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Ah, another week of silent-installing tool goodness. The Windows XP Support Tools have some useful little tidbits, like windiff and depends.

First, unpack it:

C:\Temp\WST>WindowsXP-KB838079-SupportTools-ENU.exe /C /T:C:\Temp\WST\Unpack

Then, it’s just a matter of working the suptools.msi file (shame on Microsoft for again not using a default property to set the target directory):

C:\Temp\WST\Unpack>start /wait msiexec /qn /i suptools.msi XPSUPTOOLS="D:\Program Files\Support Tools"

And voila. The toolkit is even kind enough to put itself into the default path. :)