Although not very popular, it’s not uncommon for applications to have shortcuts which pass arguments to the executable. One popular example would be VLC Media Player. When you install VLC Media Player you get 3 shortcuts: The standard VLC Media Player shortcut (which points to VLC.exe) The VLC Media Player […]
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MSIX is the latest packaging technology introduced by Microsoft in 2018. This article does not focus on the basics of MSIX. To find out what MSIX is, i recommend having a look over this 24 chapter introduction guide. Also, in this tutorial, we make use of PSF (Package Support Framework). […]
While Linux users are used to have a package manager, and quickly install packages from a terminal with a simple apt-get, Windows lacked this functionality for years. To get applications on a Windows operating system, you must search the web, go to the publisher website, download the specific application and […]
Microsoft released a windows installer for Teams that is placed in Program Files, but this is theoretically targeted only for VDI (Virtualized Desktop Infrastructure). The Teams MSI installer can be downloaded from these links: 32-bit 64-bit To install Teams for all users, the following command should be used: msiexec /i […]
Dark mode is a popular topic now days. Almost every popular app, either desktop or mobile is offering users this possibility. Many users are finding it useful, maybe even more settling for the eyes, while some don’t agree with it. But most of these applications are offering the dark […]
With the latest developments of Corona Virus (COVID-19) and many companies offering the possibility for their employees to work from home, i decided it’s time to leave some of my inputs regarding the home office regime. Working remotely for more than half a decade, i am writing this to help […]
A while ago i’ve come across an interesting MSI. The vendor had a custom action in form of a DLL. At first glance i didn’t give it too much of an importance, however it was curious that some user specific actions were done on my user, even if i installed […]
Do you need to add over and over again the same properties or summary information in your MSI/MSTs? I’ve developed a Powershell script in which you can configure a template (properties and summary information) and apply it to MSIs, already done MSTs or you can create an MST with this […]
So we learned how to create a basic MSI, add features, components and files, and add shortcuts and registry to an MSI. Let’s now have a look on how you can create an ini file and add properties to your msi. To create and add an ini we […]
Our MSI is starting to look better and better with each post, and more complex. In the previous posts we have seen how to create a basic MSI and how to add features, components and files to the MSI. Let’s continue the series and in this tutorial, we will add […]
In a previous post we have seen how to create a basic empty MSI only with the default information in it. Let’s take it a step further and add a Feature, Component, File and Shortcut to our MSI. Assuming you have WiX installed and all the files created in the […]
WiX, or Windows Installer XML Toolset, is the first open-source project released by Microsoft. With this tool you can build Windows Installer packages by using the XML format. This does not have a GUI (Graphical User Interface), everything you do is from XML and command line. It is a […]