Adam Peart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I'm new to the list, and have only used unattend a couple of times > with no problems, but I have a couple of questions. > 1) with shortcut.pl, can you pass it the name of the shortcut to > create, not just based on the filename? (ie. mplayerc.exe for Media > Player Classic, shortcut was called mplayerc)
The shortcut was probably called "mplayerc.lnk", actually... Shortcuts are always .lnk files.
If you require the .exe to appear in the shortcut name, you could use something like this:
shortcut.pl "C:\...\mplayerc.exe" special:AllUsersDesktop\mplayerc.exe.lnk
But something like this would probably be easier on your users:
shortcut.pl "C:\...\mplayerc.exe" "special:AllUsersDesktop\Media Player"
what I meant was it created the file "mplayer.lnk", but I wanted it to be called Media Player Classic
> 2) is there a spot to run .reg files to customize windows?
You can edit the scripts under z:\scripts (or create a new one) to perform an invocation like:
Is there away to get it to run that todo at the end just before it cleans up the pre-install files & restores the "system restore"?
todo.pl "regedit /s z:\site\mystuff.reg"
> 3) what's the best way to delete shortcuts put on the desktop
The current user desktop, or the All Users desktop :-)?
Current desktop. So I guess it would be easier to run in a bat file to del "c:\documents and settings\(Owner)\desktop\shortcut.lnk" (if I remember the path right).
It would not be too hard to modify shortcut.pl to do this. There are WScript.Shell functions for determining the location of these desktops in the file system; once you have that, you just call "unlink".
> 4) what's the best way to put shortcuts put on the quick launch bar
That is a very good question.
According to <http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/scrguide/sas_wsh_aytf.asp>, the Quick Launch bar shortcuts are kept under:
C:\Documents and Settings\{user profile name}\Application Data\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch
Why "Internet Explorer"? Who knows.
Is "All Users" a valid value for "{user profile name}"? Who knows.
A script for creating such shortcuts, assuming that the Desktop special folder is parallel to "Application Data":
http://rtfm.atrax.co.uk/infinitemonkeys/articles/wsh/986.asp
Maybe I should hack shortcut.pl to accept "special:QuickLaunchBar" and add a "--delete" option. Yes, I think I will. How soon do you need this?
No rush, just a couple of ideas, and for now I can use a bat file to do the trick. Good work with the perl scripts. And just think, when it runs the todo.pl after mapping to z:, doesn't the command prompt run from the current user directory? Maybe that could be used to access the different directories under the current user.
- Pat
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