[MGadAllah]

I'd like to know what is the switch to install winrar silently and how to register it using WPI or RunOnceEX.
I've the registeration information.
Thanks,
Mohamed

[ZenCoder]

WinRAR360Beta5.exe /S

Will take care of the silent install.

I think registration infromation is stored in the rarreg.key file found in the program file directory.

To make sure you might want to enter your information while running FileMon and RegMon or InstallRite 2.5 and see what changes get made.

[MGadAllah]

ZenCoder, on Jul 1 2006, 07:07 PM, said:

WinRAR360Beta5.exe /S

Will take care of the silent install.

I think registration infromation is stored in the rarreg.key file found in the program file directory.

To make sure you might want to enter your information while running FileMon and RegMon or InstallRite 2.5 and see what changes get made.

Would you please make it a little simple because I do not know a thing about FileMon & RegMon & InstallRite?



thanks

[ZenCoder]

Those are three free utilities to monitor changes to your computer.

Any permanent change will occur in the file system or the registry.

Filemon tells reports everytime any process accesses, creates or modifies a file.
Regmon does the same with registry keys.

So if you register your software and Regmon shows a modifed registry entry then the registration information is stored there, it all the happens is a file is writen to a hard drive then that file probably has the registration information.

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InstallRite 2.5, lets you install a program and captures changes to the registry and file system that happen durring the install.

It will then let you edit what it captures and create an install program that will make the same changes to your registry and file system.

Of course you are going to get changes to the file system/registry that have nothing to do with the program you are looking at.

Also an installed may have to performe different tasks based on your operating system and other software you have installed.

So InstallRite 2.5 may install Nero 6.6 correctly on one PC, but install a non-working versin on another, or even worse you may have accidentally included a registry modification that had nothing to do with Nero and might damage your PC!

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Best option when a program has no switches is AutoIT, a scripting language which will let you install the program normally by pressing the correct buttons, entering the correct serial numbers.

[MGadAllah]

I really appreciate all your words
but I'm still confused
a new one like me, whuch point to start from
I really hope to know
all were beginers
Thanks and wait for your reply
I imagine that there os a switch then there is an registery entry
I will use WPI, so switch with a registery key is the way I think
May be I'm wrong, but I'm just trying to do my best
Thanks
Wait for your reply
Mohamed

[spacesurfer]

What I've done is installed Winrar and taken the installation files from the Program Files folder and copied them to another source. You don't need to install after that. The program will work from any location.

It will, however, ask you to configure on first run.

But there is no need to install... after first installation, copy the files to another location. Next time you install XP, you can run it from that location or copy the files back to the Program Files folder and run it from there.

I think the Winrar installer is actually a self-extracting file.