Google Desktop Search Plugins ?

[midiboy]

Hi !

Installing Google Desktop search silently is fairly easy, the switch is "/silent"

However, there are plugins available which cause Google Desktop search to pop up a message during installation asking to acknowledge that plugin installation. Is there any way to get rid of that or to temporarily disable that warning message on plugin installation by a registry tweak or something ?

Thanks,

Alex

[digitalfrost]

Here is my plugins.reg:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Google\Google Desktop]
"instanceid"="52b7299ca77943ab49b88a8066fcfb5d"

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Google\Google Desktop\Components]
"last_update"=hex(b):01,00,00,00,00,00,00,00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Google\Google Desktop\Components\{EAE377CA-10EC-4933-A56F-E1824D0DEAC9}]
"title"="Larry's OpenOffice and StarOffice Indexer 1.01"
"description"="Indexes all OpenOffice.org/StarOffice6+ files"
"icon"=""
"state"=dword:00000001
"status"=hex(b):d6,d8,03,f4,d2,9c,dd,82
"extension"=hex:13,00,00,00,06,00,00,00,73,00,78,00,63,00,06,00,00,00,73,00,74,\
  00,63,00,06,00,00,00,73,00,78,00,64,00,06,00,00,00,73,00,74,00,64,00,06,00,\
  00,00,73,00,78,00,69,00,06,00,00,00,73,00,74,00,69,00,06,00,00,00,73,00,78,\
  00,77,00,06,00,00,00,73,00,78,00,67,00,06,00,00,00,73,00,74,00,77,00,06,00,\
  00,00,73,00,74,00,6d,00,06,00,00,00,6f,00,64,00,74,00,06,00,00,00,6f,00,74,\
  00,74,00,06,00,00,00,6f,00,64,00,67,00,06,00,00,00,6f,00,74,00,67,00,06,00,\
  00,00,6f,00,64,00,70,00,06,00,00,00,6f,00,74,00,70,00,06,00,00,00,6f,00,64,\
  00,73,00,06,00,00,00,6f,00,74,00,73,00,06,00,00,00,6f,00,64,00,66,00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Google\Google Desktop\Components\{7DE2B635-4F72-4282-A466-11401ED7B0A4}]
"title"="Mp3tag Audio Indexer 1.00 by Florian Heidenreich"
"description"="Indexes aac, ape, apl, flac, mp+, mp1, mp2, mp3, mp4, m4a, m4b, mpc, ogg, ofr, ofs, spx, tta and wv files"
"icon"=""
"state"=dword:00000001
"status"=hex(b):33,5c,b0,15,3f,b7,0b,76
"extension"=hex:14,00,00,00,06,00,00,00,61,00,61,00,63,00,06,00,00,00,61,00,70,\
  00,65,00,06,00,00,00,61,00,70,00,6c,00,08,00,00,00,66,00,6c,00,61,00,63,00,\
  06,00,00,00,6d,00,70,00,2b,00,06,00,00,00,6d,00,70,00,31,00,06,00,00,00,6d,\
  00,70,00,32,00,06,00,00,00,6d,00,70,00,33,00,06,00,00,00,6d,00,70,00,34,00,\
  06,00,00,00,6d,00,34,00,61,00,06,00,00,00,6d,00,34,00,62,00,06,00,00,00,6d,\
  00,70,00,63,00,06,00,00,00,6f,00,67,00,67,00,06,00,00,00,6f,00,66,00,72,00,\
  06,00,00,00,6f,00,66,00,73,00,06,00,00,00,73,00,70,00,78,00,06,00,00,00,74,\
  00,74,00,61,00,04,00,00,00,77,00,76,00,f0,00,00,00,89,85,94,ed,ff,ff,83,4d,\
  fc,ff,eb,26,8b,45,ec,8b,00,8b,00,89,85,68,ed,ff,ff,33,c0,40,c3,8b,65,e8,8b,\
  85,68,ed,ff,ff,83,4d,fc,ff,33,f6,8b,9d,a0,ed,ff,ff,3b,c6,7d,2b,50,68,74,11,\
  00,01,8d,85,c4,f1,ff,ff,50,ff,15,80,10,00,01,83,c4,0c,56,56,8d,85,c4,f1,ff,\
  ff,50,53,ff,b5,ac,ed,ff,ff,e9,0d,01,00,00,39,b5,a8,ed,ff,ff,0f,85,23,01,00,\
  00,39,b5,a4,ed,ff,ff,0f,84,0b,01,00,00,68,20,11,00,01,ff,b5,b0,ed,ff,ff,ff,\
  15,50,10,00,01,3b,c6,75,6a,8d,85,c4,ef,ff,ff,50,56,56,56,53,ff,15,c8,10,00,\
  01,83,c4,14,68,90,11,00,01,8d,85,c4,ef,ff,ff,50,8b,3d,54,10,00,01,ff,d7,85,\
  c0,74,1f,68,84,11,00,01,8d,85,c4,ef,ff,ff,50,ff,d7,85,c0,74,0d,56,56,56,68,\
  2c,11,00,01,e9,e0,fe,ff,ff,56,56,56,68,2c,11,00,01,53,6a,09,e8,d5,f3,ff,ff,\
  c7,85,b4,ed,ff,ff,04,00,00,00,00

