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How to Perform an Unattended Installation of Windows Media Player 7

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Article Last Modified on 1/15/2006

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SUMMARY

This article explains how to perform an unattended installation of Windows Media Player 7.

To perform an unattended installation, use the following switches from the command line:

Quiet Mode:

/Q

In this mode the Windows Media Player will not require any input from the user.
Quiet Mode with suppression of the extraction status dialog:

/Q:A

For example:

C:\Windows\Temp\WMP.exe /Q:A

To suppress the restarting of the Windows Media Player setup process, the following switches should be added:

/C:"setup_wm.exe /Q /R:N"

Note: The switches applied to Setup_wm.exe are case sensitive.

The following example suppresses the restarting and all dialogs:

WMP7.exe /Q:A /R:N /C:"setup_wm.exe /Q /R:N"

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