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Windows Installer (which was previously named Microsoft Installer) is a component of modern Microsoft Windows systems used for the installation, maintenance, and removal of software. It is a competitor to other, 3rd party installation software, such as Install Shield.

Windows Installer (which was previously named Microsoft Installer) is a component of modern Microsoft Windows systems used for the installation, maintenance, and removal of software. It is a competitor to other, 3rd party installation software, such as Install Shield.

It has currently gone through 5 major versions, with version 1.0 being available as a part of Office 2000, and version 5 being included in Windows 7 and Server 2008 R2. Wikipedia has a table with a complete list of Windows Installer versions, the products they were first available on, and the products those versions are also available for.

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specify temp folder for msi extracted files used for installation

I was recently installing Microsoft Windows SDK for Windows 7 and .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 to create my build server on a VM (Windows 2003 R2 Std), I was wondering that it would be nice to specify the temporary folder for the files being extracted by…
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Microsoft Office updates fail to install

I have one computer (Windows XP) which is updating via update services. Most updates are installing successfully, however updates to MS Office are failing to install. Windows updates then pops up again with the list of pending office updates still…
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How to create an MST for silent install using Orca?

I'm trying to deploy 7zip via GPO; I assigned the original MSI, but the package installation simply doesn't take place. What I've gathered is that I need to create an MST. In the spirit of trying to learn as much as possible about it, I've opted to…
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GPO MSI Install - Error 1305.Error reading from file

Windows Server 2016 Adobe Reader DC msi Hi I'm trying to install Adobe Reader remotely and silently to a set of PCs in a Windows Domain. I have setup a network share, ABC-Deploy$, containing the Acroread.msi together with a GPO (software install)…
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SQL Server - Windows Active Directory users

I am actually using SQL server for my application. If I work with one user (Install and Update app with WIX installer) everything works good, but if I try to change me windows user account to the other user, who can work with such database, but do…
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how to fix dll registration error with msi?

there is a setup file created by installshield, so used silent switch and deployed the application. newer version of same exe is available now, when deployed with silent switch, during upgrade it is giving an error with registration of dll. But with…
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Dpinst is showing the UI screen even after sending silent parameters, how to fix that?

The OS version: The Dpinst window I am seeing: The command I am using to suppress the window, but not working here. "C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\IA\Eclipse\FTDI Drivers\dpinst64.exe" /S /Q /SA /LM /SW With or without /Q same issue
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Running a software on your machine without any download/install. How it works

Googling didn't help a lot. May be I am not using the right keywords. I am having a little hard time how to describe the question, so let me describe the scenario and hopefully someone can point me to the right direction. With a traditional…
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What causes Installshield to fail (error: 1628)?

I'm trying to setup a DB/C FS 4.0 ODBC driver on our server to connect to a client's database, and am receiving an error from the Installshield executable: "1628: Failed to complete installation." The driver installed with no issues on my personal…
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How to undo applications installed “as admin”?

On Server 2016 installed an application by running setup 'as admin'. Now that the app is up and running, I'm really wishing I hadn't installed it as admin. Aside from uninstalling/reinstalling, is there an easy way to undo the "as admin" part? Would…
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MSI on Windows 10 won't register OCX (even when run as admin)

Got an MSI built using a Visual Studio Installer project. The resulting MSI was developed on Windows 7 some years back, and works fine there. There is a merge module (MSM) that is supposed to dump an OCX to the 32-bit system folder (usually…
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"Setup cannot continue because a required file is either corrupted or not available [...]" error during Windows 7 Professional installation

I encounter the following error during Windows installation: Setup cannot continue because a required file is either corrupted or not available. Run Setup again from the original source disc or download location. This error appears during the…
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Install PHP/Apache windows 7

I've successfully installed Apache 2.2.22 and I ran the localhost and I got the It works message so I'm assuming that is ok. Then I installed PHP 5.3.15. My question is how do I make those two work together? Edit some configuration, copy some file…
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How to check if a Product is installed from launch condition of msi?

We are creating an msi, which is a sidecar/config for our main product ,an installshied exe(embedded an msi inside). This new msi should be installed only when the main msi is already installed on the machine and also above a specific version…
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