Install Python on Windows without Start Menu icons?

Wolfgang Strobl news3 at mystrobl.de
Mon Dec 5 03:01:41 EST 2011


"Pedro Henrique G. Souto" <pedro.h.souto at gmail.com>:

>On 02/12/2011 16:34, snorble wrote:
>> Is it possible to automate the Python installation on Windows using
>> the MSI file so it does not add a Start Menu folder? I would like to
>> push out Python to all of my office workstations, but I'd like for it
>> to be relatively silent from the user's point of view.
>
>If you just want to run python scripts in those machines (not developing 
>in it), you can use something like py2exe [http://www.py2exe.org/].

That doesn't answer the question.

Snorble might use  "ORCA", a MSI editor from Microsoft.

http://forums.frontmotion.com/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=837

discusses a similar question for Firefox.

I haven't tried it myself, but would give it a try.

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