[wpkg-users] Installer types

[Tomasz Chmielewski]

Joel Levin schrieb:
> Is is safe to say that any application installer with a .exe would use 
> the .exe silent installer package? I am wondering if some applications 
> may say they are .exe, but are actually msi. How would you know?

Windows distinguishes file types by file extensions.

So if you have some_installer.exe, it is 100% exe installer, not MSI 
(unless someone did something stupid and change the file extension).


However, sometimes these .exe files contain a compressed image, 
containing a MSI, which is later started via msiexec upon decompression.

One such example is Adobe Reader, AFAIR.


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Tomasz Chmielewski
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