I'm struggling with very similar issue to the one described in this topic: .
I use PowerShell Remote session to start Internet Explorer application on Remote Computer (I use 'new-object -com InternetExplorer.Application' command.
Everything works great (the session, object creation...) until I call 'ExecWB(6,2)' method. I want to use this method to automatically print page from IE.
After calling that method nothing happens and, what is more, the com object loses information about itself. I cannot use any of its other methods anymore (which worked correctly earlier). The 'gm' command shows only basic COM object methods.
I have spend a lot of time searching for solution - checking if WMI, RPC services work, checking firewall rules, Internet Explorer security zones settings, printer sharing settings...). But I cannot find solution.
What is more, when I do the same from PowerShell window on target computer - everything works correctly. Problem occurs only when I am using Powershell remote sessions.
Does ExecWB method needs some special settings to use it? I'm trying to print a htm file located on the disk of the target computer (which I am connecting to using Powershell remote session). The file opens without problems but I cannot use ExecWB method.
Every helpful screens are already under the provided link.
Thank you in advance for help.
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I'm working with a Lenovo Thinkpad and I'm trying to set the asset tag in Powershell without using Lenovo's WinAIA.exe utility due to restrictions at work (wouldn't be able to access Windows. We would be running everything before we got into Windows Setup via Powershell), and I'm not sure how to go about this. Essentially, the property "SMBIOSAssetTag" (from the WMI class win32_SystemEnclosure) is ReadOnly, and I cannot get around this. I did triple check to make sure that Lenovo does not have its own namespace, and while using the Powershell Module "LenovoBIOS" I didn't see anything that could help me achieve this goal (unless I'm blind and totally missed it). Is there any way to go about this? I've also tried modifying the ReadOnly property of the SMBIOSAssetTag property, but I couldn't get that to work. I'd love any and all feedback. If there is any extra information needed, I'd be happy to help as well.
You don't. The property is defined as read-only in the MOF spec by design.
You're talking about writing to the SMBIOS information, which is an operation specific to your motherboard's OEM. It's up to your OEM to determine the data structure and storage method of the SMBIOS information, and the SMBIOS standard does not provide a standard write method the same way that there is a standard read method.
I'm working on a library that lets users run Node processes from inside another application. The library is called "max-api"; functions for sending data to the host application are exposed through a Node module and are loaded in the expected way:
const maxAPI = require("max-api");
However, the user never interacts with this module directly. Rather, when the host application launches the Node process, it intercepts the call to require, checks if the name of the module is "max-api", and provides the module if so.
This works great, the only issue is we have no way to provide type definitions for this modules. So, the user doesn't get any autocomplete or validation for functions in the "max-api" module. I was thinking of writing a VSCode extension to provide these, but I'm not 100% sure how to get started. Thanks in advance for any advice.
You could write a TS typings file (see Definitely Typed). This would be installed in node_modules/#types and vscode will automatically pick it up to provide code completion for your module.
Ok so I asked a question earlier about a using
webclient.downloadfile($url,$path)
I couldn't open the PDF file because it was coded improperly.
What I now know is that it's because the website ONLY allows Internet Explorer to be used. therefore, I never actually downloaded the PDF, but rather an HTML page..as a PDF. Thus the error. For the website, when any other site is used, a page pops up letting you know so. I found out when I used:
$webclient.downloadstring($url)
..And read through a few lines in the Powershell ISE, coming across the same sentence:
"Detected Incompatible browser. Must use IE 7.0 and up"
Ok. So I did some research and learned about this .AddHeader() Function. I used the following.
$wc.Headers.Add("user-agent", "Windows-RSS-Platform/2.0 (MSIE 9.0; Windows NT 6.1)")
On this website actually. I figured this will trick the site into thinking I am using Internet Explorer 9.0. I typed in $webclient to view all properties of my Net.webclient object and read
Headers: {user-agent}
Sweet I said. Now it will work. But then I tried my .downloadfile function and the same shiz happened.
After running my downloadfile, I checked out the properties for $webclient again and Headers= {} What happened to my user-agent? Can anyone let me know why this is happening or offer any tips to get this working?
This is normal - headers are being reset after the first call made by WebClient. So any subsequent call will have them empty. Here's a proof link from msdn.microsoft.com:
Repeated calls with the same WebClient casues 404
We've found that the second (and subsequent) calls made using a WebClient fail.
This is because any headers are lost. So you need to ensure the custom headers
you use are reset before each call on the same WebClient instance.
I am writing some Selenium RC tests using the perl library WWW::Selenium. At the beginning of the test I need to login to a web form using my username and password.
