I have seen this before but I have not been able to figure out how to create an installer to install several silent install .exe's. If anyone has a tutorial or some info on doing this please let me know?

assuming that you have all the required silent installers, then you can just "chain" them into 7-Zip Self-Extracting Installer.

http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=39048

http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=101552

Or you can use WPI...

(Found on this forum and in my sig)

You could create a simple batch file that is setup to install all the apps silently. Then, if desired, create an sfx archive that's set to run that batch file when opened.

For Example: here' s part of a script that I created to install a number of apps silently. This particular script is designed to run from a cd, however it could easily be edited (by changing the file path) to run from wherever you want.

CLS
@echo off
FOR %%i IN (D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z) DO IF EXIST %%i:\CD.txt SET CDROM=%%i:

:: -------------------------------------------------------------------::
TITLE "Apps Install"

ECHO.
ECHO. Installing Windows Taskkill utility (for XP Home)
ECHO.
start "Taskkill" /wait "%CDROM%\07-apps\Windows_taskkill.exe"

ECHO.
ECHO. Installing Mozilla FireFox
ECHO.
start "FireFox" /wait "%CDROM%\07-apps\FireFox_3.5.2\setup.exe /S"

ECHO.
ECHO. Installing Adobe Apps
ECHO.
start "Adobe" /wait "%CDROM%\07-apps\Adobe\Adobe.cmd"

ECHO.
ECHO. Installing CCleaner
ECHO.
start "CCleaner" /wait "%CDROM%\07-apps\CCleaner\ccleaner.cmd"

ECHO.
ECHO. Installing Misc System Utilities
ECHO.
start "sysutil1" /wait "%CDROM%\07-apps\System_Utilities_1.exe"
start "sysutil2"/wait "%CDROM%\07-apps\System_Utilities_2.exe"

ECHO.
ECHO. Applying OEM Branding
ECHO.
start "oem" /wait "%CDROM%\07-apps\OEM_Branding.exe"

ECHO.
ECHO. Running Final System Cleanup
ECHO.
start "cleanup" /wait "%CDROM%\08-cleanup\80-pick_os.cmd"

ECHO.
ECHO Restarting the PC in 10 seconds...
ECHO.
shutdown.exe -r -f -t 10 -c "Windows XP will now restart in 10 seconds!"

EXIT

It is possible to chain install many programs. Example : 6-in-One-Desktop Utilities addon

or Kel's CPL Vista Pack v3.2

Edited September 12, 200916 yr by Geej

It is possible to chain install many programs. Example : 6-in-One-Desktop Utilities addon

or Kel's CPL Vista Pack v3.2

Take a look at the batch script attached to my first post.