How to disable the firstrun popups for Picasa Photo Viewer file associations and folder scanning settings:
Install the app, run the app, click the desired settings on both popups. Close picasa.
Go to your folder: C:\Users\{YOUR USER}\AppData\Local\Google\Picasa2\db3
ONLY copy the file thumbs_index.db, it contains those settings for some reason.
In your SCCM install script, copy that file to the default user profile like so:
copy /Y %~dp0dummy_database %SYSTEMDRIVE%\Users\Default\AppData\Local\Google\Picasa2\db3
you should remove %~dp0 if you're not using a batch file, or if you're not doing this in SCCM. Test it as usual.
The result: After OSD, users don't get nagged about folder scanning or file associations. Necessary for public access workstations with Deep Freeze. It also won't auto-scan folders, which is probably not what you want.
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