RunOnceEx Question

[Nightcrawler_77]

Hiya,

I am having problems runnning RunOnceEx with the following syntax:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnceEx]

"Title"="Updating Patches"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnceEx\001]

"Acrobat Patch 6.0.1"="||msiexec /p \\\\TestServer\\TestArea\\Patches\\Applications\\Adobe\\Acrobat\\6\\Ac60BaP1.msp /qb- REINSTALLMODE=omus REINSTALL=ALL REBOOT=ReallySuppress"

Basically Windows NT and XP are picking this up!

Does RunOnceEx work only when Windows XP is setup for the first time or when you reboot your machines for standard packages etc ??

Thanks

Ed

[Yzöwl]

I have no idea what your double pipe is included for, regardless, here would be my guess:

REGEDIT4

[HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnceEx]
"Title"="Updating Patches"
[HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnceEx\001]
@="Acrobat Patch 6.0.1"
"1"="msiexec /p \\\\TestServer\\TestArea\\Patches\\Applications\\Adobe\\Acrobat\\6\\Ac60BaP1.msp REINSTALLMODE=omus REINSTALL=ALL /qb REBOOT=ReallySuppress"

[Nightcrawler_77]

Hiya,

Thanks unfortantly I have tried this and it doesnt seem to work - nothing happens

The double quotes are due to me coping it from a .reg file, there not there when imported.

So on a Windows NT4 SP6a IE6 SP1+ machine which has been running for a year etc

RunOnceEx should work okay for say a patch??

The only refs Ive seen on the net are to do with RunOnceEx.CMD files etc for unattended XP installs from fresh. I want to use it as a tool for just patch updates etc ??

Thanks

Ed

[spazmire11]

you have to restart the machine or exicute a special line after adding thos entries to run it i no you can run it anytime on winxp but i know squat about nt

[Nightcrawler_77]

I have it working on XP now - but dont seem to get anything on NT4 ??? Is it possible anyone ??

I run the rundll32.exe iernonce.dll,RunOnceExProcess - and this then runs them fine ??????

But it doesnt seem to be automatic?

Thanks

Ed

Edited August 1, 2005 by Nightcrawler_77