*Completely* silent IE Patch distributions

From: Chuck Stevens (Chuck.Stevens@pfcenter.com)
Date: 08/07/02 

From: Chuck.Stevens@pfcenter.com (Chuck Stevens)
Date: 7 Aug 2002 09:48:39 -0700

This question has been posed several times, but I have never seen an
actual answer. So I will as again. ;)

I wish to use SMS to distribute the latest IE cumulative patch,
q321232.exe.

The correct command line for a silent installation with no reboot is:

q321232.exe /q:a /r:n

HOWEVER, running the patch this way still displayes a file-copy
progress box, with a big Cancel button on it. I want no messages or
dialogs displayed to the user whatsoever. How do I go about this?

One possibility:

I can extract the files manually with "q321232.exe /c /t:<path>", but
I need to know the command line that then would normally be executed
to actually install the patch. Or perhaps "q321232.exe /c:<cmd> /q:a
/r:n", but again, I need to know what <cmd> would be. Does anyone
know the command line that is executed after the patch files have been
extracted?

You know, if these silly patches used the Hotfix format, I could use
"-q -z", and life would be great.

Anyway, and help would be vastly appreciated. Thanks!

Chuck