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EMCO MSI Package Builder - Customize or Change Installation
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Change or Customize Installation to Pre-Configure Its Options or Behavior
A tool that provides an easy way to change existing installation or customize it. This tool can be used to make custom installations on top of existing when you need to extend or change their behavior. It can help you to customize any third-party installation even if you don't have an access to the installation sources. Application allows you to capture original installation process and produce silent MSI package that makes identical installation, but which can be fully customized.
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Latest release: v. 4.4.2 [05 August 2010]
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How to Modify or Customize Installation?
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Are you looking for the way to customize existing installations? Do you need to predefine installation options, change installed resources or add additional steps to the setup procedure? Existing installations are binary files, so can't be modified directly if you don't have an access to the installation source code.
EMCO MSI Package Builder can help you to change and customize existing installation by producing custom MSI package that executes required setup steps. You don't need to have an access to the original installation source code. Instead, EMCO MSI Package Builder allows you to decompile and modify existing MSI file or make repacking and customization of other installation types.
When you make MSI decompilation, you will get a content of the installation package in the form of the source code, so you can apply your changes and create new, customized MSI. If you need to change other installation types, for example, EXE setup, you can use repackaging technology to produce a customized installation. This technology allows you to track all file system and registry changes performed by any process, thus to make installation customization you need to launch and follow the original setup. As the result, you will get ready MSI project with the information about performed changes, so you can modify it and generate a custom MSI package.
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Features and Benefits: Producing Custom MSI Installations
Modification and customization of existing installations are main features of EMCO MSI Package Builder. Using this tool you can make any changes with your installation. For example, modify a list of installed resources, merge few installations into the one, add shortcuts, pre-configure options, etc. These features are based on the ability to make MSI files decompilation and perform installations repackaging. Installation customization features don't require any specific training, because they work in automatic mode and are easy to understand for novices. In addition to customization, EMCO MSI Package Builder can be used also to create MSI package from scratch, build MSI for remote silent install and convert EXE to MSI.
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MSI Package Decompilation
You can decompile existing MSI package to get an access to its internal structure. A result of the decompilation process is a new MSI project that contains file system, registry, services and environment variables changes taken from the original MSI file. You can apply required changes to the project and generate new, custom MSI. Check features
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Installation Options Customization
If you need to prepare installation for silent remote deployment, you can repackage an existing installation into the silent MSI. Repackaging process assumes configuring of all installation options to the particular values, so produced MSI package can work without any end-user interaction. It can be performed automatically. Learn how it works
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Installation Process Modification
When existing installation doesn't meet your needs, you can customize it according with your requirements. In this case an original installation is used as a source for producing custom MSI package that can extend or modify a behavior of the original installation. This process is really easy and doesn't require any special skills. Learn how it works
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Splitting and Combining Installations
You can split one installation into multiple parts as well as combine multiple install into the one. In order to do this you only need to create correspondent MSI project for each installation using MSI decompilation or installation repackaging features. Having MSI projects you can split or combine them by one click from the user interface. Check features
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Overview
Advantages and Benefits
