David Davies schrieb: > 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.
Don't enable that feature (i.e., set timeout to 0). > 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. You could use Scheduled Tasks for that. Or remote service schutdown/startup if you want to control it from a central location. -- Tomasz Chmielewski http://wpkg.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
