Windows has stopped waiting for WPI to finish

[idbirch2]

I have been using WPI for quite a long time now but have found that all of a sudden, once the desired programs have been selected and you hit "Begin install" my full desktop starts to load, including start button while the little "Installing applications" is still going.

Previously the desktop wouldn't start to load until all the apps had all been installed and cleanup.cmd had finished, can anyone think why this would suddenly change?

[blinkdt]

Are you running WPI from GuiRunOnce or from Cmdlines.txt?

[idbirch2]

From commandlines.txt. Does that help?

[blinkdt]

Hmmmm, nope, not really. I execute WPI from the Startup directory, AFTER my Desktop fully loads. In your case, according to my read of the material HERE, everything is working as it should: you are not executing RunOnceEx from Cmdlines.txt per se, but rather WPI, which in turn writes the RunOnceEx entries to the registry for later execution at First Logon.

If you are running this from Cmdlines.txt then the system should be rebooting somewhere along the way...is this the case, perhaps after you click "Begin" but before "Installing applications" appears?

Edit: I think I'm in over my head here, sorry idbirch2. Anyone else have any ideas?

Edited June 18, 2005 by blinkdt