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Universal Silent Switch Finder http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=17940 www.appdeploy.com look under packages analogx proxy. I don't use the proxy but -Q works for some of his other programs. -Q vb runtimes vbrun60sp6.exe /Q:A /R:N isobuster IsoBuster.exe /VERYSILENT /SP- pskill IsoBuster download pskill from www.sysinternals.com or use taskkill with XP.

To uncompress a file to a folder and create a shortcut all you need is a simple batch file. Here is the batch file I use to install Unknown Devices. I have the batch file and the zip file in the same folder. Also I have added unzip.exe and shortcut.exe to my system32 folder. You could also place them in the folder with the other files. In that case unzip would be replaced with "%~dp0unzip.exe" and shortcut.exe would be replaced by "%~dp0shortcut.exe" including the quotes. The only commands you need are unzip.exe and shortcut.exe. unzip.exe http://www.info-zip.org/UnZip.html shortcut.exe http://www.optimumx.com @echo off setlocal set dest=%~1 if "%dest%"=="" set dest=%ProgramFiles%\Admin\Unknown Devices if not exist "%dest%" md "%dest%" unzip -o "%~dp0UnknownDevices.zip" -d "%dest%" if not exist "%ALLUSERSPROFILE%\Start Menu\Programs\Admin" md "%ALLUSERSPROFILE%\Start Menu\Programs\Admin" shortcut.exe /F:"%ALLUSERSPROFILE%\Start Menu\Programs\Admin\Unknown Devices.lnk" /A:C /T:"%dest%\UnknownDevices.exe" /W:"%dest%" endlocal

Run the MicrosoftAntiSpywareInstall.exe and grab the following files from the temp folder. 0x0409.ini, _ISMSIDEL.INI, Microsoft AntiSpyware.msi, Setup.bmp, Setup.INI I copied them to the C:\AntiSpyware folder. Create an admin install. msiexec /a "C:\AntiSpyware\Microsoft AntiSpyware.msi" TARGETDIR="C:\AntiSpywareAdmin" /q To install open a command prompt and cd to the C:\AntiSpywareAdmin folder. Then use the following command. msiexec.exe /i "Microsoft AntiSpyware.msi" REBOOT=REALLYSUPRESS /qr This worked for me although in some cases I had to reboot the system after installing before it did. This also results in a large 18MB install but it can be compressed down to a 4.5MB executable file using 7zip.

My guess would be a problem with the drivers. Go to the web site for you SATA controller and look for Windows NT drivers. If you find them download them and extract them to a floppy. During the install process Press F6 at the beginning of text mode installation. If you aren't sure which SATA controller you have download Craig's PCI diagnostic software http://members.datafast.net.au/dft0802/downloads.htm and the latest PCIDEVS.TXT. This program is DOS based so it will run from a boot floppy. Simply extract the pci.zip file to the boot floppy and replace the PCIDEVS.TXT file with the updated one. Boot the system off the floppy and run PCI.EXE. Try using the register values you get from the memory dump to do a Google search. If you feel the need to verify it isn't a hardware problem try installing Windows XP or 2000.

I would recommend installing from CD and not using the $OEM$ folder for your applications. Here is a link to how to do it from RunOnceEx (http://unattended.msfn.org/xp/runonceex_cd.htm). This method is much faster as you don’t have to copy all the files to the hard drive before installing them. The next step is to create a silent install for the specific application you are installing. The following links explain how to do silent install for common well known applications. http://www.appdeploy.com/packages/ http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=12657 http://unattended.sourceforge.net/installers.html If you can’t find information about doing a silent install for a specific application check out the following. http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=17940 http://unattended.sourceforge.net/installers.html You may want to compress your applications to reduce space. Most software you download comes as a single self-extracting executable file, which is already compressed. However to build a silent install you often need to extract the files. I recommend using 7-zip http://www.7-zip.org to build a self-extracting executable. If you use the command line version you can easily write a batch file to automate the process of compressing the files. Other applications such as Winrar and iExpress can be used to do the same thing. There are also application cloning programs such as InstallRite which take a before and after snap shot of your systems. I would stay away from these as they can cause problems and don't always work.

Try using the /f2 option and redirect the log file to the local hard drive (C:\DirOpus.log). I have seen some applications fail because they try to write the log file to the install directory. If that doesn't work you can try creating a batch file and call it from runonce. Further if you should decide to compress these files into a single compressed executable file to save space you need to add the /SMS switch. As for Powerarchiver try using RegShot. This will let you see what changes are made by Powerarchiver. Then all you should need to do is create a reg file and run it as part of the powerarchiver install.

You can use Info-Zip's Zip and Unzip or sometning like 7-zip.

