taskkill command, but rather the KILL command. So I tried putting KILL setupMI.exe as the second command in WPI and then attempted installation. No chance - the same popup appears and doesn't disappear. I've tried tskill but that of course didn't work on W2K OR SHOULD IT? My firewall is a bit tough, doesn't let some commands through, but I've set it to allow WPI.hta to be able to terminate programs. Is there some other program inside WPI.hta that also needs permission to kill tasks or what's going on here? How do I correctly terminate the popups? I've been trying all sorts of things in the last couple of evenings. Anybody have and clues to help me out?By the way, as I mentioned before, I downloaded the tools.rar which have been separated from WPI but have no idea where to put it so that WPI can use those tools during my notebook installation. Are these not for WPI? Are they just for my operating system while I am creating an unattended installation or what? Edited May 28, 2008 by Dislocated Time Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ricktendo Posted May 28, 2008 Share Posted May 28, 2008 (edited) When using tskill don't put .exe in the commandtskill setupMI Edited May 28, 2008 by ricktendo64 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dislocated Time Posted May 28, 2008 Author Share Posted May 28, 2008 (edited) I read about that right after installing WPI, but that's not working, otherwise I wouldn't have spent 2 nights trying to figure it out. Have you understood that I am testing it on a W2K system before adding it to a XP CD for installation on my notebook? Edited May 28, 2008 by Dislocated Time Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ricktendo Posted May 28, 2008 Share Posted May 28, 2008 (edited) Try adding process.exe to system32 and tryprocess [-k|-q] setupMI.exehttp://beyondlogic.org/solutions/processutil/processutil.htm Edited May 28, 2008 by ricktendo64 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dislocated Time Posted May 28, 2008 Author Share Posted May 28, 2008 (edited) Tried that just now... didn't work...any other ideas?Let's have a look at all the things I've tried so far.basics:Command line 1: "%wpipath%\Install\MagicIso\SetupMI.exe" /sCommand line 2: tskill SetupMIfurther variations of command line 2:Command line 2: "tskill SetupMI"Command line 2: tskill SetupMI.exeCommand line 2: "tskill SetupMI.exe"Command line 2: taskkill -f SetupMI.exeCommand line 2: "taskkill -f SetupMI.exe"Command line 2: kill -f SetupMI.exeCommand line 2: "kill -f SetupMI.exe"Command line 2: kill /f SetupMI.exeCommand line 2: kill SetupMI.exeCommand line 2: kill %wpipath%\Install\MagicIso\SetupMI.exeCommand line 2: kill "%wpipath%\Install\MagicIso\SetupMI.exe"I've added Process.exe to System32 in Windows Root and tried:Command line 2: process [-k|-q] setupMI.exeCommand line 2: process -a setupMI.exeOk guys... now I'm onto something fishy...I opened up a cmd screen and typed in tskill /? which led me to another command called tlist.When I typed in tlist, an entry appeared called: SetupMI.exeeSO.I experimented and tried tskill SetupMI.exeeSO. and viola the nag screen was gone. This does however leave me extremely suspicious. Might my file be infected? Why is there an extra extension on the file? Could this be a trojan????? Edited May 28, 2008 by Dislocated Time Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chaoticyeshua Posted May 28, 2008 Share Posted May 28, 2008 MagicISO's installation is causing the reboot prompt? I've tried installing it after looking at this post and it doesn't give me anything like that. But anyway, have you tried adding REBOOT=REALLYSUPPRESS at the end of the command? That should get rid of it, there's no need to taskkill unless I'm just totally missing something here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ricktendo Posted May 29, 2008 Share Posted May 29, 2008 Do not use the brackets with process just use -k or -q Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kelsenellenelvian Posted May 29, 2008 Share Posted May 29, 2008 OR dl the extra tools folder and use the "TaskKillS.exe" provided in that it will work n win2k just fine... