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howdy... He is talking about the office.rar link provided by the Office XP/2K3 36mb *.pdf guide... I never used it but i know i downloaded it a while ago... Recently my AV has detected "installer.exe" in the archive as being a Trojan so I deleted the file... (I'm using KAV and i know it can be very sensitive so the file may actually not be a virus... FYI KAV was declaring it as Trojan.Win32.Agent.kl but there seem to be no documentation on this)... This may be the reason why the file was nuked... Maybe a Mod or Admin could confirm or not... For those of you in need of silent 7zS.sfx have a look Here for a great guide... PS: Yes the 7zS.sfx module for later versions is NOT included with the 7zip Installer and needs to be downloaded aside. You will find it in the Extra Modules Pack. Hope this helps...

hmmm.... well t-b-x, i think i've found where the pb was coming from and edited my post... check in "%userprofile%\Local Settings\Application Data" folder to see if you have any MSI***.LOG files there (in the machine you're testing silent install on)... If it's the case and the error msg is your serial number than you might want to redo your *.MST file with the not so new method i posted... lol Sorry it took so long... letme know... As for the splitstreaming part I have no pbs and the installed version is 7.0.5... not sure what is wrong here...

All right then gelome.... I'll edit... lol (Now you're into it deep... lmao) ... Txs for the code there.... I use the silent installs from an external HD after having installed and rebooted my XP so i guess StartX was the missing part... I'll try it though since those dual layer DVD's are getting cheaper... lol...

Arkymedes txs for that precious info... i'm sure it'll help out a few peeps using other language versions of office... Bry, as much as i would like to help you out i can't....lol... the reason is i never had to modify my shrink.ini so i don't know what it looks like... lol I will have a go at it as soon as i have a min to myself and will get back to u if i find anything wrong with what you posted... In the meanwhile the only advice i can give you is.... Do it again and again to test out the results... lol Good luck

hmmm... well if i'm right you are attempting to install the version in a method that requires MSI 3.1 installer to be active at a time where it's not... lol As i pointed i haven't tested it in an unattended windows install yet.... just don't have the time right now.... But if my guess is right, you would need to include StartX.exe in the your 7zip archive so as to have it installed in svpack.inf timeframe... I'll be testing it very soon (hopefully my boss won't have managed to use me 2 much....)and will let u know ASAP... Till then ya might want to google for startx and search for topics related to it here... Hope this helps....

hmmmm.... Well t-b-x not sure really what your pb is... I haven't tested it yet in real unattended setup (ie integrated to an unattended XP install CD)... Maybe that's where the pb is... Quick thinking (yeah i know ya prolly allready checked it a 1000 times but every one gets blind after n hours behind a screen and f**** up an install coz of a lousy " that should or shouldn't be there once in a while).... lol - Have you inserted the code as is ? AcroPro.msi TRANSFORMS=AcroPro.mst /qn - Are you uising WinRAR to Xtract to a "temp folder" ? - What version of WinRAR are you using... - Have you updated 7.0.5 from the original untouched source (7.0) or are you doing the operation on an allready updated source (7.0.x) ? - You've tried changing the compression and use 7zip instead. Are you getting the same results ? - Not really sure what you mean here... (XXsplit <---- Eternal n00b )... btw.... maybe you could post your compression settings using 7zip if you're using the cmd prompt method coz the best result i got using the GUI was like 5mb less and 30min xtra time for compression... Also.... is anyone aware on how to use UPX compression as well as 7zip ? Does it work on this type of Admin Install point ? Well let us know t-b-x if ya manage to get through coz i've gone through the making and install process a few times to try and recreate your pb but no luck... lol (might want to post the error message if any).

