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ToolTip – less misérables (MSI file extractor)

Posted by Alex Verboon on April 3rd, 2009

Today I found a nice utility that allows you to easily extract individual files from an MSI package. The tool is called “less miséreables”. it’s a kind of a funny name, but it does the job.

To extract a file, simply launch the utility, select the file(s) you want to extract and click on the extract button.

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Of course the same can be done by using the MSIEXEC command from the command line as shown below, but that does extract all files.

msiexec /a PathToMSIFile /qb TARGETDIR=DirectoryToExtractTo

Related posts:

  1. Browse and extract files from a WIM file using 7-Zip
  2. Verifying your file downloads
  3. ToolTip: Microsoft® Hardware-Assisted Virtualization Detection Tool
  4. Scripting HP Wireless Device State
  5. ToolTip: Bits GUI Admin

One Response to “ToolTip – less misérables (MSI file extractor)”

  1. Anything about IT » Blog Archive » Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer with support for Windows 7 and Server 2008 R2 Says:

    [...] to find at least something new, i had extracted the content of the the MBSASetup-x64-EN.msi of both versions, but could not find any differences [...]

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