Unattended Installation
Windows XP, Vista, 2003 & 2008 Server


Unattended Installations:
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If you do not want to be presented with the "Found New Hardware Wizard" 
prompting you to specify the location of the Edgeport drivers during the 
installation of an Edgeport, then you can perform an Unattended Installation.
These procedures are only necessary for first time installations where
you do not want to go through the "Found New Hardware Wizard". If you have
installed Edgeports on your system before, then these steps are unnecessary.
The following steps are for setting up an Unattended Installation.

1. Using REGEDIT.EXE or any other registry editor, append the directory 
   that you have extracted this installation package to, to the DevicePath 
   registry variable. The DevicePath registry variable is a REG_EXPAND_SZ 
   variable that specifies the default directories that Windows will search
   during hardware installations. The directory that you are appending 
   needs to be the same directory where this installation package was 
   extracted to. Use a semicolon ';' as a separator in between directories, 
   no spaces are required in between semi-colons and the added directories. 
   For example if you extracted the install package to "C:\Edgeport Drivers" 
   then the DevicePath registry variable would look like this:

   Name:          Type:            Data:
   DevicePath     REG_EXPAND_SZ    %SystemRoot%\inf;"C:\Edgeport Drivers"

   The DevicePath variable is found in the following registry key: 
   HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\

2. Connect the new Edgeport to be installed, and it will install itself and
   enumerate its COM ports without prompting the user for input.