What is important is: The value of status seems to be connected to the instanceid, so these two values must always be from the same installation. last_update must be greater than 1 for Desktop Search to recognize the new plugins. The plugins are installed by registering their .dlls (regsvre32 <dll>, see the .inf below), we omit the popup message during registration by inserting the plugin settings into HKCU\Google... _before_ registering the plugin.

I use the .reg file in conjunction with this inf file:

[Version]
Signature=$Windows NT$

[DefaultInstall]
AddReg=InstallGDS
AddReg=Plugins_reg
CopyFiles=Plugins

[Stage2]
DelReg=FirstUse
AddReg=GDS_settings

[InstallGDS]
HKLM,"%RunOnce%","GDS_setup1",,"%01%\GoogleDesktopSearchSetup.exe /silent"
;HKLM,"%RunOnce%","GDS_setup2",,"pskill GoogleDesktop.exe"
HKLM,"%RunOnce%","GDS_setup3",,"%10%\system32\rundll32.exe setupapi,InstallHinfSection Stage2 128 %01%\%InfFile%"

[FirstUse]
;remove the first use page
HKCU,"SOFTWARE\Google\Google Desktop","first_use"

[GDS_settings]
;search in taskbar
HKCU,"SOFTWARE\Google\Google Desktop","display_mode",0x00010001,08,00,00,00
;we don't want it to check .exe files, why should it?
HKCU,"SOFTWARE\Google\Google Desktop","file_extensions_to_skip",,",tmp,temp,log,pst,ost,oab,nk2,dat,000,pf,xml,obj,pdb,exe"
HKCU,"SOFTWARE\Google\Google Desktop","file_extensions_to_skip_initial_crawl",,",tmp,temp,pst,ost,oab,nk2,exe"
;i didn't buy that mouse with scrolling wheel just for looks...
HKCU,"SOFTWARE\Google\Google Desktop\Preferences","num_results",0x00010001,64,00,00,00


[Plugins_reg]
;import plugin settings, along with instanceid and last_update setting > 0
HKLM,"%RunOnce%","GDS_setuplarry",,"regedit /s ""%01%\plugins.reg"""

[Instplug]
;register the plugin dlls
HKLM,"%RunOnce%","GDS_setup4",,"regsvr32 /s ""%16422%\%AppPath%\Plugins\LarrysOpenOfficeandStarOfficeIndexer.dll"""
HKLM,"%RunOnce%","GDS_setup5",,"regsvr32 /s ""%16422%\%AppPath%\Plugins\GoogleSearchForExplorer.dll"""
HKLM,"%RunOnce%","GDS_setup6",,"regsvr32 /s ""%16422%\%AppPath%\Plugins\Mp3tagGoogleDesktop.dll"""

[Plugins]
LarrysOpenOfficeandStarOfficeIndexer.dll,,,0x00000002
GoogleSearchForExplorer.dll,,,0x00000002
Mp3tagGoogleDesktop.dll,,,0x00000002

[Strings]
RunOnce = "SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnce"
RunOnceEx = "SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnceEx"
AppPath="Google\Google Desktop Search"
InfFile="google.inf"
DispName="Google Desktop Search"
UninstallDispName="teaetat"
UnInstallPath="Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\test12351"


[DestinationDirs]
Plugins=16422,%AppPath%\Plugins
inf=17

I would do it all with just the inf file, I just can figure out how to write QWORD values to the registry using .infs. Hope this helps.

[bacd]

what command line do you use to run the above .inf file?

[digitalfrost]

rundll32 setupapi,InstallHinfSection DefaultInstall 128 c:\blabla\google.inf

[bacd]

thats what I thought, but I can never get the "128" portion of the code correct...

thanks!