How to make installation fully automatic?

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The following instructions are for Total Commander 8.52 and newer.

There are 3 ways to make a fully automatic installation:

1. Pass command line parameters to the installer

The easiest way to perform an automatic installation is to use the /A parameter with an official Total Commander installer. To further fine-tune automatic installation using parameters, see Installer command line parameters.

2. Create a custom installer using the new self-extracting installer

  • Download from here: sfxhead_installer.zip This is the new installer from Total Commander 10.
  • Do one of the following:
    a) To create a pure 64-bit installer, unpack the 64-bit sfxhead.sfx to the Total Commander folder.
    b) To create a 32-bit or combined 32+64-bit installer, unpack the 32-bit sfxhead.sfx to the Total Commander folder.
  • Now open the installer file, e.g. tcmd1050x32_64.exe, with Ctrl+PageDown.
  • Unpack all the files with F5 to an empty directory.
  • Edit the install.inf file with F4 (when changing the combined 32+64 bit installer, do the steps below also with install64.inf).
  • There is a section [auto], where you need to set auto= to 1.
  • You can also make changes to the default settings there, and change the target location in [Destination]. The installer will ignore this location if a previous installation is found, unless you set the option IgnoreOldLocation=1.
  • In menu Configuration - Options - ZIP packer, set the pack rate to '0' (store).
  • Select all the unpacked files.
  • Pack them with Alt+F5, and check the option to create a self-extracting archive. This will use the sfxhead.sfx installer from the first two steps described above.

3. Create a custom installer using the legacy installer program

  • Download from here: installer.zip
  • Now open the installer file, e.g. tcmd1050x32_64.exe, with Ctrl+PageDown.
  • Unpack all the files with F5 to an empty directory.
  • Add install.exe or install64.exe.
  • Edit the install.inf file with F4.
  • There is a section [auto], where you need to set auto= to 1.
  • You can also make changes to the default settings there, and change the target location in [Destination]. The installer will ignore this location if a previous installation is found, unless you set the option IgnoreOldLocation=1.
  • Put the entire install directory in the root of a CD.


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