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I've been following FireGeier's guide to unattended vista (it's awesome BTW, congrats! :thumbup ), everything works OK, but I have a doubt: in his guide he mentions that the Synchronous Commands in Pass 6 auditUser must have the comand CMD/ C (wich calls vista's command line interpreter) preceding the actual command for installing the application; for example:

cmd /c %AppsRoot%\Install\AcrRead\AcroRead.msi /qb

I tried to install some apps without the CMD /C instruction but the setup fails and quits.

If I use the CMD /C command everything works OK.

The only problem is that CMD /C opens (of course) a black command window, which I don't like.

Is there any way to avoid CMD /C in the syntax?

This issue is merely cosmetic, as I said, everything works fine, but I don't like black command windows open.:P

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Hi there !

you can use the programm cmdow to make the cmd window go away. Be sure to have the program somewhere in the path, then use this commandline in the xml:

cmd /c "cmdow @ /HID & %DVDRoot%\setupcommand...."

Bye,

Alex

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I have not tried it with program installations, however I am calling regedit to import .reg files from that pass, without calling cmd.

Regedit and cmd are both native to Windows and it knows what they are. does that make sense?

To do a msi you can use this: msiexec.exe /I %SystemDrive%\APPS\Jump2reg\Jump2reg.msi /qb

When you hide that thing installing and it seems hungup remember you can Ctrl Alt Del and end task

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Thanks

regarding the CMDOW tool, I don't like it that much, so does my antivirus and prevents it form running, hence, it causes an error :P

Thanks for the MSIEXEC /I tip maxXPsoft, I'll try it tonight :thumbup

BTW, I noticed that the error occurs only when the command line has spaces, for example, the following line does NOT cuase any trouble:

%CDROM%\Install\nero\INSTALL.CMD

but, as you can see it has no spaces in it, in the other hand, the following line DOES cuase a problem:

:%CDROM%\Install\Office2007\setup.exe /adminfile CUSTOM.MSP

note the blank space between setup.exe and /adminfile and between adminfile and custom.msp.

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regarding the CMDOW tool, I don't like it that much, so does my antivirus and prevents it form running, hence, it causes an error

Antivirus during vista setup :blink: , i dont think so

@alex

I tried it in fase 4, but that didnt work.

Can you show an example from one of your commands please with cmdow in it?

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Hi sp00f,

Can you show an example from one of your commands please with cmdow in it?

Sure. For instance in phase 4 I have the following synchronous command:

cmd /c "cmdow @ /HID & FOR %i IN (C D E F G H I J K L N M O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z) DO IF EXIST %i:\DVDRoot.txt SETX DVDRoot %i: -m"

I am attaching my xml in case you need it.

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you can use Java script (WSH) to Completely hide cmd Window , Perfect ! :thumbup

example.js

//  this's  Java Script example
var CmdPath = "your cmd path\\example.cmd";
var cmd1 = "%windir%\\System32\\cmd.exe /c " + CmdPath;
var WshShell = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell");

return1 = WshShell.Run(Cmd1,0,true);

autounattend.xml

in specialize or audituser

<settings pass="specialize">
<component name="Microsoft-Windows-Deployment" processorArchitecture="x86" publicKeyToken="31bf3856ad364e35" language="neutral" versionScope="nonSxS" xmlns:wcm="http://schemas.microsoft.com/WMIConfig/2002/State" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
<RunSynchronous>
<RunSynchronousCommand wcm:action="add">
<Order>1</Order>
<Path>cscript %windir%\Setup\example.js</Path>[/color]
<Description>Run Jscript</Description>
</RunSynchronousCommand>
</RunSynchronous>
</component>
</settings>

example.cmd

 
@echo off
%CDROM%\Install\nero\INSTALL.CMD
%DVDRoot%\setupcommand...."
and more ....

Sorry ! My English is poor. :blushing:

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