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How To Prevent MSAARDK from Rebooting After Install

Article ID: 179324

Article Last Modified on 11/15/2006

Microsoft Windows 95

This article was previously published under Q179324

SUMMARY

This article lists a few command line switches that you can use to prevent MSAARDK from rebooting after an installation.

MORE INFORMATION

The system must be restarted in order to enable any of the MSAA functionality.

MSAARDK supports the following command line options:

   /R:N -- Never reboot, overrides INF settings in package
   /R:A -- Always reboot, prompt user with reboot choice
   /R:I -- Reboot if needed, prompt user with reboot choice
   /R:AS -- Always reboot, silent and don't prompt user
   /R:IS -- Silent reboot if needed, silent and don't prompt user

MSAARDK determines whether a reboot is needed by checking to see if one of the following is true:

/R:A is set.
<windir>\Wininit.ini is present.

Wininit.ini controls what Windows 95 does on a reboot and is written by the file copy operations performed by MSAARDK.

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