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If you are trying to do silent install try using USSF or search the Application Switches fourm. Another good source is www.appdeploy.com. Here are two batchfiles I use to do silent installs of two application and move shortcuts to where I want them. There are other ways of moving the shortcuts such as creating a custom mst file for msi application such as Office but this method is simple and should work for most applications as all you are doing is moving the shortcuts where you want them. @echo off pushd "%~dp0" tugzip31.exe /VERYSILENT if Errorlevel 1 goto EOF: popd rem create path if it doesn't exist md "%ALLUSERSPROFILE%\Start Menu\Programs\System\Archivers" 2> nul: if exist "%ALLUSERSPROFILE%\Start Menu\Programs\TUGZip" ( move "%ALLUSERSPROFILE%\Start Menu\Programs\TUGZip" "%ALLUSERSPROFILE%\Start Menu\Programs\System\Archivers\" ) @echo off pushd "%~dp0" ccsetup114.exe /S popd rem create path if it doesn't exist md "%ALLUSERSPROFILE%\Desktop\New Folder\Clean" 2> nul: rem delete existing shortcut if exist "%ALLUSERSPROFILE%\Desktop\New Folder\Clean\CCleaner.lnk" del /f /q "%ALLUSERSPROFILE%\Desktop\New Folder\Clean\CCleaner.lnk" rem move new link to folder if exist "%USERPROFILE%\Desktop\CCleaner.lnk" move "%USERPROFILE%\Desktop\CCleaner.lnk" "%ALLUSERSPROFILE%\Desktop\New Folder\Clean" if exist "%USERPROFILE%\Start Menu\Programs\CCleaner" ( md "%ALLUSERSPROFILE%\Start Menu\Programs\System\Clean\HD" 2> nul: if exist "%ALLUSERSPROFILE%\Start Menu\Programs\System\Clean\HD\CCleaner" rmdir /q /s "%ALLUSERSPROFILE%\Start Menu\Programs\System\Clean\HD\CCleaner" copy /y "%USERPROFILE%\Start Menu\Programs\CCleaner\CCleaner.lnk" "%ALLUSERSPROFILE%\Start Menu\Programs\System\Clean\HD" move "%USERPROFILE%\Start Menu\Programs\CCleaner" "%ALLUSERSPROFILE%\Start Menu\Programs\System\Clean\HD" )

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SP2 is the easy way to go but the following should work. Note that you need to reboot after installing MDAC before you can install the patch. mdac_typ.exe /q:a /c:"dasetup.exe /q /n" Buffer Overrun in MDAC Function Could Allow Code Execution (832483): MS04-003 ENU_Q832483_MDAC_x86.EXE /C:"dahotfix.exe /q /n" /q:a

I am using CDImage to create an ISO image from the files on my HD. I have been using the software that came with by burner to write the ISO file to DVD. attrib -R -H D:\winxp /S /D CDIMAGE.EXE -lWXPFPP_EN -t12/31/2002,12:00:00 -h -j1 -m -bD:\winxp\BOOTIMG.BIN D:\winxp D:\Temp\winxp.ISO If you are looking for free CD burning software with a GUI interface try CDBurnerXP Pro http://www.cdburnerxp.se/index.php. I have only used this a few times and never for creating a bootable CD but the web site says it can create bootable disks.

I should have been more specific as to what I was asking. I was able to build the admin install and have created many self extracting 7zip packages. What I am trying to figure out is how you did the following. 2.) PrintMe addin completely removed from the package 3.) Numerous registry tweaks, including: no splash screen, no EULA prompt, no ad bar, and more 4.) Only one shortcut created on the start menu (none on desktop) Also don't know where StartX.exe came from or what it does. Actually I have compressed so many install packages that I got tired of using the GUI and built the a batch file using the command line version of 7zip. When I execute the compressed package it calls setup.bat which is where I put commands to install the application. @echo off pushd "%~dp0" pushd AcrobatReaderFiles "%~dp07za.exe" a -r "%~dp0AcrobatReader.7z" * -m0=BCJ -m1=LZMA:d=25 -ms -mmt popd copy /y /b 7zS.sfx+utf-8script.txt+AcrobatReader.7z AcrobatReader.exe del "%~dp0AcrobatReader.7z" popd utf-8script.txt ;!@Install@!UTF-8! Title="Acrobat Reader Repack" RunProgram="setup.bat" ;!@InstallEnd@!

If it's not to much trouble I would like to know how you built this install package.

I just stumbled across this but it looks cool. I built something similar using an HAT application for my WK unattended install several years ago. What I found is that it was a pain to go through and select all the check boxes for the applications I wanted to install so I added a select box with options such as Select All, Select None, Desktop, Laptop, Manager which would auto select all the desired check boxes. When I built my XP unattended install I added support for running the files off the CD to reduce the install time. I also added select boxes for several of the check box options. For example I have an option to restore printers and an associated select box to determine which cab file to use when restoring printers. This information is simply passed to a batch file which calls Print Migrator passing it the name of the cab file. This works for me since it is an HTA it is very easy to modify and doesn't have to be recompiled when you make changes and since I've done a lot of web development it was very simple to write. Seashell.Reg Write - Make registry entries such as Renounces Seashell.Run - Run an application and wait for return value You can also use the Seashell.App Activate to active a window and Seashell.Send Keys to send keys to it (I do not recommended this method but sometime it is the only way to get the job done).

