Universal Silent Switch Finder is a little program
that can automatically determine which silent switches can be used with a
setup file. All you need to do is just load the setup file with USSF
and it can tell what installer is being used to pack the files and the
command line switches.
If you’re still unsure of what I am talking about, I’ll do a test here. Let’s say I want to find the silent switches for the setup file hdtune_255.exe because I don’t want to keep on hitting the Next button as I need to install it on 20 computers.
1. Download the Universal Silent Switch Finder from the link at the end of this article and run it.
2. Click the > button which is at the same line as File and look for hdtune_255.exe.
3. Once loaded, it’ll take a few seconds to analyze the setup file and will give me the available silent command line switches. As you can see, USSF is able to tell that hdtune_255.exe is packed using Inno Setup package and I can use the command “hdtune_255.exe /VERYSILENT /SUPPRESSMSGBOXES /NORESTART /SP-” to silently install HD Tune without going through the install wizard.
Basically, Universal Silent Switch Finder uses PeID (Helper.bin) to identify the installer type and reports available switches accordingly. Instead of us checking what is the installer being used and trying to find information on them, we can just use USSF.
If you’re still unsure of what I am talking about, I’ll do a test here. Let’s say I want to find the silent switches for the setup file hdtune_255.exe because I don’t want to keep on hitting the Next button as I need to install it on 20 computers.
1. Download the Universal Silent Switch Finder from the link at the end of this article and run it.
2. Click the > button which is at the same line as File and look for hdtune_255.exe.
3. Once loaded, it’ll take a few seconds to analyze the setup file and will give me the available silent command line switches. As you can see, USSF is able to tell that hdtune_255.exe is packed using Inno Setup package and I can use the command “hdtune_255.exe /VERYSILENT /SUPPRESSMSGBOXES /NORESTART /SP-” to silently install HD Tune without going through the install wizard.
Basically, Universal Silent Switch Finder uses PeID (Helper.bin) to identify the installer type and reports available switches accordingly. Instead of us checking what is the installer being used and trying to find information on them, we can just use USSF.
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