Skip to content

[PowerToys] Extract MSI from EXE for WiX v5 #5656

New issue

Have a question about this project? Sign up for a free GitHub account to open an issue and contact its maintainers and the community.

Sign up for GitHub

By clicking “Sign up for GitHub”, you agree to our terms of service and privacy statement. We’ll occasionally send you account related emails.

Already on GitHub? Sign in to your account

Merged
merged 2 commits into from
Sep 15, 2025
Merged

[PowerToys] Extract MSI from EXE for WiX v5 #5656

Changes from all commits
Commits
Show all changes
2 commits
Select commit Hold shift + click to select a range
d5496f4
extract msi for wix5
davidegiacometti Sep 15, 2025
3c2e29d
cleanup
davidegiacometti Sep 15, 2025
File filter

Filter by extension

Filter by extension
Conversations
Failed to load comments.
Loading
Jump to
Jump to file
Failed to load files.
Loading
Diff view
Diff view
16 changes: 14 additions & 2 deletions hub/powertoys/install.md
View file
Open in desktop
Original file line number Diff line number Diff line change
Expand Up @@ -84,9 +84,21 @@ Generate a `winget` command to install Microsoft PowerToys with arguments to ins

Copilot is powered by AI, so surprises and mistakes are possible. For more information, see [Copilot FAQs](https://www.microsoft.com/microsoft-copilot/learn/).

### Extracting the MSI from the bundle
### Extracting the MSI from the bundle for 0.94 and later

Make sure to have [WiX Toolset v3](https://docs.firegiant.com/wix/wix3/) installed. The command doesn't work with WiX Toolset v4.
Make sure to have the [.NET SDK](https://dotnet.microsoft.com/download/) installed.

In PowerShell, run `dotnet tool install wix --global` to install the latest version of WiX Toolset.

This PowerShell example assumes that the PowerToys installer has been downloaded to the Windows desktop.

```powershell
wix burn extract ${Env:\USERPROFILE}"\Desktop\PowerToysSetup-0.94.0-x64.exe" -out ${Env:\USERPROFILE}"\Desktop\extractedPath" -oba ${Env:\USERPROFILE}"\Desktop\extractedPath"
```

### Extracting the MSI from the bundle for 0.93 and earlier

Make sure to have [WiX Toolset v3](https://docs.firegiant.com/wix/wix3/) installed. The command doesn't work with WiX Toolset v4 and later versions.

This PowerShell example assumes the default install location for WiX Toolset and that the PowerToys installer has been downloaded to the Windows desktop.

Expand Down