I rolled out WPKG recently, and I have a had a number of people complain about the 30-45 seconds of apparent "extra" startup time that the WPKG Software Deployment Tool inflicts on their systems. I warned people that it would be there, and the delay seems negligible to me, but it's not creating a pleasant user experience.
This leads me to some questions that could lead to feature requests... 1. Is there a way not to show the "WPKG Software Deployment" window when the service is running? I know the idea is to delay login so that WPKG can do its thing, but that's not always desirable. 2. Instead of on startup prior to login, is there a way to run WPKG silently from a service after the machine is already on? It would be nice if I could set it to run at a particular time interval (e.g, every 4 hours, once per day, etc.), resulting in a periodic pull of new software sort of like Windows Updates. I know I could work around this by scheduling a run of the wpkg.js file, but using a service that is configured with a GUI seems cleaner. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- wpkg-users mailing list archives >> http://lists.wpkg.org/pipermail/wpkg-users/ _______________________________________________ wpkg-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.wpkg.org/mailman/listinfo/wpkg-users
