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Greenshot - Silent Install Switch
The hand-curated silent install command for Greenshot on Windows - for unattended, quiet, fleet-wide deploys. Copy, paste, ship - smoke-test in a throwaway VM first.
Silent install command
installer.exe /VERYSILENT /SUPPRESSMSGBOXES /NORESTART /ALLUSERSReplace installer.exe with the actual installer filename (or its full path).
Notes & gotchas
Inno Setup, and /VERYSILENT alone is NOT enough. The installer shows a "Select Setup Install Mode" dialog that no /SILENT flag suppresses - without /ALLUSERS it hangs forever under a deployment tool (session 0 has nobody to click it). Also: the silent install OPENS THE GREENSHOT WEBSITE in a browser when it finishes and there is no switch to stop it, confirmed by the maintainers. Add /MERGETASKS="!startup" to skip the run-at-startup entry. No uninstall string is published: the vendor-registered unins000.exe /SILENT hung indefinitely as SYSTEM in testing, and a hanging uninstall is worse than none.
Detection path
A file whose presence proves Greenshot is installed - handy as an Intune / RMM detection rule:
C:\Program Files\Greenshot\Greenshot.exeFAQ
What is the silent install command for Greenshot?
Run: installer.exe /VERYSILENT /SUPPRESSMSGBOXES /NORESTART /ALLUSERS
Any gotchas installing Greenshot unattended?
Inno Setup, and /VERYSILENT alone is NOT enough. The installer shows a "Select Setup Install Mode" dialog that no /SILENT flag suppresses - without /ALLUSERS it hangs forever under a deployment tool (session 0 has nobody to click it). Also: the silent install OPENS THE GREENSHOT WEBSITE in a browser when it finishes and there is no switch to stop it, confirmed by the maintainers. Add /MERGETASKS="!startup" to skip the run-at-startup entry. No uninstall string is published: the vendor-registered unins000.exe /SILENT hung indefinitely as SYSTEM in testing, and a hanging uninstall is worse than none.
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