Interactive Configuration Panel: Streamline Your Device Setup

Table of Contents

• Introduction
• Registration
• Using Advanced Installer
  • GUI
  • Working with Projects
  • Installer Project
    * Product Information
    * Product Details
    * Product Details Tab
    * Software Identification Tab
    * Product IDs Tab
    * Active Setup Tab
    * Active Setup Command Dialog
    * Digital Signature
    * Updater
    * Upgrades
    * Licensing Page
    * CD/DVD Autorun
    * Multiple Instances Page
    * Resources
    * Package Definition
    * Requirements
    * User Interface
    * System Changes
    * Server
    * Custom Behavior
  • Patch Project
  • Merge Module Project
  • Updates Configuration Project
  • Windows Store App Project
  • Modification Package Project
  • Optional Package Project
  • Windows Mobile CAB Projects
  • Visual Studio Extension Project
  • Software Installer Wizards - Advanced Installer
  • Visual Studio integration
  • Alternative to AdminStudio/Wise
  • Replace Wise
  • Migrating from Visual Studio Installer
  • Keyboard Shortcuts
  • Shell Integration
  • Command Line
  • Advanced Installer PowerShell Automation Interfaces
• Features and Functionality
• Tutorials
• Samples
• How-tos
• FAQs
• Windows Installer
• Deployment Technologies
• IT Pro
• MSIX
• Video Tutorials
• Advanced Installer Blog
• Table of Contents

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Active Setup Tab

This tab allows you to add, edit or delete existing Active Setup Commands in your installer project.

Active Setup is a mechanism that enables the execution of commands early during the log-on process before the desktop is displayed. This is particularly useful for making initial user configuration for all users logging on to a system.

Active Setup contains data in both machine specific data and user specific data. The machine part consists of a list of components, each of them identified by an ID. The user data will be a reflexion of the machine data. In new user profiles this data doesn’t exist.

At user log-on, Active Setup mechanism checks if there is a correspondence between the IDs located in the machine part with the user data.

If the ID from the machine part is not present in the user part, a command is executed.

If the ID from the machine part is found also in the user part, no further action is performed as the current user profile has already been initialized.

Commands

In this section, you can create add a new Active Setup command by using[New… ] button. The Active Setup Command Dialog will be displayed.

When a command is selected, you can use the [Edit… ] button to modify it. Also, you can use the [Delete ] button to delete the command.

Topics

• Active Setup Command Dialog
  Modify the Active Setup command options

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