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Does anyone have a copy of MSIINV.EXE (The MSI Inventory tool)? The site where it used to be available is down(http://www.huydao.net/). I'm trying to uninstall some components in order to force the Visual Studio Setup to reinstall them. I apologize as this is not strictly a programming question but I figured anyone that has installed some of the Visual Studio beta stuff may have run into this problem as well.

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You can download msiinv.exe from here: Experimental Space

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What does that tool do? Does it list the component GUIDs from an MSI? If so, I've found the DARK tool from WiX to do a pretty good job of telling me what's in an MSI.

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Thank you so much Mr. Lipscombe. This does indeed appear to be what I needed. –  Rodrick Chapman Oct 27 '08 at 12:13

The tool msiinv.exe what it really does is just list the GUI of all your installed MSI packages. You can use a file as an output.

Then the MSI Inventory tool will provide the needed GUI in order to run "msiexec.exe /x {B3A02601-8FE9-4108-8E95-D94171A2F8C8}" and uninstall the desired package.



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