Not-so-Silent Install
Novell Cool Solutions: Trench
By Jan Visser
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Posted: 11 Jan 2005 |
Sometimes when you make a silent installation for your users, it is too silent for the user. Something is happening on his pc but he doesn't know a thing.
I made a simple solution with a vb script which can be launched at the launch script. This lets you notify your users that something is going on.
Place this line in the app object - run before launching
@C:\Windows\System32\wscript.exe "\%path%install.vbs"File: install.vbs
# wait 6 seconds before launching this script
wscript.sleep 6000
# Play a sound
Dim Shell,WaveFile
WaveFile = "c:\windows\media\notify.wav"
Set Shell = CreateObject("Wscript.Shell")
Shell.Run "sndrec32 /play /close """ & WaveFile & """",0,True
# display message
message = "Your Text"
Title = "Title"
intDoit = MsgBox(message,,Title)
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