How to Suppress "Systems Settings Change" - "Do you want to restar

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Hello Everyone,

I Have an XPE image I will be using for a Point of Sale application and at
the moment I have the automatic logon component running so that my "clonned"
image (post fbreseal) will automatically logon and start some configuration
scripts. This works fine but my confuration scripts run and in the middle of
executing the scripts I get a message titled "Systems Setting Change" -
"Windows has finished installing new devices blah blah blah - do you want to
restart your computer now?" I know this a plug and play issue but I want to
suppress the message and let my scripts reboot the system.

Any idea's? (by the way this is happening on a VMWare machine (not my actual
hardware) so they plug and play is probably related to the VMBios etc however
I would still like to suppress this message.


Thanks in advance,

Peter Arians.
 
Hi Peter,
Any idea's? (by the way this is happening on a VMWare machine (not my actual
hardware) so they plug and play is probably related to the VMBios etc however
I would still like to suppress this message.
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I didn't suppress the message itself, but I wrote simple MFC application
that blocks all mouse and keyboard input. It hangs on top and shows
something like this:

"This application blocks all mouse and keyboard inputs while the
installation is in progress.
Once the installation is complete the system will resume its standard
operating mode."

The script executes it as a first line and does it's job without user
intervention. Note that in this case the script's key manipulation is
also filtered out.

I can't send you a ready made app, but I can post main code parts...
 
Peter said:
Hello Everyone,

I Have an XPE image I will be using for a Point of Sale application and at
the moment I have the automatic logon component running so that my "clonned"
image (post fbreseal) will automatically logon and start some configuration
scripts. This works fine but my confuration scripts run and in the middle of
executing the scripts I get a message titled "Systems Setting Change" -
"Windows has finished installing new devices blah blah blah - do you want to
restart your computer now?" I know this a plug and play issue but I want to
suppress the message and let my scripts reboot the system.

Any idea's? (by the way this is happening on a VMWare machine (not my actual
hardware) so they plug and play is probably related to the VMBios etc however
I would still like to suppress this message.
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We occasionally have a similar problem. An automatic update we apply
causes a popup asking for the unit to be rebooted, and various scripts
run in the background at various times, popping up command windows,
which we also don't want the user to see. The update works fine even
without the reboot, and the unit will reboot overnight when it's not
being used anyway. We run a small application which does nothing but
display a screen full of flat colour and steals focus from everything
else apart from our 'real' app. Between them they hide everything we
dont' want the user to see.
 
Thanks,

I look into writing a script that does something similar and makes use if
Heidi's idea to still focus and pop up a blank screen.


Regards,
Peter Arians
 
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