Right guys.... thank you.... marek722... This is a great piece of code you're handing us here... ... It took me while to get it through, iunno, not really reading the tutorial... lol... but i finaly managed to get my first updated Office 2003 MUI SP1 language pack running perfectly... using this method... tCP... Dude i'll never thank ya enough for your little batch...lol... I can tell ya there's a lot to delete on a full MUI 6CD set... well i'll get working on the other 49 languages left... lol... Txs again...

hehe... yup... i'm a couple of days late.... lol As for theactivation well i guess i'll have to figure something else... lol... ain't this xtra work just a real pain... Well.... I'm glad the guide helped ya.... Currently working on a bigger project involving MUI's on xp 2k 2k3 o2k3 and... hmmm... all **** MUIs i can find... lol If i ever make it there ( **** office MUI admin is about 7.2 Gigs... lol) i might just write another one.... I'll keep this one updated as much as i can....

Ok.... so since this a patch file (*.msp when xtracted) then i guess the first technique i suggested will fail.... Time to change plans... lol What you will need: - Your Adobe Acrobat 7 Pro Original source and Serial key for your Transform. - Adobe Acrobat 7.0.5 Professional Update- English, French, German and Japanese Here. - InstallShield Tuner 7.0 for Adobe Acrobat. Here - WinRAR Here. - A virtual machine to work on (Not mandatory but very useful). - MS "Open Cmd Here" powertoy (Again... not mandatory but useful). - An icon of your choice in the *.ico format. 1 - Create your Admin Install: Create a Folder named AcroPro in the "C:" drive of your virtual machine. Insert your CD, Open a cmd prompt in your CD dir and use the following code... setup.exe /a When asked to choose a destination folder use your newly created "AcroPro" folder. 2 - Patch your Admin Install with the latest "Adobe Acrobat 7.0.5 Professional Update" - First you've got to xtract the content of the 7.0.5 Update into a Folder you will name "705" and place in your "C:" dir on your virtual machine... - Now for the patching... Open a cmd prompt in your "705" dir and use the folowing code... msiexec /p Ac705PrP_efgj.msp /a C:\AcroPro\AcroPro.msi /qb! 3 - Create the *.MST Transform... If you haven't intalled your "InstallShield Tuner 7.0 for Adobe Acrobat" on your virtual machine it's about the right time to do so... ! - When prompted for the required *.itw file (which has disapeared with the admin Install) use the one in your original source "AcroPro.itw" and then open the "AcroPro.msi" that is in your "AcroPro" folder (NOT the Original one).... By default your *.mst file will be created in your "AcroPro" Folder and named "AcroPro.mst". ! - When you're done with *MST settings don't forget to save before exiting . 4 - The Silent Installer... At this point you will only need WinRAR to create a completely silent *.exe Select all the files in your "AcroPro" Folder (including the AcroPro.mst) and create a WinRAR SFX Archive... Here's for the options... GUI - General Tab Name: whatever you want Format: rar Compression: best Create sfx Create Solid archive Put recovery record - Advanced Tab -> SFX Options | General Tab Run After extraction: msiexec /i AcroPro.msi TRANSFORMS=AcroPro.mst /qn - Advanced Tab -> SFX Options | Mode Tab Temporary mode: Unpack to temporary folder Silent mode: Hide All Overwrite mode: Overwrite all files (but that's for you to decide...) - Advanced Tab -> SFX Options | Text & Icon Tab Load SFX icon from the file (If you have an *.ico file to include). And that's it.... validate your choices by clicking OK and your new silent installer is here.... Stats: - Original Source Before Admin Install 236mb - Admin Install Point patched with 7.0.5 Update 590mb - Silent Installer 221mb Ok... same as for previous method, this is no miracle solution and software still needs to be activated on first use... Well untill someone post a way to transfer it with the install... Edit : - As stated by targa and t-b-x there was a pb when trying to use the silent install... The archive uncompresses and nothing happens... - After days of nightmares I finaly found out that the *.MST (Originaly created with Wise Install Tailor) was probably the pb... It wouldn't pass on the serial parameter correctly and thus stopping the Install after archive uncompressed... Post has now been edited and the *.MST should not have this pb anymore... (Really sorry for all ya peeps that have been going nuts on this lately...). Since a lot of you seem to be using the 7zip method here it is... Thank you gelome for providing us with the StartX code and testing it for us... lol... I can now confirm that this code works... What you will need: - 7zip... Here - A reshacked version of 7zS.sfx module (For completely silent install). Info Here & Extra 7zip Module Pack - StartX.exe Here Steps 1 to 3 remain the same... 4 - Creating the silent Installer... If you haven't installed 7zip yet it's the right time to do so... - copy/paste your "StartX.exe" into your "AcroPro" Folder, select all the files in the folder (including your *.MST file and StartX.exe) and make a *.7z archive (Using LZMA method at Ultra compression Level) that you will name "AcroPro.7z"... - At this point you should copy/paste you reshacked 7zS.sfx module into your "AcroPro" folder and create your config.txt file... Use the code submitted by gelome and save your *.txt file as UTF-8 in the same folder... ;!@Install@!UTF-8! RunProgram="StartX.exe /WAIT \"msiexec /i AcroPro.msi TRANSFORMS=AcroPro.mst /qn\"" ;!@InstallEnd@! - Now you can open a cmd prompt from "AcroPro" folder and use the following code to create your self extracting silent installer... copy /b 7zS.sfx + config.txt + AcroPro.7z AcroPro.exe Seems we are now done... Stats: - Original Source Before Admin Install 236mb - Admin Install Point patched with 7.0.5 Update 590mb - Silent Installer 165mb Txs for your comments... Let me know if something is missing or incorrect....

