I don't know where to ask this security question

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Is there any known crack to break msi files?

I mean, get individual files from an msi pack?


I AM A PROGRAMMER, NOT A PIRATE!


Thanks in advance for taking your time.


A programmer trying to make his living.
 
If you have access to the platform SDK, there is a tool called Orca, which
can, at minimum, change MSI settings. You might be able to have the MSI
simply extract the files and not install using this. The platform SDK is
likely to have other MSI tools, as well. I have not delved deeply, but this
is where I would look first.


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It's no secret that you can create an administrative image with this:

msiexec /a <path to msi> TARGETDIR=c:\whatever

and this will extract all the files out into folders, subfolders etc. One of
the things this is used for is creating patches (msp files).
 
Phil said:
It's no secret that you can create an administrative image with this:

msiexec /a <path to msi> TARGETDIR=c:\whatever

and this will extract all the files out into folders, subfolders etc. One of
the things this is used for is creating patches (msp files).
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Is there a way to pack a program so that it will never be extracted to
disk, instead will be run from the original packed file?


Thanks to both answers
 
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