You may start IDM from the command line using the following parameters

idman /s

or idman /d URL [/p local_path] [/f local_file_name] [/q] [/h][/n] [/a]

Parameters:

/d URL – downloads a file

e.g. IDMan.exe /d “http://www.internetdownloadmanager.com/path/FileName.zip”

/s – starts queue in scheduler

/p local_path – defines the local path where to save the file

/f local_file_name – defines the local file name to save the file

/q – IDM will exit after the successful downloading. This parameter works only for the first copy

/h – IDM will hang up your connection after the successful downloading

/n – turns on the silent mode when IDM doesn’t ask any questions

/a – add a file specified with /d to download queue, but don’t start downloading

Parameters /a, /h, /n, /q, /f local_file_name, /p local_path work only if you specified the file to download with /d URL

Examples

C:\>idman.exe /n /d http://www.tonec.com/download/idman317.exe

 

We all use removable disks in Windows. Well, sometimes, you may came across such errors with these removable disks, that may make you believe that  the disk has malfunctioned and can’t be used at all. Today, in this article, we’ll discuss on such scenario I recently faced with a USB Drive. Actually, whenever I plug that drive and perform any operation with this drive results in following error:

The disk is write-protected. Remove the write-protection or use another disk.

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So, you’re trying to build a deployment share, and your users are going to need Adobe Reader. Chances are you may have done this before by putting Reader in your image. However, with MDT there is a much better way. Be smart and use an MSI, create a custom transform file, push it optionally at deploy time and use the msiexec to log the whole process.

Sound Complicated? It’s actually pretty easy. Best of all, the next time a new version of Reader comes out, you can just import it into your list of apps in MDT rather than rebuilding a new image, or worse yet, roll out outdated versions of Adobe.

This is going to involve five basic steps:

  1. Download Reader from Adobe
  2. Download & Install the Adobe Customization Wizard
  3. Extract the exe so we can use the MSI
  4. Customize the Installer
  5. Import into the Deployment share

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As most of you know, Windows 7 does not have built in USB 3.0 drivers, so normally you can’t install Windows 7 from a USB drive if it is connected to a USB 3.0 port, and your fast USB 3.0 thumb drive has to install at slow 2.0 speeds. However I have figured out how to solve that problem.

Create a directory anywhere named “winpe” and inside of this directory create a directory named usb3 and another directory named mount.

Download the USB 3.0 driver. You can obtain it here:

EDIT: I can’t post links yet, sorry. Just go to the gigabyte website and look for the USB 3.0 driver for any of their motherboards. I would post the links to VIA, TI, etc but alas I cannot post links

Although that driver is provided by Gigabyte for their motherboards, it should work on pretty much any motherboard or USB card based on Renesas/NEC. It works fine on my MSI p67a-g45. The reason I picked the Gigabyte driver is because it is the only one I can find that doesn’t stick the drivers inside of an installshield package.

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