hehe.... Glad ya found it usefull Greenthumb... Maybe you could post some kind of method or hint on how to proceed using AutoIt for the registration part.... (I'm kinda n00b when it comes to AutoIt... ).

hehe.... glad the tutorial helped ya out h11... (don't forget the great coder of this app... the one & unique buckeyeXP... .... hmmm by the way.... still very interested in source or tips on where to start buckeyeXP....lol). Hmmm.... note that using the exact same technique and same Office 2003 Resource Kit to create your *.MST you can: - Create an admin install of your Office 2003 PTK - Splitstream the PTK SP2 into the admin install - Create your Unattended.MST for PTK with Office 2003 Resource Kit - Use the 7zip technique to get a compressed silent instal off 520mb more or less.... (Original splitstreamed admin source around 1.2Gigs). What you need: - Your Office 2003 PTK source CD - Office 2003 PTK SP2 Here - Office 2003 Resource Kit Here - 7zip Here - A reshacked version of 7zS.sfx module Info Here Now buckeyeXP.... time to integrate a new feature to enable the same shrinking capacities on PTK... ;p

ok... what i've noticed... totoymola's switches indeed work great.... mucho txs... (where did you get these...lol... been going nuts with Installshield X and orca... )... Oh yeah... and no luck either on those no reboot switches Orsi... You are not alone... lol Iv'e also noticed that modifying the "conf.txt" in your "Nero 7 Ultra Edition\Redist\Config" folder would alter the choices available in GUI mode... Unfortunately it seems this file is used by "setupX.exe" and not by NeroSuite.msi, thus installing the entire suite if you don't use a transform... Would you know of a way to keep install silent but still using setupX.exe ... If I think right that would allow to safely delete from the source the unwanted modules and create a tailored silent install without the need to use or make a transform... hmmm... Leme know...

hmmm... Quick thinking... - What type office install do you have... Silent ?.... (lol... that was for fun... ;p)... but more seriously what method and what type of install have you used for your Office... - Are you sure your Office install works the way you want it to work using your switches in an attended install... Have you tested it working on a virtual machine. - Have you created your cmdlines.txt... Yeah i know you read the guide... lol... just making sure... - Are u installing other applications with runonceex and are they installing ?... The Office ref post (for me anyways) Here... Yeah it's 49 pages long.... lmao.... but every single one is usefull.... (specialy the last one.... muhahaha... now ya can all flame me... ). Hope this helps...

