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I followed the instructions posted here an got some interesting results. after creating an admin point with PSCS2 and the other MSIs i trie to install PSCS2 silently with the /qb-! switch - it didn't work - it did NOTHING at all! The only switch that worked was /qb. But i got an error (a nice errormessage - just ERROR). The reason for this error was the missing abcpy.ini, so i copied it to the main directory of the admin installation point. after that /qb worked, till i got another error, complaining that \PSCS2\CommonAppData\Adobe\Updater\Certs\photoshop.cer has a read error. Does anyone has the some or similar problems? I keep on trying.... Update: Ok, i finished the installed (i clicked ignore) but nevertheless i get the activation screen at the end of the installation. Adobe sucks .

Pump... anyone an idea... tried it again and it still doesn't work... @Hasi: Did u ever try wpi with a german windows?

or just: msiexec

First, thanks for the effort of making an installable version of Thunderbird. For all people out there prefering an "original" build: Thunderbird 1.02 can be silently installed using the -ms switch (as for firefox 1.02). However, this does NOT make it the default application. But this could be easily integrated using reg files...

Try this one: 'http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/ics/ics/wf_verify_wf_enabled.asp Option Explicit 'Create Shell object Dim objShell set objShell = CreateObject("Shell.Application") 'Declare Firewall variables Dim fwMgr Dim profile 'Verify that the SharedAccess service is running. If it isn't, then start it. If objShell.IsServiceRunning("SharedAccess") = FALSE Then objShell.ServiceStart "SharedAccess", TRUE 'Sleep 1 second to make sure the service is started ' before trying to create the objects below. If there ' is no sleep, then the script is too fast and the ' firewall objects can't be created. WScript.Sleep 1000 End If 'WScript.Echo("SharedAccess is running: " & objShell.IsServiceRunning("SharedAccess")) ' Firewall objects have to be created after making sure ' the service is running. If the service isn't running, ' the script will fail. ' Create the firewall manager object. Set fwMgr = CreateObject("HNetCfg.FwMgr") ' Get the current profile for the local firewall policy. Set profile = fwMgr.LocalPolicy.CurrentProfile 'Verify that the Firewall is enabled. If it isn't, then enable it. If profile.FirewallEnabled = FALSE Then profile.FirewallEnabled = TRUE End If 'WScript.Echo("Firewall Enabled: " & profile.FirewallEnabled) 'WScript.Echo("Firewall Exceptions Not Allowed: " & profile.ExceptionsNotAllowed)

@prathapml: Do you have the reg entry for disabling auto-update at hand? Can't find it right now... And is there a way to set e.g. Screensaver mode to all drives using registry entries?

just of curiosity - what WAS the problem? and: what ARE your problems?

I think i HAVEN'T registered it when i installed yesterday. The scanner gets closed twice because of (neccessary) reboots. And after that there was no popup again. i was upset about the popup at the beginning, too - what for, its free anyways!

whenever i run jschud.exe (or however its called :-) ) it mentions 1.5.xxxb. i also didn't find anything on suns website. there was still some 1.4.2 link there :-(.

works with (free) home edition, too: prog[pn]=['AVAST! Antivirus Home Edition 4.6.623'] uid[pn]=['AVASTANTIVIRUS'] excl[pn]=['AVGANTIVIRUS','KASPERSKYANTIVIRUS'] cmd1[pn]=['%cdrom%\\Software\\Avast\\setupeng.exe /SP- /VERYSILENT /NORESTART'] here's the switch only: setupeng.exe /SP- /VERYSILENT /NORESTART

I would stick to the suggestion made by warrior1109. I assume with your methid tzhe juschd.exe (or however it is called) is still running and consuming RAM? If you remove it from the autostart its easier...

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run] "DAEMON Tools-1033"=- solves the problem, as totoymola and MCT suggested :-). You can add it to a reg file and execute that after installing daemon tools. maybe you checked just HKCU?

