Editing Installation (computer programs) (section)

===Silent installation===
A "silent installation" is an installation that does not display messages or windows during its progress. "Silent installation" is not the same as "unattended installation" (see below): All silent installations are unattended but not all unattended installations are silent. The reason behind a silent installation may be convenience or subterfuge. [[Malware]] and viruses can be installed silently when a person clicks on a link while working at a business they think is real but is a hacker's program download.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2021-12-20 |title=What is a Silent Installation? |url=https://www.webopedia.com/definitions/silent-installation/ |access-date=2022-05-05 |website=Webopedia |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Silent Install Definition |url=https://techterms.com/definition/silent_install |access-date=2022-05-05 |website=techterms.com}}</ref> For normal users silent installation is not of much use, but in bigger organizations where thousands of users work, deploying the applications becomes a typical task and for that reason silent installation is performed so that the application is installed in the background without affecting the work of the user. Silent parameters can vary from software to software; if a software/application has silent parameters, it can be checked by " <software.exe> /? " or " <software.exe> /help " or " <software.exe> -help ".

Silently installing a software program can be used to deploy a program on networks in educational institutions, including [[Primary education|primary]] and [[secondary education]] and universities, in addition to business, government, and corporate networks. The person managing the silent installation can choose to add a desktop shortcut, for example, to silently install Google Drive with a desktop shortcut:<ref>{{Cite web |last=Bergner |first=Jason |title=Google Drive Silent Install (How-To Guide) |url=https://silentinstallhq.com/google-drive-silent-install-how-to-guide/ |access-date=2022-05-05 |website=Silent Install HQ |language=en-us}}</ref><syntaxhighlight lang="powershell">
GoogleDrive.exe --silent --desktop_shortcut=true
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