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[Arvy]

Yes, okay. Thanks dera.

In any case, what I was really curious about were JonF's final methodological approach for determining the drive letter variable to be entered into the registry and his placement of that part of his process into the overall VistaPE start-up sequence.

As you point out, the latter factor appears critical to the ultimate impact (if any at all) of the EnvUpdate() function. I'm puzzled about why it should be necessary to keep it in memory if the session manager is actually able to establish it subsequently as it does with all the other entries that are held under the same environment key in the registry.

[JonF]

exactly which script in the VistaPE project was updated?

(anyway i used this au3, only corrected 'REG_EXPAND_SZ' into 'REG_SZ'
and that was my experience:
if the complied au3 ran before the winpeshl.exe via "HKLM\Setup","CmdLine","mycommand.cmd" then the EnvUpdate() not needed at all
and it works also in BS Explorer building only from the WAIK,

if "HKLM\Setup","CmdLine", "winpeshl.exe" used and the complied au3 ran before the vpeldr.exe via the winpeshl.ini [LaunchApps] section
then EnvUpdate() doesn't help)

AFAIK NightMan never created a CDDrive environment variable. He replaced %CDDrive% with the appropriate drive letter as he created the shortcuts, on the fly. But he forgot to do that for the arguments portion of the shortcut specification.

My code is contained inb the script, but here it is:

CODE

$CfgFile = "vistape.cfg"
$CDLetter = False
$Letter = DriveGetDrive("all")
For $L = 1 To $Letter[0]
  If (StringRegExp($Letter[$L], "(?i)^(A|B):$")) Then ContinueLoop
  If (StringRegExp(DriveStatus($Letter[$L]), "READY") <> 0) Then
    If FileExists($Letter[$L] & "\" & $CfgFile) Then
      $CDLetter = StringUpper($Letter[$L])
      ExitLoop
    EndIf
  EndIf
Next

If $CDLetter Then
  RegWrite("HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Environment","CDDrive","REG_SZ",$CDLetter)
; Not many apps listen to this broadcast, but cmd.exe does. So this program
; should be run in a .cmd file so cmd.exe will listen and maintain the environment
; variable after this program exits.
  EnvUpdate()
EndIf

[JonF]

exactly which script in the VistaPE project was updated?

07-config.script. I may have messed up the update; try downloading now.

[dera]

Thanks!
ok, now i can see the updated scripts