[quote name='blinkdt' date='Jul 23 2004, 08:12 AM']Anyone found a way to silently install Google's photo organizer, [url="http://www.picasa.com/google/"]Picasa[/url]? I ended up using InstallRite to get the job done, but I'm curious to know of different methods that may have worked for others. I couldn't locate anything in the way of switches for the funky installer used for Picasa.
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frist I edit picasa2-current.exe in ResHacker;
[code]XML > PAYLOAD >0[/code]
delete the lines
[code] <event>
<type>URLVISIT</type>
<src>http://picasa.google.com/help/welcome.html</src>
</event>[/code]
to install I'm using a inf file
[code][Version]
Signature=$CHICAGO$
AdvancedINF=2.5
[DefaultInstall]
AddReg=Add_Reg
DelReg=Del_Reg
RunPreSetupCommands =RunPreEverything
RunPostSetupCommands=RunPostEverything
[Strings]
GOOGLE_KEY="Software\Google\Picasa\Picasa2\Preferences"
[Add_Reg]
HKCU,%GOOGLE_KEY%,"usesplashscreen",0x00010001,00000000
HKCU,%GOOGLE_KEY%,"AutoUpgradeCheck",0x00010001,00000000
etc
etc
[Del_Reg]
HKLM,"SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run","Picasa Media Detector"
[RunPreEverything]
picasa2.exe /S
[RunPostEverything]
TASKKILL /F /IM Picasa2.exe /IM PicasaMediaDetector.exe[/code]