Lenovo ThinkCentre A51 - Manual (Page 15)

Standard Windows Installer public properties
The Windows Installer has a set of standard built in public properties that can be set on the command
line to specify certain behavior during the installation. The following table provides most common public
properties used in the command line.
For additional information, refer to the Microsoft Web site at:
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa367437.aspx.
The following table shows the commonly used Windows Installer properties:
Table 3. Windows Installer properties
Property Description
TARGETDIR Specifies the root destination directory for the installation.
During an administrative installation this property is the
location to copy the installation package.
ARPAUTHORIZEDCDFPREFIX URL of the update channel for the application.
ARPCOMMENTS Provides Comments for the Add or Remove Programs
on Control Panel.
ARPCONTACT Provides Contact for the Add or Remove Programs on
Control Panel.
ARPINSTALLLOCATION Fully qualified path to the application's primary folder.
ARPNOMODIFY Disables functionality that would modify the product.
ARPNOREMOVE Disables functionality that would remove the product.
ARPNOREPAIR Disables the Repair button in the Programs wizard.
ARPPRODUCTICON Specifies the primary icon for the installation package.
ARPREADME Provides a ReadMe for the Add or Remove Programs on
Control Panel.
ARPSIZE Estimated size of the application in kilobytes.
ARPSYSTEMCOMPONENT Prevents display of application in the Add or Remove
Programs list.
ARPURLINFOABOUT URL for an application's home page.
ARPURLUPDATEINFO URL for application-update information.
REBOOT The REBOOT property suppresses certain prompts for
a reboot of the system. An administrator typically uses
this property with a series of installations to install several
products at the same time with only one reboot at the
end. Set REBOOT="R" to disable any reboots at the end
of an install.
Installation examples
The following table provides the installation examples using the setup.exe file.
Chapter 2 . Installation 7