This section sets parameters for control of the Setup process.
Device Path
This parameter specifies whether Windows 95 should check a source installation path to find INF files, rather than looking only in the Windows INF directory when installing devices. If this parameter is set to 1, network administrators can later add INF files to a single source location to ensure that up-to-date drivers are installed any time a new device is installed on computers running Windows 95. However, set this value to 1 only if the installation source files are in a network directory (not floppy disks or CD).
Notice also that Devicepath=1 causes the entire INF database to be rebuilt each time a user changes a network component or changes drivers for any device.
Parameter | Devicepath |
Values | 0 = Do not add a source directory path for INFs |
Default | 0 |
Emergency Startup Disk
This parameter specifies whether to create the emergency Startup Disk during Setup (the command-line override for this is /ie). For a setup script intended for hands-free installation, you might want to specify ebd=0 so that the user isn't prompted to insert or remove the floppy disk. If you need to specify ebd=1, you can also add a reboot=0 entry, so that Setup will not attempt to restart the computer while the floppy disk is in the drive.
Parameter | EBD |
Values | 0 = Do not create an emergency Startup Disk |
Default | 1 |
Express
This parameter specifies whether the user can provide input during Setup. If express=1, then Windows 95 Setup uses only the settings specified in MSBATCH.INF or built-in defaults and does not ask the user to confirm or enter input. This setting disables most of the user interface for Setup.
Parameter | Express |
Values | 0 = Allow user input |
Default | 0 |
Install Type
This parameter specifies the type of installation for Windows 95 Setup.
Parameter | InstallType |
Values | 0 = Compact |
Default | 1 |
Installation Directory
This parameter specifies the directory where Windows 95 is to be installed or, for shared installations, the machine directory.
Parameter | InstallDir |
Values | directory name |
Default | Windows directory, if present |
Pen Windows Warning
This parameter specifies whether to display a warning if an unknown version of Pen Windows is installed.
Parameter | PenWinWarning |
Values | 0 = Do not display the warning |
Default | 1 |
Product ID
This parameter specifies the product ID for your site, which is printed on the Windows 95 compact disk or your Certification of Authenticity.
Parameter | ProductID |
Values | string |
Default | none |
Save SUBOOT Directory
This parameter specifies whether to save the SUBOOT directory for Server-based Setup.
Parameter | SaveSuBoot |
Values | 0 = Delete SUBoot directory |
Default | 0 |
Time Zone
This parameter specifies the time zone to set on the computer.
Parameter | TimeZone |
Values | String enclosed in quotation marks, as described in the following list |
Default | The time zone currently set on the computer |
Time zone strings | ||||||||||
Afghanistan | Czech | Israel | Samoa |
Uninstall
This parameter is used to specify whether Setup should create a compressed backup version of the existing Windows and MS-DOS directories to be used for automatically uninstalling Windows 95. If you specify Uninstall=5, you also must add a value for BackupDir=path that specifies the directory where Setup should place the compressed backup files.
Parameter | Uninstall |
Values | 0 = Do not allow user to specify Uninstall options, and do not create backup files for uninstalling Windows 95 |
Default | 1 |
Verify
This parameter specifies whether to run Windows 95 Setup in Verify mode. This option is provided principally for use by OEMs. Most users have no reason to include this entry in a setup script.
Parameter | Verify |
Values | 0 = Do a full installation |
Default | 0 |
Version Checking
This parameter defines whether Windows 95 Setup will overwrite existing files automatically, even if the date of the local copy is later than the date for the file in the distribution source.
Parameter | VRC |
Values | 0 = Prompt user to confirm before overwriting more recent files |
Default | 0 |