1.5 is still beta, isn't it? im using 1.4.2_06 here's the wpi script: prog[pn]=['Sun Java Desktop Environment 1.4.2_06'] uid[pn]=['SUNJAVADESKTOP'] cmd1[pn]=['%cdrom%\\Software\\jre.exe /s /v"/qn ADDLOCAL=jrecore IEXPLORER=1 OPERA=1 MOZILLA=1 JAVAUPDATE=0 WEBSTARTICON=0"'] dflt[pn]=['yes'] here's the link to the sun site mentioned before... http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/guide/...ide/silent.html

is there any possibility to send switches to a silent install (/S) via commandline? i would like to predefine a theme and dont want to install the cmd box changes - they are a pain - the rest is great...

Imo its not skype related. according to their website (or at least, the forum there) unattended user adding is not supported. http://forum.skype.com/viewtopic.php?t=505...ight=unattended

Any news about this? Also failed when installing this software... Edit: Found it HERE: http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showto...F%BDentry237472

to help a little bit: i checked it with a VM and i GOT the energy button... so its NOT because of VM (4.5.2 or so)

hey! it works! cool, thanks. right now i'm searching for a possibility to force users to change password when logging on the first time. Maybe "ForcePasswordChange = Yes" works. i have to try this. furthermore, it would be great to encrypt the password, otherwise it will be stored as plain text in the registry... there SHOULD be a way, like the MS TweakUI does it...

heres a list i made recently of hotfixes that can/can't be integrated using the /integrate switch! this is without nLite, just plain CMDs. it assumes hotfixes are in PATH:\Hotfixes\ and your WinXP is in PATH:\WinXPSP2_ENU. "not working" means /integrate doesn't work so u have to do it by svcpack.inf/qchain... For the last two (post-install): i always get a popup window, so i didn't manage it silently up to now! i hope this helps (at least you can integrate some of your missing hotfixes)! working: PATH:\Hotfixes\WindowsXP-KB834707-x86-enu.exe /integrate:PATH:\WinXPSP2_ENU PATH:\Hotfixes\WindowsXP-KB873333-x86-enu.exe /integrate:PATH:\WinXPSP2_ENU PATH:\Hotfixes\WindowsXP-KB873339-x86-enu.exe /integrate:PATH:\WinXPSP2_ENU PATH:\Hotfixes\WindowsXP-KB885835-x86-enu.exe /integrate:PATH:\WinXPSP2_ENU PATH:\Hotfixes\WindowsXP-KB885836-x86-enu.exe /integrate:PATH:\WinXPSP2_ENU PATH:\Hotfixes\WindowsXP-KB886185-x86-enu.exe /integrate:PATH:\WinXPSP2_ENU PATH:\Hotfixes\WindowsXP-KB887472-x86-enu.exe /integrate:PATH:\WinXPSP2_ENU PATH:\Hotfixes\WindowsXP-KB888113-x86-enu.exe /integrate:PATH:\WinXPSP2_ENU PATH:\Hotfixes\WindowsXP-KB888302-x86-enu.exe /integrate:PATH:\WinXPSP2_ENU PATH:\Hotfixes\WindowsXP-KB890047-x86-enu.exe /integrate:PATH:\WinXPSP2_ENU PATH:\Hotfixes\WindowsXP-KB890175-x86-enu.exe /integrate:PATH:\WinXPSP2_ENU PATH:\Hotfixes\WindowsXP-KB891781-x86-enu.exe /integrate:PATH:\WinXPSP2_ENU not working: PATH:\Hotfixes\WindowsXP-KB885250-x86-enu.exe /integrate:PATH:\WinXPSP2_ENU PATH:\Hotfixes\WindowsXP-KB867282-x86-enu.exe /integrate:PATH:\WinXPSP2_ENU post-install: PATH:\Hotfixes\Windows-KB890830-ENU.exe /Q PATH:\Hotfixes\WindowsXP-KB873374-gdidettool.exe /Q

Nice idea! one question... how about the password? is there a way to set it with this script? and autologon? right now i start useraccounts.cmd from cmdlines.txt: net user "USERNAME" PASSWORD /add net localgroup Administrators "USERNAME" /add net accounts /maxpwage:unlimited regedit /s autologon.reg exit the autologon.reg looks like that: Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon] "DefaultUserName"="USERNAME" "DefaultPassword"="PASSWORD" "AutoAdminLogon"="1" I think i wont be able to autologon without a password, right?

