How to Perform an Unattended Installation of Windows Media Player 7 (268874)


The information in this article applies to:

  • Microsoft Windows Media Player 7
  • Microsoft Windows Media Player 7.1
This article was previously published under Q268874

SUMMARY

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

MORE INFORMATION

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"

Modification Type:MinorLast Reviewed:1/15/2006
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