Disable WMA for silent install of Nero 5.5

[Marticus]

This may or may not work for the most recent nero, I refuse to upgrade to the 6.x releases. At any rate, here is how you perform a silent install of nero without the third party wma support.

I am assuming you have a serial number. There may be a simpler way to do this, like a switch or something; I couldn't find anything.

1) Download nero551056.exe from their site -> Downloads -> Updates -> Previous Versions -> Nero Burning Rom

2) Run it, but don't proceed.

3) Copy the files in %UserProfile%\Local Settings\Temp\RarSFX0 or something.

4) Exit the installer.

5) Delete the two installers in the RarSFX0\Shared directory, do not touch AudioPlugins. Setup will no longer prompt you to run the third party installer.

You may wish to include nero burning rights:

6) Download NeroBurnRightsInstaller.exe from their site -> Support -> Utilities -> Support Tools -> Nero BurnRights

7) Drop it in the nero build directory.

8) Use the following to install both applications.

setup.exe /silent /silent=1 /no_ui /noreboot /nocancel

NeroBurnRightsInstaller.exe /silent /burnrights:all

9) You will need to modify the registry with this version. So add the following lines to your script.

reg add "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Ahead\Nero - Burning Rom\Info" /VE /f

reg add "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Ahead\Nero - Burning Rom\Info" /V Serial5 /D "xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx" /f

If you wish to try this with 6.x, append these switches to setup.exe instead of the reg entries above.

/write_sn /sn="xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx"

9) Now create a new installer, I used innosetup.

Enjoy!