If your company uses Microsoft programming and the .NET platform to develop applications, you want to know your way around a few basic commands. For example, installing applications using the MSI ...

I need to create an MSI file with a program (downloadable, don't have time for anything else) that will overwrite a system file with a file with an <I>older</I> version on 9x clients. 9x clients do ...

I am trying to convert most of our software packagtes over to MSI files so we can fully deploy a machine and have the software installed through GPO. However, I am having limited success with ...

Most of you may be quite familiar on how to create MSI or Setups for your applications. By using a Microsoft Installer, one can make sure all dependencies for running ...

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No more DLL hell. That was just one of Microsoft Corp.’s goals when it introduced the Windows Installer service along with Windows 2000 nearly four years ago. The service, which now runs on Windows XP ...

MSI and EXE files may appear to do the same thing in many ways; you could say they are the same but have different names. However, that is not the case because while they are similar, differences do ...

Many applications and files run alongside Microsoft office software. One of these files is Pro11.MSI which allows you to customise anything associated to office software. This file incorporates ...