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    Posted: 20 June 2007 at 9:07am
The current 'listdlls' 2.25 still gives the EULA Window.
Will there be a cure for t this tool as well?

TIA,
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I don't want to get off on a rant here, but how, oh how do you make Microsoft understand the magnitude of this blunder without resorting to a Lewis Black impersonation? Think of the most grievous blasphemy anyone can inflict on one's personal mythology, and then multiply that by a googol...
 
Mark, you are obviously extremely smart and astronomically intelligent... Why did you let this happen?
 
And Microsoft, shame on you. Shame, shame on you. To quote a great writer, you have forgotten the face of your fathers. You have displayed what can only be adequately explained by either dull malice or acute idiocy. Even deciding by flipping a coin, the statistics are not in your favor.
 
Of course, this is just my opinon. I could be wrong.
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I just want to add another voice urging Microsoft to either drop the EULA for all Windows Sysinternals or to show EULA only once upon installation (or unzipping). I haven't posted to these forums or the old Sysinternals forums, but I have avidly lurked and am responsible for dozens of fellow System Administrators adopting the tools. A BIG factor in my recommending the tools to so many peers was their *pure* commandline nature. I, like many others, was sort of shocked but not shocked when Microsoft immediately violated that pure nature upon acquisition from Messrs. Russinovich and Solomon by adding a GUI dialogbox that, at one stroke, broke thousands of non-interactive scripts-- some of them essential to the basic operation of entire LANs and WANs... Let's please be consistent: either dispense with this EULA for the Sysinternals executables or pop up an EULA every time anyone opens a CMD window, and again when they type DIR and hit enter, and again when they type CD [path] and hit enter, etc,., ad nauseam. Dead.

Come on now, guys Wink.


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Good evening, Rodney.

The 2 programme authors, Mark and Bryce, do monitor this forum. So they read our thoughts about the EULA prompt and its negative impact on scripts, be assured.

So writing a petition will not be required in order to let them know.

I will refrain from speculating on both open questions:
+ why the EULA acceptance dialogue was added to the command line programmes
+ how good or bad chances are it will be removed again

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Who do we need to petition to get the prompt removed entirely from any sysinternals.com tool?

It seriously weakens the usefulness of all the tools.  Ouch

Is there someone we can all write to or petition about getting this changed or is it Microsoft's way of getting people to buy their pay-for solutions?
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Hi, dcohn.

Have not tried it, but I bet BGInfo now acts like all those utilities that
+ require the EULA confirmation
+ have been updated after 04-Dec-2006
+ accept the "-accepteula" commandline option:

(1) The webpage does not mention the parameter.
(2) The help screen ("[command] -?") does not mention it.
(3) The graphical EULA dialogue box somewhere does mention it.

But if you simply add "-accepteula" to the commandline, it will work.

HTH,
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I just ran a newly download BGinfo and I no longer asee the Eula accept option under nthe help.  is it gone?
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I would like to place my vote that the EULA prompt be removed entirely.  While being able to add registry keys or using a command-line switch allows one to work around the problem, it can be very inconvenient especially since each user on a machine must do it.

I would think that Microsoft could simply package pstools into a self-extracting exe installer that prompts the user upon installation.  Only one prompt would occur during installation and never again.  They do it with the Windows Resource Kit already.
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grrrrr... the last version of contig is from November 2006. Ok, I'll wait.

Thanks for your answer Karlchen!
Yann

Originally posted by Karlchen

The PsTools commands all have been updated.
In fact the first complete set of PsTools commands to accept the "-accepteula" option was released in December 2006.

One way of detecting possible new candidates which might accept "-accepteula", visit Sysinternals Utilities Index and check for release dates later than Dec. 2006.
(Anything older than Dec. 2006 will definitely not know "-accepteula".)

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The PsTools commands all have been updated.
In fact the first complete set of PsTools commands to accept the "-accepteula" option was released in December 2006.

One way of detecting possible new candidates which might accept "-accepteula", visit Sysinternals Utilities Index and check for release dates later than Dec. 2006.
(Anything older than Dec. 2006 will definitely not know "-accepteula".)

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