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It is quite annoying to overcome the problem with the TEMP directory set to another location than the default windows one. It would be nice to provide an installation ZIP file, so we can extract its content to "somewhere else" and run SetupUI.exe from another location. For example from the very same directory in the changed TEMP directory, where it originally fails to run from. :-)

 

 

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Have you tried unzipping the installer executable to “somewhere else”?

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35 minutes ago, Alfred said:

Have you tried unzipping the installer executable to “somewhere else”?

Unzipping won't work, as the installer executable is not a zip file. But one can run "msiexec" to extract the contents, I believe.

I've never tried it, though. But I've read posts from corporate users mentioning doing that for remote deployment, I think.

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43 minutes ago, walt.farrell said:

Unzipping won't work, as the installer executable is not a zip file.

What prompted me to make the suggestion is that many installers are self-extracting archives with some extra code to run the extracted setup file. Some zip utilities will happily unzip such a *.exe file directly; others require the user to rename it to *.zip first.

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21 minutes ago, Alfred said:

Some zip utilities will happily unzip such a *.exe file directly; others require the user to rename it to *.zip first.

Renaming to .zip is not sufficient, at least for Windows built-in zip support. Some third-party utilities may handle it, I suppose. Msiexec (also built-in) is where I would start, if I wanted to experiment.

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13 hours ago, walt.farrell said:

Renaming to .zip is not sufficient, at least for Windows built-in zip support. Some third-party utilities may handle it, I suppose. Msiexec (also built-in) is where I would start, if I wanted to experiment.

There's no need to rename the exe file, since exe files are package files. They just unpack without using another app. I was able to unpack the AP photo exe file using 7zip, into a folder.

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10 minutes ago, Ron P. said:

There's no need to rename the exe file, since exe files are package files. They just unpack without using another app. I was able to unpack the AP photo exe file using 7zip, into a folder.

Yes, 7-Zip is the utility that I had in mind when I mentioned that some of these things will unzip *.exe files without any need for the filename extension to be changed first, but others (including the built-in extraction facility in recent versions of Windows) won’t work unless you rename the file.

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What version of 7-Zip do you use to unzip the installation file? I have tried version 19.00 (the latest stable) and although it unzipped the file, the resulting files are broken. For example, instead of directories there are several files named "fil_DictionariesFolder_0.0".

 

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