Adobe Illustrator CS2 Registration Screen

[entrancer1224]

Hello all. I am currently using a transform to apply all of my tweaks to the Adobe Illustrator CS2 install. I am not using the ini file for the silent install as Illustrator's isn't as robust as the one for Photoshop CS2 (and I can pass all the info through properties.) It is dropping updated UPDATER folders and files to suppress automatic updates; however, I cannot get rid of the initial registration screen. The suggested Reg Keys

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\

{Product Code}]

"EPIC_REGS_COUNT"=dword:00000000

"EPIC_REGS_DATE"="2005-06-21 10:37"

"EPIC_REGS_LANG"=dword:00000000

"EPIC_REGS_STATE"=dword:00000002

"EPIC_REGS_TYPE"=dword:00000004

Do not seem to work. Has anyone had any success suppressing the Registration Screen?

(The Automatic Updates are set by Updater folder in twop locations. The XML, dat and folder need to be dropped or it reverts to defaults - in case anyone ran into that problem.)

Edited July 15, 2005 by entrancer1224

[entrancer1224]

Tried Regshot instead of installshield and got a better output. Isolated it - exported entry and imported it into my MST.

"EPIC_REGS_TYPE"=dword:00000004

"EPIC_REGS_STATE"=dword:00000002

"EPIC_REGS_LANG"=dword:00000000

"EPIC_REGS_COUNT"=dword:00000000

"EPIC_REGS_DATE"="2005-07-15 11:27"

Looks similiar but who cares Issue resolved!

Edited July 15, 2005 by entrancer1224

[GDragoN]

To entrancer1224: How did you manage to install silently?

[entrancer1224]

To entrancer1224: How did you manage to install silently?

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I ran the setup in a virtual machine pulling all fo the legacy files out. I copied the:

Abcpy.ini (entering only the serial number and company name)

Data1.cab

AdobeIllustratorCS2.msi

bridge Folder

commonfilesinstaller

helpcenter

stockphotography

I entered those above mentioned registry entries into an mst that I created with installshield editor and made some other unimportant changes to shortcuts and such.

I then created a setup.bat batch file that contains the following lines:

msiexec /i \\zenmaster\APPS\ZfdsMSIs\AdobeIllustratorCS2\AdobeIllustratorCS2.msi transforms=\\zenmaster\APPS\ZfdsMSIs\AdobeIllustratorCS2\AdobeIllustratorCS2.mst /qb

msiexec /i \\zenmaster\APPS\ZfdsMSIs\AdobeIllustratorCS2\bridge\AdobeBridge1-0.msi /qb-

msiexec /i \\zenmaster\APPS\ZfdsMSIs\AdobeIllustratorCS2\commonfilesinstaller\AdobeCommonFileInstaller.msi /qb-

msiexec /i \\zenmaster\APPS\ZfdsMSIs\AdobeIllustratorCS2\helpcenter\AdobeHelpCenter1-0.msi /qb-

msiexec /i \\zenmaster\APPS\ZfdsMSIs\AdobeIllustratorCS2\stockphotography\AdobeStockPhotos1-0.msi /qb-

The qb- means it will run silently though not prompt on error say if the Adobe Bridge was installed by Photoshop CS2 it will just skip that line. the qb on the Illustrator msi causes it to run silently with only progress bar and error message. If you want details about my transform let me know. Also do not use a respionse transform. It causes errors on install and cause the reg keys to not populate properly. I also appended the upgrade codes of 7.0 and 8 i think are the versions into my upgrade table making this a major upgrade to all of our previous versions.

I put some disable AUtoupdate stuff in there too - it still allows for manual, but this way it doesnt ask on first run. The updater setting are all done by capturing 5 files after setting it up. I drop those to overwrite and include them in a Data2.cab. I run this via batch for jobsites and via ZENworks for our division and corp offices. Let me know.

[GDragoN]

Well, I managed to install Photoshop silenty. Adobe Bridge is supposed to be installed with Photoshop, and not Illustrator. So I had no success so far, and I can't use your method, because I can't make mst file, because installshiled reports an error about msi file.