I had been planning to announce this at some point in the not too distant future, but some low life scumbag from Romania has accelerated the time table significantly by sucking up 800GB in two days of my bandwidth. All of the request referrals came from this thread - so this thread is now finished permanantly.

Installers that had been posted here are currently available at my forums, but depending on what happens with my bandwidth they may not be available for a short period of time.

very cool post RogueSpear. Thanks very much for sharing you work
I encourage others to share any freeware silent installers.
Some already have such as RyanVM, CoRoNe, dale5605, myself [1] [2] [3] , and others...

Honorable mention: Bâshrat the Sneaky

Wow, excellent post

I'll see if I can mirror some.

Gmail drive by muiz

OK, I'll see how my hosting takes it

(edit : links removed)

Removed.

it wont hurt

Removed.

I also have a few scattered somewhere in this board.

Updated 20051107
- Added Crap Cleaner V1.25.201
- Updated FileZilla to V2.2.17
- Added QuickTime Alternative V1.65
- Added Real Alternative V1.45
- Added SpywareBlaster V3.4
- Added SyncBack V3.2.8.500
- Added WinPcap V3.1 Beta 4
- Discovered the single post size limitation I guess I'll be ditching the alphabetical order listing and just start appending as new titles are added.

Cant get VM Tools to work here

That's one I've been using forever now, without a problem. Are you running it from svcpack.inf? Because it wont work from there. It needs to be run from RunOnceEx.

How do you use this?
i did what it said , but that way it didnt work

Well I included the script because what it does it check the BIOS strings for "VMware", to verify that your install is being done in a VM as opposed to a real computer. For testing purposes, to make sure this thing will work for you, why don't you just hard code calling the file from RunOnceEx, so you know it'll run. Also, I didn't mention this before (probably need to do an edit), but this version of VMware Tools is for the latest release version (V5). I don't know if it would work in earlier versions or the more recent beta releases (V5.5).

5.5.0 build 18007
Finaly i get it to work .....but
Now it says : Your version of VMware Tools is out of date.
I looked in the iso , and the new tools is a .msi...

That's a prerelease beta or RC of VMware. My installer is for the most recent final version (5.0.0.13124).

Yes thats true,

Here is the new VMWare Tools iso

Roguespear,

finally i found an installer for ffdshow, and am able to deploy via group policy. Will save me hours.

One issue i found with it is that after doing a managed install, if the first thing performed after this install is not to open a divx or mpeg4 file, and you open say ie, or outlook, a windows installer window opens and then the machine hangs. this will continue to occur until media player is opened, and the ffdshow installer finishes, then all seems to be ok.

Do you have any ideas about how to overcome this.

Once again great job and thanks.

Cheers Gordo

I haven't had this problem. With some of the .msi files, you will get one instance of an activation. A good example is Eraser. The first time you right click anything in Explorer, the msi routine will kick in. But then that's it, you won't see it again. The only product I seem to be having a problem with these days is Spybot and it's curious since I never had the problem until quite recently. But, this is also why I haven't posted an installer for Spybot. All of the installers, both silent switchless and msi file, I have tested. Some, like FFDShow, I've been repacking for over a year now and haven't had this issue.

EDIT: Are you assigning the application to the computer in your GPO? Or to the user?

As a part of my testing, I only assign it to a computer, then in security remove from assigned users, and add the "test computer", then look for any unexpected behaviour logging on as a user, then as an administrator, before applying it across the board.

Cheers Gordo

@RogueSpear:
Great job, i dreamed for it you did it. TNX!!!
Neverless, i have "0" VBS knowledge and NOT use RunOnceEx. On the other hand, i have mor knwledge of AutoIt, cmd and i use WPI.

How can i use yr installer with WPI??? or,
Can you write a cmd installer???

@muiz:As I understand, yr download is VMwareTools 5.5. Isn't it???
It is possible to use it with the latest VMware 5 version ???

Regards
coucou

@coucou, I've never used WPI before so I can't really be of much assistance there. The point of the script itself is that it will NOT run the installer unless the "computer" is a VMware computer. This is determined by using WMI to read BIOS strings. I suppose if WPI can launch a VBscript then you'd be all set.

that's what i understood and that's what I precisely needed!!!

I dpn't know if WPI can launch a VBscript. Then, may you you write a cmd installer???

Regards
koukou

No I can't write a cmd script because the whole process is dependant upon WMI. That's one of the main reasons I started using VBscript for everything.

What a pity...

Do you know if VMwareTools 5.5.ISO could be used with the latest VMware 5 version???

coucou

@RogueSpear:
Do yr VBscript could be launched from cmdlines.txt file as "VMWareTools.vbs" @t-12???

Regards
coucou

No. As stated in the installer description, it can only be run from RunOnceEx. I've tried various methods of getting to install from svcpack.inf and cmdlines.txt, but it won't go. The other problem is that the VBscript won't run from cmdlines.txt because WMI is not yet available.

EDIT: I won't be messing around with VMware 5.5 until it's officially released. I have to many other things to do than to mess with their test code that still has all the debugging turned on.

Sorry for bothering you agian... I've a last question.

