exctarct setup.exe
HI All
what are the ways we can exctract setup.exe and find msi. i am dealing with appl;ication which seems to have msi but there is no way i can find it where it is exctracting.
thanks
what are the ways we can exctract setup.exe and find msi. i am dealing with appl;ication which seems to have msi but there is no way i can find it where it is exctracting.
thanks
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Posted by:
jknox
10 years ago
Typically, I would say run the executable and look in %temp% or use something like 7 zip and unzip it.
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i did that ways, but no luck. is there any other location it is exctracted? - swap20june 10 years ago
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Are you somehow unaware of Windows Search or even 'dir *.msi /s'?
Anyway...lots of vendors are now extracting to folders beneath %AppData%. Try there. - anonymous_9363 10 years ago -
install and use 7zip
you right click on the exe and on the 7zip submenu choose open archive - SMal.tmcc 10 years ago
Posted by:
EdT
10 years ago
Did you try running setup.exe /? from a command prompt and checking whether there are any built in command switches for the app which will extract the content? Many MS apps provide this.
Also, open task manager and check whether there are at least two instances of msiexec running as processes when you install the app. If there are not, then it's not an MSI.
The source directory of an MSI install can usually be found in the registry, and the MSI is normally cached in c:\windows\installer. From Windows Installer 4.5, the entire MSI is cached due to MicroSoft discovering that their storage of only the tables broke code signing of the MSI and made uninstall problematic.
All this is basic stuff.
