Wednesday, June 1, 2011

Analysing Installation Dependencies

My two favorite tools for understanding why an installer is all tangled up are:

Dependency Walker http://support.microsoft.com/kb/256872

and

MSI Explorer http://blogs.technet.com/b/sateesh-arveti/archive/2010/11/21/msi-explorer.aspx

If you want to unpack or understand the activities of the setup.exe or .msi files, these tools are the only ones I know of.

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