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hi,

i am trying to run a (exe) setup silently but during the installation it prompts for a yes and no option.

any one please tell me the full procedure.

how can i install softwares silently ?

thanks!

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hi,

i am trying to run a (exe) setup silently but during the installation it prompts for a yes and no option.

any one please tell me the full procedure.

how can i install softwares silently ?

thanks!

Not all installers work the same, it would help to know what the program is.

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hi,

i am trying to run a (exe) setup silently but during the installation it prompts for a yes and no option.

any one please tell me the full procedure.

how can i install softwares silently ?

thanks!

If you want to use a build in "silent" function, try to find out, what's the required command line switch. You can try "ThisSetup.exe /?" to get help, or use the options " /q", " /s", "/u" and other letters.

If you want just to wrap it with an autoit script, use the autoit window info tool to find the controlID of that button.

Autoit Help File:

winwaitactive()

controlclick()

send()

and the mouse*() functions. Also look up MouseCoordMode

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hi,

i am trying to run a (exe) setup silently but during the installation it prompts for a yes and no option.

any one please tell me the full procedure.

how can i install softwares silently ?

thanks!

You can select which button to press by sending keystrokes to the computer very quickly.

You can also use InetGet - check it out in the help file.

Hope this helps.

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hi,

i am trying to run a (exe) setup silently but during the installation it prompts for a yes and no option.

any one please tell me the full procedure.

how can i install softwares silently ?

thanks!

Someone else said that some installers have a built-in silent or options, but I have found that most do not. I have built many installers and uninstallers. They are simple to make. When you installed autoit, there is a small program called "AUTOIT Window Info". As you install it once, capture the information and put into a script. For the yes or no option use a controlclick to click the button.

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Someone else said that some installers have a built-in silent or options, but I have found that most do not. I have built many installers and uninstallers. They are simple to make. When you installed autoit, there is a small program called "AUTOIT Window Info". As you install it once, capture the information and put into a script. For the yes or no option use a controlclick to click the button.

I've found that most installers do have silent install options. MSI and InstallShield both have silent install options and are the most popular types of installers.

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I agree. In the years that I've worked as a ZENWorks administrator I've had to repackage well over 100 software setup packages for hands-free install, and there have been about 3 that I had to break down and use AutoIt to hotkey through the dialogs.

A vast, vast majority of commercial installers out there were made with InstallShield, and if a package won't install satisfactorily with the default /S silent install, you can record your own SETUP.ISS answer file based on your own dialog choices.

If I find a setup that isn't an InstallShield package I'll use FileAlyzer to see if I can figure out what tool was used to build it, usually discovering that it's either InnoSetup or NSIS...

A few times when I've had a single-file install that didn't seem to fall into any of these categories I was able to use the old trick of starting the install and then checking my %TMP% folder, sometimes finding an newly unpacked InstallShield install folder tree that I could then copy elsewhere and configure as needed.

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Also check here (C:\Program Files\Common Files) after clicking install it usually puts it under Wise Installation Wizard at least for adobe. Also give the trial version of admin studio 8.6 called tuner a try it saved my bacon a couple of times.

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hi im beginer pls help i find one script about silent install i try to enter other aplication to install language patch script cannot run other sfx archive lang.exe this is replace language files in instal folder

RunWait ( "setup.exe /S" )

WinWaitActive ( "program" )

WinClose ( "program" )

WinWaitActive ( "Exit program?" , "Are you sure you want to exit program" )

ControlClick ( "Exit program?" , "" , "Button1" )

this is my entry RunWait ( "lang.exe" )

thank you

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@eko

Details are sometimes important.

RunWait("Setup.exe /s") works for some installers and not for others.

From what you posted I can only assume that the installer automatically starts up the program when it finishes but you did not provide that detail. I assumed that from

WinWaitActive ( "program" )

but I have no way of knowing for sure.

Also where does RunWait ( "lang.exe" ) enter the overall scheme?

I'm afraid you will have to provide more details if you want a reasonable answer. Also if you search the forums you will find several examples of silent installs.

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