Here’s my two cents…. I don’t find the VersionNT property terribly useful. VersionNT64 is: VersionNT64 …. Not VersionNT64 to determine bitness. This is a bit of a hack (they do this, we do that…) but desperate times call for desperate measures…. In all of the compatibility games MSFT is playing they only seem to be … Read more
The solution provided by Thaoden (uninstalling KB2918614, KB3000988 and KB3008627) didn’t work for me. I got the same errors after uninstalling these updates. What did work for me was the whitelisting workaround suggested by JohnL999 here. So, what I had to do to make it install: Create a DWORD named SecureRepairPolicy with value 2 in … Read more
Your MSI needs to define a property like so: <Property Id=”SOMEPROPERTY” Value=”Default”/> You can then set this property from the bundle: <MsiPackage SourceFile=”<package>.msi” Id=”SomeId”> <MsiProperty Name=”SOMEPROPERTY” Value=”[SomeProperty]” /> </MsiPackage> After this you can set the property in the Bootstrapper as described here: WiX Bootstrapper: How do I set burn variables from the command line? Notice … Read more
Use TARGETDIR instead of INSTALLDIR. Note that the quote marks for TARGETDIR property are only around the path in the case of spaces. msiexec /i “msi path” TARGETDIR=”C:\myfolder” /qb Source: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/msi/targetdir
You can use Wix (which is free) to create an MSI installation package. WiX Tutorial – Creating an Installer MSI with Wix
The WiX tutorial is the #1 resource The people on the mailing list are very helpful There’s a The Code Project article, Creating an installer using Wix v3.0, Votive, and Visual Studio 2005/2008 – Part 2, the GUI that might help Ther’s a bunch of blogs, I keep bumping into Rob Mensching’s (old). Rob Mensching’s … Read more
One of the best way to have an automatic dump for any/specific process on Windows is to configure a set of entries in the registry. I tried the below on Windows 7 64 bit. Open notepad.exe, paste the below entry and save it as “EnableDump.reg”. You can give any name you wish. Windows Registry Editor … Read more
Is this application a regular executable? Or some sort of Web-App or Plug-In? In other words: does it have its own launch sequence? I sound like a broken record with this advice, but: folders and files in the user profile folder (and HKCU settings) are better created on application launch than during installation. Just leave … Read more
Kind of a dup of this question about how to make a python into an executable. It boils down to: py2exe on windows, Freeze on Linux, and py2app on Mac.
Please note that Microsoft has now released an official tool to resolve these issues, without the problems that previously existed with MSIZAP. Microsoft Fixit: Fix problems with programs that can’t be installed or uninstalled