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A "silent installer" is an installation program that does not display any configuration options or any other indication of the installation during the installation process. It is in fact "hidden"... or - as the name implies - "silent" due to the lack of feedback to the user.

A "silent installer" is an installation program that does not display any configuration options or any other indication of the installation during the installation process. It is in fact "hidden"... or - as the name implies - "silent" due to the lack of feedback to the user.

It is a commonly used way for malware distributors to wrap "silent installers" with their malware into regular installations, so that the user thinks he/she is installing a regular program, without knowing that "behind the screens", there's much more being installed.

It is also used for upgrading applications. Updates of some software (like Microsoft updates) come with silent installers. When we have to install any particular upgrades of a software, they prefer silent installer.

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How to access and mount an SMB Share via Command Line on Mac

I want to extract dmg file from smb share drive and want to perform silent installation on mac machine . I tried $ mount_smbfs //'domain;username'@smb://a/b/c.dmg ~/local_folder mount_smbfs: server connection failed: No route to host
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Running Innosetup installer in Windows 10

I am getting a en error while running a installer made from Innosetup on Windows 10.It works fine on Windows 8/8.1 but on Windows 10 it gives a popup as below in a message Box with "Close Program" at the end. Application-Name has stopped…
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Creating a silent installer for a MSI

What is the best way to make a silent installer (or unattended) for a program that was already created and has a msi installer? At work I'm told to create an installer that is automated and does all the interaction with the user automatically so…
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Replace the name of environment variable by it's actual value from environment in a text file

I am trying to automate Active Directory installation on Windows Server 2008 using windows powershell. I created a text file with .tmpl extension and added: [DCINSTALL] ReplicaOrNewDomain=_ReplicaOrNewDomain__ Then I created an answer file in a…
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PowerShell Silent Install Windows Application

To give the background, I’m trying to automate silent install of our Windows application (setup.exe) on a remote machine via PowerShell scripts and it is getting stuck due to a dependency, in our case SQLExpress Edition 2005. Since our application…
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NSIS Installer wont install unattended

I wrote this little installer for a .jar and i want to install this programm unattended with software distribution application called 'baramundi'. If i try the installation local everything is fine but if i try it with the application with the same…
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Silent install of Microsoft eval software

I am looking to automate the setup of lab computers for a conference. When doing this manually we would install in demo mode, but given that I am one person setting up 40 machines with a very short window to do so, I would like to automate the…
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get parameters of JAR installer

I have a jar file that allows me to install some software, this JAR request me to fill many fields everytime. I need to write a script or something to fill this data automatically. I know how to pass parameters to the JAR file but I dont know the…
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Command line parameters for SQL Server 2008 R2 silent installations gets ignored

In our InstallShield project we install a SQL Server 2008 R2 Express with parameter as silent. In about 99% of the cases everything works, the installation runs. But at at least at one customer PC we from time to time have problems. This time we…
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Extract MSI file from Flash Player 13 instalation exe file

I recently extracted an Acrobat Reader install exe file by starting the exe file and before hitting continue I went to Start and run and typeed '%ProgramData%\Adobe\Setup' and hit OK. From there I was able to edit the MSI file in Adobe Customization…
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WxWidgets very silent install parameter

I would like to have a very silent install of wxWidgets (using the 3.0.2 install for example). I've tried the usual suspects: /s /S /q /Q /quiet /silent /SILENT /VERYSILENT So far only /silent gives a result - An install window without any user…
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Chef windows_package resource execution shows a "Run as" dialog

Im trying to install SmartBear through windows_package, however when it is executing the resource, a CMD prompt says "installing service", it closes, and then a "Run As" dialog shows, of course that dialog won't go anywhere except for a user…
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Silent Office 2010 install - Config.xml not allowing setup to run

I have my Config.xml file setup like this -