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The downloaded installation program has a few installation options. There are options to create additional program icons and also to start the program automatically when Windows starts. Starting the program with Windows is an option that can be enabled or disabled in the Preferences on the Startup/Shurtdown tab.
Windows 95/98/Me/NT computers will have the additional option to install the Microsoft Data Access Components (MDAC) 2.5 Service Pack 3. This includes the necessary database drivers for the OpsCenter. An earlier version of MDAC 2.5 can be substituted if there is a known issue with the version included in the setup. Windows 2000/XP/Vista computers come pre-installed with sufficient database drivers and so MDAC 2.5 will not be installed on these platforms.
The downloaded installation program also supports some command line arguments for installing in silent mode. The following lists all the available options:
| o | Disables the This will install... Do you wish to continue? prompt at the beginning of Setup. |
| o | Instructs Setup to be silent or very silent. When Setup is silent the wizard and the background window are not displayed but the installation progress window is. When a setup is very silent this installation progress window is not displayed. Everything else is normal so for example error messages during installation are displayed and the startup prompt is (if you haven't disabled it with the '/SP-' command line option explained above). If a restart is necessary and the '/NORESTART' command isn't used (see below) and Setup is silent, it will display a Reboot now? messagebox. If it's very silent it will reboot without asking. |
| o | Prevents the user from cancelling during the installation process, by disabling the Cancel button and ignoring clicks on the close button. Useful along with /SILENT. |
| o | Instructs Setup not to reboot even if it's necessary. |
| o | Instructs Setup to load the settings from the specified file after having checked the command line. This file can be prepared using the '/SAVEINF=' command as explained below. Don't forget to use quotes if the filename contains spaces. |
| o | Instructs Setup to save installation settings to the specified file. Don't forget to use quotes if the filename contains spaces. |
| o | Overrides the default directory name displayed on the Select Destination Directory wizard page. A fully qualified pathname must be specified. |
| o | Overrides the default folder name displayed on the Select Start Menu Folder wizard page. |
| o | Instructs Setup to initially disable the Don't create any icons check box on the Select Start Menu Folder wizard page. |
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