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If this is an Installshield installer you can use the following procedure to build a silent install. The key here is to use the /sms switch when installing the application. o Extract the files from the original exe using winrar. o Run the setup.exe /r to create the setup.iss file (by default it is created in the windir folder). You can also use setup.exe /r /f1"C:\setup.iss" to change the location of the iss file although this doesn't always work. o Move the setup.iss file to the folder where you placed the extracted files o To install the application use setup.exe /s /sms. The /sms option will wait for all child process to complete before returning. Some other issues I have had are applications not installing once I burned them to CD. This was because it couldn't write the install log file. In these cases I used the /f2 option to redirect the log file to the C:\ drive. I can't remember the exact syntax but it was something like /f2"C:\appName.log". If you are worried about space space you can build a self extracting executable using a program like 7zip.

You can also build a simple batch file that will build a 2.88MB bootable floppy image from files on your hard drive. To do this you need mkbt.exe and bfi.exe which can be downloaded from the following URL's http://www.nu2.nu/mkbt/ http://www.nu2.nu/bfi/ While there may seem like a lot of information on these pages the overall process is very simple. o Insert the bootable floppy in the a: drive and extract the boot sector using use mkbt.exe (only need to do this once). mkbt.exe -c a: "bootsect.bin" o Copy all the files from the floppies including hidden files such as IO.SYS and MSDOS.sys to a folder such as GhostFiles. o Use bfi.exe to build the bootable floppy image bfi -v -t="288" -f=ghost.img -b=bootsect.bin GhostFiles ghost.img is an 2.88MB bootable floppy image.

You might also want to try pci32 which can be downloaded from http://members.datafast.net.au/dft0802/downloads.htm also get the updated PCIDEVS.TXT file. The "pci32.exe /i" command will be the most useful for what you are trying to do. Here are two simple for loops that produce slightly different output. You will need will need grep which can be download as part of the GNU utilities for Win32 http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/ and pci32 above. @echo off for /F "eol=; tokens=1,2,3,4,5,6 delims=: " %%i in ('pci32 /i 2^>nul: ^| grep -i "^V"') do ( echo %%j %%l %%n ) 1002 5046 00281002 @echo off for /F "eol=; tokens=1,2,3 delims= " %%i in ('pci32 /i 2^>nul: ^| grep -i "^V"') do ( echo %%i %%j %%k ) V:1002 D:5046 S:00281002 If this doesn't work you can use VB Script to detect various devices. I posted information on one way of doing this in http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?act=ST...ndpost&p=140294

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I figured out how to get this working and am posting in case anyone else need this information. First I found that many setup.exe files support the /SMS option which forces the application to keep the setup.exe process open until all child process complete. Thus "Setup.exe /s /SMS" works correctly. I added this command to a batch file which does some other things related to installing this application. Finally I compressed everything using 7Zip into a self extracting install. Using the command line version of 7Zip and a simple batch file allows me to rebuild the self-extracting executable any time I make changes. Note that command line options specified with the self extracting 7Zip file are passed to the batch file. I use this feature and the sed (GNU UNIX) command to set the serial number in the setup.iss file before running the install on another application I am installing using this method.

I've done something similar using windows scripting. I created two files installVideo.bat and installVideo.vbs. The batch files calls the vbs file and then uses the return code to determine if a specific hardware device is present. Note that it is cleaner to just call the Run command from the vbs file but Norton AV didn't like this. installVideo.bat @echo off cscript /nologo "%~dp0installVideo.vbs" if errorlevel 1 goto :Skip1 rem put your application here in place of notepad. start /wait notepad :Skip1 installVideo.vbs On Error Resume Next sql="Select * from Win32_VideoController" strPNPSearchFor="PCI\VEN_1002&DEV_5046&SUBSYS_00281002&REV_00" Set WshShell = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell") strComputer = "." Set objWMIService = GetObject("winmgmts:\\" & strComputer & "\root\cimv2") Set colItems = objWMIService.ExecQuery(sql,,48) For Each objItem in colItems strPNPDeviceID = CStr(objItem.PNPDeviceID) WScript.Echo InStr(strPNPDeviceID, strPNPSearchFor) if InStr(strPNPDeviceID, strPNPSearchFor) then rem WshShell.Run ("notepad") 'Problem with Norton AV WScript.Quit 0 end if Next Wscript.Quit 1 Use the Scriptomatic Utility to build the sql strings for the type of device you are looking for (http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=9ef05cbd-c1c5-41e7-9da8-212c414a7ab0). You can also use it to determine the PNP ID of your devices or use something like Unknown Device Identifier ( http://www.halfdone.com/Development/UnknownDevices/ URL fixed!