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What is the purpose of administrative installation initiated using msiexec /a?.Regarding silent installation using Setup.exe generated using Installshield 2013 (.issuite) project file (different kinds of Installshield setup.exe files).

Create MSI from extracted setup files (towards bottom).

How to create windows installer (comprehensive links).Īnd a simpler list view of the most used development tools as of now (2018), for quicker reading and overview. UPDATE: A quick presentation of various deployment tools used to create 4) And there is obviously application repackaging -Ĭapturing the changes done to a computer after a setup has run andĬlean it up - requires a special tool (most of the free onesĬome and go, Advanced Installer Architect and AdminStudio are big Some claim successīy 3) opening the setup.exe in Visual Studio. General Tricks: One trick is to launch the setup.exe and look in the 1) system's temp folder for extracted files.Īnother trick is to use 2) 7-Zip, WinRAR, WinZip or similarĪrchive tools to see if they can read the format. Whereas NSIS seems to use regular archives that standard archive software (7-zip et al) can open and extract. NSIS / Inno: Commmon, free tools such as Inno Setup seem to make extraction hard ( unofficial unpacker, not tried by me, run by ). ( non-MSI, MSI, admin-tools, multi-platform, etc.). There are so many possible tools that can be used.

They might feature all kinds of different command line switches. Many Setup Tools: It is impossible to cover all the different kinds of possible setup.exe files. Microsoft's msiexec.exe documentation on MSDN.Msiexec /a File.msi TARGETDIR=C:\MyInstallPoint /qn MSI Extract: msiexec.exe / File.msi extraction: msiexec /a File.msi Installshield setup.exe commands ( sample).Installshield: Setup.exe and Update.exe Command-Line Parameters.

Real-world, pragmatic Installshield setup.exe extraction.Temp Folder: And the last resort: launch the installer and then look for extracted files in the temp folder (more details below). Setup.exe /s /x /b"C:\FolderInWhichMSIWillBeExtracted" /v"/qn"ĭark.exe is a WiX binary - install WiX to extract a WiX setup.exe (as of now). Setup.exe Extract: (various flavors to try) setup.exe /a Quick List: There are a number of common types of setup.exe files.