Custom Shell

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Mule Skinner

I wrote a small application which acts as the shell. It also waits about 30
seconds before it launches the main application.
I do this to keep the Main application from crashing on start up since it
uses allot of stuff that isn't up and going yet.

My Application uses a USB Pen Drive for configuration data and a few other
things. "Most" of the time, My app fires up before the USB drive is
mounted. A few other items like networking and such.

Is there a way for me to see when Windows is Totally up and running,
services and all, without having to use a safe-predefined wait period?

Next, is there a way to call EWF Commit without shelling to the EWFMGR
program? I'd like a button on my shell app to be able to Commit and Reboot.

Thanks,
Richard
 
Hi Mule,


Use following in loop for 50-100 times
{
CMP_WaitNoPendingInstallEvents(INFINITE);
Sleep(10);
}

If there are no installation if progress it will pass in less than an second. But if there is a pause in installation for few ticks
it will wait for next installation to end and then count down.
This is very crude but it should work.


EWF API:
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=...a=group=microsoft.public.windowsxp.embedded.*


Regards,
Slobodan
 
Thanks for the help.


Slobodan Brcin (eMVP) said:
Hi Mule,


Use following in loop for 50-100 times
{
CMP_WaitNoPendingInstallEvents(INFINITE);
Sleep(10);
}

If there are no installation if progress it will pass in less than an
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second. But if there is a pause in installation for few ticks
 
Well, I have search High and Low for the EWFAPI.DLL on the target and on the
development machine and it's not found.
If you remember right, when I was installing your Ram Based EWF Component,
EWFAPI.DLL was not found anywhere.

I searched all the repositories and it's not there either. Is it some place
I'm missing, or how do I get another copy of that file without re-installing
everything.

Richard

Slobodan Brcin (eMVP) said:
Hi Mule,


Use following in loop for 50-100 times
{
CMP_WaitNoPendingInstallEvents(INFINITE);
Sleep(10);
}

If there are no installation if progress it will pass in less than an
Click to expand...
second. But if there is a pause in installation for few ticks
 
Your 100% Correct, My apologies. Lack of sleep I guess. I had performed a
search earlier and found all kinds of stuff but missed the QFE that had the
Api in it.



Slobodan Brcin (eMVP) said:
Hi Mule,
Well you heard about QFE things, right?

If you have read some of few links search gave you would notice that this
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file is part of QFE Q818822 that you can download.
 
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