I ran wpkg on Vista for the first time today - I initially didn't realise that on Vista the wpkg window won't show up but I guess I don't mind so long as I know it is actually running. Out of interest is this 'feature' mentioned on the wpkg page anywhere? > From: michael at ugilt.net > To: K.E.Jones at bton.ac.uk; wpkg-users at lists.wpkg.org > Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2009 18:16:27 +0100 > Subject: Re: [wpkg-users] Wpkg client > > Keefy. > Did you ever had time to dig further into this? > - asking as I'd really would like to see notifications working in Vista > > Best regards > Michael > > -----Oprindelig meddelelse----- > Fra: wpkg-users-bounces at lists.wpkg.org > [mailto:wpkg-users-bounces at lists.wpkg.org] På vegne af K.E.Jones at bton.ac.uk > Sendt: 9. januar 2009 21:54 > Til: Tomasz Chmielewski; Vladimir Psenicka > Cc: wpkg > Emne: Re: [wpkg-users] Wpkg client > > Hi again, > > Although not strictly on-topic I ran across a few bit on the Vista > security stuff that might be useful to mention here. > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: wpkg-users-bounces at lists.wpkg.org [mailto:wpkg-users- > > bounces at lists.wpkg.org] On Behalf Of Tomasz Chmielewski > > Sent: 08 January 2009 10:59 > > To: Vladimir Psenicka > > Cc: wpkg > > Subject: Re: [wpkg-users] Wpkg client > > > > Vladimir Psenicka schrieb: > > > Hi > > > > > > I have some questions about wpkg client 1.2.1 > > > > > > 1. is there any option to display what is wpkg client doing > > > (instaling/upgrading package 1, etc) in logon messages when system > > boot up? > > > > In versions 1.3.x. > > > > > > > 2. in windows Vista there are no logon messages from wpkg client, > > why? > > > > Because "security improvements" in Vista disallow it. > > Unless someone knows workarounds for that. > > > Absolutely correct and damn annoying too! > > I did hunt around a while back to see if there was a way round it. > As far as I can tell, there are two potential solutions that work "with" > or "outside" the security. > > 1) In theory, signing code and having attributes set in the code > manifest > can allow a service "some" access to the secure desktop. These seemed > useful. > > http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms742884.aspx > http://www.kwakkelflap.com/blog/2007/04/howto-interactive-service-in-win > dows.html > http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms683502.aspx > > It might be possible to put something together from that but I wouldn't > want to be the one to try :-) > > 2) Although it's ugly there's a Group Policy setting that makes scripts > run visibly on Vista. You get a black DOS box when WPKG.JS launches but > anything it does is visible (including any processes it launches). > I haven't tested yet to see if you can override that or get rid of the > DOS box but it might be worth a shot. > > I have a prototype running now that produces a GUI from a COM object > rather than use the client's one. It's a bit more awkward to setup and > adds .NET dependencies but pretty cool ;-) > > I'll tidy it up and bug it as an enhancement. If it's not useful > at least it has some interesting JScript code that I adapted from some > rather cool design pattern examples from the web :-) > > Back soon! > > Keefy > > PS: This is a throwaway comment but I guess if "push comes to shove" > WPKG.JS > could be ported to Jscript.NET and become compiled code instead... The > NET > dependency wouldn't be ideal but the access to the .NET framework could > give it a GUI of it's own and add a lot of really useful routines. > > I actually wouldn't mind having a go at that myself... hrmmm... > > > > > -- > > Tomasz Chmielewski > > http://wpkg.org > > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > > -- > > wpkg-users mailing list archives >> > > http://lists.wpkg.org/pipermail/wpkg-users/ > > _______________________________________________ > > wpkg-users mailing list > > wpkg-users at lists.wpkg.org > > http://lists.wpkg.org/mailman/listinfo/wpkg-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > wpkg-users mailing list archives >> > http://lists.wpkg.org/pipermail/wpkg-users/ > _______________________________________________ > wpkg-users mailing list > wpkg-users at lists.wpkg.org > http://lists.wpkg.org/mailman/listinfo/wpkg-users > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > wpkg-users mailing list archives >> http://lists.wpkg.org/pipermail/wpkg-users/ > _______________________________________________ > wpkg-users mailing list > wpkg-users at lists.wpkg.org > http://lists.wpkg.org/mailman/listinfo/wpkg-users _________________________________________________________________ Make a mini you and download it into Windows Live Messenger http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go/111354029/direct/01/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.wpkg.org/pipermail/wpkg-users/attachments/20090219/893228c9/attachment.html> |