How to install programs that require activation?

[Evolver]

I hope I'm not too late for this topic. I used this http://www.appdeploy.com/packages/detail.asp?id=879 site suggested above for automated entering of serial numbers. The program is Finereader 8 Professional, and the problem is that the program gets installed in German instead of English. I don't understand why it happens, if you think it is possible to make this program be installed in English please suggest how can I achive that. Thanks.

I can't tell you directly how it goes for Finereader.

But I change languages without problems for most applications by registry keys.

Just use regedit to do a 'search' in the registry for the name of the application.

Sometimes, there are settings for the language in there as well...

But not allways...

Sometimes, the setting for the language is done in an .ini file in the directory where the application is installed (%ProgramFiles%\[applicationname]), then you can just get that ini-file and place it back after every new install of that application.

However, sometimes your ini-file needs to be edited first, because they can also hold absolute locations (C:\Program Files\...), with won't work when installing on different partitions, not to mention other configurations that can change (DVD-drive settings,...)

Example:

"Burrrn" uses an ini-file for its configuration.

It's only there after it's first configuration by the way...

That's also why Burrrn will ask for settings the first time it runs.

After that, burrrn.ini will be created in "%ProgramFiles%\Burrrn\" , containing something like this:

[burrrn]

Language=Dutch

Writer=

Speed=16

Aac=faad.exe -o %d %s

Ape=mac.exe %s %d -d

Flac=flac.exe -d -o %d %s

Mp3=lame.exe --decode %s %d

Mpc=mppdec.exe %s %d

Ofr=ofr.exe --decode %s --output %d

Ogg=oggdec.exe -o %d %s

Shn=shorten.exe -x %s %d

Tta=ttaenc.exe -d %s -o %d

Wv=wvunpack.exe %s %d

Left=192

Top=107

Temp=F:\DOCUME~1\Evolver\LOCALS~1\Temp\

Eject=True

OnTop=False

QuickErase=True

SPTI=True

CloseCD=True

CD-TEXT=True

RAW=False

[Pre-Processing]

ReplayGain=False

ReplayGainType=0

AlbumAdditionalGain=False

AlbumAdditionalGainValue=0.0

AlbumHardLimiter=False

AlbumDither=True

AlbumDitherType=2

TrackAdditionalGain=False

TrackAdditionalGainValue=0.0

TrackHardLimiter=False

TrackDither=True

TrackDitherType=2

[CUEditor]

Visible=False

Left=650

Top=107

Width=460

Height=539

Replace=True

ReplaceFrom=.wav

ReplaceTo=.mpc

CaseSensitive=True

Paths=True

By just copying that to use as replacement the next probems would occur:

- There's an absolute path in there: Temp=F:\DOCUME~1\Evolver\LOCALS~1\Temp\

In this example it was installed on drive F, so it can't be used to install on another drive.

This one wouldn't even work with other users...

- It won't ask for any setting at first start anymore, because it will just use these settings...

So such an ini-file needs to be changed first if you want to use it as a replacement.

I just changed it to this:

[burrrn]

Language=Dutch

With that one, it's realy that easy.

With this ini, the first time Burrrn opens, it will still ask for settings, but now it's already asking for this in Dutch.

I don't even need auto-it to do things like that...

Edited March 24, 2007 by Evolver

[planoleg]

This would be too complicated, but thanks anyway. However I actually found a way to make the program be installed in any language. When I got the code from appdeploy, it was as follows: msiexec /i "ABBYY FineReader 8.0 Professional Edition.msi" /qb- TRANSFORMS=1031.mst SN=AAAA-1234-5678-1234-5678

Instead of TRANSFORMS=1031 I tried to put different numbers, and 1033 installed the application in english.