Wednesday, August 6, 2008

Create Adobe reader 9 Silent Installer

To perform a silent install of Adobe Reader 9, follow these steps:
1) Download the Adobe Reader 9 installer file from Adobe http://ardownload.adobe.com/pub/adobe/reader/win/9.x/9.0/enu/AdbeRdr90_en_US.exe
2) Run the Setup file, and wait until the setup dialog appears asking you for a destination folder to install to.


3) Leave that setup there,and in windows Explore navigate to the directory(C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Local Settings\Application Data\Adobe\Reader 9.0\Setup Files\READER9) .This contains the extracted setup files from the Adobe Reader 9 .
4) Copy these file to another location (ex: d:\adobereader9).
5) Now perform a silent install using the switches.
6) To know which switches that are supported by Adobe reader9 setup file ,just navigate to the d:\adobereader9 directory using the cmd(command prompt)
7) give a command like this [ AcroRead.msi /? ]
it show a pop up and list the silent switches supported by this installer

8) Now to perform a silent install by simply execute the MSI with the following command
msiexec /qb /i AcroRead.msi

other switches
/ n - No UI
/ b - Basic UI
/ r - Reduced UI
/ f - Full UI (default)
/ i - Status messages
9) Now you can pack this as a sfx archive by using winrar or 7z


1 comment:

  1. @echo off
    echo rmccurdy.com silent installer for adobe 9
    msiexec /qn /i AcroRead.msi
    regedit /r adobe_updates.reg
    regedit /s adobe_updates.reg



    adobe_updates.reg


    REGEDIT4


    [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Adobe\Acrobat Reader\9.0\FeatureLockdown]
    "bUsageMeasurement"=dword:00000000

    [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Adobe\Acrobat Reader\9.0\AdobeViewer
    "EULA"=dword:00000001
    "Launched"=dword:00000001

    [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Adobe\CommonFiles\Usage\Reader 9
    "OptIn"=dword:00000000

    [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Adobe\Acrobat Reader\9.0\AVGeneral
    "bCheckForUpdatesAtStartup"=dword:00000000

    [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Adobe\Acrobat Reader\9.0\Originals
    "bDisplayedSplash"=dword:00000001

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