Pdf creator silent install without toolbar

This should remove any previous versions that may have been manually installed. The exit code will be 0 if a previous installation was removed, otherwise it is undefined. Below you find an excerpt from 1.

See the History. PDFCreator 0. Customization has to be prepared via commandline arguments to the installer; this allows for example the installation without toolbar and desktop icon. Version 0. Panotour pro 2 5. This should solve the 'package already installed' problem mentioned above. This also serves to remove any previous versions that may have been manually installed. The registry file simply contains the following:.

Below you find an excerpt from 0. The previous package block works when 0. The package block below resolves 2 problems. Unfortunately, when you install it, it is possible that a normal user will not be able to use this printer - this has to be corrected with rundll printui. The complete silent installer and uninstaller looks like this:. After yet another installation, the installer popped up a window, saying that a restart is necessary.

So perhaps if you're upgrading from the older PDFCreator version, a restart after uninstalling that old version might be a good idea.

There is a way to prevent installing the toolbar when installing with the Inno Setup based. These will install only these ones.

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I've been a fan of PDFCreator, and recommended it at every opportunity I could, until a few months ago, when the time came that I was testing IE8 beta, and it required I update it. I was extremely disappointed to learn that they were force installing this crap, and have since stopped recommending it. Still trying to find an open source alternative. Regards Steven Burn Ur I. Thus if you get a clean install, no toolbars, no crap. Personally I will not bother trying other than as an installer test as I will not use software that is too heavily crapware-involved.

In the threads above you will see that the problems have been many as in the similar situation recently with Comodo's CIS crapware that ended up with a Softpedia brouhaha, still in process. And simply the idea of a crapware opt-out default must be changed during installation on an open source program is wrong. Open source programs are supposed to be known for integrity, forthrightness and not leading folks astray through manipulation and trickery.

These crapware installers are based on the fact that folks trust the installers and do not untick, especially when opt-out.