Installing MSI Files as an Administrator Microsoft Windows Server 2008 and Windows 7 have added security default settings which may prevent the use of.msi (Microsoft Installer) files from running unless they are specifically executed as an administrator. Jul 10, 2017 When you need to install a program as an administrator, you can right-click on the.exe file and select Run as administrator. However, that option isn’t available for MSI packages. We will show you how to add an Install as administrator option for MSI packages.
Jun 18, 2016 The first method is to use the Command Prompt to run MSI file as administrator. This is the best method if you rarely run MSI file with admin rights. And if you have to run MSI file with admin rights very often, you can easily add Run as administrator option to context menu of MSI files.
The installer uses these properties during a post administration installation of the application from the administrative image. Users who do not have continuous access to the network may install an application from an administrative image and then at times have to rely on media, such as CD-ROM disks, as their backup source.
Feb 26, 2019 An alternate solution is to add a context menu option for.msi files to allow you to install them with administrator privileges (I don't know why MS didn't include this be default) Copy the following 5 lines into a text file and save with the extension.reg, then double-click to import into the registry.
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In Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8 and the latest Windows 10, when you right-click on an executable (.exe) file, Run as administrator option appears in the context menu along with many other common options. The Run as admin option appears for both installed applications as well as executable of setup files.
As you likely have observed by now, Windows doesn’t show Run as administrator option when you right-click on a MSI file. That is, if you have the setup file of a program in the form of MSI and want to run the MSI file as admin, Windows doesn’t let you run MSI file with admin rights with default settings.
The setup file of many programs, including the very popular 7-Zip for Windows 64-bit, is available as MSI file. If for some reason, you want to run MSI files with admin rights, here is how to do it.
The first method is to use the Command Prompt to run MSI file as administrator. This is the best method if you rarely run MSI file with admin rights. And if you have to run MSI file with admin rights very often, you can easily add Run as administrator option to context menu of MSI files. That is, once added, Run as administrator option will appear when you right-click on a MSI file.
Following are the methods to run a MSI file as administrator
Run MSI as administrator from Command Prompt
Step 1: The first step is to open elevated Command Prompt. To do so, type CMD in Start menu or Start screen search box, and then simultaneously press Ctrl+Shift+Enter keys.
Alternatively, in Windows 7 and Windows 10, you can navigate to Start menu, All programs and Accessories. And then right-click on the Command Prompt and click Run as administrator.
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Click Yes button when you see the UAC prompt.
NOTE: It’s important to open the Command Prompt as admin in order to launch MSI files as administrator.
Step 2: In the Command Prompt, execute the following command to run MSI file as admin:
msiexec /a “pathtotheMSIfile”
For instance, if your 7-Zip’s MSI file is located in Downloads folder, then you need to enter both path to the file as well as the name of the MSI file.
Ex: msiexec /a “C:UsersDonDownloads7z920-x64.msi”
To easily get the path to the file, hold down the Shift key while right-clicking on the MSI file and then click Copy as path option to copy the path to the clipboard. You can then paste this path in the Command Prompt by right-clicking and then clicking Paste option. Note that Windows 10 supports Ctrl+V hotkey in Command Prompt.
Add Run as administrator option for MSI
Alternatively, you can configure Windows to display Run as administrator option when you right-click on MSI files. To do so, simply follow the given below instructions.
Step 1: Simply download this MSIFileRunAsAdmin.Zip file and then extract the ZIP file to get a Registry file named MSIFileRunAsAdmin.Reg file.
Step 2: Double-click on MSIFileRunAsAdmin.Reg file or simply right-click on it and then click Merge option. Click Yes button when you see the UAC prompt.
Step 3: Click Yes button again when you see the following dialog:
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Step 4: Finally, click OK button when you see this dialog.
That’s it! From now onwards, whenever you right-click on MSI file, Run as administrator option appears in the context menu.
Good luck!
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The Windows Installer can perform an administrative installation of an application or product to a network for use by a workgroup. An administrative installation installs a source image of the application onto the network that is similar to a source image on a CD-ROM. Users in a workgroup who have access to this administrative image can then install the product from this source. A user must first install the product from the network to run the application. The user can choose to run-from-source when he installs and the installer uses most of the product's file directly from the network.
Administrators can run an administrative installation from the command line by using the /a command line option.
The ADMIN action is the top-level action used to initiate an administrative installation. When this action is executed the installer calls the actions in the AdminExecuteSequence and AdminUISequence tables to perform the administrative installation.
The AdminProperties property is a semicolon delimited list of properties that are set at the time of an administration installation. The installer uses these properties during a post administration installation of the application from the administrative image.
Users who do not have continuous access to the network may install an application from an administrative image and then at times have to rely on media, such as CD-ROM disks, as their backup source. In these cases the length of the file names in the administrative image and on the media must match. Both must use long file names or both must use short file names. For example, a CD-ROM that only supports short file names could provide both the original media for installing the administrative image and a backup source.
If the SHORTFILENAMES property is set during an administrative installation, this property may need to be set again by a user subsequently applying a patch to the administrative image. When using Windows Installer to apply the patch, the installer automatically sets the SHORTFILENAMES property if the administrative image uses short file names.
If an administrator uses a package having a Word Count Summary property of 2 or 3 to perform an administrative installation, users of the administrative image cannot automatically reinstall from the original media source. If the administrative image becomes unavailable, users who have installed from the administrative image are prevented from reverting to the original media.
The application of transforms during the creation of an administrative image has no valid effect. To make a customized version of a product available to a work group, apply the transform during the installation of the product from the administrative image.
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During an administrative installation, the installer creates a source image for all features in the product except those feature with 0 in the Level column of the Feature table.