How to view *.msi contents without installing?

[NeoCosmo]

Dear everyone,

Any tools can extract files from *.msi without installing?

Freeware is better, but shareware will be an option, too. :)

[jordanschloss]

i remember doing this a long time ago

right click on it and use winRAR

i remember doing this with something because MSN Explorer 7.0 setup had a cool music file i wanted

use open with

[Rudy]

winrar will open them

[Packet1009]

Orca from Microsoft:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?...kb;EN-US;255905

[NeoCosmo]

I think WinRAR can't open *.msi.

Thanks for Packet1009's information, and any other Orca's alternatives?

[NeoCosmo]

Anyway, I have downloaded and installed Orca.msi. :)

But I don't know how to pick files out from *.msi by Orca....

Could you tell me how to use?

[Packet1009]

you open the file through Orca and look at the File table - it'll show you the GUID/CLSID for the file and the names of the files. So that's the viewing side of things taken care of.

However, extraction is a tad more complicated. winrar 3.42 lets you open the msi but it'll show you the files in their long GUID etc naming scheme - you'd have to compare with Orca and rename.

I am still looking for apps to pick out individual files from .msi packages - supposedly there is an msicab.exe available in the windows installer sdk as per an msdn blog - but i havent been able to locate it despite installing the sdk's. will update if/when i get more info.

[insanekiwi]

winrar :yes:

[Daybreak]

On a sidenote, anyone know how to do the same for NSIS installers? I've looked around, but then doesn't seem to be a NSIS file extractor/decompiler.

[NeoCosmo]

Thank everyone. Winrar can open some *.msi correctly only, but it's a good enough information to me.

I am also like Daybreak and would like to know ways to extract files from NSIS installer.

If you have any ideas, please let me know.

Thank you in advance!!