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How to Perform an Unattended Installation of Windows Media Player 7

Article ID:268874
Last Review:January 15, 2006
Revision:2.1
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SUMMARY

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

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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"

APPLIES TO
Microsoft Windows Media Player 7.0
Microsoft Windows Media Player 7.1

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