This is here because Windows and IE8 are BULLSHIT!!

winserv2008_selenium_setup

*** Install 7-zip 64-bit (file archiver / uncompress) to then get a zip file that will preconfigure IE8 to not have all the setup crap.

In PowerShell

$client = New-Object System.Net.WebClient

$client.DownloadFile("http://downloads.sourceforge.net/sevenzip/7z920-x64.msi", "C:\Users\Administrator\Downloads\7z920-x64.msi")

C:\Users\Administrator\Downloads\7z920-x64.msi

In standard command window

setx PATH "%PATH%;C:\Program Files\7-Zip\\" /M

After you run through the install wizard, run this from Powershell

Back in the PowerShell

$client.DownloadFile("http://blogs.msdn.com/cfs-file.ashx/__key/communityserver-components-postattachments/00-09-76-33-93/IEHArden_5F00_V4.zip", "C:\Users\Administrator\Downloads\IEHArden.zip")

$client.DownloadFile("http://gist.github.com/santiycr/870401/raw/981c08af78a9f997aff9c1d282563893832ff325/admin_config.reg", "C:\Selenium\IE_admin_config.reg")

$client.DownloadFile("http://gist.github.com/santiycr/870401/raw/10ab8c9bd4371547a0b503871461ed6caa251831/user_config.reg", "C:\Selenium\IE_user_config.reg")

In the command window

7z e -o"C:\Selenium\" "C:\Users\Administrator\Downloads\IEHArden.zip"

C:\Selenium\IEHArden_V4.bat
C:\Selenium\IE_admin_config.reg
C:\Selenium\IE_user_config.reg

*** Turn off all Windows firewall (from cmd)

netsh advfirewall set allprofiles state off

*** Install

Chrome and Firefox
Python (2.7) http://www.python.org/getit/
Ruby (1.9.3) http://rubyinstaller.org/ -- Check off
"Install Td/Tk support"
"Add Ruby executables to your PATH"
"Associate .rb and .rbw files with this Ruby installation"
Java 64-bit (7.x) http://java.com/en/download/manual.jsp

pip
Download the last pip version from here: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/pip#downloads
Uncompress it
Download the last easy installer for Windows: (download the .exe at the bottom of http://pypi.python.org/pypi/setuptools ) and install it.
copy the uncompressed pip folder content into *C:\Python2x* folder (don't copy the whole folder into it, just the content), because python command doesn't work outside C:\Python2x folder and then : python setup.py install

*** Update PATH in a command window

setx PATH "%PATH%;C:\Ruby193\bin\;C:\Python27\;C:\Python27\Scripts\\" /M

*** Use pip to install Python Selenium
*** Use gem to install Ruby Selenium


*** Nice to have
Full puTTY suite http://the.earth.li/~sgtatham/putty/latest/x86/putty.zip
TextPad http://www.textpad.com/download/index.html

*** Download the Selenium stand-alone jar file and IEDriverServer.exe (64-bit) to C:\Selenium\

https://code.google.com/p/selenium/downloads/list

*** Create a nodeConfig.json in C:\Selenium\ with the following content, changing it to reflect the IP of the machine you're on:

{
  "capabilities":
      [
        {
          "browserName": "internet explorer",
          "maxInstances": 5,
          "seleniumProtocol": "WebDriver"
        },
        ],
  "configuration":
  {
    "proxy": "org.openqa.grid.selenium.proxy.DefaultRemoteProxy",
    "maxSession": 5,
    "port": 5555,
    "host": "<IP of machine>",
    "register": true,
    "registerCycle": 5000,
    "hubPort": 4444
  }
}


*** Download nssm to C:\nssm\

http://nssm.cc/download/?page=download

*** Update the PATH in the command window

setx PATH "%PATH%;C:\nssm\win64\;C:\Selenium\\" /M

*** Run the following to setup a Grid node as a service

nssm install SeleniumGridNode "C:\Program Files\Java\jre7\bin\java.exe" "-Dwebdriver.ie.driver=\"C:\Selenium\IEDriverServer.exe\" -jar C:\Selenium\selenium-server-standalone-2.29.0.jar -role webdriver -hub http://10.14.209.83:4444/grid/register -nodeConfig C:\Selenium\nodeConfig.json"

sc config SeleniumGridNode type= own type= interact

Here's the default PATH if it gets screwed up

C:\Windows;C:\Windows\system32;C:\Windows\System32\Wbem;C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\;C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SQL Server\100\Tools\Binn\VSShell\Common7\IDE\;C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\Common7\IDE\PrivateAssemblies\;C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SQL Server\100\DTS\Binn\;C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SQL Server\100\Tools\Binn\;C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\100\Tools\Binn\;C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\100\DTS\Binn\