I noticed that my password is displayed in the Selenium Remote Control "Command History" window as type(password, secret).
Is there any way to suppress the display of the password? Maybe there is a command other than type I can use?
Unfortunately no. You could go into the Selenium core and change it to show ******* when it finds a field named password.
Beware though that this could make life difficult when debugging
I guess we can do this using native methods support.
Think logically every native methods in selenium will be sent to the operating system not to the browser.
So if you use any of the native methods, the flow is like this:
Client Program ----> Selenium RC server ----> to the operating system (in Java this is done using Robot Class)
But all the other non-native methods flow is like this:
Client Program ----> Selenium RC server ----> to the Browser
So, the Command History window operates at the Browser level and the native methods will not reach there.
Here is the code:
selenium.focus("locator");
selenium.keyPressNative("key code"); // this will not be shown in command history
Here the key code is only for one character and if you want string (more than one character), we should rely on our client program to implement the logic.
I have given that code in my previous answers to other posts. If you need it personalised post our exact requirement so that I can give that code tailored to your need.
I am looking for an inverse version of "RunOnceEx".
RunOnceEx does run some program, before the user's shell(desktop&taskbar) start. The login progress will not continue before the runonceex complete.
I want to do exact the same but on user logout.
When she/he logout, all running program shutdown, leaving shell(desktop&taskbar), then ""I wish my program will be execute this moment"", finally logout.
I think it is possible because the "mobsync.exe" is doing that. But I cannot find where and how to do it.
Warning, as said here, gpedit.msc will allow you to configure a logoff script for all users.
If you need that script only for one user, you need to declare it directly in the registry, both in HKCU and HKLM.
To run this only for the current user, you can use WMI to get an information when a shutdown/logout occurs.
Either you write a small C# (or any other language that can use WMI) application or vbs script to listen on the Win32_ComputerShutdownEvent WMI event.
An example C# app can be found here in this question: Get Log off event from system
found in the first result on google for me
To execute a program you can create a script to run it and use group policy to enforce it.
In Group Policy Editor navigate to User Configuration-->Windows Settings-->Scripts (Logon/Logoff)
more information here
If you want a running program to execute code on logoff, then you should hook the WM_QUERYENDSESSION message and look for an lParam value of ENDSESSION_LOGOFF (0x80000000).
It's important to test for this lParam value because the other ones indicate a "forced close" - i.e. your process may be killed before your code is even allowed to run. In fact, most shutdown/session-end messages are only intended to give you an opportunity to run last-minute cleanup code and aren't that safe to respond to with long-running actions; but this particular combination should be OK.
Note: I've never tried to actually run a separate process in response to the WM_QUERYENDSESSION message. It's possible that the window manager will disallow this, like it does during shutdown. Try it and see, I guess.
If you're in a .NET environment (you didn't specify), a quicker way is to add an event handler to the Microsoft.Win32.SystemEvents.SessionEnding event.
What you need is an implementation of GINA. You can run your custom commands in WlxIsLogoffOk function, which gets called when the user initiates a logoff
Once you create the proper GINA dll you can register it here: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\#GinaDLL
Here is an implementation which may fit your needs (it provides a Logoff registry key where you could specify your command):
http://wwwthep.physik.uni-mainz.de/~frink/newgina_pre09/readme.html
As VonC and TFD already mentioned, the Group Policy Editor is just another way to manipulate the registry.
Just make with gpedit the changes (in Userconfig - Windows Settings - Scripts) you like and afterwards take a look in the registry at [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\System\Scripts]
to find out how you can do that directly.
Also on my PC (hanging in a domain) is a hidden folder C:\WINDOWS\System32\GroupPolicy with subfolders for user and machine. Both having additional subfolders called Shutdown and Startup. Maybe you can also use these ones.
If you need something simple and working for a single (or any) user you can make a simple application in C++ or C# for example.
The simplest is having a C# in tray (by simply adding the tray component to the form) and register and event handler for the FormClosing event. It'd look like this:
private void Form1_FormClosing(object sender, FormClosingEventArgs e)
{
if (e.CloseReason != CloseReason.UserClosing)
{
// It's not the user closing the application,
// Let's do whatever you want here, for example starting a process
Process notePad = new Process();
notePad.StartInfo.FileName = "notepad.exe";
notePad.StartInfo.Arguments = "ProcessStart.cs";
notePad.Start();
}
}
So your application will be started with Windows or with the user. It'll wait (using a little bit of memory) and will do something when the system shuts down, or the user log off, etc (by checking "CloseReason" above).