Category: Repackaging

…a simple and often used application for this example is Windows Media Player. when one instance of Windows media player is running, you can *NOT* open the second instance. If you try to open, it pops up the first windows itself and overwrites your old song with new song you selected. You can get rid of this behavior and enjoy the remix of two songs with Windows Media player with multi-instancing the wmplayer.exe process. Solution for Multiple instances: Open one instance of wmplayer.exe and start a song. Open processExplorer and Kill the wmplayer.exe handle(BaseNamedObjectsMicrosoft_WMP_70_CheckForOtherInstanceMutex) Open another instance of wmplayer.exe, play […]

Windows ® Installer. V 5.0.7600.16385 msiexec /Option <Required Parameter> [Optional Parameter] Install Options     </package | /i> <Product.msi>         Installs or configures a product     /a <Product.msi>         Administrative install – Installs a product on the network     /j<u|m> <Product.msi> [/t <Transform List>] [/g <Language ID>]         Advertises a product – m to all users, u to current user     </uninstall | /x> <Product.msi | ProductCode>         Uninstalls the product Display Options     /quiet         Quiet mode, no user interaction     /passive         Unattended mode – progress bar only     /q[n|b|r|f]         Sets user interface level         n – No […]

As I have worked with different customers, a number of common requests often pop up for changes during build creation on deployment. For Windows XP deployment, I built up a library of VB scripts that carried out most of the customisations that I required (and were run either as part of the image creation process – using BDD, or as part of the deployment process – as post deploy actions) With Windows Vista, I have started to build up the same sort of library and have put together a group of setting changes that can be used in reg files, […]