Installation Command Line Options

Hi there!

I'm an IT admin at a University looking to install Fragstats remotely on one of our clients machines. Through testing I've already found that /silent works to silently install the program, but I'd like to know if there also happens to be a flag for adding a desktop icon. For whatever reason, having desktop icons just cuts down on our number of tickets, so I'd be interested to see what all flags are available. 

Thank you!

Hi coopervla,

Unfortunately there is no switch for creating a desktop icon when installing remotely like you do.

There is however a potential solution by using a script to generate the shortcut in the desktop of you user.

Here is an example of such script / batch file, let's call it make_frg_shortcut.bat:

powershell -Command "$WshShell = New-Object -ComObject WScript.Shell; $Shortcut = $WshShell.CreateShortcut('%USERPROFILE%\Desktop\FrgGUI.lnk'); $Shortcut.TargetPath = 'C:\Program Files\Fragstats 5.0\frg_gui.exe'; $Shortcut.Save()"

Assuming that you are using the default paths for installation, it will create a desktop link to frg_gui named FrgGUI.

Depending on your particular configuration you may need to adjust the script slightly.

Best,
Eduard