zbeniamin Posted March 20, 2006 Share Posted March 20, 2006 I have included the batch file which starts WPI in my WINNT.SIF at the [GuiRunOnce]. Now, the weird thing is this: the mshta.exe process is running but the HTA isn't showing up. If I go to the wpi folder, where wpi.hta resides using Windows Explorer, the file has no association (the icon of the file is the "unknown" type of icon). Actually, if you double click the wpi.hta file, the OPEN WITH dialog shows up.Now, how do I get my Windows XP to open the HTA file without any user intervention? (maybe like a REG patch or something?)I exported everything related to ".reg" (did a search) from my current installation -which is able to open HTA files- using REGEDIT, and I merged them all in the New installation and it still couldn't OPEN the HTA file, although it now recognized the HTA file as "HTML Application". So now I'm stuck with an installation of Windows XP PRO SP2 (some windows update patches slipstreamed) which knows what the ".hta" extension stands for, but it's unable to open it, unless I, the user, browse to "%WINDIR%\system32" in the OPEN WITH dialog, and select the "mshta.exe" as the program to open the file with.That's not an unattended installation, for sure... New XP installation specs:Windows XP Professional slipstreamed with SP2, SVCPACKed with the folowing:[SetupData]CatalogSubDir="\i386\SVCPACK"[ProductCatalogsToInstall]KB911565.CATKB911564.CATKB873339.CATKB885250.CATKB885626.CATKB885835.CATKB885836.CATKB886185.CATKB888113.CATKB888302.CATKB890046.CATKB890859.CATKB891781.CATKB893756.CATKB894391.CATKB896358.CATKB896422.CATKB896423.CATKB896424.CATKB896428.CATKB899587.CATKB899589.CATKB899591.CATKB900725.CATKB901017.CATKB901214.CATKB902400.CATKB904706.CATKB905414.CATKB905749.CATKB905915.CATKB908519.CATKB910437.CATKB911927.CATKB912919.CATKB913446.CATHas anyone experienced this before? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Avneet Posted March 20, 2006 Share Posted March 20, 2006 well i built mine on dvd and mhta started but the screen was all white it kept on reading the dvd.. and i have like 35 softwares to be installed through wpi... is teher any restrictions on how many softwares can be done.. coz it was not even able to load up and froze my pc.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zbeniamin Posted March 20, 2006 Author Share Posted March 20, 2006 There's no limit to the software entries in WPi, as far as i know (maybe 999999? ). Did you get a chance to look at the config examples that ship with the 4.3.8 version? They have way more than 35.Did you ever try starting the WPI from hard drive? Just double click the WPI.HTA file, skip the CMD script. If it loads up, and there's more than just a blank screen, this must mean that the DVD your burned is not being read properly by your DVD drive.Oh, and you might want to try your WPI from the DVD ISO before you actually burn it. Take the ISO and load it up in an emulator like Nero ImageDrive, or Daemon tools, or Alcohol 120% or any other CD/DVD emulator software out there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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