Hmmm.... Well h11 not really sure what your pb could be but, as far as i know... 1) Office 2003 Original source (ie with no updates at all) only needs SP2 and KB904631 to be fully up to date... 2) Most of the errors people get with buckeyeXP's Office Shrinker occur because it is run on a machine that has had Office software installed at one time... Not sure if it's your case though... ! - As a reminder, it is mandatory that NO Office software be installed on the virtual machine you are working with prior to running the Office Shrinker. If you've installed it to get your *.OPS file ready, simply uninstalling Office will not work... You will need to reclone your virtual machine... Well i hope you'll get it to work.... It tok me ages the first time i remember.... lol

hehe... mucho txs seapagan... This is what i call an info.... Have never even thought that type of tool existed... After testing it.... it works.... XP SP2 anyways... lol... might as well edit my previous post...

Aloha all... Before anything I'd like to thank pdmcmahon and it ybd for putting me on the right track... So here it is, for us n00bs, a recap on making an "almost" fully silent (U tell me...) QT7 silent installer with all your tweaks and prefs integrated (Registration included)... What you will need: - QuickTime 7.0.2 Standalone installer. (And valid registration info if you want to include it...) Here - Quick Batch Compiler. Here - Winrar. Here (I Use v3.42 but i'm sure latest version has the same features...) - An Icon of your choice... *.ico format if you want to change the sfx icon... 1 - Install QuickTime 7 on your computer and configure it fully... (Prefs, registration, player prefs...). 2 - Copy your Pref files to a folder on your Desktop... The Files are... - Two files for the General Prefs and the Registration... "c:\Document and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Apple Computer\QuickTime\QuickTime.qtp" "c:\Document and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Apple Computer\QuickTime\com.apple.QuickTime.plist" - One editable *.xml file that manages the user Player Prefs... "c:\Document and Settings\%userprofile%\Application Data\Apple Computer\QuickTime\QTPlayerSession.xml" 3 - Prepare your package. In the same folder you copied your pref files, include the original "QuickTimeInstaller.exe"... Also, install your copy of Quick Batch Compiler if you haven't done so allready. 4 - Create your QT7Silent.cmd and save it your distribution folder... Now as i stated earlier this is pdmcmahon's batch... I just twisted it a litlle to suite my needs... @ECHO OFF QuickTimeInstaller.exe /S /v/qn XCOPY /S /E /I /Y QuickTime.qtp "C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Apple Computer\QuickTime" XCOPY /S /E /I /Y com.apple.QuickTime.plist "C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Apple Computer\QuickTime" XCOPY /S /E /I /Y QTPlayerSession.xml "%userprofile%\Application Data\Apple Computer\QuickTime\" DEL "c:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\QuickTime\PictureViewer.lnk" DEL "c:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\QuickTime\QuickTime Read Me.lnk" DEL "c:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\QuickTime\Uninstall QuickTime.lnk" DEL "c:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Desktop\QuickTime Player.lnk" DEL "%userprofile%\Application Data\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch\QuickTime Player.lnk" taskkill /F /IM qttask.exe EXIT 5 - Transform your "QT7Silent.cmd"... 1) Open your QT7Silent.cmd in Quick Batch Compiler. 2) Select Ghost Application in the Project | Options 3) Build your *.exe (By default it will be saved with the same name and in the same folder as your QT7Silent.cmd). 4) You can now remove QTSilent.cmd from your distribution folder... 6 - Create your silent installer... 1) Your folder which should now look like this... com.apple.QuickTime.plist QT7Silent.exe QTPlayerSession.xml QuickTime.qtp QuickTimeInstaller.exe MyIcon.ico 2) Install WinRAR and Create an archive with all the files listed above... Here is for the options... (GUI): - General Tab Name: whatever you want Format: rar Compression: best Create sfx Create Solid archive Put recovery record - Advanced Tab -> SFX Options | General Tab Run After extraction: QT7Silent.exe - Advanced Tab -> SFX Options | Mode Tab Temporary mode: Unpack to temporary folder Silent mode: Hide All Overwrite mode: Overwrite all files (but that's for you to decide...) - Advanced Tab -> SFX Options | Text & Icon Tab Load SFX icon from the file (If you have an *.ico file to include). And that's it.... validate your choices by clicking OK and your new silent installer is here.... ! - For those of you eager to keep working with 7zip method... It can also be done... Just use this as config.txt ;!@Install@!UTF-8! RunProgram="QT7Silent.exe" ;!@InstallEnd@! I have found though that you only gain like 512k with the 7zip version and spend way more time compressing it Ultra... Xtra stuff: - More info on Window environment variables: Here - More info on Taskkill: Here Post Edited: Txs to seapagan the installer is now Fully Silent... (integrating cmdow.exe in the sfx archive and using QT7Silent.cmd to launch install pops open a cmd prompt and closes it right away...).

