Semi-automatic install registered version on student PC's

[Per Abrahamsen]

The student lab PC''s are cleaned automatically every night. Is it possible to make the install of a registered version semi-automtic? What I'm thinking of is to have a bat file on a network drive which the students can click on to install and register textpad.

It would be even better if the bat file could also install our llocal textpad classes and tools.

[Per Abrahamsen]

License registering was pretty easy.

Insert the license in one copy of textpad
start -> run -> regedit
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE -> Software -> Helios
Files -> Export...

This gives you a ".reg" file, clicking on the file will insert the license in the local copy of textpad.

A similar trick with

HKEY_CURRENT_USER -> Software -> Helios

will give an installable ".reg" file with the current user's customizations.

These can, I guess, be run from a .bat file, which can also copy site specific .syn and .tcl files to give students a ready-made setup.

The student still needs to install textpad first manually, though.

[Per Abrahamsen]

I enden up creating a bat file with this content:

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c:
cd \Daisy
cd textpad
txpeng472.exe
copy *.syn "c:\Program Files\TextPad 4\Samples"
copy *.tcl "c:\Program Files\TextPad 4\Samples"
regedit /s txt4dai.reg
regedit /s txt4lcns.reg
regedit /s txt4tool.reg

And telling the students to choose the default answers to the textpad installation program. The .reg files are created from regedit as described before.

The txpeng472.exe program also has a /S option which should make it silent, but if I use it nothing happens.

[s_reynisson]

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