[yong2579]

Hey guys, i need help here' There is a lot of switches out there for silent installation of Easy CD Creator 5.0. However, this switches such as

setup.exe /s /v/qn

are not good. Upon installation completed and reboot, all the shortcuts in the start menu will get messed up. I think it got to do with the reason that I did not key in the CD-Key. Is there any method i can set in the CD-KEY in silent installation?

There are method out there for Roxio Easy CD Creator 6.0, but i check Roxio Easy CD Creator 5.0, there is no registry settings for their recommendation. Please help! Thanks!

[Joe User 99]

The only version I've used of 5.0 is the Basic (oem) version, which requires no serial, so I don't have a serial number switch for you, but can offer you some other help...

First, Roxio 5 is a MSI, meaning, you don't need to call setup, you can install straight from the MSI.

Second, the reason the shortcuts are messed up, is that the shortcut names are not stored in the MSI, they are stored in the transform. Meaning, you need to pass a transform with the commandline. They probably show up like ##Shortcut1## or something. In the Transform, the appear correctly. The CD should have multiple .MST files, one for each supported language. (1033.mst being english).

Also, in 5.0, there are some Custom actions that are not called unless the user interface is set with the /qr or above switch, meaning, it won't properly detect some drives if called with /qb or /qn. This can be corrected by passing ADDLOCAL=ALL

So you would call: <MSINAME> ADDLOCAL=ALL TRANSFORMS=1033.MST /QN
or something to that effect.

Hope this helps.

[yong2579]

i'm give it a try tomorrow when i get back to work, but isn't it strange that we can install application without using cd-key? sounds like some hacking method! hehz'

[yong2579]

I think i got it, in case anyone wish to know how to install Roxio Easy CD Creator 5.0 with cd-key, heres how:

MSIEXEC /I ECDC5.msi ADDLOCAL=ALL TRANSFORMS=1033.mst /QN REBOOT=S
REGEDIT /S AddCDKey.reg

** Contents of AddCDKey.reg **

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\{8851E12C-0EF9-11D4-A788-009027ABA5D0}]
"ProductID"="XX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Adaptec\Easy CD Creator\5.0]
"cdkey"="XX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX"

Thanks to Joe User 99 for his help too!

[abu ryan]

hi

i used this switches to install the software from the cd :

@ECHO OFF
ECHO..
ECHO Install Easy CD Creator 6
REGEDIT /S easycd.reg
msiexec /I "ECDC6.msi" /qr PIDKEY=bd-jwzs4-qx3mr-0241l ADDLOCAL=ALL REBOOT=ReallySuppress
REGEDIT /S EASY.REG

=== is it ok
and about the mst file how can we create it if i need to use it here

thanks for your help

[abu ryan]

hi
i test the switche but not made the registration

not accept the
regedit /s

as command
but the other one is ok and it run the installation of the software

know what will be the good command to run the that reg file