jtrober

i know this is a kinda crude method, but if you are good at scripting, it work. I created a .vbs file for each of my applications that will send keystrokes to the application and walk through the setup. It essentially automates the work you do to set up the programs, by sending tabs and enters and whatever else to the application setup. Takes some time and knowledge, but it works for me

maybe I can explain this better. I did an administrative install, but when i do setup.exe /a it does not walk me through the setup process, it just goes right into copying all the files needed onto a network drive. It does not ask me where i want to install it to, or for a product key or anything. There is no user interaction at when i try to make the administrative install point. can someone help me? It is office 2000 sr1 please help thank you

ok, I have done what it says. I am trying to do this will office 2000 small business. If i do a setup.exe /a, it doesnt ask me where to save it to, or for a product key or anything, it just automatically puts it right onto a nertwork drive that I have mapped. If i dont have a network drive mapped, it installs to the C drive. I tried it with the CIW to, and it all installs properly, but when I open it for the first time, i need to input the product key. How do i go about getting the product key into the install so i dont need to put it in there myself?

I want to make my office 2k unattended install, how do i go about doing that? any help?

is there a way to incorporate this in my unattended install?

does anyone know if there is a way to create your own hotkey combinations? say, i want to hit ctrl-Alt-R and have it bring up regedit Is this possible, and if so, how is it done?

ok, i dont know if one of the registry tweaks i used does this, but here is the problem i have. Whenever i reboot windows, if i open up my computer, and try to right click on anything in there, it wont work, says a problem has occured, would you like to send info to microsoft.... but, if i close my computer, and right click on something on the desktop, it works, and then after i do that, i can open my computer and right click and it works fine. Right clicking on somthing within my computer only works if i right click on an icon on the desktop first. any ideas what would cause this?

ok, here is what is happening. I have created my DVD, with about 25 additional programs. My have edited my batch file to delete each sub directory within the install directory after each program gets installed. Everything seems to delete fine except for one. I have macromedia studio MX on there, and when the command to delete that file runs after the install, i get an error saying the setup.exe in the FSCOMM~1 dir could not be deleted, access is denied. Then it says that it could not delete that particular subdirectory because it is currently in use. That is the only problem i run into at the time of installation. After everything installs, I have a few commands to delele the install folder and a few other temp folders that get used. It delete each folder, but when i gets to deleting the install folder, the batch file crashes and nothing after that runs. i put some PAUSE 's in the batch file, and they all ask me to press any key, except the one right after deleting the install directory. it never gets to that point. once all this happens, i reboot and delete the install dir from the command prompt, and it works without a problem. I have a solution to this problem, but I would like to figure out a way to make it work from the original batch file. The way i do it not, i have a batch command the copy another batch file into the startup directory, so that when i reboot, it will run that batch file to delete the folders that could not be deleted before, and then it deletes itself from the startup dir so that it only runs once. I guess this works, but if anyone has had issues with this and knows of a solution, let me know. If it helps, the macromedia studion MX i am installing is the one i pulled off of the Windows nemesis ISO i downloaded.

If there a tweak i can add to my regedit file that will put my documents and my computer on the desktop? the only thing i have run accross is a tweak to remove them from the desktop, but they are not there by default anyway, so i dont see why anyone would need them. If i edit my regedit document to delete those values that remove them from the desktop, will it then put them there?

ok, here is the problem. I have my batch file that installs all my programs from the install folder. After it is all done, the batch file is then set to delete the install directory. It does this, but when it is done deleting the install folder, the batch file crashs and nothing that i have after that command is run. any ideas? i put in a pause right after deleting the install directory to determine if maybe it was the next command that was causing the crash, but the press any key never showed up. could it be an issue with certain files being deleted causing the crash. I know that the command runs ok, because when the batch file crashs, and i get into windows, the install folder is not there anymore, so it did get deleted. I tried editing the batch file to delete individual application folders as each application is installed, and the only error i get is that it tells me that it can not delete this one file withing the Print shop pro directory, gives me a message saying that access is denied, but the bacth file keeps running and still crashes when it deletes the install dir. any help would be appriciated