I've been searching this for but no solution yet.

I have office 2003 standard trial in a .EXE file (self extractor installer) and I'd like to burn it's installing files on a cd, and make it autorun. Is that Possible? If yes, how please (or where is it explained)?

Thanks in advance

Sid

• take winzip or what ever, archive-tool you use,
  
• open the exe file (as like it was a zip file),
  
• extract its conence to a folder exmp; C:\office2003\
  
• now look for the installer, setup.exe (or setup.msi),
  
• now create an autorun.inf file
  

  [autorun]
  open = office2003\setup.exe 
  icon = path\to\office.ico

  and put in in the root of your cdrom,
  

• now add the entire office2003 folder to your cdrom
  

1 final tip though, - Use a Rewritable cdrom, to test this first.

(you could also just create the iso (and mound it with vitual drive).

Edited December 17, 200520 yr by -I-

Thank you for your reply.

I tried to do as you explained. But after extraction, when I run the setup.exe file, an error message pops up, warning me of "Fatal error during installation".

I don't understand, since it works very well if I run the install from the self-extracting installer file I downloaded.

Sid