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dmetzler
Level 6
‎May 15, 2008 10:40 AM

Using msiexec to install .msi from command line

Is there a property set internally to determine if an .msi is run via command line or whether the installer is run with the UI?

Thanks in advance,

Don Metzler
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RobertDickau
Flexera Alumni
‎May 15, 2008 02:21 PM

I don't think there's any difference; if you run ftype msi.package or just look in the registry, you'll see that double-clicking an MSI package just runs msiexec /i ProductName.msi with no special switches.

(Now, it is possible to detect if the MSI was launched with setup.exe, but that's another story.)
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