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My value name “Stubpath” has a value of C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\NLCRC_File.EXE which points to the location of the executable I mentioned above. I created registry Keys in HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Active Setup\Installed Components\VLC_MediaPlayer The location of my executable is %PROGRAM_FILES%\VideoLAN\VLCRC_File.EXE By using Active Setup this exe is run once for each user when they log in This file, when run, copies my VLCRC file to %USERNAME%\ Application Data\vlc. This executable is copied after the standard VCL install into C:\Program Files\VideoLAN. Using SMS I created an executable to copy my vlcrc file into the users profile. I used Active Setup, a feature built into the Windows OS, to populate the users profile with the VLCRC file I had created earlier to trick VLC into thinking it had been already opened. I launched VLC player once and saved the vlcrc file it creates in my profile to use for my installations. So if you double click on a file the first time and not the icon the user still gets the Update window. The silent install switches you can code into the install using only change the icon under Programs but not the file associations. Run this newly-created executable using the /S (must be uppercase) and you're good to go. Right-click on this file and (if you installed the NSIS stuff), you should see the option: Compile NSIS Script - choose this option, and it will compile a new VNC installation executable IN THE FOLDER ABOVE the current folder. To suppress the "Privacy and Network Policies" dialog that appears when VLC is run for the first time, look for these lines:ĬreateShortCut "$SMPROGRAMS\VideoLAN\VLC media player.lnk" "$INSTDIR\vlc.exe" ""ĬreateShortCut "$SMPROGRAMS\VideoLAN\VLC media player.lnk" "$INSTDIR\vlc.exe" "-no-qt-privacy-ask" CreateShortCut "$DESKTOP\VLC media player.lnk" "$INSTDIR\vlc.exe" ""

Look for and rem-out these two lines to get rid of the desktop shortcut: Look for the lines that establish associations with media files and rem-out (using semi-colons) any associations you don't want VLC to handle. Look for, then open in a text editor, the following file: To package VLC Media Player 1.0.1, make sure that you download NOT the executable, but the zipped version: Īlso, download and install (because you're going to have to recompile an executable) NSIS (Nullsoft):