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I have been testing many of these different methods and I still find that the preferences are over-written by QuickTime when a new user logs on to the machine and runs QuickTime for the first time. Having your prefrence file under the All Users file structure does not help. It might be useful for those corporate packagers that to remain in compliance with the QuickTime license agreement you must leave the QuickTime icon on the desktop.

The QuickTimeInstaller is an Installshield type of install that runs MSI's. The typical Installshield command line options are the simplest method in this case. You will have to run QuickTimeInstaller.exe -r -f1 "C:\temp\setup.iss" to create an setup.iss file. Try: Run %Source%\QuickTimeInstaller.exe /L1033 -s -sms -f1"%Source%\setup.iss" -f2"%SetupLog%\%Title%.log"

Optional You can also add a transformation file with this syntax: TRANSFORMS=xxx.mst A couple of comments: 1) If you extract and run the MSI from the QuickTimeInst.exe you will not get the IE or Netscape plugins. Also, you will not have any associations created. For example, clicking on a MOV file will not play it. 2) You cannot use QuicktimeInst.exe /vTRANSFORMS=1033.MST as the first MSI to run from the exe is not the QuickTime MSI. 3) The QTPlayerSession.xml has a user path to the Desktop. I am not sure if %UserName% will work here or if those changes will be applied correctly to new profiles.

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Yes, we have a Microsoft Volume License for the product. If this needs to be kept secret for some reason, please email me. The reason for removing the button for activation is because it doesn't do anything but tell the user that their product is already activated which may cause calls to the Helpdesk. Just want it to be right.

No, that does not work! The ACCEPTEULA is set to a null value in the MSI. I figured it out, but it wasn't as simple as it could be.

I have a silent install of Office 2003 MVL and as a final touch I would like to remove the Product Activation button on the toolbar. Yes, I have looked through the ORK and TechNet and found no infomation on how to do this. Please let me know if you have any ideas on how to do this. Thanks

I am running the MSI of the Visio Viewer 2003, but I can't get the EULA to be accepted. I have an MST with ACCEPTEULA=1, but it does not work. any ideas.

How about showing how you did it so we could recreate the application installation?

I think I will just add the .Net redistributables section of the msi. Thanks

What is the best way to install dot net prior to installing an MSI application that depends on it?

Why doesn't anyone use the Adobe Acrobat install Tuner 7?

Found the solution. Believe it or not - ChkDsk /F

Tried using DiskPart, but nothing the tool would do helped. You still could not access the HD. This may or may not be a big problem for others, but I can say that if you used RESIZE IMAGE MAX in the deployemnt of your PQI, you will have this problem. I wonder how many people will plan on doing a migration to Windows XP and find that they cannot read the HD with WinPE? I guess what this means is that if a solution is not found you will have to use a non-Microsoft product to migrate your system to Windows XP. I think the problem has to do with the NTFS MetaData. Microsoft Info

I have found that on systems that were loaded using PowerQuest Deploy Center 5.1 with the scripting command of "RESIZE IMAGE MAX" which expanded the partitian to fill the HD, WinPE cannot see the C:\ drive after booting up. Microsoft stated, at one time, that they didn't support 3rd party disk resizing software. Is there a work around for this that does not require loss fo data on the HD?