Hi, everybody.

I'm working on several installshield silent installs. I have been able to creat the setup.iss files and the silent installs work great with one exception. After the installation, a window with the application shortcuts (start menu folder) pops up. Does anyone know how to suppress these windows so that the installation remain completely silent?

Thanks,
Joe

You might be able to use taskkill to close the window...no, that'd probably closes explorer--we don't want that..

If you have any experience with vbscript, you could make one that closes the window. Actually, its a simple process so I'll just save you some time. Just call the attached file after the program's setup is finished and it'll close the active window (which *should* be the windows with the app shortcuts). If for some reason the program's installer doesn't close until you close the shortcut window, then you'll need to increase the WScript.sleep time to a bit over how long it takes the program to install and then run the script first, then the installer. An example of this would be something like this:

Right now, I'm using AuotIt to close the window. Closing it isn't a big deal. I'm wanting to do installs in the background while people continue to use their PCs. I want them to start the install (of several apps in a row) and not see anything until a message box pops up to tell them that the installations are complete. I will hang on to the vb script, though. Thank you.

hmm, the attachment seems to be missing...
Could you please post it again?
Thanks!

i want too....please