{"id":933,"date":"2012-03-18T13:38:47","date_gmt":"2012-03-18T19:38:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bateru.com\/news\/?p=933"},"modified":"2012-03-18T14:05:15","modified_gmt":"2012-03-18T20:05:15","slug":"simple-fix-for-msi-windows-installer-error","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bateru.com\/news\/2012\/03\/simple-fix-for-msi-windows-installer-error\/","title":{"rendered":"Simple fix for MSI Windows Installer Error"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a quick post over how to install applications that encounter the Windows Installer Error.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img714.imageshack.us\/img714\/2289\/windowsinstallererrorme.jpg\"\/><br \/>\nError Message:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nWindows Installer<br \/>\nThis installation package could not be opened.<br \/>\nVerify that the package exists and that you can access it, or contact the application vendor to verify that this is a valid Windows Installer package.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Z3uUwu0AwBI\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Alternative Solutions not presented in the video.<br \/>\n1) Avoid msi files and go for an alternative file format to install your application.<br \/>\n2) Install the application using the hidden Administrator account.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.howtogeek.com\/howto\/windows-vista\/enable-the-hidden-administrator-account-on-windows-vista\/\">Here&#8217;s a Guide<\/a><br \/>\n3) Reinstall Windows on your computer.<br \/>\n4) Re-download the file from a different website.<br \/>\n5) System Restore to a period where the problem didn&#8217;t exist.<br \/>\n6) Extract the content of the MSI file and run the executable from there.<br \/>\nExtract MSI contents.batch<br \/>\n<code><\/p>\n<pre lang='dos'>\r\nREM Extracts the filename.msi file to C:\\extracted_files\r\nmsiexec \/a filename.msi \/qb TARGETDIR=C:\\extracted_files\r\n<\/pre>\n<p><\/code><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a quick post over how to install applications that encounter the Windows Installer Error. Error Message: Windows Installer This installation package could not be opened. Verify that the package exists and that you can access it, or contact the application vendor to verify that this is a valid Windows Installer package. Alternative Solutions not &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bateru.com\/news\/2012\/03\/simple-fix-for-msi-windows-installer-error\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Simple fix for MSI Windows Installer Error<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,67],"tags":[16,174],"class_list":["post-933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tutorials","category-videos","tag-tutorial","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bateru.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bateru.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bateru.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bateru.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bateru.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=933"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/bateru.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":942,"href":"https:\/\/bateru.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933\/revisions\/942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bateru.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bateru.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bateru.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}