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Instead of posting like crazy, try to do some search. There's a sleep.exe that will do what you need...

The only thing I can really think of... ShowCursor API (user32.dll)

with -R /r or anything, it always creates it for me... @Joc: the idea is to uninstall the app first, not just delete the install dir... As for the iss... This is what I got, and it works flawlessly: [InstallShield Silent] Version=v6.00.000 File=Response File [File Transfer] OverwrittenReadOnly=NoToAll [Application] Name=PowerDVD Version=5.0 Company=CyberLink Lang=0009 [{6811CAA0-BF12-11D4-9EA1-0050BAE317E1}-DlgOrder] Dlg0={6811CAA0-BF12-11D4-9EA1-0050BAE317E1}-SdWelcome-0 Count=7 Dlg1={6811CAA0-BF12-11D4-9EA1-0050BAE317E1}-SdLicense-0 Dlg2={6811CAA0-BF12-11D4-9EA1-0050BAE317E1}-SdDisplayTopics-0 Dlg3={6811CAA0-BF12-11D4-9EA1-0050BAE317E1}-SdAskDestPath-0 Dlg4={6811CAA0-BF12-11D4-9EA1-0050BAE317E1}-SdSelectFolder-0 Dlg5={6811CAA0-BF12-11D4-9EA1-0050BAE317E1}-SHOW_CLPV_CLEV_DIALOG-0 Dlg6={6811CAA0-BF12-11D4-9EA1-0050BAE317E1}-SdFinish-0 [{6811CAA0-BF12-11D4-9EA1-0050BAE317E1}-SdWelcome-0] Result=1 [{6811CAA0-BF12-11D4-9EA1-0050BAE317E1}-SdLicense-0] Result=1 [{6811CAA0-BF12-11D4-9EA1-0050BAE317E1}-SdDisplayTopics-0] Result=1 [{6811CAA0-BF12-11D4-9EA1-0050BAE317E1}-SdAskDestPath-0] szDir=C:\Program Files\CyberLink\PowerDVD Result=1 [{6811CAA0-BF12-11D4-9EA1-0050BAE317E1}-SdSelectFolder-0] szFolder=CyberLink PowerDVD Result=1 [{6811CAA0-BF12-11D4-9EA1-0050BAE317E1}-SHOW_CLPV_CLEV_DIALOG-0] Result=1 [{6811CAA0-BF12-11D4-9EA1-0050BAE317E1}-SdFinish-0] Result=1 bOpt1=0 bOpt2=0

Kinda hard to do things like that with no downtime at all. You'll have to change all your connection strings too. Unless there's just a couple, then it's really easy, but if you got over a hundred... It's not exactly fun.

Not that I know of (I know there's ways of customizing v9 though, so most likely, there should be for v10 too). Even better than that, use a better media player, there's tons of them: ZoomPlayer, BSPlayer, Media Player Classic, ... And they're mostly all better

That is the VERY LAST thing I'd install on my PC EVER (immediately followed by NAV) You couldn't even pay me enough to install it.

You can edit it with a hex editor, but I doubt you'll make much sense out of it. If you want PCI network card auto detection and associated NDIS2 drivers, check out the old bart bootdisks. I've customized one of those (I kept some modules but autoexec.bat/config.sys are redone from scratch and optimized, and a few more changes, then burnt as a bootcd) and it supports hundreds of NICs (and it has just about everything you could possibly need such as ghost, ntfsdos pro, partition magic and all). You could also use WinPE too... Lots of people are moving to that, but in most cases, it takes more time to boot to the GUI than it takes me to get the job finished with the old bootcd.

Yep, that's more like it. And the continuation of the title (This happens if...) should rather be "if you use IE"

Ghost hands down. BTW, Symantec (not Synmantic) didn't buy this from PowerQuest at all. It used to be from Binary Research. Next on the list, perhaps DriveImage or Acronis...

What are you trying to find out exactly? I've looked at it on several PCs here, and all of them said System Model: "System Name" (and System Manufacturer is... "System Manufacturer"!) Or does it show something else on some PCs? Lots of infos can be easily retrieved with WMI in vbscript (it's VERY powerful), but I'm not sure what you're trying to get to here...

I do something a bit similar, using a choice.com clone. During the install, it'll ask for some optionnal components (mostly big/unusual apps) and will default to yes after 10 seconds or such. Eventually, I might come up with some way of using "answer files" on a floppy or usb memory stick or such to select them (and change other settings) before starting the install. WPI may be good for some, but it's not what I'm looking for...

