Alright everyone this is my first stab at a 7zip switchless installer but it works for myself

*** This is Internet Explorer 7 ENU (English) for Windows XP SP2 ***

Anyway this is pretty straight forward - run the installer - it will show the IE install progress...

First of all this will require your Windows XP SP2 (Yes this installer is ONLY for XP SP2) to validate WGA.
You dont need to press any validate buttons etc the installer will do this for you as long as it passes validation.

The installer will change registry to bypass RunOnce and enable Phisingfilter.

*** IMPORTANT ***
You will need to reboot before IE7 works but I forced it not to autoreboot.
If you have enabled desktop IE icon you will see it change to the new IE7 icon with the gold swirl.

Download (Rapidshare.de)
Download (Megaupload.com)

dead link : reason deleted by uploader

Sorry muiz after I uploaded the first installer I discovered I uploaded the one without registry changes

I hoped noone would experience this... oh well the new file (and updated link) is in first post. I apoligice.

Ok no problem, maybe i was to fast

But i did donload it now , and try to install, but it just unpacks and creates a directory on C:

After unpack it deletes itself and nothing happens
And YES i have a genuine XP

Any chance of uploading it elsewher otherthan RapidShare ?

Thanks

ironside: Sure, where would you recommend?

No use to upload , it doesnt even work.

muiz > the file available now is working

Doesnt work ,it installs it validates.....but....no IE7 installed

It worked perfectly here, you don't see IE7 until rebooting.

druiddk, what parameters did you use? I need to get rid of the update part as I don't have a network connection until installation is finished.

swampy > you will not be able to run it without internet connection because of the validation... I suggest you install it during RunOnce?

No GO after reboot, i downloaded from microsoft.com and went trough setup...works




I install it now with autoit....

Just wondering... I don't have time to look at this, nor to dig around a lot to see if anyone's figured it out yet - much less test it (besides I'm after the Win2003 version right now and don't want things like phishingfilter...) Don't like IE, but gotta have it to test browser compatibility for sites (even eventually it might be required for other things)...

So the general idea is:

update.exe /quiet /norestart /nobackup

with some optional switches (/log, or /passive instead of /quiet for progress bar)

then run xmllitesetup.exe, idndl.exe and nlsdl.exe? (same switches as above), or perhaps before running update.exe?

Seemingly there's also a /integrate:<fullpath> switch too, but I haven't tried that either.

I'll try to find some time to look at it/try in vmware tomorrow (Likely integrate all 4 first, then if that doesn't work then unattended)

@crahak You can disable the Phisingfilter using registrytweak.

installing now at T-13, will post results soon

I tested installing IE7 without network, all went fine

Installed perfectly at T-13

used update\iesetup.exe /quiet /update-no /norestart

no critical updates required

DO NOT DOWNLOAD THIS FILE

Symantec Corporate flagged it as having a virus

You find that is the cmdow.exe file which hides the command prompt window, A known issue but not a problem if you install at t13 anyway


And thanks for the alternative download druiddk

thanks this is what i am looking for =)
works like charm...... thankssss

ironside > np

Does not work , also not after reboot, nice try though

problem with installer: the installer for ie7 is named IE7XPENU.exe.exe.

the_guy

Yep



MSI version :



http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=84986

Haven't tried integrating yet (haven't seen any reports of successes/failures about that either). But I've tried to install it unattended on a clean Win2003 R2 Std install in VMWare, which doesn't have WGA stuff installed (who wants that crap on their server?) nor an internet connection. IE7 install fails! ie7.log says "IECUSTOM: Setup cannot continute because this system doesn't pass the Windows Genuine Advantage validation check. Please run the setup program again in attended mode.", and yes, this is on a 100% legit Win2003 copy! This is getting to be a royal PITA for everyone. If it wasn't for WGA, it would likely install just fine (no other errors of any kind in logs)

Sounds like I'll have to either integrate it (if it even works), bypass WGA altogether (I'm just NOT installing this spyware on a server - especially not for a crappy browser), or I'm stuck installing manually (repackaging as a last resort - no idea if there's a good old IEAK that doesn't do this nonsense). Thanks MS for making us go through this... Just f'n lovely.

Anyways. If you have (the latest?) WGA installed and have an internet connection, the switches I mentionned would likely work...

Edit: Integrating? You have to integrate from the original installer, the extracted ones won't do it. They say: "Extracted packages cannot be integrated. the /integrate switch must be used with the original software update package." How helpful of them to prevent that... And the /integrate switch doesn't work with the original setup seemingly (and there's a couple different ones). So there's likely no easy way to do this. They're preventing all possible ways to install, except the one where WGA fails on legit windows. Time to look at IEAK 7 I guess ... Hopefully it can produce some not totally braindead setups.

My last Western Digital drive is making weird noises and 3 partitions dropped. That can't be good

Edit2: IEAK 7 did it! Switchless silent installer, no forced reboot, no need to install the WGA crap to get it to install, etc. Works great! Finally an installer that works (and you can set custom homepage to google.com and whatever you want, set max space for temp files, and lots of other good stuff) Haven't seen a way to disable the PhishingFilter there though, so registry tweak needed. Now all one needs to do is install Multiple IE (with /silent or /verysilient) and one has all the standalone versions (3 to 6) along with their new v7 to test websites. Only Opera and Firefox left to install. If someone's too lazy to download IEAK to make their own IE7 installer for Win2003 SP1, I can upload it somewhere.

could you please tell us what you modified to build the switchless installer (WGA,custom homepage,temp folder,etc...) ? thanks!

I modified absolutely nothing at all. Install IEAK, pick target OS, language, "File" as a distribution method, pick whatever you want to customize (doesn't really matter), sync, when you get to stage 3, pick "completely silent installation" and "no restart", then carry on with the other customizations you may want (like disable first run page and such). It'll create that installer for you. That's all there is to it. It'll install silently, not reboot, and won't care if you even have WGA installed or not.

Edit: a couple quick reg tweaks (not taken care of by IEAK):

Disable PhishingFilter junk:


Don't display that annoying n00b help for tabs:


display the menu bar (file|edit|...) above the address bar (when one presses alt):


Now if IE7 didn't suck and didn't break the IBM DB2 installer and such...

yes that would be appeciated.

google is your friend.

search for: IEAK 7 download

It is freely available and downloadable from microsoft without a wga check

shark

oh ok. ill check it out.

ok now i have the installer; how do i change it into an addon?

@druiddk:
In your installer you apply regtweak for google and bypass first steps.
But when you reboot, runonceex of ie7 is executed (execute ieuinit.inf) and some value are cleaned (look @ieuinit.inf section [DelReg.XPandW2K3] )
To keep settings, I have insert the tweaks directly into ieuinit.inf, clean DelReg section and now it's okay.

Do I need to tell nlite to uninstall the older version for it to work properly? I downloaded it from another source. the one I have is: ProgramAddons Internet Explorer 7.0.cab

Well this is nearly a year later, but I have been trying Crahak's method and at stage three the wizard states that the customizations are only available for those running under a "Corporate Admin" license. RATS! Did that not occur in earlier versions of the AK?