Hi all, I promised to show you how I made the NVDA Updater i use here to get our chaotic NVDA installations in order. Should work. I tried that on a small scale at the moment. Prerequisites You need: * NVDA installer from the NV Access website. * NSIS installer from https://sf.net/projects/nsis/ * then you need psexec from the sysinternals tools from Microsoft: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/ The following scripts are well commented out and so that shouldn't be a problem for someone who has a little bit a knowledge of some batch commands and some general commands and NSIS files. Please edit them that they fit your directory structure. The files makeupdate.bat: this file creates the silent installer out of the not so silent nvda installer. --- Begin --- @echo off rem clearing the screen cls rem deleting old temporary dirs and files rmdir /q /s nvda del nvdainstaller.exe rem installing a portable copy to a temp dir "%cd%\nvda_.exe" --create-portable-silent --portable-path "%cd%\nvda" rem because nvda silent portable isn't all that silent we need to restart the local installed copy "C:\Program Files (x86)\NVDA\nvda_slave.exe" launchNVDA -r rem now delete the old uninstaller because its not needed and its useless. cd nvda del uninstall.exe cd .. rem generating the realy silent installer "c:\nsis\makensis.exe" "%cd%\nvdainstaller.nsi" rem deleting old temporary dirs and files rmdir /q /s nvda --- End --- nvdainstaller.nsi: the NSIS script for the really silent installer. Also needs updating to your needs and company names and versions. --- Begin --- ;Include Modern UI !include "MUI2.nsh" ;Name and file Name "NVDA Stadt Hohenems 2018.3.2" OutFile "nvdainstaller.exe" ;Default installation folder InstallDir "c:\nvda" ;request admin privileges RequestExecutionLevel admin ;Version Information VIProductVersion "2018.3.2.0" VIAddVersionKey "ProductName" "NVDA Stadt Hohenems" VIAddVersionKey "Comments" "NVDA Stadt Hohenems" VIAddVersionKey "CompanyName" "NVAccess and Stadt Hohenems" VIAddVersionKey "FileDescription" "NVDA Stadt Hohenems" VIAddVersionKey "FileVersion" "2018.3.2.0" ;Installer Sections Section Install ; Output path SetOutPath "$INSTDIR" ;Files File /r "c:\daten\nvdaupdate\nvda\*" ; Shortcuts CreateShortcut "c:\users\public\desktop\NVDA.lnk" "c:\nvda\nvda_slave.exe" "launchNVDA -r -c \\emsapp101\NVDAfile://emsapp101/NVDA" ;Create uninstaller WriteUninstaller "$INSTDIR\Uninstall.exe" ;Write the uninstall keys for Windows WriteRegStr HKLM "Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\NVDAEms" "DisplayName" "NVDA Stadt Hohenems 2018.3.2" WriteRegStr HKLM "Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\NVDAEms" "UninstallString" '"$INSTDIR\Uninstall.exe /S"' WriteRegDWORD HKLM "Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\NVDAEms" "NoModify" 1 WriteRegDWORD HKLM "Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\NVDAEms" "NoRepair" 1 SectionEnd ;Uninstaller Section Section "Uninstall" Delete "$INSTDIR\Uninstall.exe" Delete "c:\users\public\desktop\NVDA.lnk" RMDir /r "$INSTDIR" ; Remove registry keys DeleteRegKey HKLM "Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\NVDAEms" SectionEnd ;Pages !insertmacro MUI_PAGE_INSTFILES !insertmacro MUI_UNPAGE_INSTFILES ;Languages !insertmacro MUI_LANGUAGE "English" --- End --- So. Now we have the installer. Then we copy that stuff on a share where people have access to. we have a software distribution share. We copy nvdainstaller.exe and installnvda.bat there. installnvda.bat: this script installs nvda on the computer and uninstalls the old one: --- Begin --- @echo off rem clearing the screen cls rem uninstalling old nvda installed normally and previous installations "C:\Program Files (x86)\NVDA\uninstall.exe" /S c:\nvda\uninstall.exe /S rem let's delete the manually created desktop icon del c:\users\public\desktop\nvda.lnk rem copy the nvda installer to a temp directory. xcopy /y \\emsfi101\softwaredistribution$\nvda\nvdainstaller.exefile://emsfi101/softwaredistribution$/nvda/nvdainstaller.exe c:\temp\ rem install it silently. c:\temp\nvdainstaller.exe /S rem clean up the mess del c:\temp\nvdainstaller.exe --- End --- Now we just need something to launch that silent and remote installation thing from our computer: updatenvda.bat: the script that launches all that chaos. Willl sit on our admin computer: --- Begin --- @echo off rem clearing the screen cls rem installing nvda using psexec on the remote machines. pcs.txt contains the list of machines psexec -h -u "mydomain\myadminuser" -p mypassword @c:\nvdaupdate\pcs.txt "\\emsfi101\softwaredistribution$\nvda\installnvda.batfile://emsfi101/softwaredistribution$/nvda/installnvda.bat" rem making a pause to view the output pause --- End --- You can also log the output to a file when executing the updatenvda.bat script like that: updatenvda.bat >> updatenvda.log Should work. pcs.txt is the list of pcs on which nvda should be installed: --- Begin --- mypc01 mypc02 mypc03 mypc04 --- End --- Hope you find these scripts useful. Please read those scripts carefully and edit as needed. Greetings, Simon