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 ...

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 ...

When you attempt to install/uninstall software, an app, an update, a hotfix et al on your Windows 11 or Windows 10 computer and the operation fails, you may receive ...

When you try to update or install a particular piece of software on your Windows 11 or Windows 10 computer, you may get the Windows Installer prompt stating Error ...

Microsoft and Chronicle's VirusTotal have teamed up to better detect signed MSI files that have been modified to include malicious Java archives. When a developer creates a piece of software they ...

Building installers on Windows used to be complicated. It all depended on which installation tool were you using and how was your code being distributed. Could you wrap an executable around a Zip file ...

Microsoft's installation system for Windows. The installer, which is available in Visual Studio and other stand-alone programs, compresses the application into .MSI "package" files, and the ...