ksmith247 Posted July 30, 2008 Share Posted July 30, 2008 I am running a simple MSI based install with a setup.exe. Once setup.exe has kicked off msiexec, setup then closes. The only thing spawned by the MSI is one and at times two instances of msiexec. I would like to pause the script until this install is complete.I tried... $process = "msiexec.exe" While ProcessExists($process) Sleep(250) WendBut found that I can't use it because SMS may be running msiexec under the local system account. During testing yesterday this method took 15 minutes for the script to move on because of SMS.I also tried using WinWait() and providing the title of the window that is visible during the install (running the MSI with /passive switch). This didn't work either.I suppose I could halt the SMS service, kill any running msiexec process then kick off my install but I would like to avoid that if possible. Anyone have any suggestions?-Thanks. Support bacteria; it's the only culture most people have.LxP's Learning to Script with AutoIt 3 - Excellent starting placeVolly's Links Page - Links to cool and useful scriptsAutoIt Wrappers - Valuater's AutoIt Wrappers post. Lots of good stuff.Support AutoIt - Make a donation here; I did.[size="2"]#include <Guinness.pint>[/size] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
herewasplato Posted July 30, 2008 Share Posted July 30, 2008 Thinking out loud here... Enumerate all the PIDs of any currently MSIEXEC.EXEs Launch your setup Wait a tiny bit Enumerate all the PIDs of any currently MSIEXEC.EXEs again and look for deltas. Use ProcessWaitClose with a PID to pause the script. Yes - you could catch some MSIEXEC.EXE that just happened to start via SMS between your enumerations - but it seems to be a slight improvement over what you have now. [size="1"][font="Arial"].[u].[/u][/font][/size] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Juvigy Posted July 30, 2008 Share Posted July 30, 2008 The WinWait should work - you should try harder to make it work - try the "window info" tool. You can paste the info in the tool here and i can try to give you the code that you need.You can also try the : RunWait(@COMSPEC & " /c start C:\whatever.msi") Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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