mrguitarmann

I despise Vista in it's current state... I have a Tascam US-224. Worked fine in 98SE, worked fine in 2000, works fine in XP. When the drivers are installed in Vista it refuses to accept it's a multimedia device and refuses to put any sound through it. Vista and it's UAA architecture has now put my system out of date. I highly doubt Tascam will be releasing new drivers for this (no longer supported) so to have sound in Vista I will have to *downgrade* my soundcard, losing my control over Cubase. To be fair I haven't had the best of times with Linux with it either, but it was easier to set up than this steaming pile of muck. Bring on the next beta...

From what I've read (on bink's forums I think) it uses the same method to install as Vista, which is completely different to how XP does it. I suspect it will be possible, and if I get my hands on it I will be looking into it.

Worked perfect, and I can take it across computers Thank you very muchly

Cancerface your code worked well for me, I had to change the "RICOH Aficio 2090 RPCS" in your suggestion to 2090-3079, which is my printer name, I could never get the hang of that command line! Thank you!

Thank you all! This is exactly what I need! will try today and let you know how I get on. Thanks again

Hi, I am currently installing a number of the same printer in my XP deployment. I am using the following: cscript c:\windows\system32\prnport.vbs -a -r "ricoh2090-3079.someplace.co.uk" -h "ricoh2090-3112.someplace.co.uk" -o raw -n 9100 //nologo to create a port and rundll32 printui.dll,PrintUIEntry /ga /if /u /b "2090-3079" /f "C:\DRIVERS\PRINTERS\2090\RC19E12K.inf" /r "ricoh2090-3079.someplace.co.uk" /m "RICOH Aficio 2090 RPCS" to create a printer entry connecting to the port. Because of software I'm using it has to be done this way. Only problem is it's set to it's defaults, which aren't very good at all for this printer. So I'm looking for a way to adjust both the default printer properties (ie spooling etc) and printer preferences (ie default printer tray, etc.) without intervention. Can anyone help with this? I've looked for months to no avail. Thanks Tom Mann

REG ADD will see your command line as invalid and not add it to the registry, which I believe is causing your problems. When you use quotes for the /D value, you need a backslash preceeding the quote.Here's your fixed line... Have fun Tom

OK, You can use quotes when adding registry but for everything inside the the main set of quotes (the first and last quote) you have to add two " instead of the one. Ancient programming trick from the Spectrum coming in use again Your line should be:

www.adobe.com/support/downloads/detail.jsp?ftpID=2709 Installshield Tuner for Acrobat 7 - It can recreate the setup to run completely silent, or just give you an msi Why Adobe needed a special "Installshield Tuner" is beyond me...

Just a suggestion mind, I've started to use WinRAR to pack my executables into a self extracting archive. OK I know they're compressed already but it can make life easier. This is what I do. Find the switches for the program Add the file (or CONTENTS of a folder - not the folder itself) to an archive. Make sure RAR is the compression type and strength is set to Best. Click Create SFX archive. Click the advanced tab, then SFX options. In the box that says "Run after extraction" goes the command line for silent install. Click the modes tab of this dialog box and tick "Unpack to temporary folder" "Hide all" and "Overwrite all files" (Just in case). OK Everything and you should have a single file which installs silently when you double click it. Now you don't have to worry about switches in cmd, and is a boon for people who need slightly older nVidia drivers than the windows versions (any GeForce 2/3 owners?) You could then have in your batch file something like cd (appdir) for %f in (*.exe) do start /wait %f (I'm not sure that's right but it's similar!) which would install everything in the directory Wow my first post...