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--- technote:extracting_msi [2021/07/22 02:21] – Scott Cunliffe
+++ technote:extracting_msi [2025/01/21 22:07] (current) – external edit 127.0.0.1
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 This setup program will take care up upgrading the product and installing any prerequisites, such as Visual Studio runtimes.
-If you wish to extract the encapsulated MSI from the setup executable you can run the setup with arguments to extract the MSI first.
+If you wish to extract the encapsulated MSI from the setup executable, create (or select) a directory to write the msi file to.
+Download the executable file you want to extract the msi file from and place it in the directory you want to write the msi file to.
+open a command prompt with administrator privileges and change directory to where you have the setup executable located.
+run the following code, setting the file location you want to write the msi file to (in this example C:\MSI).
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-setup.exe /s /x /b"C:\MSI" /qn /v
+setup.exe /s /x /b"C:\MSI" /v"/qn"
 </code>
 In the above example, the MSI will be extracted from the ''C:\MSI'' folder.
-<note tip>When running this command, the setup process will try to uninstall the TapeTrack product. \\ \\
+Open file explorer to locate and run the msi file for installation.
-Select No to cancel the uninstall process and continue extracting the MSI. \\ \\
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