Aloha all... Not sure if the topic has been fully covered yet... So here it is.... Making your own silent install of Adobe Acrobat Pro 7 and the updates... What you will need: - Adobe Acrobat 7.0 Profesional Full Source from your CD - Adobe Acrobat 7.0.1 Professional and Standard update - multiple languages. Here - Adobe Acrobat 7.0.2 Professional and Standard update - multiple languages. Here - Adobe Acrobat 7.0.3 Professional and Standard update - multiple languages. Here - Adobe Acrobat/Adobe Reader 7.0 Bootstrap Installer for IT administrators. Here - InstallShield Tuner 7.0 for Adobe Acrobat. Here 1 - Install InstallShield Tuner 7.0 for Adobe Acrobat on your computer 2 - Create a folder structure: C:\ AcroPro ACROPRO700 ACROPRO701 ACROPRO702 ACROPRO703 3 - Unzip "Adobe Acrobat/Adobe Reader 7.0 Bootstrap Installer for IT administrators" (Acrobat7Chaining.zip) into your "AcroPro" folder. 4 - Extract complete Adobe Acrobat 7 Professional source from your cd to your "ACROPRO700" folder. 5 - Place each update in it's corresponding reserved folder. - Acro-Reader_701_Update.exe --> "ACROPRO701" - Acro-Reader_702_Update.exe --> "ACROPRO702" - Acro-Reader_703_Update.exe --> "ACROPRO703" 6 - Creating your transform file: - Start InstallShield Tuner 7.0 for Adobe Acrobat and follow the instructions. Choose the *.itw file and the *.msi from the "ACROPRO700" folder. By Default the Tuner will create an AcroPro.MST in "ACROPRO700". At this stage you can configure most of the options and reg tweaks you want configured... Xcept maybe Activation... - When you're done entering your tweaks and info just save your *.mst file buy selecting "File\save" from the Tuner's menu bar. ! - Packaging isn't really required since the Bootstrap Installer will take care of the silent options for us... 7 - Changing the setup.ini options: (setup.ini in the "AcroPro" folder) [Startup] CmdLine=/sALL [Product1] Launch=msi msi=.\ACROPRO700\AcroPro.msi CmdLine=TRANSFORMS="AcroPro.mst" ISX_SERIALNUMBER=xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx [Product2] Launch=self_exe exe=.\ACROPRO701\Acro-Reader_701_Update.exe ProductName=Adobe Acrobat 7.0.1 and Reader 7.0.1 Update ProductCode={AC76BA86-0000-7EC8-7489-000000000702} UpgradeCode={AC76BA86-FFFF-AC7E-0000-87DA8E000000} CmdLine= Require=Product1 [Product3] Launch=self_exe exe=.\ACROPRO702\Acro-Reader_702_Update.exe ProductName=Adobe Acrobat 7.0.2 and Reader 7.0.2 Update ProductCode={AC76BA86-0000-7EC8-7489-000000000703} UpgradeCode={AC76BA86-FFFF-AC7E-0000-87DA8E000000} CmdLine= Require=Product2 [Product4] Launch=self_exe exe=.\ACROPRO703\Acro-Reader_703_Update.exe ProductName=Adobe Acrobat 7.0.3 and Reader 7.0.3 Update ProductCode={AC76BA86-0000-7EC8-7489-000000000704} UpgradeCode={AC76BA86-FFFF-AC7E-0000-87DA8E000000} CmdLine= Require=Product3 IncludeIfSilent=Yes Obviously you're gonna have to place your serial where the xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx appear in [Product1]. (Yes... even if you've allready entered it in your AcroPro.mst file... and make sure you're using the same serial... ). Well guess what.... you're done... Just launch the setup.exe from your "AcroPro" folder (no switches required) and everything should install silently... I won't get into the process of compressing it with 7zip and making a self xtracting silent install since the weight gain is about 20mb and the time taken compressing it and decompressing on install is not worth it... This metthod will get you through most of the tweaks but Activation will appear on first use... If anyone finds a way of using the "Acivation Transfers wizard" in conjunction with InstallShield Tuner 7.0 for Adobe Acrobat so as to have a fully activated silent install let us know... Where this all comes from.... Chaining Together Acrobat/Reader 7.0 to 7.0.3 for Enterprise Deployment Tuner User Doc Anything missing ? Leme know...

