Sanjay

What is the difference between the final results of Nilfred's method and that of GreenMachine? Is one better than the other and if so which one is better and how so? Thanks.

In my experience it does not place the Icon in Quick Launch Toolbar. It is only when you run the program and go thru the setup that it places the icon in the Quick Launch Toolbar. In my case since I use the foillowing registry tweaks: ;----- Media Player Stuff ;----- [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\WindowsMediaPlayer] "GroupPrivacyAcceptance"=dword:00000001 ;----- [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\MediaPlayer\Preferences] "AcceptedPrivacyStatement"=dword:00000001 "FirstRun"=dword:00000000 ;----- ;----- Enable DVD in Media Player ;----- Value: Yes or No [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\MediaPlayer\Player\Settings] "EnableDVDUI"="Yes" ;----- ;----- Set Windows Media Player MP3 Encoding Bitrates [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\MediaPlayer\Settings\MP3Encoding] "LowRate"=dword:0001f400 "MediumRate"=dword:0002ee00 "MediumHighRate"=dword:0003e800 "HighRate"=dword:0004e200 ;----- there is no setup process so I end up with no Icon in the Quick Launch Toolbar, although I would like it to be there.

It seems Kaspersky Personal Pro is only at v5.0.12 and apparantely the /S nor /s switch work for this, atleast it does not work for me. How come the Personal Pro version is behind in version numbers and also how come the silent install switch does not work with it? What am I to do?

It seems everyone here is using the following: start /wait %systemdrive%\Install\WMP10\mp10setup.exe /q:A /c:"setup_wm.exe /Q /R:N /DisallowSystemRestore" How come I am using this: start /wait %systemdrive%\Install\WMP10\mp10setup.exe /q:A /c:"setup_wm.exe /Q /R:N /DisallowSystemRestore /Q:A /R:N" What does the extra '/Q:A /R:' do?

It seems Kaspersky Personal Pro is only at v5.0.12 and apparantely the /S nor /s switch work for this, atleast it does nto work for me. How come the Personal Pro version is behind in version numbers and also how come the silent install switch does nto work with it? What am I to do?

Actually VMWare is no good for testing this particular feature of an unattended install. My CD uses the above method for creating Users and for automatically logging in 'User1' and it works flawlessly but when I try the same CD in VMWare it always fails and gives some kind of error (I don't remember the exact language) which basically states that it cannot find the user on the domain and cannot logon the user. This is because oobe method fails to create the users in VMWare whereas it does fine on a real PC. Bottom line, this feature cannot be tested with VMWare. But the good thing is that the method stated above does work flawlessly. By the way the credit for this must go to 'prathapml' for first suggesting it.

Yes, this is exactly what I was looking for. Thank you.

Three Step Process 1. Make a file oobeinfo.ini and place it in '\$OEM$\$$\SYSTEM32\OOBE'. Contents of oobeinfo.ini: [UserInfo] Identity000="User1" Identity001="User2" Identity002="User3"Replace User1, User2 etc. with your names. You can add upto six users thru this process. 2. Make a file 'autologon.reg' and run it thru 'cmdlines.txt'. Contents of autologon.reg: Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 ; Logs in user "User1" the first time. [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon] "DefaultUserName"="User1" "DefaultPassword"="" "AutoAdminLogon"="1" 3. Make a file stopautologon.reg and place it in '$OEM$\$1\INSTALL\LOGON' and run it at guirunonce stage via 'Start.cmd' or 'RunOnceEx.cmd' whichever it is you are using. Contents of stopautologon.reg: Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 ; Stop further Auto-Logins [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon] "DefaultUserName"="" "DefaultPassword"="" "AutoAdminLogon"="0" Start.cmd entries to run stopautologon.reg: ECHO. ECHO Stopping Auto Logon in Future start /wait regedit /s %systemdrive%\Install\Logon\stopautologon.reg

import the key as normal at t-13 Thanks for he reply. But this also does not work. What I mean is that it has the same effect, that of removing the Recycle Bin from the Desktop and also from My Computer. What we are looking for is a solution that would only remove it from the desktop, just as one can do thru 'tweakui'. Both the registry teaks shown below have the same effect: [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\NonEnum] "{645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}"=dword:00000001 [-HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Desktop\NameSpace\{645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}]

How does one remove a key and where do I remove it from?

I don't think that would be a good idea, since this requires Media Player 10 to already be installed before this. Therefore you might be better off installing it via start.cmd that is assuming you are installing Media Player 10 thru start.cmd also.

How does one do that? Pardon the ignorance.

The following works perfectly. Installed and working on a real PC. ECHO. ECHO Installing IomegaWare 4.0.2 ECHO Please wait... start /wait %systemdrive%\Drivers\Iomega\ioware-w32-x86-402.exe /s

You are right, I had not even realized this until you mentioned it. I would also like a solution to this, because not having a way to get to the recycle bin was nto what I wanted. I just want the darn thing gone from the desktop.

How does one get this to install completely silently. What I mean is without seeing the install process. I would like to be able to have it install without seeing the extraction windows etc. Is this even possible? Thanks.

@Nilfred Your method seems to work just fine but won't know for sure until a real unattended install. Thanks a ton. Update: Works fine in a VMWare install. Now to test on a real PC. Update 2: Works fine in a real unattended install on a real PC.

Thanks for the quick response. It seems Nilfred's method works just fine but won't know for sure until a real unattended install. Update: Works fine in a VMWare install. Now to test on a real PC. Update 2: Works fine in an unattended install on a real PC.

The 'final solution' as you term has no mention of the /DisallowSystemRestore switch. Could you please elaborate.

Actually it turns out that this is not much of a workaround anyhow and it still brings up the silly 'System Restore' message. I don't understand why it does not work though, when I try it in an existing Windows install it works fine, but during the unattended install it does not work for some reason.

But what does this filter thing do?

Final Solution here --->'Nilfred's method

Here is my solution to this whole thing. I still have 'System Restore' disabled thru the registry tweaks run via cmdlines.txt But then I have incorporated 'System Restore' Enable & Disable in my start.cmd My start.cmd entries: Ignore this. Nilfred's method below solves the problem

Since you have renamed the file metapade.exe to notepad.exe, what purpose would be served by applying Metapad filters to "[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\metapad]"? Also what do these filters do anyhow? Thanks.

Something really strange and wierd is going on here. The first time I tried it the install went thru perfectly. But the second time I tried and then numerous times again, it did not work. But then suddenly it worked again. Hmmm straaaange stuff. lol Sorry for the inconvenience.

Get the file and more information from here --->Microsoft's 'Windows Media Connect' Page or Download Directly from here --->'Windows Media Connect 10' Courtesy 'Nilfred', there is now a working solution for a silent install without getting the silly 'System Restore' message. Solution here -->How to Silent Install Windows Media Connect