Silent vs Standard Skin

The silent skin is fast. Very fast. It is strongly recommended on older computers! Especially when using NT4. The silent skin is fast, because it doesn’t have to load Internet Explorer.

When an error occurs, the traceback information is going to be recorded in the event log. The user will be notified by a message box.

Use the standard skin only on fast computers. When an error occours, the window will be expanded to show the traceback information and the error. The error is not going to appear in the event viewer.

Modify logon.wsf or enter parameters

When you look at the logon.wsf, you will see the following:

<job>
	<!-- Default modulear job -->
	<script language="VBScript" src="ConstantsGlobals.vbs" mce_src="ConstantsGlobals.vbs"/>
	<script language="VBScript" src="FunctionsSubs.vbs" mce_src="FunctionsSubs.vbs"/>
	<script language="VBScript" src="SkinStandardLanguageEnglish.vbs" mce_src="SkinStandardLanguageEnglish.vbs"/>
	<script language="VBScript" src="SkinStandardSkin.vbs" mce_src="SkinStandardSkin.vbs"/>
	<script language="VBScript" src="Commands.vbs" mce_src="Commands.vbs"/>
</job>  

<job id="Silent">
	<!-- Can be runned with Wscript.exe //Job:Silent pathtoLogon.wsf -->
	<script language="VBScript" src="ConstantsGlobals.vbs" mce_src="ConstantsGlobals.vbs"/>
	<script language="VBScript" src="FunctionsSubs.vbs" mce_src="FunctionsSubs.vbs"/>
	<script language="VBScript" src="SkinSilentLanguageEnglish.vbs" mce_src="SkinSilentLanguageEnglish.vbs"/>
	<script language="VBScript" src="SkinSilentSkin.vbs" mce_src="SkinSilentSkin.vbs"/>
	<script language="VBScript" src="Commands.vbs" mce_src="Commands.vbs"/>
</job>  

<job id="Dutch">
	<!-- Can be runned with Wscript.exe //Job:Dutch pathtoLogon.wsf -->
	<script language="VBScript" src="ConstantsGlobals.vbs" mce_src="ConstantsGlobals.vbs"/>
	<script language="VBScript" src="FunctionsSubs.vbs" mce_src="FunctionsSubs.vbs"/>
	<script language="VBScript" src="SkinStandardLanguageDutch.vbs" mce_src="SkinStandardLanguageDutch.vbs"/>
	<script language="VBScript" src="SkinStandardSkin.vbs" mce_src="SkinStandardSkin.vbs"/>
	<script language="VBScript" src="Commands.vbs" mce_src="Commands.vbs"/>
</job>

Notice that this XML file has three sections named jobs.
The first job is the default job that is going to be executed when no //Job: parameter is passed before or after the logon.wsf.
The second is executed when a //Job:Silent is found before or after the logon.wsf while executing.
The third is of course executed when //Job:Dutch is found.

It doesn’t take a genius to figure out that you can easily change the first default job with, for example a dutch silent skin, by replacing the whole section with:

<job>
	<!-- Default modulear job -->
	<script language="VBScript" src="ConstantsGlobals.vbs" mce_src="ConstantsGlobals.vbs"/>
	<script language="VBScript" src="FunctionsSubs.vbs" mce_src="FunctionsSubs.vbs"/>
	<script language="VBScript" src="SkinSilentLanguageDutch.vbs" mce_src="SkinSilentLanguageDutch.vbs"/>
	<script language="VBScript" src="SkinSilentSkin.vbs" mce_src="SkinSilentSkin.vbs"/>
	<script language="VBScript" src="Commands.vbs" mce_src="Commands.vbs"/>
</job>

Please be aware that you can’t change the order of the lines within the job area.