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 ...

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 ...

Some Windows users are experiencing Windows Installer Error 1619, Installation of the program failed whenever they try to install an application using Windows ...

I've tried every property I can find on my setup project in VS.NET 2003 and I can't get the .msi file to overwrite an existing install of a previous version.<BR><BR>Whenver I create an .msi, if the ...

An unofficial patch is available for a zero-day vulnerability that is actively exploited in the wild to gain administrator privileges. Proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit code that works out of the box has ...