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 ...

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 ...

If when you try to install a Windows Installer (MSI) package, and you receive the error message A fatal error occurred during installation accompanied with the error ...

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 ...

Microsoft has made Windows 10 version 2004 available to the developer community, a couple weeks ahead of its release to the general public. Like many IT pros with a Visual Studio (formerly MSDN) ...

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 ...

An unofficial patch is available for a zero-day vulnerability that is actively exploited in the wild to gain administrator privileges. Proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit code that works out of the box has ...

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 ...