Microsoft have just released a new version of IE 7 without WGA checking.

IE7-WindowsXP-x86-enu.exe

Has anyone managed to get this to silently install?

Jeremy

Microsoft have just released a new version of IE 7 without WGA checking.

IE7-WindowsXP-x86-enu.exe

Has anyone managed to get this to silently install?

Jeremy

Yes it can be installed silently. Take a look on this board @ NLite addons rado has a made an addon pack for this already.

Latest Changes:

WGA Removed 
The menu bar is now visible by default 
The Internet Explorer 7 online tour has updated how-to’s. Also, the “first-run” experience includes a new overview 
We’ve included a new MSI installer that simplifies deployment for IT administrators in enterprises

New msi installer

Edited October 5, 200718 yr by sp00f

7Zip switchless installer, /passive /update-no and /norestart switches were used.

You can change /passive to /quiet to make it completely silent.

Link

this version doesnt show the menubar by default as mentioned. the two patches must be installed. the wga validation is removed and RunOnceEx problem is solved in this release. silent installation works the same as previous version.

RunOnceEx problem is solved in this release.

That is good news. I hope that Tomcat76 releases a new version of HFSLIP soon which supports this new IE7 release.

this version doesnt show the menubar by default as mentioned. the two patches must be installed. the wga validation is removed and RunOnceEx problem is solved in this release. silent installation works the same as previous version.

IE7 (fr) installed on Windows XP Media Center 2005 OEM (fr) or Windows XP Pro OEM SP2 (fr) has menubar enabled by default ...

checked again in my case that english version downloaded from microsoft doesnt show the menu bar by default

checked again in my case that english version downloaded from microsoft doesnt show the menu bar by default

It does here though on a clean install.

may be it could be due to some reg tweaks i use. i'd check it out.