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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.

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

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Tags: Extract, Files, MSI, Utilities
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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:
   October 27th, 2009 at 23:12:41

   [...] 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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