Installation Wrapper Scripts [Wise & Visual Basic Scripts]

Installation wrapper scripts usually contains preinstall checks such as checking for existence of SETUP file in the source directory and checking for a particular process [whether it is running or not]. Depending upon the requirement we can use Wise Script as well as Visual Basic script for preinstall checks [install wrapper scripts].

There is no option in Wise Script to check for the process, for example WORD process [WINWORD.EXE]. Using Wise Script you can not find whether WINWORD.EXE process is running or not. However with the help of third party executables like PV.EXE [PrcView] we can find whether the process is running or not. We just need PV.EXE so that Wise Script will use PV.EXE to know whether the specified process is running or not.

PrcView is a process viewer utility that displays detailed information about processes running under Windows.

PV.EXE commandline options: http://makemsi-manual.dennisbareis.com/pv_exe.htm Download link: http://www.softpedia.com/get/System/System-Info/Pr...

Attached are the vbscripts

• Check for the process
• Kill the process
• Install wrapper script

Attached Wise Script will check for the SETUP file under source directory and executes it, if found and also check for the specified process with the help of PV.EXE.

Note: Wise Script will look for PV.EXE under script directory

I hope this will help. Let me know if you need more info.

Thanks,
Eshwar