How To Convert EXE To MSI Package In 5 Easy Steps. Ready for another conversion. Step 3 – Pick the EXE application you want to “transform” into MSI.

1. So, if you have an installation package in EXE format which you need to install on multiple computers remotely, then you can use any of these two free EXE to MSI converter software. These software take EXE file from your system, and according to the information provided by you, generate MSI package.
2. How To Convert EXE To MSI Package In 5 Easy Steps. Posted by Vladan Seget on January 5, 2016 Tags: Group policy, Microsoft, MSI, Snapshots, Virtual Machine, Windows. Ready for another conversion. Step 3 – Pick the EXE application you want to “transform” into MSI.

i want to convert a msi file in to an exe file. When i run msi file with qn option with msiexec then my software install silently. But now i want to convert that msi file into .exe file , and that exe file runs msi file with msiexec /i 'path of msi file' /qn option, any idea how to do it.

Anoop MishraAnoop Mishra

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If you are making the setup yourself using Installshield, the tool itself should be able to create a setup.exe file by simply setting the release settings in the release wizard - I think it just entails setting the release 'Compressed' but it could require further settings.

Please follow these help file instructions precisely. It is possible that some versions of Installshield (express, older versions etc...) does not have this option, but frankly I doubt it. It should be there once you look.

Perhaps also see this youtube.com demonstration of the release wizard and this previous stackoverflow question: HowTo create InstallShield MSI with no files needed locally?

Stein ÅsmulStein Åsmul

We can use 7zip SFX to create switch-less installers. here is a quick walk through

Requirements

• 7Zip: you can download latest version of 7zip from Official Site.

• 7Zip SFX Module: Official download page is here.

• Resource Hacker or any other resource editor (Optional): if you want to use a custom icon for you final executable you should use a resource editor app and replace the icon with your desired one. here is Resource Hacker app download link from it's developer website.

Step1:

Create a exec.bat file in the same folder of your msi file and copy your msiexec /i 'path of msi file' /qn in it. I used Installer.msi for my sample so here is my file:

Step2:

Compress msi and bat files to a 7z archive.(you can download and install 7zip from here) in the sample I compressed my Installer.msi and exec.bat to a installer.7z archive.

Step3:

Download and extract 7zSD (from 7zSfx link) and put the file in the same folder of archive, here is direct link to it.

Step4 (Optional):

We can change icon of the installer, to do this we should replace icon of 7zsd.sfx file, in Resource hacker we should open 7zsd.sfx and get to IconGroup > 101 > 1049 and replace the icon with a desired one. then save the new sfx file in the same folder of generated 7z Archive. I saved mine as 7zsdInstaller.sfx.

Step5:

We should create a config file to tell the Sfx file what to do after extracting the archive, here is the config file for the sample:

We should save it in the same folder of our 7z Archive, I named mine config.txt.

Step6:

Now we should combine our file to a single executable, to do this, first we should navigate our Command prompt to a folder we hold our generated files and then we should execute following command:

Now we should have a installer.exe in the same folder

user3473830user3473830

You are supposed to use install shield product of flexa software. You can compress your msi into .exe with all supported files used for extraction at the time of installation.

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A converter from EXE to MSI packages

File extension	Convert	Open	Save	Edit	Create	Import	Export	Extract
Convert from exe file	No	No	No	No	No	Yes	No	No
to msi file	No	No	No	No	No	No	Yes	No

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EXE

An exe file extension is traditionally used for main executable files since the times of MS-DOS. It was adopted for executables in Windows as well. Executables are files that launch programs.

MSI

Files with msi extension is commonly used for Microsoft Installation packages used by most Windows based programs. If you open msi file in Windows, the installation procedure will commence.

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