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MSI Installation Options
InstallShield (setup.exe) options
Like the Microsoft Installer Service (msiexec.exe), the InstallShield Setup
program (setup.exe) can accept a number of command line options and can
pass options through setup.exe to the included .msi file.
All setup.exe command-line options must be prefaced with a forward slash
(/) only.
All options are documented in the InstallShield documentation:
http://helpnet.installshield.com/robo/projects/helplibdevstudio9/
IHelpSetup_EXECmdLine.htm
The following are the most useful command line options for installing
NaturallySpeaking:
O PT ION
/v
/s
/L (followed by the
Windows
Language Code)
Extracting msi files from single-file
The following options are designed to extract .msi/.mst files from Windows
Installer-oriented setup.exe distribuitions. These options will not install any files;
they will only extract an installable set of files into a specified directory.
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D E SC R IP TI ON
Passes command line and public properties options to the Windows Installer
(msiexec.exe) installation.
If you run setup.exe (rather than msiexec.exe) to install NaturallySpeaking, you can
specify any Windows Installer command line options using the "/v" option.
For example, for MSI quiet mode, you'll need to run setup.exe /v/qn. To set the
public property of XYZ to "ABC", you would run setup.exe /v"XYZ=ABC".
Formerly "noui"
Runs setup in a "silent" mode, suppressing the initialization window. However,
unless the MSI installation is also specified as silent, the MSI installation will run
normally.
In order to run both setup.exe and msiexec.exe silently, you will need to combine the
/s and the /v options. Use the following command line: setup.exe /s /v/qn.
Using these options, no dialogs of any kind will be displayed during installation or
uninstallation. All messages are suppressed or, if a log file is also specified, sent to
the MSI log file in the user-specified temp directory.
The "noui" command line flag is no longer supported.
For Multi-lingual installations, specifies the language to use for installation and
bypassed the "Choose Installation Language" dialog box.
For example to launch the installation in French, the command line would be
setup.exe /L1036.
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