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Chapter 5: Installing Dragon using the Windows installer (MSI)
Using setup.exe for Upgrades
When installing both major and minor upgrades, the setup.exe installer automatically installs Vis-
ual C++ Runtime for Dragon before installing Dragon.
Note:A Minor upgrade involves upgrading to a higher point release within the same edition and
version of Dragon. For example, upgrading from Dragon 11.0 to Dragon 11.x.
You can only upgrade from Dragon 9.x or greater to Dragon 11.5. Upgrading from Dragon 8.x or
earlier to Dragon 11.5 is not supported
Although the upgrade does not migrate forward the configuration and Roaming User Profile set-
tings from the earlier version, you can reuse the nsdefaults.ini and roamingdef.ini files you used to
install Dragon 11 or greater . You can also create new .ini files or update existing ones.
When you run setup.exe with a GUI to install a minor upgrade, setup.exe can detect when a pre-
vious version of Dragon exists on a target computer. Once it detects a previous version, setup.exe
runs the rest of your installation in minor upgrade mode, automatically overwriting older files with
newer files and adding any missing files. .
Using setup.exe for Silent Upgrades
If you are upgrading a previous version of Dragon, you must use the REINSTALL=ALL option
and REINSTALLMODE set to the sub-options that indicate which files to reinstall, usually
REINSTALLMODE=vamus. If you did not originally install in the default location, the
INSTALLDIR option is also required. Here is the command line using setup.exe:
To upgrade silently with setup.exe, you pass the /s option, then pass REINSTALL or REIN-
STALLMODE options. When you perform a silent installation of Dragon, the installation process
does not display any messages. To view installation messages, administrators should view the
setup log.
setup.exe /s /v"/i "Dragon NaturallySpeaking 11.msi"
SERIALNUMBER=#####-###-####-####-##
REBOOT=ReallySuppress
INSTALLDIR=\"C:\<full_path>\\Dragon11\"
DEFAULTSINI=\"C:\<full_path>\nsdefaults.ini\"
ROAMINGUSERINI=\"C:\<full_path>\roamingdef.ini\"
REINSTALL=ALL REINSTALLMODE=vamus
/L*v C:\logfile.log /qn"
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