If your product isn't good enough to stand alone, then maybe you should rethink its release at all. We don't need to have Google Toolbars or McAfee virus scanners, or anything else added on. Maybe a "1 star" is too high? The first thing Adobe needs to do is quit trying to bundle other stuff with the installers. But one little Shockwave update, can break the entire campus. (Lots of crappy software makers out there, but of the major players, I hate seeing updates from Adobe or Apple because I know they are going to cause problems.) I can update the full 20+ DVD suite of AutoCad products for our engineering college and not have a single problem. The only 'major' software company that makes worse installers is Apple. If those same programmers worked for me, I'd fire them. Every Adobe product, regardless of how good the actual program is, has an installer that is made like crap. Adobe is very consistent in thier low-quality installers. If the silent option fails, then you have thousands of computers waiting for somebody to come deal with them. When you have to manage thousands of systems, you depend on silent, or 'unattended' installs for all the labs, and re-imaging tasks. An example of a name of the msi is 'swlicfullinstaller.msi.' Any guidance is appreciated. There are some broken software installs looking for the original MSI for features to appropriately uninstall the software. I've got users with 7 toolbars because they all came with something else.) But then I have to lower that to "1 star" because the toolbar screen ignores the '/S' silent install option. I'm looking for older Adobe Shockwave Player versions 12.3.x and 12.2.x MSIs. (I don't care which toolbar, if users want a toolbar they should get it as a stand-alone program. I give it a "2-star" rating because they try to bundle in a toolbar. Adobe Shockwave Player is a Freeware software in the category Web Development developed by Adobe Systems Inc.
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