I had been privately discussing how to install WiMP 9.0 through the SVCPACK.INF method with AaronXP, and he mentioned that it would give an error regarding the System Restore service. He mentioned something about /DisallowSystemRestore as a switch for the installer program, but it didn't work.

Is there any possible way to tell WiMP 9.0 to not set a system restore point?

Nm. I found what I was looking for.

I should point out that not all of us here know how to use some of these switches (at least straight away).

So to people simply telling others to do this, or do that, unless you definately know they know what their doing, please add a small summary of how to use the switch and what it does

Cheers

care to enlighten the rest of us?

Extract it to the SVCPACK folder, and in SVCPACK.INF, add in:

setup_wm.exe /DisallowSystemRestore /Q:A /R:N

This should work, but I haven't gotten around to testing it yet

I had tested MPSetupXP.exe /Q:A /R:N in SVCPACK.INF, but an error dialog popped up (but the installer did run).

Out of curiosity, does WindowsUpdate tell you that WMP9 has to be installed still after a fresh install?

No idea. Once I'd seen that it had installed, I didn't particularly care to run Windows Update.

Can you take a look?

This works...

MPSetupXP.EXE /Q:A /R:N /C:"setup_wm.exe /DisallowSystemRestore /Q:A /R:N"

How about the .msi file that the Enterprise Deployment Pack generates?

This works...

MPSetupXP.EXE /Q:A /R:N /C:"setup_wm.exe /DisallowSystemRestore /Q:A /R:N"

I actually tried that within the SVCPACK.INF and it doesn't work.

I'm quite confident that by extracting it, and leaving it in the SVCPACK folder, that it will work.

I can't test the Windows Update at the moment, as I've been busy working on another issue.

Will let you guys know asap.

*Edit*

Oh, as far as I've been told, .msi packages can't be installed using the SVCPACK.INF file, as the MSI service isn't running at the stage the .INF file is called.

That command doesn't work in svcpack because it doesn't like quotes. You can however put a batch file in its place and call out to the exe with the full command shown out by snooz.

Hrm. I might just do that instead

*Edit*

To do that, I would place the .cmd file in the SVCPACK folder, and in SVCPACK.INF I would need to add this:

wimp9.cmd

or:

.\wimp9.cmd

The contents of wimp9.cmd would obviously be this:

MPSetup.exe /Q:A /R:N /C:"setup_wm.exe /DisallowSystemRestore /Q:A /R:N"

EXIT

Yep, using wimp9.cmd is enough, as long as that and mpsetupxp is in the svcpack folder.