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Silently Installing Mathcad

To standardize deployment of Mathcad across your entire enterprise, the Mathcad CD 

includes three editable batch files, located in the Mathcad folder. In these batch files, 

you can predefine the installation variables normally set by users during installation. 

By doing so, Mathcad installation can occur silently, or without the need for user input. 

All prerequisite software must be installed before performing a silent installation.

SilentInstall.bat

 only installs the Mathcad program files, 

SilentHelp.bat

 

installs the online Help, and 

SilentRC.bat

 installs the Resources contents. Sample 

scripts illustrating how you can integrate the Help and Resources window installs with 

the Mathcad silent install are provided on the Mathcad CD.

Note

At this time, the silent installers do not support installation locations involving non-ASCII 

characters. Any path specified in the silent installation should use ASCII characters only.

The following can be set in