Aloha... First of all many txs to buckeyeXP for this great little app... I've been using it for a while now and it has never failed me... So dude, BIG UP... . (btw... I wouldn't mind having a look at the source... hmmm... no asking no spanking.. lol ) @h11 : Hmmm.... the answer is YES... lol. It works great... . Thought it would be a good Time for a complete recap.... This is for Office 2003 Pro + SP2 + KB904631 and all work is being done on XP Pro SP2 Full Updates platforms. What you will need: - Office 2003 Original Full source from CD. - Office 2003 SP2 (Full NOT Client). Here - KB904631 Outlook 2003 Junk E-Mail Filter update: September 2005. Here - A virtual machine ready with xp SP2 installed and all updates. (That ya got to figure out by yourself... ). - buckeyeXP's Office Shrinker... iunno... first page... lol - Microsoft Office 2003 Resource Kit (To be installed on virtual machine). Here - 7zip (To be installed on virtual machine). Here - A reshacked version of 7zS.sfx module (For completely silent install). Info Here - Not mandatory but very handy "Open Cmd Here Powertoy" (To be installed on both physical and virtual machine). Here On your Computer create 2 Folders in "c:\" O2K3 and SP2 1 - Create an Admin install from your original Office source (CD ?) and install in O2K3 Folder. (More info on topic Here.) "Full Path to Office source"\setup.exe /a 2 - Splitstream Office 2003 SP2 into your Admin Install. Place your Office2003SP2-KB887616-FullFile-ENU.exe in "c:\" ! - The result of the Extraction will give you 6 files including 3 *.msp files... Only 2 ( MAINSP2ff.msp and OWC11SP2ff.msp ) will be splitstreamed, the 3rd one being an update on office xp web components (Probably only needed when using SP2 on an upgraded version of Office XP... not the case here...). Extract: (cmd prompt from c:\) Office2003SP2-KB887616-FullFile-ENU.exe /Q /C /T:C:\SP2 Splitstream: (cmd prompt from c:\SP2) msiexec /p MAINSP2ff.msp /a C:\O2K3\PRO11.msi SHORTFILENAMES=TRUE /qb msiexec /p OWC11SP2ff.msp /a C:\O2K3\OWC11.MSI SHORTFILENAMES=TRUE /qb 3 - Splitsream KB904631 the only non included update for full phishing protection... Place office2003-KB904631-FullFile-ENU.exe in "c:\" Extract:(cmd promt form c:\) office2003-KB904631-FullFile-ENU.exe /Q /C /T:C:\SP2 Splitstream: (cmd prompt from c:\SP2) msiexec /p OUTLFLTR.msp /a C:\O2K3\PRO11.msi SHORTFILENAMES=TRUE /qb You're done for the splitstreaming part... 4 - Shrinking Office: (From now on all happens on the virtual machine). ! - You need a clean install of windows with NO Office software previously installed (I use VMWare and clone a full XP SP2 all updates for this purpose). 1) Copy your O2K3 folder with the Office 2003 SP2 you've just created to the "c:\" of your fresh virtual machine. 2) Install Microsoft Office 2003 Resource Kit on your virtual machine if you haven't done it yet and create your own Transform file you will name Unattended.MST and save in c:\O2K3 on virtual machine. (More info on topic Here.) ! - If you have Office 2003 installed on your physical computer you can create an *.OPS file using the "Microsoft Office 2003 Save My Settings Wizard" or "Profile Wizard" in ORK. This allows you to further tweak your install easily by integrating your actual Office settings into your *.MST... (Keep in mind that at compression stage you will have to include your *.OPS file as well as your *.MST file in the 7z archive but nothing else changes...). ! - Keep in mind that the resultant *.MST file is what will determine the size of your shrunk source so take the time to consider all the apps and modules delivered by Office 2003. 