Installing Office "Bug" Found

[mritter]

As you may have seen, between Midiboy, Kels, and I we figured out that script debugging must be enabled in order for Office to install successfully. But there is a problem: it is disabled by default.

I asked Nuhi to add an option to nLite and vLite to enable it. He said he would in the next release (not any time soon).

I wrote code that checks the keys, changes them, closes WPI, restarts it to let keys take affect. This only works from the desktop, not from RunOnceEx. Once WPI closes itself, the calling script moves on to the next line, not waiting for the new WPI to do it's thing.

So for now, you will have to update your scripts to change the reg keys. New ones will be posted here soon. The keys must be changed before WPI is launched.

What I need now is a 100% full-proof way to check if WPI was launched at RunOnceEx or after the desktop was loaded. My restart method works great when started from the desktop (network share, testing, updates, etc.). I don't want WPI to do this check is stated from RunOnceEx.

Does anyone know how I can check for this? It must work on all OS'es every time. Could be a reg key. Could be the existance of a file. Could be a check for the Start menu button.