Getting closer to LastOS way of doing it.

Menu.exe can be compiled with Xojo 2014 available in that repository, but you can simply edit the X:\Sources\InstallApps.cmd to open X:\ssWPI\ssWPI.exe instead of X:\sources\$ssWPI\ssWPI.exe - this was done intentional, also while your in x:\sources\menu.png <- this will change the Menu backdrop. If you have a X:\Sources\ReadMe.txt the Menu.exe will open that for end users to see if clicked on.

From ssWPI you can right click on any item and pick Save Current List, this will copy to clipboard and create a My List.txt file on your desktop with all the items in ssWPI - save using a screenshot of the included apps, you can use as text instead.

X:\sources\$ssWPI\Themes <- ssWPI can also be re-themed using jpg's, pngs's and editing the Style.ini file for fonts and colors.

The blue window color in your setup isn't matching the rest of the dark theme, I know it has to be kept light to read the text, but it would be better gray or a mild color instead of the current light blue. The rest of the theme is really good!

You can in fact remove the user creation and a few other options out of the AutoUnattend.xml (or unattend.xml if you go that route), this will bring up the window asking for user creation like normal, but I can understand with the multiple options it's best to leave it to the end user to decide all of it... so do as you prefer.

Good to see your progress, thanks.

 

BTW I love the iTheme/LastOS based Nano Theme Trouba and I created for ssWPI, it works great and you must agree as you didn't mention otherwise:

Here is some more themes (extract them into the ssWPI root folder, has \Themes included), to try them out run ssWPI and by using the Options/Themes Sub menu (will list them all)

 

I actually made GUI based OS builders in the past that Automated entire mods (NTLite, WinBuilder, Custom Themes and App Overlays, ISO creation), Since we all moved to using Sysprep captures I have no longer updated it - So I've been trying to get more people excited about modding for many years and also trying to make tools that everyone can use in any way the want, so for instance if someone wanted to add their own Apps to ssWPI they could and hopefully people can pick and choose what they want included in their own USB installer regardless of the modders releasing them, it never stuck tho. Those smart enough to use my tools were happy sticking to the methods they have always used (Silent SFX Archived apps, $OEM integration, Kels WPI or others) I can understand diversity creates choice and innovation, but each modder was spending longer and longer updating the included apps instead of focusing on Tools, graphics, themes and tweaks. It was worth a try way back then and now there is renewed interest it's better late than never, if you end up adopting it

So I am still happy to help you out with whatever you need, eg if you have trouble theming ssWPI, Menu or anything (even Menu Items added or removed), Just share your concept(s) and ask.

 

It might be nice if LastOS was mentioned under "Support", in addition to TeamOS.

As Glenn mentioned, while others have seemed to stick with their tried and true methods of including many apps with their releases, we decided that it made more sense to keep the release size smaller, and use a separate app disk, or an app repository. and allow the user, through ssWPI, to decide which apps to install. At one point ssWPI was able to download apps directly from our repository, or some other one if preferred. If other folks start having enough interest, it might be worthwhile for us to reinstate that ability. The feature was removed when ssWPI's ability to act as a game launcher was enhanced, so I'm not sure how difficult a job that may be.

 

I would probably remake a ssWPI downloader to be more lean and use Nerfedits way of downloading and parsing the direct index.php of the Repository and not have to do it all manually.. it would mean I would have to generate a online description and screenshot repository for it to use instead, but that is still better than users having to manually download the ones they want one at a time... I will think more about it once I update ssWPI this week or next

 

@00Proteus00, That sounds similar to what happened to Glenn that caused him to be banned from TeamOS. Egos indeed. Even if a site was able and willing to include info about every piece of hardware, driver, OS, App, methods for creating them, and full support for them [ which no site in the world has ever been able to do, nor ever will be able to do ] that kind of stance is paranoid and is a type of censorship. Whereas, encouraging folks to explore other sites, learn what they can, and come back and share it with others helps everyone, so what's the problem? Like you say, it's not like you're trying to steal folks from one site to the other, or convert folks from one religion or political party to the other. And even if you were, if you were pointing out things that are better at one place than another, then maybe if they took some of that advice to heart it would improve things. But unfortunately, as they say, power corrupts, and as long as folks believe that what they are doing is "right", or "best", at least for them, then they are not likely to change, until what they are doing effects them personally. --::sigh::--

 

LOL, someone over there posted this:

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PMSL at the image freezer, thanks for that.

I have never told people not to go to TeamOS, they have many OS modders over there, so why would I? I think you should go anywhere you can to learn and share and grow, just do NOT trust every one on the internet to respect you as a person, many only respect the releases and followers they draw in, I personally do not like followers (I am not driven by money or fame) - in fact I don't have any social sites at all or own a mobile phone (since November 2018) I have no real interest in discussing people/groups, only ideas, that doesn't mean I don't respect the time, effort or interactions we have here at LastOS, it just means I enjoy teaching and learning from people, not just learning who they are, what they do and what limited beliefs they have put on themselves - because we are all more the same than we are different - once your past the ego anyway.

So join in here if you want, at the end of the day I appreciate everyone who spends their valuable time and efforts either learning or sharing in anything to make more people save time and become more computer independent at home. Businesses are not aimed at here, also not excluded, but the tools are open sourced, so take them and support them yourself even for that purpose I just want to see the world grow and get stronger as I have been trying to do myself in the last 4 years I have taken off from modding OS's full time.

 

http://forum.lastos.org/index.php?forums/lastos-based-mods-by-other-members.203/

There you go, we are not looking to make a complete listing of every build you ever make just ones that include at least one or more of the tools we build here at LastOS.

Anybody is aloud to make threads for their tinkering, either Windows 10 or any other Windows versions or even Live Base OS Installer boot.wim's or ISO, I'll moderate it as required.

 

At one point I had this working but probably with LTSB. But they keep changing stuff and I've read some posts about IT people deploying images and it drives them mad. If you do it one way, you get a blue lock screen instead, or if you successfully do it for one user account, all other user accounts created will have blue lock screen, etc. So I just let it go, but then again my images aren't highly modded like yours in the visual department. I am a VirtualBox user so I don't use any patched Windows files because of hard checks by VB and the current MS update model, but I commend your courage