3) Once done... run buckeyeXP's shrink_lang02.exe on your vitrtual machine and follow instructions... (For the rest of the example we'll assume shrunk source is placed in c:\Office2003 on the virtual machine...) My results at this stage: Office 2003 SP2 + KB904631 Full source = 637mb Office 2003 SP2 + KB904631 Shrunk source = 422mb MST = Keep Access/Excel/Outlook/Word + Most tools and Xtras... 5 - Compress the shrunk source ... (If ya haven't installed 7zip yet on the virtual machine this is the right time...). Copy your Unattended.MST from c:\O2K3 to c:\Office2003 and compress the entire shrunk source + Unattended.MST to Office2003.7z (Using LZMA method at Ultra compression Level). * If you've used an *.OPS file with your Unattended.MST don't forget to include it in your Office2003.7z. My results at this stage: 156mb... lol... 6 - Creating the silent .exe (You need a reshacked 7zS.sfx module and a config.txt). 1) Delete everything from your c:\Office2003 on virtual machine except the newly created Office2003.7z 2) Create a config.txt file you will save as UTF-8 format in c:\Office 2003 - With progress bar and cancel option: ;!@Install@!UTF-8! RunProgram="setup.exe TRANSFORMS=Unattended.MST /qb-" ;!@InstallEnd@! - Totaly Silent: ;!@Install@!UTF-8! RunProgram="setup.exe TRANSFORMS=Unattended.MST /qn" ;!@InstallEnd@! ! - More info on switches that can be used in your %OfficeSource%\SETUP.HTM 3) Place your reshacked 7zS.sfx in that same folder. 4) Open a cmd prompt in c:\Office2003 and type: copy /b 7zS.sfx + config.txt + Office2003.7z Office2003.exe This will create your silent .exe in the same folder... Well seems we're all done.... Copy your fresh Office2003.exe out of the virtual machine to your computer..... Did I forget anything ? Leme know.... Some little Xtras: - For some reason, even if your *.MST specifies that some options should be kept "locked" and "unavailable", MS Installer won't keep track of those settings and will still offer to install those Items when using the Add & Remove programs | Change or remove MS Office wizard... ??? If anyone has an answer on how to effectively getting rid of unwanted objects from the installer (like graying and really making option unavailable) please let us know.... Btw, this has nothing to do with buckeyeXP's Office shrinker... - Some of you peeps might want to have a closer look at the Setup.ini files located in your "%OfficeSource%\FILES\SETUP\" and "%OfficeSource%\FILES\OWC11\"... Check the [cache] options at the end of those files... - Also... It seems Microsoft has released an Enhanced Version of the Office 2003 installer that supports more [cache] options. It can be found Here. - Usefull links : Office 2003 Resource Kit Downloads Description of Office 2003 Service Pack 2 Preparing to deploy Office 2003