JPamplin Posted January 19, 2005 Posted January 19, 2005 OK folks, here's a fantastic image cataloging and processing app, now free from Google:http://www.picasa.com/I am really impressed with it, and I want to include it in all my standard setups. Anyone take a look at it yet and figure out how to do a silent install? What about its options?Thanks in advance,JP
kbart63 Posted January 19, 2005 Posted January 19, 2005 Use /S It is a nullsoft install. The unattended guide has more information. Have not tried it with an unattended install yet, but it seems it work.I also agree the new 2.0 version is great. Will be dumping thumbsplus for now.Enjoy!
kbart63 Posted January 20, 2005 Posted January 20, 2005 Just tried it...While the install portion was silent Picasa launched after the install was complete. It did not stop my other installs from completing so if a command cannot be found to stop that, you could probably just kill the process.
pdmcmahon Posted January 24, 2005 Posted January 24, 2005 Right you are. I have that same problem when I install Active Ports, I have to add the following line right under the ECHO for the install. The catch is that it is opening 4 identical windows with the program shortcuts in it. It took me a bit to figure out that the shell never comes up during the app install stages of the build, so it doesn't hurt anything to stop explorer.exe"taskkill.exe /F /IM explorer.exe"Hope that helps, and yes Picasa is the absolute bomb! Hats off to Google for listening to and understanding the end users wants, needs and loves.Have a great day!
MCT Posted January 24, 2005 Posted January 24, 2005 i just repacked it & included my prefs in the installer
dlevens Posted February 1, 2005 Posted February 1, 2005 MCT,What settings did you use to prevent picasa from loading after install? So far this is what I am using but it still pops up after I install silent. reg add HKCU\Software\Google\Picasa\Picasa2\Preferences\HotFolders /v 0 /d "%USERPROFILE%\My Documents\My Pictures\\" /freg add HKCU\Software\Google\Picasa\Picasa2\Preferences\HotFolders /v 1 /d "%USERPROFILE%\My Documents\\" /freg add HKCU\Software\Google\Picasa\Picasa2\Preferences\HotFolders /v 2 /d "%USERPROFILE%\Desktop\\" /fDennis
Se7eNdUsT Posted February 6, 2005 Posted February 6, 2005 I used InstallRite to repackage the install process and now it installs silently and doesn't popup after installation.
ddebacker Posted February 6, 2005 Posted February 6, 2005 It would be great if you could share the installer that you've built
JPamplin Posted February 25, 2005 Author Posted February 25, 2005 Here's a registry tweak I developed to apply after silent install - it removes the Picasa Media Taskbar app:REGEDIT4;Delete NeroCheck, QTTask & WinAmp Agent from startup group[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run]"NeroFilterCheck"=-"QuickTime Task"=-"WinampAgent"=-"nwiz"=-"NvMediaCenter"=-"igfxtray"=-"SunJavaUpdateSched"=-"Picasa Media Detector"=-"DVDLauncher"=-I've got some other stuff in there too, but you can take out what you don't want.JP
mpyr Posted March 2, 2005 Posted March 2, 2005 Hey,I used autoit to build a silent install executable. It works for me, very primitive, inelegant and ugly but it works. This works for my version of picasa2 which is 1877. If it doesn't work for you please try to figure out autoit (do a search).Just save the file to the same dir as the picasa install(which has to be named "picasa2-setup-1877.exe" ).Cheers.picasa2setup.exe
asbsamsf Posted March 2, 2005 Posted March 2, 2005 /S is not allowing unattended. Try again.<{POST_SNAPBACK}>in your %ProgramFiles%\Picasa2 there is a hidden "setup.exe" (2,96 MB), use it with /S instead of picasa2-setup-1884.exestart /wait setup.exe /Staskkill.exe /F /IM Picasa2.exetaskkill.exe /F /IM PicasaMediaDetector.exe
totoymola Posted March 2, 2005 Posted March 2, 2005 I don't know about the setup.exe in the programfiles, but I use the extracted exe in my %temp% folder when I run the original installer. I guess their're just about the same. And it's smaller than the original.
asbsamsf Posted March 3, 2005 Posted March 3, 2005 I don't know about the setup.exe in the programfiles, but I use the extracted exe in my %temp% folder when I run the original installer. I guess their're just about the same. And it's smaller than the original.<{POST_SNAPBACK}>right
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