Silent install popcap games

[advancedservers]

does anyone now how to silently install popcap games then register them. any help would greatly be appriciated

Thanx guys

[totoymola]

Hello advancedservers.

Me and my friend Astalavista experienced some problems installing these games several months ago. The native installer has no silent installation switch, and it is a self extracting executable. So what we did was we made a customized installer for them.

Building the installer for these games shouldn't be a problem. Because all the files are in the %programfiles%. The registry entries are not very important because the program will right it's entries to the registry when you run it.

For the registration, the name and serial number are stored in the registry. Its very easy to find.

Tips:

1. Install the game on your computer.

2. Run the game, and register it.

3. Go to your installation directory and copy all the files there. (There are useless log files inside, you can delete them. I just can't remember which files exactly they are.)

4a. Create a custom installer using Inno Setup, InstallShield, or others. (Like what I did)

or

4b. Create an SFX installer. (Like what Astalavista did)

OR:

Forget everything I said, and just use AutoIt.

You can also create a silent installer for your softwares by using installation capture softwares, but I don't recomend using that.

[advancedservers]

thanks works like a dream.