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I can't believe you're using autoit for this msi! I know a little about autoit, but I don't use it for msi's! Installing this software is really easy. HARDiNFO.msi /qb!- PIDKEY=YOUR-SERIAL-NUMBER-HERE

There are still stars, but now smaller. If I'm not mistaken, you have 7 stars, right?

Great!

Expensive software. Oh well..

The softwares there are REALLY small and don't need installation. You missed the point of using the tool Windows Installer Command-line Builder. It doesn't just build the commands for you, but it also lets you see all the availabe public property of your msi. I totally understand what you mean. You want to do it the hard way, just like what I did. But give at least the command line builder a try and play with the properties. You will understand what I mean. Hey, I'm a newb too! And another thing is, I don't think you can see ALL the available public properties (and of course even the hidden properties!) of an msi without using a software. Like I said on the other thread, not all msi's are the same. So they don't have the same properties. I understand that you don't wan't to install another software just to do this, but unfortunately, there is no way for that (or at maybe I'm just not aware of it..) Just for info, the PIDKEY or PRODUCTKEY are properties. And not all msi's use them. Every developer can create their own properties so you can't easily guess what they are. By the way, did the PIDKEY or PROODUCTKEY worked?

Check this out. http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=38802

Suppresses the comfiramation before installing.

Yeah. I saw that somewhere. But I don't know what's inside the ddf file. Can you post an example?

For cabbing multiple files in a directory, I use PowerArchiver because I don't know how to do it with makecab. What is the trick for cabbing multiple files?

About the serial number, try these too. PIDKEY= or PRODUCTKEY= Be sure to include the dashes. About the setup.exe for the sp1, it does nothing. What do you mean by that? Which folder is empty? That's what I did yesterday and it worked ok. I even tried replacing the files in aip of the original installer with the files from the aip of the sp1, but it's no good. It installs but the program doesn't run. I'm thinking of editing the msi of VPC2004 to apply the contents of the sp1 msi. But I still don't know how to do that.

Installing MSI's - The easy way (From newbies to power users) Windows Installer Package (MSI) is a very powerful way to deploy a software. Most software companies nowadays use it because of many reasons. 1. Windows Installer Packages has "self healing" capability. If a part of the installed files becomes bad or damaged, it will be automatically restored. (Imagine Wolverine's healing factor. ) 2. It doesn't mess up our system. Most of the time when installing a software, we suddenly change our minds and decide to abort the installation. If we do that with an msi, we don't have to worry about junk files that are not deleted by the installer or changes made to our system. MSI's completely remove the files if the installation is not successful. 3. Easy to upgrade and patch. (Don't worry about this part if you are not a software developer. ) 4. Full command-line control. (This is the most important feature for most of us here, I think.) Many more. Here in MSFN -> Unattended Windows Discussion & Support -> Application Installs, our major concern is installing softwares silently. Although most of us here already know how to install a Windows Installer Package silently, some people are still confused with the command-line switches to use. Remeber, not all msi's are the same! So the switches of Alanoll's Winamp msi will not work if you install other msi's (Adobe Reader for example). That's why even advanced users are still having a hard time (well, not all). Ok, enough for the intro. Let's go straight to the point. I know a powerful combination if you are dealing with msi's. I'm sure newbies (like me) will find it useful. Get your copy of these free utilities. Wise InstallTailor - This let's you create a transform file (MST) that contains your installation configuration. Windows Installer Command Line Builder - This will give you the command-line switches that you have to use. (This tool is awsome!) The usage is straight forward so I don't have to explain anything. Use them both. First, create a transform file using InstallTailor, then use the command line builder.

Hell yeah! I think the firefox extension is better!

For now, this is the switch to get the AIP. msiexe /a "Microsoft Virtual PC 2004.msi" I still need to know how the setup.exe works. Because I noticed that there are a lot of mst's. edit: we don't have to worry about those mst's. those are for the language only.

Hahaha! I will try, but I don't know if I can do it now. Several months ago, I was one of those who asked for the solution for this on the old thread.

I want to try it myself. But unfortunately, I lost my copy of the sp1. Can you post the download link here? So I can try it when I get home.

Is there another msi that comes with it? Also, have you tried not renaming the msi?

I think %systemdrive% is always there no matter what language of windows you use.

Is it an exe? It should be an msi. I wonder why it's not working.. Because theoretically, it should.

Oh I see now.. Thanks for the info! Wait, what's gonna happen when you protect the file? Does it prevents it from being deleted, edited, or replaced?

What are the .cat files for?

It should. But there are some msi's that doesn't accept that. So try this instead. msiexec /a /i filename.msi

Hello CyberSlug. Nice update. Does this work with the latest version of PEiD? Honestly, I don't use this because PEiD is more than enough for me. But it's still good to have this for educational purposes.

I've been using Tweak Netwerk Settings for quite a while, but I don't see any difference.. Thanks for the tricks.

Its the same thing. Just combine the files of both cds and you're good to go.