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Installshield Start Menu shortcut for 'All Users' possib
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Visual FoxPro
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Installation, Setup and Configuration
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
00636431
Message ID:
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>>>>>>How do you get Installshield (the one that comes with VFP) to create a shortcut in Start Menu for All Users instead of just for the currently logged-on user who is installing the app?
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>>>>>See mskb #Q311308 and http://fox.wikis.com/wc.dll?Wiki~InstallShieldExpressAndVfp7~VFP.
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>>>>Thanks! Finally can do what we've to do: A totally silent install that can be "pushed" by our sysadmin to our W2K client PCs, and installed/available for "All Users" who log onto that machine. Here's the command line that _should_ work (I know the silent install part works):
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>>>>MsiExec.exe /I project.msi ALLUSERS=2 /qn
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>>>Check Thread #601216.
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>>Sergey, can you tell me the difference between /qb+ and /qn? We have intentionally built only msi packages that we intend to push to clients and run msiexec there. Does it make any difference (i.e., having ISX build a setup.exe and using it, vs building only an MSI and using msiexec).
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>>I found that using misexec with the /qn parameter seemed to work great... so good, in fact, all I heard was some disk activity for about 10 seconds and then when I checked, the app had been installed (but without the ALLUSERS parameter).
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>See mskb #Q227091.

Sergey, Thanks for the great info. Very helpful.
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