PDFgear is a comprehensive and user-friendly PDF Editor & PDF Reader offering features such as viewing, converting, form filling, and page reorganizing. It provides additional capabilities like merging, splitting, rotating, and converting PDFs to various formats, all with a concise design and free access to all functions without limitations. This article will serve as an informative guide and give you a clear understanding of how to perform a silent installation of PDFgear from the command line using the EXE installer.
How to Install PDFgear Silently
PDFgear Silent Install (EXE)
- Navigate to: https://www.pdfgear.com/download/
- Download the pdfgear_setup_x.y.z.exe to a folder created at (C:\Downloads)
- Open an Elevated Command Prompt by Right-Clicking on Command Prompt and select Run as Administrator
- Navigate to the C:\Downloads folder
- Enter the following command: pdfgear_setup_x.y.z.exe /VERYSILENT /NORESTART
- Press Enter
After a few moments you should see the PDFgear Desktop Shortcut appear. You will also find entries in the Start Menu, Installation Directory, and Programs and Features in the Control Panel.
| Software Title: | PDFgear |
| Vendor: | PDFgear |
| Architecture: | x86_x64 |
| Installer Type: | EXE |
| Silent Install Switch: | pdfgear_setup_x.y.z.exe /VERYSILENT /NORESTART |
| Silent Uninstall Switch: | "%ProgramFiles%\PDFgear\unins000.exe" /VERYSILENT /NORESTART |
| Download Link: | PDFgear Download |
| PowerShell Script: | PDFgear | PowerShell Script |
| Detection Script: | PDFgear | Custom Detection Script |
The information above provides a quick overview of the software title, vendor, silent install, and silent uninstall switches. The download links provided take you directly to the vendors website. Continue reading if you are interested in additional details and configurations.
Additional Configurations
Create a PDFgear Installation Log File
The PDFgear installer offers the option to generate a log file during installation to assist with troubleshooting should any problems arise. You can use the following command to create a verbose log file with details about the installation.
PDFgear Silent Install (EXE) with Logging
pdfgear_setup_x.y.z.exe /VERYSILENT /NORESTART /LOG="%WINDIR%\Temp\PDFgear-Install.log" |
Change the PDFgear Default Installation Directory
You can also change the default installation directory by using the following command line parameters. In this example, I’m installing PDFgear to “C:\PDFgear”
pdfgear_setup_x.y.z.exe /DIR="C:\PDFgear" /VERYSILENT /NORESTART |
Exclude the PDFgear Desktop Shortcut During Install
The PDFgear installer creates a desktop shortcut by default. If you do not want the desktop shortcut, then you can run the following command line switches to exclude it.
PDFgear Silent Install (EXE) with No Desktop Shortcut
pdfgear_setup_x.y.z.exe /VERYSILENT /NORESTART /MERGETASKS=!desktopicon |
How to Uninstall PDFgear Silently
Check out the following posts for a scripted solution:
- Open an Elevated Command Prompt by Right-Clicking on Command Prompt and select Run as Administrator
- Enter the following command:
PDFgear Silent Uninstall (EXE)
"%ProgramFiles%\PDFgear\unins000.exe" /VERYSILENT /NORESTART |
Always make sure to test everything in a development environment prior to implementing anything into production. The information in this article is provided “As Is” without warranty of any kind.