Install exes silently

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HI,

We have few different exes as an application prerequisite and we want to install all these exes in a single click. I tried to install these exes silently by creating a windows project but the exes do no install silently. Please suggest how I can overcome this issue.

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Posted 16-Jan-13 3:55am

rahulkasar

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bbirajdar 16-Jan-13 10:07am

Does these make some noise ?

David_Wimbley 16-Jan-13 10:08am

Are these exes applications that you've made or are they 3rd party?

3rd party apps...if available...would have documentation on the 3rd party creators knowledge base im sure.

Akbar Ali Hussain 16-Jan-13 14:02pm

If you create MSI then there are some flags to run MSI without UI like /qn. Refer http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc759262(v=ws.10).aspx[^]

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov · Accepted Answer · 2013-01-16T09:55:00

Just copy them; you should be able to do it silently. :-)

Most applications do not really require installation, unless they do something special to the system. Often they also introduce some new "file type" or suggest to register existing ones to be handled by the newly installed application. This is often not really required, or can be trusted to the user. Also, one good way of making required modification of the system registry is doing by the application itself on its first use.

To me, the applications which do not require installations are the very best. A while ago, Microsoft started to encourage this kind of installation — finally. Especially for .NET products. This healthy trend is now growing. Some products coming with the installer are often come with "portable version" which is used immediately, without installation.

But it you still want regular MSI installation, you just need to make it silent, using regular Setup project; I don't see why not.

—SA