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[Gym_Crazy]

Hello
We want to use AutoHotKey on a bunch of user's laptops to run other scripts now and in the future, but first we need to get AutoHotKey installed onto their laptops.

Any advice how this can be done in the background and in an automated way so the user's don't get popups etc?

Also how can we silently, without user interaction, uninstall AutoHotKey if we need to?


TIA
Paul Hanson

[Chris]

The following does a silent install (/S must be capitalized):
AutoHotkey104306_Install.exe /S

You can also specify a custom target folder:
AutoHotkey104306_Install.exe /S /D=C:\Program Files\Foo

Silent UNinstall: Currently, this might not be possible due to the way the installer is configured. I will look into it further.

[Gym_Crazy]

Thank you.

That is a great start.

If it can be uninstalled silently then that will be great. Someone in my circle of nerdsd suggested using msiexec -x <parameters> but I am not sure AutoHotKey uses msiexec to do the installation in the first place.


Regards
Paul

[PhiLho]

Of course, you can also make your own personal install with an AutoHotkey compiled script, using FileInstall... It shouldn't be so hard, mostly put some files in a directory, perhaps setting some registry keys, etc.
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[Chris]

The ability to silently uninstall AutoHotkey has been added to today's v1.0.43.07. The instructions for how to do so have been added to the Scripts page:

To silently uninstall AutoHotkey, pass the parameter /S to the uninstaller. For example:
"C:\Program Files\AutoHotkey\uninst.exe" /S

To silently install AutoHotkey into the default directory (which is the same directory displayed by non-silent mode), pass the parameter /S to the installer (/S must be capitalized). For example:
AutoHotkey104307_Install.exe /S

A directory other than the default may be specified via the /D parameter (in the absence of /S, this changes the default directory displayed by the installer). For example:
AutoHotkey104307_Install.exe /S /D=C:\Program Files\AutoHotkey

Thanks for suggesting it.

[Gym_Crazy]

You folks are remarkable. What service. This will help me a lot.

[0inprogram]

i m a newbie....

how should i pass the parameters to the exe file...where should i type tht thing

using the command line while compiling???

[engunneer]

please restate your question. Are you trying to silently install manually, or via an AHK script?
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[0inprogram]

i wan 2 install via ahk script

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