Pre-install for Christmas present.

I'm giving an imac as a christmas present and would like to pre-install some word processing and games programs onto it, but leave everything intact so that come christmas day, after the experience of the apple welcome animation and account registration, the applications are already inside ready to work and play. is pre-installing programs possible on a mac (presumably under leopard)?

In addition to DaddyPaycheck's comments, you'd have to create an admin account and password to install software. This admin account and password may not be named as the user wants. It would also obviate booting into Setup Assistant.
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As the previous post says, you can download a trial version, but the full product, depending on level, on any platform (Windows or Mac) costs about $650, or $1000 for the extended version....
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Ok, king of the stupid questions:
How do I restore the new MacBook to pristine, turn it on and get the full effect first time intro video? I just got a new CoreDuo 13" black laptop for my fiance for Christmas. I installed Office and a couple of other things, set it up to connect wirelessly to my network, etc. But, I would like her to turn it on and get the full-on Welcome, Bienvenido, Wilkommen, etc. video that Apple had set it -- I was impressed.
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You might have a look at THIS discussion from the other day. If you follow what I instructed and also what Kappy added (very important) you should be able to give your fiance a "new" MacBook for Christmas.
Bad boy. You shouldn't play with her present.

Silent Install for Adobe Presenter 10

I am getting an error (A valid installer cold not be found) when trying to create a package using AAMEE. I have used this in the past to package Presenter. I have targeted the path to setup.exe and set-up.exe.

Here is a more detailed explanation from RajeevAdobe
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Sign in using your Adobe ID and click Next.
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Please download Adobe Presenter 10 from Adobe.com or from your Adobe Licensing Website (LWS) account and extract the .7z file to a folder by double-clicking the .exe file.
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Adobe Presenter 10 package is created and you would see “Builds” and “Exception” folder.
Deploy the contents of build and exception folder just like you do for other CC products.
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On your machine you have to open Command Prompt, Right click on it and select Run as administrator. In Command Prompt you have to go to the exact path where Presenter package folder is placed and go inside build folder.
Once you are in build folder location in Command Prompt then type the command :- msiexec.exe /i name of the package.msi /quiet and press enter.
After then please open Task manager , In process tab you will see msiexec processes are running and It will install/deploy the Presenter 10 Package silently on your machine.
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Im really wanting to get my boyfriend the new iphone for christmas since he already has a plan with at&t. The only problem is I don't want him to know until christmas and then after christmas we both go in together to get his phone number transferred over to the iphone. My question is, is there anyway to just buy the iphone with out switching the contract over to the new phone or getting a new one? Because right now all I want to do is basically get an empty sell of a phone. lol

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I think I know what I need to do to pre-install for FiOS TV.. am I right?

I currently have FiOS internet/voice service. I ran a Cat5 line from near the ONT to a wiring closet in my house, where the router sits and feeds the rest of the network.
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You can leave the CAT5 from the ONT to your router, and only carry the TV signal from the ONT to the TVs over COAX. The router wil bridge between the CAT5 WAN and the COAX MoCA LAN connections for your TVs to get the signal. But you will need coax and CAT5 from your ONT to your router. The coax would have a splitter to your STBs, and a connection to your router. That is how mine is setup. I can use my own router if I like, but it is not supported. If you chose to use your own router you would still need to pass the IP to the coax with the actiontec.

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I'm on 24 days of the trial after my re-install I re-installed mac office off a colleagues cd in case you were wondering.
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If your Mac came with Office pre-installed for a 30-day trial period (as my 2006 MacBook Pro did), you can use your install CDs/DVDs to reinstall it. When I sold my old MacBook Pro I did just that for the new user, installing all of the trial products (I think that Filemaker was another).
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