hazkid Posted December 15, 2007 Share Posted December 15, 2007 I have a piece of software that I desperately need to install on Vista, and it says this program is only compatible with XP. Don't worry, it's not a system modifying file, and I'm really not worried about compatibility issues. BTW, it is the MOXI TV for PC beta. And, yes, I'm pretty sure it will work fine (or relatively fine) on vista). So: Is there any way I can bypass this "vista block"? I can't put XP on the computer I'm using right now. And yes, the installer is an MSI. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
apowerr Posted December 15, 2007 Share Posted December 15, 2007 All I can offer is Right Click -> Properties -> Compatibility -> Run this program in compatibility mode. Try XP SP2 and other options and see if that makes a difference. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hazkid Posted December 15, 2007 Author Share Posted December 15, 2007 Since an MSI is not an executable, I can't set a compatibility mode. I think I need to set Windows Installer to XP-SP2. Unfortunately, I can't set it, as c:\windows\system32\msiexec.exe is decreed to be a "system component". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Universe_JDJ Posted December 16, 2007 Share Posted December 16, 2007 Try this to extract the contents of the MSI: http://www.tech-recipes.com/rx/2557/vista_..._from_msi_files Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hazkid Posted December 19, 2007 Author Share Posted December 19, 2007 Well, I did that, but... I get a file called Data1.cab. I opened this file in WinRar and extracted the contents. I also used MBASE MSI Editor to find actual file names. I was able to locate moxisetup.exe (the file was _8D3000...). The issue is, of course, that setup needs the 200+ DLLs included in the CAB, and I really don't want to manually rename all of them, one by one. Since MBASE can export the MSI table to an XLS file, is there some some of script that will take column one and find the files, and rename them to the values in column 2? I know its complicated, but... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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