Problem description: How can I convert a. EXE file to a. MSI file!
Answer:
First, find the installation CD for Windows and follow the path
Row: valueadd/3 rdparty/MGMT/winstle/swiadmle. MSI,
Soon the software was automatically installed on the computer. There are more programs in the Start Menu.
Click "Veritas discover" in the "Veritas Software" group
You can start to create an MSI file.
Assume that the installation process of your software a is: Install the.exe file to C:/ProgramFiles/
In the program directory, put run. dll in Windows/system.
Create a program a in the software item of HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, and add
Add a value project whose value is OK.
Step 1: Run discover. In the displayed program interface, click "Next" to continue
Continue.
Step 2: In the dialog box in Figure 3, first name your program in the first text box
For example, the "a prog" is used here. The second dialog box is to output the storage location and file of the MSI file.
Name. Save it as D:/a_setup.msi. The third box is the language of the compressed package.
Use its default value. Click "Next.
Step 3: select a temporary space for the Discover snapshot file. You can select a magnetic
A disk with a large disk space.
Step 4: In the next 4 dialog box, select discover to scan the disk.
Select the disk to which the program is installed, and click "add" to add the file to be scanned.
In the list of parts, you can select a few or all disks, but this will
This process wastes more time, so we should try to select as few disks as possible. Only disk C is selected here, because
Our software is attached to drive C. Click "Next ".
Step 5: In the dialog box shown in figure 5, select the disk you want to scan.
Folder or file, because we only selected disk C in the previous step, you can select disk C.
. In addition, discover automatically adds some special files and directories.
You need to decide whether to remove them from the list of files to be scanned, but it is best to keep them. Here
Add the "C:/Program Files" and Windows folders.
Click files or folders in the box, and then click the Add button. Scan the Registry
Description, discover to speed up scanning, only scan part of the Registry, you can scan to most
Modify the Registry by program. If you are not at ease, you can
In "enhanced registry scan", the speed may be much slower.
But all the changes to the registry can be recorded. Because of our software
It is only a small change to the Registry, so it is not necessary to scan all registries. Then click
"Next" to continue.
Step 6: Next, discover will scan the system to generate a "snapshot Step 7: After scanning
A dialog box will pop up, indicating that the scan is complete.
Whether you need to select a program to run and then automatically install your software. We are about to create and install
Program, no program can run, so click "cancel.
Step 8: Next, we need to manually install the software and copy the.exe file first.
To the C:/program files/a prog program directory, and then copy run. DLL
In Windows/system, and then use the Registry Editor in the Registry's
Create a program a in the software item of HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE and add
A value key with a value of OK. Note: In addition to these changes, we should try to avoid other irrelevant changes.
. Then we try to run the just-installed a.exe file to test whether the installation is correct.
Installation.
Step 9: Check whether the installation is correct. Run the Discover program again.
When discover appears, a page shown in 6 has two options. The first one is
Generate the installed snapshot, which is used to generate an MSI file compared with the previous snapshot. The second option
Instead of the last scan, select the first one and click "Next ". Then
Discover again began to scan the computer again, generate a "snapshot", and automatically generate a security
File Installation.
Step 10: if you want to, you can start Veritas with the Discover Program
The software console further modifies the information of the MSI file, the process is relatively simple, as long
Open an MSI file first, and then you can modify it. In this way, you can generate your own
MSI file.