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--- technote:extracting_msi [2023/01/24 22:57] – 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, open a command prompt with administrator privileges an change directory to where you have downloaded the setup executable.
+If you wish to extract the encapsulated MSI from the setup executable, create (or select) a directory to write the msi file to.
-run the following code, setting the file location you want to write the msi file to (in this example C:\MSI).  Making sure you have created the directory before running the extraction.
+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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 Open file explorer to locate and run the msi file for installation.
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