How to install a MSI file ?

Hi all !

I downloaded a "dot msi" file, supposingly for Windows.

How to install the thing on either Win98 or Winme ?

ANy help will be very much appreciated. Thanks in advance !!

Jerry
Sat Sep 04 00:06:46 CDT 2004

.MSI stands for MicroSoft Installer - it should just install when you
double-click on it as it is a self-installing program.

"Penang" <penang@myrealbox.com> wrote in message
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> Hi all !
>
> I downloaded a "dot msi" file, supposingly for Windows.
>
> How to install the thing on either Win98 or Winme ?
>
> ANy help will be very much appreciated. Thanks in advance !!

exxos
Sat Sep 04 03:59:23 CDT 2004

http://www.cps-electronics.co.uk/software/keep_connected/help2/faq.htm#setupfile


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> Hi all !
>
> I downloaded a "dot msi" file, supposingly for Windows.
>
> How to install the thing on either Win98 or Winme ?
>
> ANy help will be very much appreciated. Thanks in advance !!

melee5
Sat Sep 04 18:54:16 CDT 2004

It would be better if he downloaded version 2 of the Windows Installer.
Your link leads to 1.1 version which was replaced many years ago.
Windows Installer 2.0 Redistributable
for Windows 95, 98, and Me - 25 Sep 2001 1,670kb
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/release.asp?ReleaseID=32831

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> http://www.cps-electronics.co.uk/software/keep_connected/help2/faq.htm#setupfile
>
>
> "Penang" <penang@myrealbox.com> wrote in message
> news:f2375275.0409032004.2d8e80a@posting.google.com...
> > Hi all !
> >
> > I downloaded a "dot msi" file, supposingly for Windows.
> >
> > How to install the thing on either Win98 or Winme ?
> >
> > ANy help will be very much appreciated. Thanks in advance !!

et
Sat Sep 04 23:08:54 CDT 2004

Jerry wrote:

> "Penang" <penang@myrealbox.com> wrote in message
>
>>I downloaded a "dot msi" file, supposingly for Windows.
>>
>>How to install the thing on either Win98 or Winme ?
>>
>>ANy help will be very much appreciated. Thanks in advance !!
>

> .MSI stands for MicroSoft Installer - it should just install when you
> double-click on it as it is a self-installing program.
>

Logic would suggest that, wouldn't it? However Microsoft logic
somehow make MSI stand for "Windows Installer" and ".msi" means a
"Windows Installer Package"!

What is needed to install these packages (by double-clicking), is
to have the installer engine installed. One can probably find the
installer for that, InstMSIa.exe, sprinkled around inside
selfextracting archives on the harddrive or on CD's laying around
the house.
If one can't be located it can also be downloaded from:
<http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=CEBBACD8-C094-4255-B702-DE3BB768148F>

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glee
Sat Sep 04 23:13:39 CDT 2004

Install the Windows Installer:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/release.asp?ReleaseID=32831
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"Penang" <penang@myrealbox.com> wrote in message
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> Hi all !
>
> I downloaded a "dot msi" file, supposingly for Windows.
>
> How to install the thing on either Win98 or Winme ?
>
> ANy help will be very much appreciated. Thanks in advance !!