The best way would be to create a standard desktop image that had all your
applications pre-installed. Another otpion would be to use a software
deployment suite such as SMS. Yet another option would be to wrap the setup
in a MSI package and script the responses to the various prompts. Check out
the following KB article
242479 Overview of the Windows Installer Technology
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=242479
Jason Hoffman (e-mail address removed)
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| thanks in advance.
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| i was just wondering if any one knows a way that i can
| install a given set of programs with out answering all of
| the install questions. the programs i have in mind are
| spybot and some other similar programs but i need them
| installed on a 100 pluss computers so it would help if i
| didnt have to answer a 1000 plus questions about every
| installation.
| thanks
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