April 7, 200620 yr I have setup an unattended install (XP) running from a RIS server. The batch file contains the following:start /wait %systemdrive%\install\Applications\WindowsDesktopSearch\WindowsDesktopSearch-KB907371-V2-x86-ENU.exe /passive "/norestart"Yet it still prompts to restart. This causes problems for any application following this one in the list. I know I can add this to the bottom of the list as a workaround but that method isn't really 'elegant'.Does anyone have any ideas?
April 7, 200620 yr i dont use windows desktop search.why you put quotes around the switch /norestart? try without the quotes, they are not necessary.also have you tried to extract files from the archive?
April 7, 200620 yr Author Without the quotes the problem remains. The reason I used them is because it is a nested switch as such.Similarly start /wait %systemdrive%\install\Applications\WindowsDesktopSearch\WindowsDesktopSearch-KB907371-V2-x86-ENU.exe "/passive "/norestart""Does not work.If I run WindowsDesktopSearch-KB907371-V2-x86-ENU.exe /passive /norestart directly from the commandline, it works fine. For some reason in the batch file it is not working. Strange behaviour.
April 7, 200620 yr Author WDS only supports the following parameters:/help/quiet/passive/norestart/forcerestart/warnrestart/promptrestart/overwriteoem/nobackup/forceappsclose/integrate/logThe issues seems to be with how it runs in the batch file, for example (I should have mentioned this earlier)start /wait %systemdrive%\install\Applications\WindowsDesktopSearch\WindowsDesktopSearch-KB907371-V2-x86-ENU.exe /passiveworks fine, but start /wait %systemdrive%\install\Applications\WindowsDesktopSearch\WindowsDesktopSearch-KB907371-V2-x86-ENU.exe /passive /norestartdoes not
April 7, 200620 yr have you tried /quiet /norestart ?maybe /passive can handle the /norestart switch.just a thought.
April 9, 200620 yr Switch for Windows Desktop Search without toolbar:REG ADD %KEY%\031 /VE /D "Windows Desktop Search" /fREG ADD %KEY%\031 /V 1 /D "%systemdrive%\apps\DesktopSearch\desktopsearch.exe /q /norestart
April 10, 200620 yr Author The /quiet option also solves the problem of the dialogue box that appears asking if you want to restart. I'm not sure why the /norestart option, i.e. the second parameter being passed, wasn't working before (perhaps a corrupt file); I recreated it and it started working fine. I was hoping that /passive /norestart would also not show the restart dialogue box, but unfortunately it does.Anyway, thanks to everyone who responded.Heathuff - offtopic but I would use the enterprise edition of WDS if you don't want the toolbar.
April 14, 200620 yr /quiet /norestart works obviouslyhas anyone compared it to googles´ desktop search? up to now i used neither the one nor the other. but as i'm getting older and harddisks become alrger almost every day this tool might become a necessity in the future :-)
April 19, 200620 yr Author "/quiet /norestart works obviously" Yes, but it wasn't and that was the point. It does however work now as I explained.I found it to be faster and WDS also has adm templates for GP use; I'm not sure that Googledesktopsearch offers the same.2.6.5 of WDS also autocloses Outlook without the need for a switch. Edited April 19, 200620 yr by x9731091
April 19, 200620 yr Actually Google offers a nice neat .msi file for GPO deployment and an .adm file for managing it. Even I prefer Microsoft's desktop search product to Google's, I find it mildly ironic that Google's product is so much easier to deploy and manage.
April 21, 200620 yr yes, thats strange - why ms doesn't use their "own" format... though there is an .adm for windows desktop search, too.
July 20, 200620 yr Author Yes it's a little annoying. You would think there would be an msi file given that you can keep WDS updated using WSUS (but not install it).
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