HOWTO: Preventing MSAARDK from Rebooting After Install

Last reviewed: January 15, 1998
Article ID: Q179324

The information in this article applies to:

Microsoft Windows 95

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:

/R:A is set.

-or-

<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.

Keywords          : GenSDK
Version           : WINDOWS:95
Platform          : Win95
Issue type        : kbhowto

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Last reviewed: January 15, 1998
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