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Title Bar Problems With Runonceex During Install

azaze1
in Unattended Windows 2000/XP/2003

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No matter what theme I choose in winnt.sif for the

[shell]

CustomDefaultThemeFile

The RunOnceEx window takes on the appearance of the Classic Windows theme during install, which is of course ugly! So I've been adding the following registry tweaks executed at the time CMDLINES.TXT is run.

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\ThemeManager]

"WCreatedUser"="1"

"ThemeActive"="1"

"LoadedBefore"="1"

"LastUserLangID"="1033"

"DllName"=hex(2):25,00,53,00,79,00,73,00,74,00,65,00,6d,00,52,00,6f,00,6f,00,\

74,00,25,00,5c,00,72,00,65,00,73,00,6f,00,75,00,72,00,63,00,65,00,73,00,5c,\

00,54,00,68,00,65,00,6d,00,65,00,73,00,5c,00,4c,00,6f,00,6e,00,67,00,68,00,\

6f,00,72,00,6e,00,20,00,41,00,65,00,72,00,6f,00,2d,00,4a,00,61,00,64,00,65,\

00,5c,00,4c,00,6f,00,6e,00,67,00,68,00,6f,00,72,00,6e,00,20,00,41,00,65,00,\

72,00,6f,00,2d,00,4a,00,61,00,64,00,65,00,2e,00,6d,00,73,00,73,00,74,00,79,\

00,6c,00,65,00,73,00,00,00

"ColorName"="NormalColor"

"SizeName"="LargeFonts"

This was extracted from a machine running the Longhorn Jade theme, and when this is imported to the registry, the RunOnceEx window takes on the look you see in this screenshot http://geekbox.datacircle.com/temp/themprob.jpg

Well as you can see the text isn't quite right, it is supposed to look like it does in the titlebar of the VMWare window, and the Mozilla download window below the VMware window.

Once this RunOnceEx process finishes, and the desktop is loaded completely, all window title bars look normal. And if I were to configure a RunOnceEx Process for the next reboot, it would look the way it should. It just never does look right when run before the desktop fully loads for the first time after the OS is installed (like from WPI Wizard).

Is there a way to fix this?

Unfortunately, No.

Because RunOnceEx actually runs at a stage before items like 'startup' programs loading up, the desktop being 'drawn' and... themes being applied, there isnt anyway to get around this.

Do a search, there are at least a couple threads that say the same thing.

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