I'm looking for a way to hide or unstick the "Installation Progress" window in a stand-alone boot media custom task sequence.The task sequence opens one program and a command shell and restarts the computer when the program is closed, which works great. The "Installation Progress" window is always on top, even when not active, and it's pretty annoying, so I'm looking for a way to make it behave like a normal window (not be on top when another window is active), or just hide it entirely.It seems like something that should be simple, but I haven't been able to find any mention of how to do it.Thanks in advance,-Damon

I like Brett's solution, but before I knew about that, I've been using the following AutoIT code in a compiled executable. It works fabulously:$WindowName = "Installation"if WinExists($WindowName) Then WinSetOnTop($WindowName,"",1) WinActivate($WindowName) WinMove($WindowName,"",10000,10000)EndIfProcessWaitClose("mshta.exe")if WinExists($WindowName) Then WinSetOnTop($WindowName,"",1) WinActivate($WindowName) WinMove($WindowName,"",$WinPos[0],$WinPos[1])EndIfHope this helps,Trevor SullivanSystems EngineerOfficeMax Corporation Trevor Sullivan Systems Engineer OfficeMax Corporation

You should be able to hide the progress dialog byusing the "Microsoft.SMS.TsProgressUI" COM class in a VBScirpt at the start of your action as follows: SetProgressUI=CreateObject("Microsoft.SMS.TsProgressUI") ProgressUI.CloseProgressDialog 'Dootherthings -- Brett This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. Just what i was looking for Brett! Do you also know what the method is to show the progress dialog again? I've been searching all morning and i can't seem to find any information on this class.thanks!

The TS Progress dialog should automatically re-appear as soon as the next step in the task sequence starts. -- Brett This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. Awesome! It works like a charm! Thanks again!

Brett, Is there comprehensive documentation on the public interfaces of the Microsoft.SMS.TsProgressUI COM class? Thanks, Trevor Sullivan Systems Engineer OfficeMax Corporation Trevor Sullivan Systems Engineer OfficeMax Corporation That would be very interesting to see, yes! ------------------------------------ Kenneth Titlestad http://deploymenttech.com/ MCSE, MCTS:SCCM Kenneth Titlestad ----------------- MCSE | MCTS:SCCM www.deploymenttech.com Kenneth, I would surmise that you could manually register the TSUI COM DLLs on a Windows machine using regsvr32 , and then use OleView.exe to look at the public interfaces. OleView.exe is included with the Windows 2008 SDK download. There is also another type library viewer that someone sent me via comment on one of my blog posts . http://www.itripoli.com/itlv.asp Trevor Sullivan Systems Engineer OfficeMax CorporationTrevor Sullivan Systems Engineer OfficeMax Corporation

Have tried lots of things to get a peek into the Microsoft.SMS.TsProgressUI and try to use some of it's methods, but with no luck. Can call anotherof it's methodsin winpe (can't remember what it was), but can't for the life of me figure out how to register the component in Win XP to get to test/debug in Visual Studio. Have tried to do standard regsvr32 but no luck. Inspecting classes and register on winpe have brought me no further, either. Haven't tested oleview, must look into it, thanks. Kenneth Titlestad | MCSE | MCTS:SCCM | www.deploymenttech.com

Kenneth, Cool, well please post back your results if I don't come up with them first :) (I probably won't, due to other priorities, unfortunately) Trevor Sullivan Systems Engineer OfficeMax CorporationTrevor Sullivan Systems Engineer OfficeMax Corporation

Thanks Brett.Trevor SullivanSystems EngineerOfficeMax CorporationTrevor Sullivan Systems Engineer OfficeMax Corporation

Kenneth,Nice, quick turn-around!Have you tried using a type library viewer, or Visual Studio to investigate its public interfaces?Trevor SullivanSystems EngineerOfficeMax CorporationTrevor Sullivan Systems Engineer OfficeMax Corporation

Tried the iTripoli Type Library Viewer you linked to. Works very well, though a bit laggy. Thanks. The com object now alsoworks withVisual Studio, as expected, and get to browse its interfaces. Kenneth Titlestad | MCSE | MCTS:SCCM | www.deploymenttech.com

Kenneth,Would you mind posting your results, either in screenshot form, or ideally text that describes the interfaces (return values, function parameters, constants, etc.)Thanks,Trevor SullivanSystems EngineerOfficeMax CorporationTrevor Sullivan Systems Engineer OfficeMax Corporation

In Visual Studio, I create a project- I go to Project -> Add Reference -> COM -> SMS TSE Progress UI In the Object Browser I find the ProgressUILib with the following info: ProgressUILib.IProgressUI.ShowActionProgress(String, String, String, String, UInteger, UInteger, String, UInteger, UInteger)ProgressUILib.IProgressUI.ShowErrorDialog(String, String, String, String, UInteger, UInteger, Integer)ProgressUILib.IProgressUI.ShowMessage(String, String, UInteger)ProgressUILib.IProgressUI.ShowRebootDialog(String, String, String, String, UInteger)ProgressUILib.IProgressUI.ShowSwapMediaDialog(String, UInteger)ProgressUILib.IProgressUI.ShowTSProgress(String, String, String, String, UInteger, UInteger)Sample, creating a quick vbscript (in VbsEdit, not VS)'----------------------Set ProgressUI = CreateObject("Microsoft.SMS.TsProgressUI")ProgressUI.ShowMessage "Test", "Test", 2''-----------------The vbscript gives me a plain messagebox, working fine. Kenneth Titlestad | MCSE | MCTS:SCCM | www.deploymenttech.com

Just want to mention that in XP tsprogressui /registerAlso works.

Trying this in an HTA file. What happens is I get an extra window that opens between the hta and the front end progress UI. Very strange. Any hints?

hi this works: dynamic objTS = Activator.CreateInstance(Type.GetTypeFromProgID("Microsoft.SMS.TsProgressUI" )); objTS.CloseProgressDialog();