This article provides steps on how to extract the Dameware MSI installers from their exe files. Installers for DameWare NTU and DameWare MRC include a command line option to extract its content where you can use the MSI file alone, or by repacking it.
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Usually it is possible to use ones favorite compression utility to treat a Microsoft Installer Package (MSI) like it was a normal archive. Though sometimes it doesn't work, but then one can use the Windows Installer Tool (Msiexec.exe) to extract the files from the MSI package. It can open a MSI package in 'Administrator' installation mode, where it can extract the files without performing the install.
Runs setup where one can select where to extract the files without actually installing the application: Msiexec /a mypackage.msi Extracts the files to the specified location without user interaction: msiexec /a mypackage.msi /qb TARGETDIR='C: MyFolder' Note this can also be useful in case an MSI package has been configured to block install, when used on certain versions of Microsoft Windows. More Info Updated: 16 October 2008.
Thanks for the nice tip. If WGET is on the box, I could create myself a little on-liner example to aquire and unpack a full featured setup package like the windows server 2003 resource kit tools (as an example): wget -nv setup-depack&echo rktools /C /T:'%d0%p0setup-depack'depack.cmd&depack.cmd&mkdir msi-depack&echo msiexec /a setup-depack rktools.msi /qb TARGETDIR='%d0%p0msi-depack'depack.cmd&depack.cmd&del depack.cmd That will unpack the actual setup.exe into setup-depack and the setup.msi into msi-depack below the current directory.
Hi, I'm trying to slipstream using Nlite, as per the guide. And I've run into two problems. (I'm doing this on my old computer, making the disk to use on the new computer). Problem One: I downloaded all the necessary drivers from the Dell site for my new computer and put them into a file Called Dell Drivers - they are all.exe files.
So when I use Nlite and get to the part where I'm choosing the folder with the drivers in it, Nlite doesn't 'find' any drivers (because they are still in the.exe files. So I need to extract them, but not sure if I extract them that they will execute themselves into my old computer system. How do I solve this problem? Problem Two: I copied all the files from my XP disk and put it into a folder called: Temp windows xp folder. When I started Nlite and chose the folder, after Nlite did its thing, it showed 'arabic' as the language instead of English. How do I get Nlite to recognize that this is an English version of XP?
Thanks so much. I would love to get going on this. Spent hours combing the net and these forums for answers. This is so that I can just have xp on my new computer (and not any vista).
So its a clean install with the necessary drivers. Unfortunately, due the amount of threads on this forum and the small amount of regular posters it is not possible for all the questions to be answered within 1 day or even a few days in some cases. I agree it is a little disappointing when a thread isn't answered within a day though but that is how things work. To answer your question you can use a program like 7-Zip to extract files from exe archives.
Here is how with 7-Zip: 1. Download and install 7-Zip from 2. Open 7-Zip and browse to the folder containing the exe. Right click on the exe file and click 'Open Inside'. Double click a folder inside if needed to get to the files.
Select the files you need by clicking on them while holding down the ctrl key. Right click on the selected files and click 'Copy To'. Type a path or click on the '.' Button to browse for a folder.
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Jd, sorry for jumping in. But I have the same problem. I want to move all my installed programs that I downloaded from the web (all those nice little helpers - about 30 of them) to another computer at another location. If I understand your procedure right, all it takes is to put the.exe into a.zip folder and they are 'transportable'.
I would then just put them on a two and a half inch disk to carry them around. Some that I downloaded came in a.zip folder and I usually kept the.zip. For those, I can just take that.zip? Do I understand that correctly?
For that assuming your Flash Drive is F: all you have to do is: 1. Open the Downloads Folder in one Windows Explorer window. Open the F: in another Windows Explorer window. In the F: window right click in the window and select New-Folder. Type something like 'Download Transport' and double click it. In the Downloads folder select all the files you want.
Ctrl+Click for each file or Ctrl+A to select all files. Click and hold the mouse button down and move the mouse to the 'Download Transport' window and let go of the mouse. Those downloads from the Downloads folder that is on the C: drive will copied to the 'F: Download Transport' folder as they are separate drives.
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