In our series of discussion about software installation we shall be discussing the different installation methods provided by shareware and software developers.
MSI stands for Microsoft Installer file, which is a file format which is recognised by Microsoft Windows by Microsoft Windows Installer technology.
When you run an MSI file it gets copied into a sub folder of your windows folder and is then available when you go into add and remove programs. You can then use the options provided e.g. repair or remove.
MSI files tend to be quite small as they don't need any of the functionality to setup your program. Instead it just has a small list of things for Windows Installer to do.
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