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dislocated Time Posted May 29, 2008 Author Share Posted May 29, 2008 (edited) I had already put the contents of the tools.rar archive in the folder WPI\tools.What I hadn't tried out was:TaskkillS SetupMI.exe which worked fine. THAAAANK YOU!!! I do have another question now though...Why does the application show a question mark to the left of it after it installs? Does this suggest that there might have been a problem during installation? Edited May 29, 2008 by Dislocated Time Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dislocated Time Posted May 29, 2008 Author Share Posted May 29, 2008 now we're getting somewhere!!!!THANK YOU!! Both your and Kelsenellenelvian's suggestions worked this time. GREAAAAAT!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kelsenellenelvian Posted May 29, 2008 Share Posted May 29, 2008 Lemme see the WPI_log please... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dislocated Time Posted May 29, 2008 Author Share Posted May 29, 2008 (edited) Ehm... uhm... I did a search for *.log in the WPI folder and got no results...Please explain.Uhm well, we have to go to work now... will have to do that later.EDIT: Ummmm yeah Like PLEASE just post a .txt file as an attachment. ~~ Kel ~~ Edited May 29, 2008 by Kelsenellenelvian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dislocated Time Posted May 29, 2008 Author Share Posted May 29, 2008 I thought taskkillS would work fine for everything but I was wrong: DCOMBobulator popup doesn't let itself get killed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kelsenellenelvian Posted May 29, 2008 Share Posted May 29, 2008 WOW thats a lot of text Anyways it's actually an ability of WPI to log the process and keep that log as a txt file at the root of your systemdrive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dislocated Time Posted May 29, 2008 Author Share Posted May 29, 2008 (edited) It's a lot of text that shows how much work you've actually done for us all.Thank you.Sorry, I can't seem to upload a txt file, we tried this morning... for some reason, even when I try to set my firewall to send data without encryption it doesn't send it. Java and livescript is enabled. My mate doesn't want me to "let my pants" down just to upload a text file. There has to be a better way. Anyway, forgive my posting the contents of the file... but I guess I have to.WPI Installation Log FileInstall process started at: Jeudi, 29. May 2008 09:58:44Global variables: %OSLANG%=ENU %WPIPATH%=E:\HFSLIPXPENG\SOURCE\WPI %ROOT%=E:\HFSLIPXPENG\SOURCE %CDROM%=E:\HFSLIPXPENG\SOURCE\WPI %DOSPATH%= %SYSTEMDRIVE%=D: %WINDIR%=D:\W2KSP4 %PROGRAMFILES%=D:\Program Files %TEMP%=D:\DOCUME~1\29thOf~1\LOCALS~1\Temp %SYSDIR%=D:\W2KSP4\system32 %ALLUSERSPROFILE%=D:\Documents and Settings\All Users %USERPROFILE%=D:\Documents and Settings\29thOfMay2008 %APPDATA%=D:\Documents and Settings\29thOfMay2008\Application Data %COMMONPROGRAMFILES%=D:\Program Files\Common FilesList of programs to be installed: DCOM Bobulator Shoot the messenger XP Antispy SpyBot Search & Destroy (Anti-Spyware) FireFox Path Copy-----Jeudi, 29. May 2008 09:58:44 Program: DCOM Bobulator UID: DCOMBOBULATOR Order: 900004 Category: Security Jeudi, 29. May 2008 2008 09:58:52 cmd1 Success (returned code 0): ""E:\HFSLIPXPENG\SOURCE\WPI\Install\DCOMBobulator\dcom-bobby.exe" " Jeudi, 29. May 2008 2008 09:58:52 cmd2 *** Fail *** (returned code undefined): "taskkillS "E:\HFSLIPXPENG\SOURCE\WPI\Install\DCOMBobulator\dcom-bobby.exe"" Jeudi, 29. May 2008 09:58:53 Finished installation. Jeudi, 29. May 2008 09:58:53*** Installation aborted by user ***-----Install process finished at: Jeudi, 29. May 2008 09:58:53 Edited May 29, 2008 by Dislocated Time Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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