ZoSTeR Posted April 15, 2004 Posted April 15, 2004 This is a little program that can automatically determine which silent switches can be used with a setup file.It uses PEiD which can be found here.Put the PEiD.exe in same folder as USSF.exeStart USSF.exe and select the setup exe file.Hopefully it will tell you which switches to use -17.02.05 small update since helper.bin download didn't work anymore-USSF.exeUSSF.au3USSF.exeUSSF.au3
mazin Posted April 15, 2004 Posted April 15, 2004 Nice work, ZoSTeR.It took you much to accomplish, I think.It should provide beginners with more handy help. No web search for switches anymore.Inquiry: There's a small screen that flashes before the final screen appears. It looks like it has some information, which makes one curious. Could it be pinned, somewhat?Thanks.
ZoSTeR Posted April 15, 2004 Author Posted April 15, 2004 The small flashing screen is just a "Please wait..." screen.And yes the program is mainly intended for beginners cause the pros can tell the switches by just looking at the installer icon
Alanoll Posted April 15, 2004 Posted April 15, 2004 yes....yes we can Then there are some where there just aren't switches....those are a pain.
mazin Posted April 15, 2004 Posted April 15, 2004 Go ahead.It shows the most needed switches. You may account for more in future releases.Well done.
mdes Posted April 15, 2004 Posted April 15, 2004 Simple & Well done Why not adding a text box with the prog name (between quotes) followed by all the available switches; it will be easer to copy/paste in a batch installation file. E.g. for InnoSetup:"prog" /SILENT /VERYSILENT ...
mazin Posted April 15, 2004 Posted April 15, 2004 Another suggestion for future enhancement is to integrate it to Explorer shell, so it executes from anywhere.
big_gie Posted April 15, 2004 Posted April 15, 2004 is it a internal database? or does it check the .exe own swith??
burning snow Posted April 16, 2004 Posted April 16, 2004 Inquiry: There's a small screen that flashes before the final screen appears. It looks like it has some information, which makes one curious. Could it be pinned, somewhat?This spalsh screen is the screen from PEiD v0.92.
mazin Posted April 16, 2004 Posted April 16, 2004 burning snowThanks for the info. I should check that soon.
ZoSTeR Posted April 16, 2004 Author Posted April 16, 2004 Congrats burning snow. I was wondering who would see it first (But the flashing screen is really a "Scanning..." please wait message)USSF basically calls PEiD (Helper.bin) to identify the installer type and reports available switches accordingly. So no l33t programming skillz on my side.Later today i will update USSF to support handling files via commandline. So you can call it from batch files or the context menu.
burning snow Posted April 16, 2004 Posted April 16, 2004 OK :-)It is a very simple technique which is used, and I hope I'll implement it in the Unattended Builder as soon as possible.I think it will be out at the end of the month.
Sniper Posted June 8, 2004 Posted June 8, 2004 I'm going to give this a try tonight, will be extremely helpful for me (already made a few Unattendeds but only using switches i've found here and there's a few [Tiny Personal Firewall to name one] i'd like to find out and will give this a go! ) , thank's ZoSTeR!
CrappyScotch Posted July 11, 2004 Posted July 11, 2004 Hi ZoSTeR,Universal Silent Switch Finder is really handy. It's not always easy to find information on installers. Your program has been great.Are you planning to further develop USSF?Is there some place to download updated USSF.exe and Helper.bin files?If anyone is interested and it is O.K. with ZoSTeR, I have created an InstallShield Universal Silent Switch Finder.msi. Thanks ZoSTeR
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