MSMG ToolKit

hi all,
here's how i'm hacking this, feel free to chip in if you want.
1.
i'm using gimagex
to capture to location of the package that i wish to capture to turn in to a tpk.
so example here libreoffice.
i'm going to capture the main programme files directory.
then append the directory which contains the start menu entry's.
i've exported the branch from the registry concerning libreoffice.
after the capture and append process completes, i'm going to rename to .tpk and test it in a windows image.
also will put the reg file generated in the relevant folder in the toolkit folder.
that would be the custom /w10 folder write?
feel free to tell me that this is a load of bull.
or otherwize.
Majid

 

poise master, as brave opera would say, which are also .exe installers, it still operates offline, but brave does not axiste off, only online, and many do not have msi, and the installation will go even in the users folder, what I need is just to know , how to modify this in the reg, if with %% or % the LOCALAPPDATA so that when the user is inserted in the installation, get the same directly, because if it is not recognized, the integrated application even works , however it will not appear in the remove of windows, and not I'll be able to uninstall it, I did several tests here, I tested them and they worked, some I had to integrate with C++ or Webedge, otherwise they wouldn' t work, which ones I saw here are, directly from the users' folder, brave, whatssap, opera, uttorent, it's good that I'm talking this for you to be aware of, about these boring apps lol, thanks again master, ,, and if possible prepare the reg, to integrate directly offline, without sending it to setupcomplete, cool serial, if the master manages to do that, then we can do it all at once...If you could please make the modifications with a video, it would be cool to learn everything how to do it...

 

hi
@Bira
run the brave installer as the administrator,
this should install to the programme files directory.
and not the local user data dir.

 

it's sloppy design that they can't even ask to elevate to an admin.

 

all the applications that I integrate are as privileges as admin, this is from the same application directly from the user folder and from the manufacturer

 

so in other words, what?
system privs?
to be fair, I did use the standalone installer.
not sure if this made a change or not?

 

as I said here, all applications, whatever they are, I always install them as an administrator, so as not to have an error, some install them in the program files, other applications install them in the users folder, this is from the application, being as an administrator, or not my friend mhussain, this is from the app itself...

 

@Bira
sure,
I was mentioning running brave as admin because if not ran as admin, it would install the application in the local userdata install.
I tried this myself before posting so I would not be giveing incorrect information.
sorry if we came to cross purposes.
I thought maybe incorrectly now, that you wanted to install brave to the programe files dir.
and needed assistence.
sorry if this was not the case,
my error!

 

@KFeri
ContentDeliveryManager may be the issue here,
please blacklist as you have been doing with other apps and try again?
Majid

 

that nothing, don't apologize, here we are to help each other, a family, so that we can evolve, thanks for your observation my friend...

 

@Bira
no worries bud.
any time.

 

@MSMG
everyone
hi,
how do you add custom packs to the toolkit that you've created?
the custom pack i've created is not picked up via the menu?
could an option be added where you can place any custom apps tpks could be placed and show up in a menu?
example integrate third party packs.
after that option is choosen, the set directory is scanned for tpks?
thanks!

 

@MSMG something else @inTerActionVRI noted let's go by categories;

User, this one here is even beautiful and integrable;
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\TK_NTUSER

Code:

HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-21-3046749443-1869774967-2158714815-1001

Then he saw these, how do you convert this to integration?

Code:

HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-18
HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-19
HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-20

Code:

[HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-19\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Devices]
"Adobe PDF"="winspool,COM1:"
[HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-19\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\PrinterPorts]
"Adobe PDF"="winspool,COM1:,15,45"
[HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-20\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Devices]
"Adobe PDF"="winspool,COM1:"
[HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-20\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\PrinterPorts]
"Adobe PDF"="winspool,COM1:,15,45"

 

@MSMG

Hi.

If you remember a while ago I reported the subtle nsudo 9.xxx bug that affected me (and apparently just me), that forced me to replace it with nsudo 8.xxx in each recent msmg release.

I didn't investigate further given the problem was easy to workaround using the older exe.

Now I figured finally what's wrong.

I use MSMG on my home server, via RDP, because it's a more powerful machine than my client machines, the same server is used also as HTPC, and is connected to my main TV (in another room).

Hence I use a local "TV" account that autologons and is dedicated to WMC/Kodi/Mediaportal and so on., then I use (remotely) the "work" account to do anything else, MSMG included.

Well using nsudo from the "work" account, gives an error on the "work" account, but it really launches MSMG in the TV account!!!, I never noticed that before because, usually, when I work remotely my TV is turned off, and perhaps it is in another room.

Really nasty bug, which is not present in nsudo 8 (and older).

Speaking of nsudo looks like it doesn't work at all on recent Win11/Server 11 25xxx (no matter if v8 or v9). Maybe it's time to start evaluate a different solution like runasTI or alike.

 

What sort of errors might one see if UAC is disabled? I've had UAC disabled since the day it was first introduced to Windows, but if I'm getting any errors, I'm not seeing them.

 

I was considering using Brave too, but then I came across the same issue you did. I want to install the browser silently, which means it goes in the userdata folder, or run it as admin interactively and it goes in the program files folder. I think Brave messed up there. I use the offline installer.

While on the subject, I am extremely anti-google. Despicable company and I don't knowingly use any of their products or services. I vauely recall Brave needing access to the Google Play store for updates. Am I remembering that right? So to get away from Chrome or Edge, to use Brave you still have to be entrenched in the Google ecosystem to use Brave. As a result of that I had to dump Brave. Shame. It could have been a good browser.

 

The biggest issue with the browsers is that entire market is dominated by the two engines Firefox and Chromium and almost all the browsers are their forks. There's no major differences in any of these forks. What's worse is that what one does is instantly copied by the other. Had expectations when Microsoft announced Edge but they too swiftly switched to Chromium. For Chromium based browsers, Opera and Vivaldi look and feel like a bit different and for Firefox based browsers, Waterfox and Libreworlf are better then the original.