XmlNotepad is a handy little tool that does pretty much what it says on the tin — it’s like Notepad, but aimed at correctly manipulating XML files. I’ve also found it to be a lot nicer to use a proper XML editor like XmlNotepad vs. a plain text editor when altering XML files; it makes […]
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 […]
So, here’s a little diddy you probably haven’t heard of: SteadyState. I recall way back in the day my CompSci teacher and his flunky (you know who you are) were hell-bent on locking down the lab so those ornery high-schoolers couldn’t break the Windows installations on those machines. They settled on DeepFreeze, but you can […]
Another anti-badware piece of software offered by Microsoft itself is good ol’ Windows Defender. This is an MSI that uses a somewhat standard property to control the installation directory, but there’s a twist in that it opens up a GUI after installation is complete. Thus, we need to take an extra step to kill the […]
[Ed: You probably don’t want to miss integrating ClamWin with SecurityCenter and SteadyState.]
Well, with a week dedicated to various Internet-browsing goodness, it’s probably a good idea to spend some time with some anti-badware measures to help keep your Windows install running smoothly. First on the list is Clamwin AV 0.93, a windows packaging of the […]
Yet another one of the little niceties, Acrobat Reader is very convenient to have around. The default download is a self-extracting executable that wraps an MSI; providing a /? switch indicates that /msi allows you to pass command-line arguments to msiexec, but I was unable to get that to work properly. I was also unable […]
Of course, no browser installation would be complete without Flash! Unfortunately for us, it’s a really dull installation. :)
Once the browser installation is complete, and no instances of the browser are left running, simply issue the following command:
C:\Temp\Flash>install_flash_player.exe /s
It’s as easy as that. The installer cannot be configured for different directories; it automatically detects where […]
