Hey guys

I'm very new to this unattended malarky. I slowly seem to be getting the hang of it, the guides and this forum posts have been a great help, thanks

I've got about 10 programs set up that run silently, but I just thought I'd check that there's no recommended order for installing programs, what with reboots being suppressed etc.

I've not come accross anyone else asking yet, and I assume there's no bother, but I thought I'd just check

Here's an example of mine:

CLS
@echo off
TITLE Unattended Applications Installation   [EYEPATCH]  ARRRRRRRRGH!  [/EYEPATCH]


ECHO.
ECHO Removing useless shortcuts...
DEL "%systemdrive%\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Set Program Access and Defaults.lnk"
DEL "%systemdrive%\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Windows Catalog.lnk"



ECHO.
ECHO Applying Registry Tweaks...
REGEDIT /S %systemdrive%\install\RegTweaks.reg

ECHO.
ECHO Deleting ASP.NET User Account created by .NET Framework 1.1...
net user aspnet /delete

ECHO.
ECHO Starting installation of Applications



ECHO.
ECHO Installing JavaRuntime 1.5.0_03 
ECHO Please wait...
Start /wait %systemdrive%\install\Applications\Java\jre503.exe


ECHO.
ECHO Installing K-Lite Video Codec Pack 2.46b
ECHO Please Wait...
start /wait %systemdrive%\Install\Applications\K-Lite\klcodec246b.exe /silent
DEL "%systemdrive%\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\K-Lite Codec Pack\Uninstall K-Lite Codec Pack.lnk"
DEL "%systemdrive%\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\K-Lite Codec Pack\Tools\GSpot Codec Information.lnk"


ECHO.
ECHO Installing DirectX 9.0c
ECHO Please wait...
start /wait %systemdrive%\Install\Applications\DirectX\dxsetup.exe /Silent


ECHO.
ECHO Installing Flash (IE) and Shockwave Player (IE, Mozilla)
ECHO Please Wait...
start /wait %systemdrive%\Install\Applications\FlashShockwave\Flashshockwavefull.exe /s


ECHO.
ECHO Installing Microsoft .NET Framework 1.1 SP1 
ECHO Please wait...
start /wait %systemdrive%\Install\Applications\NET\netfxsp1.exe


ECHO.
ECHO Installing Adobe Reader 7.0.1 (Custom Version - Auto Update Turned Off)
ECHO Please wait...
start /wait %systemdrive%\install\Applications\AdobeReader7\acroread7s.exe


ECHO.
ECHO Installing WinRar 3.20 Corporate
ECHO Please wait...
Start /wait %systemdrive%\install\Applications\WinRar\WinRAR3.20.exe /s


ECHO.
ECHO Installing Lavasoft AdAware 1.05 SE Professional
ECHO Please Wait...
start /wait %systemdrive%\Install\Applications\AdAware\aawsepro.exe /s
taskkill /IM hh.exe /F
taskkill /IM Ad-Aware.exe /F


ECHO.
ECHO Installing Nero Ultra 6.6.0.12 
ECHO Please wait...
start /wait %systemdrive%\Install\Applications\Nero\Nero6.exe


ECHO.
ECHO Installing Office 2003 (Full Install without FrontPage)
ECHO Please wait...
start /wait %systemdrive%\install\Applications\Office2003\setuppro.exe TRANSFORMS=Unattended.MST /qb-




EXIT

as a general rule of thumb, you would install system things first, then regular programs.

i.e. I would install java2 runtime before I install firefox, so that the java plugin for firefox gets installed properly. Same with shockwave, and any other similar program.

Seem to remember a row ages ago about installing 7zipped and shrunk Office 2003 before/after .NET Framework never got clarified.

as a general rule of thumb, you would install system things first, then regular programs.

That's a fair point

From that it sounds like reg tweaks should be near or first thing in the RunOnceEx but in many examples I've seen, it's the last thing before a cleanup...

By the way, what's the java2 runtime? I installed Firefox tonight (got as far as Google but been too busy to play) and there was no mention of requiring it. I have XP +SP2 so I guess java2 is already installed...?

i was just using it as an example. I deal with a lot of software that uses the java plugin, so that's why i used it. A lot of websites also use macromedia shockwave as well, so it is also why that was mentioned.

I think a lot of people put reg tweaks last (including myself) because they do not want the possibility of the value changing because of another program (for example). I suppose depending on the tweaks you were putting in place you could run them at the top.

By the way, what's the java2 runtime? I installed Firefox tonight (got as far as Google but been too busy to play) and there was no mention of requiring it. I have XP +SP2 so I guess java2 is already installed...?

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