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WillShowUI (Standard 8 Module Reference)

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7/8/2014

Review the applicable Embedded Core modules and any examples for the WillShowUI setting in Windows Embedded 8 Standard (Standard 8).

This setting specifies when to display Windows Embedded 8 Standard (Standard 8) Setup UI pages.

Do not create an empty value for this setting.

The following table shows the possible values.

Value

Description

Always

Specifies that the Setup UI is always displayed and that all disk configurations be done manually.

OnError

Specifies that the Setup UI is displayed only if an error occurs, including catastrophic, non-recoverable errors.

Never

Specifies that the Setup UI is never displayed.

Even if the Setup UI is set to not display, an error message might be displayed if a critical error occurs. To avoid displaying the error message, you can use the ErrorHandler.cmd file to automatically run a script to handle the error.

Modules

The following table shows the modules that you can apply this setting to. In Image Configuration Editor (ICE), you can follow the corresponding path to set this setting for a module.

Module

Path

Setting Description

International-Core-WinPE

Products/Embedded Core/International-Core-WinPE/SetupUILanguage/WillShowUI

Deprecated. Do not use.

Setup

Products/Embedded Core/Setup/DiskConfiguration/WillShowUI

Specifies whether to show the user interface (UI) for this item. You can specify that all disk configurations be done manually by setting only WillShowUI to Always.

Specifies in what circumstances to display the Setup UI for disk configuration.

Because settings in DiskConfiguration are processed before the Setup UI is displayed, you can set this value to OnError and determine the success or failure of the disk configuration by whether or not the Setup UI displays.

Setup

Products/Embedded Core/Setup/ImageInstall/OSImage/WillShowUI

Specifies in what circumstances to display the Setup UI for image installation.

Setup

Products/Embedded Core/Setup/UserData/ProductKey/WillShowUI

Specifies in what circumstances the system displays the Setup UI when applying a product key specified by ProductKey.

Setup

Products/Embedded Core/Setup/WindowsDeploymentServices/ImageSelection/WillShowUI

Specifies in what circumstances to display the Setup UI for Image Selection.

Setup

Products/Embedded Core/Setup/WindowsDeploymentServices/Login/WillShowUI

Specifies in what circumstances to display the Setup UI for Windows Deployment Services login.

XML Example

The following XML examples show how to configure the WillShowUI setting in different modules.

Disk Configuration

The following XML example shows how to configure the device such that Setup displays the disk configuration UI if it detects an error with the partition structure.

<DiskConfiguration>
    <WillShowUI>OnError</WillShowUI>
</DiskConfiguration>

For an XML example of disk configuration, see Disk Configuration XML Example, System with Two Hard Drives XML Example, and Extending a Partition XML Example.

For more XML examples and recommended partition configurations, see How to Configure UEFI/GPT-Based Hard Disk Partitions, or How to Configure BIOS/MBR-Based Hard Disk Partitions.

DynamicUpdate

The following XML example shows how to enable dynamic updates during Windows Embedded 8 Standard (Standard 8) Setup and never display the UI.

<DynamicUpdate>
   <Enable>true</Enable>
   <WillShowUI>Never</WillShowUI>
</DynamicUpdate>

User Data Product Key

For an example that shows how to set user data, see User Data XML Example.

Windows Deployment Services Image Selection

The following example shows how to display the UI if an error occurs.

<OSImage>
     <WillShowUI>OnError</WillShowUI>
</OSImage>

Windows Deployment Services Login

The following example shows how to display the Setup UI if an error occurs.

<WindowsDeploymentServices>
    <Login>
        <WillShowUI>OnError</WillShowUI>
        <Credentials>
           <Username>Administrator</Username>
           <Domain>MY-DOMAIN-NAME</Domain>
           <Password>********</Password>
        </Credentials>
    </Login>
</WindowsDeploymentServices>

For an example of a complete Windows Deployment Services deployment, see Complete Windows Deployment Services deployment XML Example.

OS Image Installation

The following XML example shows how to display the Setup UI for ImageSelection if an error occurs.

<OSImage>
     <WillShowUI>OnError</WillShowUI>
</OSImage>

For an XML example that shows how to set the ImageInstall setting to install both an OS image and a data image, see Setting the ImageInstall Setting XML Example.

See Also

Reference

Thin Client Template

Concepts

Embedded Core Settings