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Installer Solution for Portable Firefox with custom settings.... errrrrr

I am using portable firefox install with some custom login and proxy settings to allow certain people access to a proxy. This app does not need to be installed on the system, just run from its folder. I am looking for a way to have some sort of installer or .bat file that the user can run and it will copy the portable firefox folder from a CD  to the users program files folder and add a desktop link to the app.  Basically I am trying to avoid spending time on the phone with each user walking them thru copying the folder from the cd and making a shortcut to the folder.

Thanks guys... kind of in a rush, any ideas?

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WmOfTewks  - seems this will work great. Im gonna switch it up a bit tho, instead of a cd installer, i want to send them a .zip. In that .zip will be a installer.exe and a folder PortableFirefox

What do i need to change in this
DirCopy("PortableFirefox", EnvGet("ProgramFiles"))
To get it to copy from whever it was extracted.

Better yet, any wayto have the portablefirefox included in the .exe? so all im sending them is a .exe that will do all this?
>>so all im sending them is a .exe that will do all this?
Can do that with InstallRite
Recommend: split
Asleep at the switch.  Sorry.  Although "closed" I am responsible to respond.

Any zip tool can create a self extracting archive.  Try FilZip - http://www.filzip.com/en/index.html.  And typically they have an option where you can prompt the user to fire off a program after the unzip operation.  So in that case, you zip all of your programs, including your installer into one EXE file, selecting the "do you want to run a progam afterwards" option.  Then you distribute the zipped EXE.  The results will be:

User double-clicks your zipped EXE file
It gets unzipped to either %Temp% or where you have told it to go during the EXE creation
User is prompted "Do you want to run [someProgramName] when files are unzipped?"
User answers "yes"
The install runs
Ta-dah!

Again, apologies to everyone for not paying closer attention.
Thanks
Winrar is a good archive utility & better than winzip:  www.rarlab.com
And PicoZip is fantastic -- I tested it years ago & it could extract from corrupt archives that other utilities couldn't