Is it like your birthday all year round when people write you fat checks for licenses of mostly deceptive software everyday - enough to be world's richest man? ... Most people get gifts once a year

As the SFX will go to a temp dir, -s should be enough. If it doesn't work, check in the logfile to see what error code it gives, that will tell you what's wrong. Also, did you make the .iss yourself (recopy it there manually after using -r)?

I'd remove it too, but then what about windows update? ... -Stuck with a crappy browser on my PC for nothing

You already typed the command for the install, it makes no change if it's first extracted by a SFX before it's ran (just omit the path to the transforms)

I leave the installer as is - no repacking, I really don't care if there is a extraction screen with filenames listing, in fact, it actually shows something is hapenning. It's only 70mb, doesn't take much space on my DVD. It looks like not that much people install from DVDs actually, it's kinda surprising. But then again, even if you have a DVD writer (drives and media IS dirt cheap nowadays) that doesn't mean all the PCs you'll install to have DVD drives (after all, aren't unattended discs for that?)

ASP is done as is with nothing to install by IIS. XLS pretty much works out of the box (I think there are some updates though). As for DB purposes, it should work out of the box too (as long as you got a half decent version of MDAC things should work fine)... Unless you mean for apache, then you could just use XAMPP like I do. (Apache, PHP, MySQL and everything all in one). I've customized it to run on port 1080 (IIS is on port 80). The WinRAR SFX extracts to the root of c:, and it's ready to go, nothing to configure. There's another one called uniform server that runs into a ramdisk (I don't like the idea). You'd get more help by listing your actual needs (which platform/server and exact requirements).

Odd, i'm using that version too Perhaps different builds. I'll redownload it tonite. (I tought he might have done the guide for the old 0.9.3 version too)

@toe_cutter: Uh, I have to assume you're right since I'm going from SiMoNsAyS' guide - which is going by your method! But, we're kinda left guessing here. The guide says comment out between lines 742 and 759, which is what I commented out (those 2 sections). So again, since you made the original "guide", you know better than I do on that one. So far the installer worked flawlessly (and it's worked without that 3d step that comments out those too). So it doesn't quite look like a "necessary" step either... I'll try commenting out the other lines just to see. @Astalavista: As for themes and plugins, there's a command line to install them as well. It's quite simple too. (I have to try SiMoNsAyS' method for plugins some day) Once I get around to finish making my installer (most likely this weekend) I might make a complete yet easy guide (including extensions, themes, prefs.js/user.js tweaks ...)

Well, the whole method posted by SiMoNsAyS only looks complicated, but if you want something easy and quick, it's almost as easy as using the msi version: 1-extract firefox with winrar (right click...) 2-replace setup.exe with the one from mozilla (I don't think we've lost anyone just yet ) 3-in config.ini (4 small changes): 3a-change "Run Mode=Normal" to "Run Mode=Silent" (ln 9) 3b-in [Component ADT] change to Attributes=SELECTED|FORCE_UPGRADE|VISIBLE (ln 552) 3c-Launch App Checked=TRUE to FALSE (ln 392) 3d-comment out sections [Delete File0] [Delete File1] (between ln 744 and 750) That's it. just call SETUP.EXE -MS -IRA to install (or repackage as a sfx if desired). Takes well under 5 minutes. Or you could download the setup.exe and config.ini, just extract firefox and replace the 2 files - no editing or anything to do whatsoever... It's only complex if you do things to work with multiple language and fancier installs/configs for multi users (I got like 35 extensions and some custom configs, and it's still simple)

You could use a vbscript/wmi combo. It's very easy...

That's got to be it. Mine doesn't do unpacking like that, it just installs directly (mind you I don't use RunOnceEx either)

The usual installshield method works fine. Tried it about 10 times, not a single glitch. Just like the old ones. I can post my iss file, cmd lines and tweaks if req'd. (I'm using the deluxe vers w/ DD EX and everything) And thankfully, it doesn't actually install tyhose crappy divx codecs, it just supports playback...

I don't use v7 anymore, but it should be the same. They're all using installshield. I just used the standard method for all installshield installers (-r then -s, optionnal -f1 and -f2 ...) and it's working perfectly.

There is no msi for it. The guy tought you were talking about paint shop pro instead of photoshop. Photoshop is installshield.