Nero 8 Basic Unattended Installation

[pdarshan5]

Hi all. The recent release of Nero8 is as fascinating as windows vista. And I have searched many forums for nero 8 silent installations, too. Here's what I did to make it a silently installing application:

(Make a note that, you have to uninstall previous version of Nero in order to install)

1) Download the nero8 from the official Nero website. (It is approx. 177MB download)

2) Now double click the downloaded file "Nero-8.1.1.0_eng.exe" & it will start extracting the setup files into temporary folder. Once the extraction is over, setup will start. Let the setup run, but DO NOT click "next" or "cancel"--just minimize it to the task bar for now.

3) Copy all setup files from "NERO13820" folder of temporary files. (Use %temp% in explorer to directly navigate to the temp folder). Copy-paste all setup files into the folder you want for installation (e.g. NERO8).

4) To enter your nero8 serial for a silent install, create a .reg file & customize it as follows:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Nero\Installation\Families\Nero 8\Info]
"User"="Your Name"
"Company"="Your Company Name"
"Serial8_1193105628"="XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX"

Save this as nero8.reg (or whatever filename you wish.)

5) Now use the following switches in your batch/cmd file for the silent install.

REGEDIT /S [path to setupFile]\nero8\nero8.reg
start /wait [path to setupFile]\nero8\setupX.exe /qb /norestart

With this, you are done.

(* Adding registry first only ensures that the installer does not show "nero 8 DEMO" while installation. Otherwise, it doesn't make any difference whether registry is added priorly or after installation.)

6) Note: The registry part can be skipped in case you do not have the licence. In such case, nero8 DEMO will be installed silently & will show EULA screen + DEMO screen during first run of the lovely application.

This is a simple unattended setup. This installs every applications coming with nero 8 setup excluding InCD.

I have not tried to customize the setup, but if you wish to add/remove some applications you may try this help. Also check out this for creating an MST for the very same.

Edited October 26, 2007 by pdarshan5

[midi2k6]

Try this: (without adding REG)

SetupX.exe /qn /norestart SERIALNUM_USERVAL="XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX"