is that work on many system or only one system that we make activate?

Hi,

Just to be 100% sure :
It's is not possible to completely install photoshop CS2 silently just with batch ?
Without any kind of serial or registration windows, even int the first launch of the soft, or without the 30days expiration ?

Scuse my poor english

Tnx for the reply

Hi,

It is very possible to do what you just asked. But currently, it is difficult to do on MULTIPLE machines. It is not advisable to use this for mass deployment without the use of an autoit script that runs a keygen. Don't expect any help past that point, though. Even suggesting that to you might be pushing the envelope.

But if you're just going to use this on your own machine, it's very possible, and mildly easy (just time consuming).

It's not difficult at all to make an AutoIt script that performs a LEGAL online activation. In fact I did this for a design studio. Nothing fancy about the AutoIt script either. Just your basic ControlClick and ControlSend. In fact there's probably an example in the AutoIt sticky thread in this forum. The only part that's possibly tricky is finding and deleting the custom action that pops up activation during the install. If you delete that custom action, activation can wait until the first time you run Photoshop.

Yeah, i'm able to make a total silent install on one machine (with the dat file).
i will jste know if its possible on multiple machien, because i don't have aces to internet when i install windows on multiple computer.
But if it's impossible, i will made the classical online registration.

Tnx for your help

Uhm, question, why didn't you put this in the $OEM$\$Docs\All Users\Application Data\Adobe Systems\Product Licenses on your CD This will save you about 4 lines of code

Also going to try this way of installing right now.

Right guys,

I've read through the majority of posts regarding CS2 silent installs and have a couple of issues i need help with.

I'll explain what i am trying to do first:

Unattended XP set-up - using RunOnceEX to install programs

So far everything is isntalling well APART from Photoshop CS2

I've downloaded the modified msi from these pages and constructed the appropriate files to do the following:

Everything is placed in $OEM$\Install\Adobe Photoshop CS2

RunOnceEX calls the reg file and a install.cmd (both of which are in above folder)

At the minute i think i have an issue with my code as I get 4 'installer cannot be found' errors messages during the RunOnceEX process (i think caused by an issue with ' in the code) - however when it did find the installers i got 'invalid windows installer' error message.

So to continue through the RunOnceEX install process i have to be there and close the error messages.

Thing is, once its rebooted after this process i can route to my XP CD run the install.cmd file from there and everything is perfect - totally silent and requring no user input and fully activated...

I will post my code later when i get home.

I dont know if this is the best way to do it but i was struggling with coding it to do this directly with RunOnceEX so just thought it easier to call a premade cmd based around the examples in this thread...

If i could sort this my own unattended XP would be complete! - so any input/help would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks

Ok guys,

A day late but heres my appropriate code!

RunOnceEX.cmd entry:

Cs2install.cmd:



Thanks

i will install it using my own mst file without the customaction.
i have one question for the activation. i work with a few computers that run photoshop (each is licensed properly). will it work for all of them if i copy all .dat files (in each computer) in my unattended to the license folder? so this way i can use the same setup for all the computers here and all will be activated with their proper license?

thanks.

i think making a mst file during setup routine will help you get rid of file associations and other options. just a suggestion.

Just a little note, Adobe Help Center 2.0 is released

[quote name='SgtStrider' date='Feb 20 2006, 06:33 AM' post='467652']
[quote name='galvanocentric' post='356640' date='Jul 20 2005, 04:26 PM']
[quote=tresans,Jul 20 2005, 07:34 AM]Hi,

My point is to make a folder inside %systemdrive%\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data to paste the folder AdobeSystems\product lisences\B2B86000.dat before I execute CS2 the first time.
If we can do this we can close this topic
and I used command MKDIR but this is making folders inside the point were you directed to and makes a folder "Documents" "and" "Settings" etc etc.
can I not copy/paste a folder like "Adobe Systems\Product lisences\B2B86000.dat ,thus this folder with the folder and .dat inside it copying to the directory?
Then we are ready.

regards

ps:must go to work now I am back in 6 hours and also we are going to solve this problem today I hope,I am brainstorming with it.

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Okay, I think I've got it... Apparently copy wasn't creating the directory structure properly so I first moved the DAT file to Application Data, then created the subdirs, then moved the DAT file to Product Licenses.


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Anyone know why I get the following error during the runonceex portion of setup:

"this installation package could not be opened.verify that the package exists and that you can access it"

I do all CS2 products the same...
1. Run setup, capture Activation with Adminstudio (it's 1 reg entry & 1 file).
2. Add two items to msi file with editor.
3. Do an admin install to 'network image' location. (remove .msi filename spaces!)
4. Make a 7zip sfx setup.

Photoshop's setup 'bundles' all the msi installers together into one 'package'.
To do a silent install, just, 1. do an admin install for each msi installer to the same location... 2. add Abcpy.ini with your serial... 3. add a batch to run each .msi, launch it silently with hidec.exe (in config,txt, a 7zip sfx element)

You'll notice the only diff. is each portion of Photoshop may be removed individually in add-remove, kinda nice, really.

Final installer 185mb. after 7zip sfx is done.
I'll attatch samples from my build folder.

one thought...
Wininstall LE 2003 may also be used to capture activation and edit .msi file. It's much smaller and MUCH cheaper, but that's another topic.

So did anyone find a way how to activise the photoshop cs during silent installation?

Somebody obtained to eliminate the box of activation during the 'silent install'?
thx

Try this www.kb.adobe.com or www.kixtart.org

i dont know why, but my activation screen doesnt pop up, so when i try installing it, it never works as it isnt activated. how am i supposed to get it to pop up, cuz i dont really know anything about it and it doesnt ever work when i try?