Do yr VBscript could be launched from [GuiRunOnce] section inside Winnt.sif file as
Regards
coucou

It should work from there, though I have not personally tested that method.

@gordo, I have run across the problem you described with FFDShow. I am not experiencing the problems on all computers however, so it's hard to nail down the issue at hand. I have the newest build which is 11112005 and I have what is described as a "stable" build from 08082005. I'm going to pack up both of them and post within the next day or so. With builds of this project coming out on what seems like a daily basis latley, I'm tempted to just pack up the recommended stable build and leave it at that.

Hi,

Finally i had success with a cmd file.
In fact, i found a
VMware Command Line Tools where vmchk.exe tool inside (here attached bellow).
When vmchk.exe run from a Command Prompt IN a "VMware Virtual Machine", the message "Runing inside VMWare <version 6>." is displayed.
When vmchk.exe run NOT IN a VMware Virtual Machine, the message "Not runing inside VMWare." is displayed.
I wrote a small script calling vmchk.exe and check if run IN or NOT IN a VMware machine


and here pipe directly to a variable for UA install directly run from a CD
Enjoy
coucou

Nice find, but I still don't believe you'll get the installer itself to work from svcpack.inf or cmdlines.txt. At least I've never been able to.

Hi! Is it possible to deploy MSN Messenger 7.5 silently through GPO?

Hi RogueSpear,

I will test it later with cmdlines.txt but I'm 100% sure it will works with [GuiRunOnce].

BTW, just for my Info, I suppose you made VMwareTools 7-zip swittchless installer.
I tried mine here bellow, and when i launch VMwareTools.exe i got the message (StartX, No parameters specified...) here attached image .

May you show me your confitg.txt???

Regards
coucou

I stopped using StartX.exe a long time ago in favor of runhiddenconsole.exe. Runnhiddenconsole is much smaller than startx and it doesn't seem to have as many limitations to it.

Ah!!! When i opened yr VMwareTools.exe i found StartX.exe inside and NO trace of runhiddenconsole.exe.

I found runhiddenconsole.exe , there is no comment how to use it with .msi files. I would appreciate to know a template how to use it in cinfig.txt with .msi files.

Regards
coucou

I'm attaching the program to this post. Here is an example of the config.txt from what I packed last:



Much simpler context eh? Also don't forget to UPX your 7z sfx module. What I do is rename the file to 7zSorg.sfx. Use Resource Hacker or whatever you want to change the icon and then UPX it with this command line:



Then combine it all to make your switchless silent installer:



I realize that you may already know some of this, but I thought I'd include a little more for anyone else out there reading the thread.

Many TNX

BTW, did you glance my post here above how i pipe directly to a variable for UA install directly run from a CD
coucou

@coucou dont know

If you look at my guide i use msistub.exe now.

Really admire what you doing..............awesome!!

Wonderful Supereme Job!!!!

Update - 20051126
Updated Crap Cleaner to V1.26.218
Added DVD Identifier V4.2.0
Added MSN Messenger V7.5.0311.rar
Added Paint.NET V2.5
Updated TrueCrypt to V4.1


Please note that the Paint.NET installer has not been rigorously tested. I ran it through some it's paces, applied some filters, etc. and I didn't run into anything, but I'd appreciate it someone would give me feedback if there are any problems. I always worry about repacks of programs that require .NET.

sweetness

was waiting for CCleaner to get updated.

very nice job, no problems here.

Woowww... Thank you, RogueSpear.

That's really a nice job. I wish I had seen it before!

Natan
http://www.windowsdream.com -- Auto-update your PC with freeware/opensource
http://ping.windowsdream.com -- Partimage Is Not Ghost

Any chance of one for Power DVD v5 or 6? I'm having problems with the silent install version at the moment, and there doesn't seem to be a fix...

Thanks

The problem with PowerDVD is that it's not freeware. I've decided against posting commercial application repacks with the reg info or serial missing. Just don't need the potential hassle.

I guess there is a license problem here...

Natan
http://www.windowsdream.com -- Auto-update your PC with freeware/opensource
http://ping.windowsdream.com -- Partimage Is Not Ghost

Yeah i can see where your coming from.

RogueSpear how long do these packs take to make for you?

It depends on the complexity of the install and also if I've ever done the application before. Something like QuickTime Alternative that I've done a hundred times and has nothing particularly special about it, probably takes me like 15 to 20 minutes.

The Micosoft AntiSpyware took a long time because there was all kinds of problems that had to be solved, but further versions will hopefully not take so long. But as a rule, with a new app I've never repacked before, if I don't run into anything unsuall, I figure about a half hour to repack and then a half hour to test it out. Sometimes it takes quite a bit longer, but rarely does it ever take less time than that.

It's a process that involves a lot of steps and a lot of things to do. None of it is overly complex, but it also took me a few years of experience doing it to find all of the little things to watch out for. There's a lot of "gotchas" and a lot of little tricks to repack something.

Update - 20051202
Added Audacity V1.3.0 Beta
Updated Java2 SE V5.0 Update 5 to Update 6
Added Microsoft ActiveSync V4.1
Added Microsoft AntiSpyware V1.0.701 Beta