Has anyone tried to delete the \%AllUsersProfile%\Application Data\Microsoft\User Account Pictures\Default Pictures\ folder? could i do this during T-12/T-13?Delete *.bmp, add bmps of my own and let windows randomly pick one of these? Can i use the %AllUsersProfile% variable during T-12?

I'm experiencing a similar problem. I got wpi running on the english WinXPSP2 version (virtual and real machine), however, as soon as i try to make a german windows dvd i get an error in api.js "Java script error report" Message:Invalid root in registry key "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\CurrentVersion\RunOnceEx\00505\". Url: file://c:\Install\wpi.WPI.hta File: api.js Line: 205 Any help would be appreciated! regsvr32 scrrun.dll gives an error message :-(.

if u omit the drive i would predict the installer to install to the drive where you loaded it from (and obviously it does). maybe szDir=%systemdrive%\Program Files\JetAudio helps. greetings

Hi! Finally i got my UA DVD running - at least when i tried it running a virtual machine. Whenever i switch to my real pc, i get REALLY strange errors. I tried the SAME DVD on another PC and there it worked without any problems. The problem should NOT be the drivers - all hardware i defined in the OEM driver section is detected and working... Errors are something like: an empty box with the title "MSXML 4.0 Parser and SDK" and an OK button; corrupt file messages "File or directory c:\$MFT is corrupt and unreadable. Please run checkdisk utility" an MS-Antispy-Installation error... ALL these errors happen whenever i install a group of applications i called "Office" that contains: Adobe Photoshop Adobe Acrobat Pro Adobe Illustrator Corel Graphics Suite 12 MS Office 2003 Whenever i do NOT install these packages, the install works fine. I can install the software later on using the same DVD (after a reboot). However, i wouldn't call that unattended. The strange thing is it worked using VM and another PC (haven't a third pc here to test beside a laptop requiring different drivers :-(). I increased the script timeout like described elsewhere in this forum (oddly enough the VM worked without that adjustment, the real pc not). I tried to remove: Corel - error Photoshop, Illustrator - error Office - error acrobat pro - error acrobat pro, Photoshop, Illustrator - error Oh, i forgot to mention - in addition to these errors the system is in a bad shape: in the add/remove window there are most of the apps missing (although they were/are installed - i can see the folders in my %programfiles%). registry settings (e.g. firewall) are not set,... Is there a possibility to add a forced reboot after the "office part"? e.g. as command 2 in the wpi config.js? something like (i dont have the EXACT syntax of the ping at hand right now): cmd2=shutdown -r -f -t 5 cmd3=[ping 127.0.0.1 10 > nul] i would use the ping to circumvent the start of the next install script... Hopefully someone has a really good idea - otherwise my DVD sucks...

If u create a Mozilla directory within the Application Data path (check for it with something like FOR /F "tokens=2* delims= " %%A IN ('reg query "HKCU\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell Folders" /v "AppData"') DO SET applicationdata=%%B)) that contains the following: Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\profiles.ini Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\XYXYXYXY.default\ with profiles.ini looking somewhat like: [General] StartWithLastProfile=1 [Profile0] Name=default IsRelative=1 Path=Profiles/XYXYXYXY.default you can install firefox AND plugins completely unattended (note - in the example you have to change the IF EXIST parameter from firefoy to whatever you need)... IF EXIST firefox.exe for %%e in ("%cdrom%\Software\Firefox_Themes_Extensions\*.xpi") do "%PROGRAMFILES%\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe" -install-global-extension "%%e" IF EXIST firefox.exe for %%e in ("%cdrom%\Software\Firefox_Themes_Extensions\*.jar") do "%PROGRAMFILES%\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe" -install-global-theme "%%e" The question i have is: Can i randomly create a directory named "XYXYXYXY.default"? I can do it by running md "%RANDOM%.default" (or md "%RANDOM%%RANDOM%.default" or md "%RANDOM%%RANDOM%%RANDOM%.default" or...) or so - but then i get a directory name with more/less than 8 chars (and only numbers, no letters) - any ideas? we would have to include the name of the directory into the ini files, too! i suppose, the randomly created directory is just for security reasons?