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Good day Gentlemen and Ladies! I come bearing your average batch of idiotic questions!


I work for a small-time Mom&Pops Computer Repair shop, and I'm currently writing us a small little App that installs the software we install on every customer's computer a little more... automatic.

The version I have right now currently copies all of the executables to a folder with our business name on the user's drive, and then installs from there (since the executables may be on a flash drive, that and we're all having an arguement right now, but we are possibly going to leave the installation files on the computer for their own purposes). Yet, that is still not very automated.

I would like the application to not go through with any of that, and install all of the software that is checked (it has a little checkbox for which ones you want to install. As an example, every computer might not need Infrarecorder-- if it doesn't have a burner! =P), and just go through with that. But this isn't a question on how to do that (well, it somewhat is, but it does not have to do with the programming aspect).

I know that this is difficult in the first place because of the registry, however is there any way I can "copy" VLC registries, along with VLC's files? (c:\program files\videolan)

I'm not really used to this whole registry thing. I only have to use windows for work =P

Regardless of that-- would it be possible to just copy those few things and have VLC run?


Thanks for reading this, and thanks in advance for your answers

You don't need any VLC registry settings. You can just extract .zip or .7z package to somewhere and run VLC from there. But better option might be running VLC installer in silent mode.

Bah! There's a silent mode for it? I'm sorry I never knew! Once again, I'm not really used to Windows installation, and whenever I installed VLC anywhere else it was with portage from source

Thank you, I'll take a look at that option, and sorry for my ignorance