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How to extract MSI files from EXE installer Problem: You need to extract an.msi file from an.exe installer. Solution: There are at least three ways of solving this problem, but none of them is universal. You might need to go through all of them to find the one that works for the particular.exe installer you have.

CodeTwo strongly advises against extracting (and using).msi files from the.exe installers of the CodeTwo software. Unless the product website allows such an operation or unless instructed or allowed to do so by, please just use the.exe setup files. The first method is based on the fact that most of installers extract their.msi files to the temporary files folder during the installation process: • Simply start the.exe installer. • When you see the first prompt, e.g. A question about whether you want to continue installation, accept a license agreement, etc., do not click anything in this window and do not close it.

• Open Windows Explorer, type%temp% in the address bar and hit enter. • Sort files in the folder by the modification date. The newest file there is should be the.msi file you are looking for. • Copy the.msi file to a safe location before you close the installer prompt window (see point 2). Be aware that if you close the installer window, the.msi will be immediately deleted from the temporary files folder. The second method uses a free third-party tool call 7zip to browse the content of the.exe installer file: • Download and install the. • Right-click on the.exe installer file, from the context menu choose 7zip, Open Archive.

• Do not extract all the files, just browse and look for the MSI folder within the.exe package contents. It may take some time to find the MSI folder, it is not always present directly in the root directory, its location varies between installers. • When you locate the MSI folder you will notice that it most likely does not contain any.msi files, but file or files with no extensions and rather cryptic names, e.g. Despite these misleading names, those are actually the files you are looking for. • Drag and drop those files to a desired folder or select them and extract with 7zip. Close 7zip after that. • Change the names of the extracted files so that they have.msi extensions.

• If there are two files, the larger is the 64-bit installer and the smaller one is the 32-bit version. Use the one you need. The third method that works with InstallShield based projects is as follows: • Log on to a computer where the software (the installer of which you would like to access) is not installed. This is because this method will force the uninstalling process to trigger extraction of the.msi file. Hama Usb Adapter Serial 9 Pin Driver Download.

If you already have this software installed, this method will remove it, which might not be desired. • Run Windows Command line ( cmd) and go to the folder where your. Luca Visual Fx Keygen Idm. exe is located. • Execute the command below, replacing with the name of your.exe file and with the name of the folder where you want the.msi file to be extracted: /s /x /b' /v'/qn' As described in, the switches for the command above do the following: • /s /x - silently ( /s) uninstalls ( /x) the product from the system, • /b - defines the target path for the.msi file, • /v - passes desired arguments to the installer, in this case the argument is /qn which simply disables GUI and any prompts.