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Google Picasa is a photo album and editing tool. Download it from [http://picasa.google.com/ http://picasa.google.com/]. When new versions are released they're available from picasa.google.com (where the filename is picasa<version>-setup.exe) before they are from the likes of picasa.google.co.uk (where the filename is picasaweb-current-setup.exe).
 
Readme: [http://picasa-readme.blogspot.com/ picasa-readme.blogspot.com/]
 
Picasa is not that easy to silently install. Mainly because it forks processes after installation which have to be terminated. Therefore you need the Microsoft Taskkill command installed for it to work.
== Picasa 2 ==
 
Picasa 2 installs to %PROGRAMFILES%\Picasa2. Changing this with installer options causes Picasa to install into repetitive %PROGRAMFILES%\Picasa2\Picasa2\Picasa2\... directories.
Use the following to perform a silent installation of Picasa 2.x:
</packages>
</source>
 
Please note that this package is not that easy to silently install. Mainly because it forks processes after installation which have to be terminated. Therefore you need the Microsoft Taskkill command installed for it to work.
The uninstall option may need testing.
You can disable == Picasa Media Detector with the following:3 (Work In Progress) ==
<upgrade cmd='cmd /C reg delete "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run" /v "Picasa Media Detector" /f' /> <install cmd='cmd /C reg delete "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE3 by default installs to %PROGRAMFILES%\SOFTWAREGoogle\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run" /v "Picasa Media Detector" /f' />  == Picasa 3 (Work In Progress) ==Picasa3.
Use the following to perform a silent installation of Picasa 3.x:
</packages>
</source>
 
== Picasa Media Detector ==
 
You can disable Picasa Media Detector with the following:
 
=== Some versions of Picasa 2 ===
 
<upgrade cmd='cmd /C reg delete "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run" /v "Picasa Media Detector" /f' />
<install cmd='cmd /C reg delete "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run" /v "Picasa Media Detector" /f' />
 
=== Later versions of Picasa 2.7 and 3 ===
 
<upgrade cmd='cmd /C reg delete "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run" /v "Picasa Media Detector" /f' />
<install cmd='cmd /C reg delete "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run" /v "Picasa Media Detector" /f' />
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