Ok guys any idea how i may go about creating an answers file for an unattended install for say WinAmp? So far all my research points to is doing an unattended install for windows or some other OS. What I want to do is create an unattended install for a 3rd party software. Are there tools to do this? Or is unattended install for 3rd part...
Hi, I have asked a similar question previously but it was never resolved so here I am again! I have an unattended installation of SQL Server 2005 that works great when installing SQL Server on a machine that does not have it already installed. I use the following parameters when I perform the installation (this is installed automatic...
I'm looking for a way to make programs appear (frequently) used, so that they would appear in the Start menu's "Recently Used Programs" (after a zero touch install). I'm trying to figure out how Windows stores information related to program usage frequency. The only (maybe) related things I can see being changed when I run a program fr...
Hi, I would like to create an application that will traverse a Virtual Infrastructure using the vSphere Web Services API (this part I have handled) and perform and unattended install of some given package on Linux and Windows machines (this latter part I can't figure out. It looks like you can not use the VMware Update Manager to insta...
Hi, In My application i have to install IIS automatically when my application install in User machine (Vista / XP) with out using OS Cd's. Can any one please guide me how to do this. ...
I am creating panoramas using my DSLR camera and Photoshop to stitch them together. I am doing 360-degree cylindrical projections. Photoshop is brilliant at automaticaly stitching them together using PhotoMerge, but given that I have a large number of panoramas to create (hundreds) and one photo-session usually brings in about 30 of them...
Is there a way to install silently (/s) an InstallShield (non-MSI) installer that requires its own prerequisites? In my case the prerequisite is Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 Redistributable. Its UI popping once the parent installer runs. ...
I'm in need of a way to modify an unattend.xml file programmatically. It would be great if I could just serialize to and from an object. But to do so I would need to get a hold of the schema so that I can run it through XSD. The referenced link provides all the possible settings but it would be nice to have it in XSD format. Any ideas? ...
So my situation is that I am running an app on the Windows Task Scheduler. This app is run once a day at 1pm. the app does some queries and transfers data to an FTP site. All that is working great except on the weekends when i am not here the app is run and the GUI is still displayed for me to review. This seems to make it stop running o...
Hi there, I have a setup & deployment project which includes a large C# project that i have created. I also have some prerequisites that i bootstrapped to the exe, although the MSI file is, as usual, just the project itself. I would like to create a complete unattended install, not just removing the User interface forms via the UI tab i...
I have a runaway windows task, if I were running it as a logged in user I would use Process Explorer (procexpe.exe) and look for the related cmd.exe and kill it there, but this one is running with a user who is not logged in. I can't figure out how to kill it. Any Windows Wizards out there know how to do this? ...