Windows – How to force the Windows MSI installer to perform a complete install

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I have a Windows MSI installer package which gives me the choice to do a Typical, Custom or Complete install using the GUI.

The default (typical) install only installs some components.

How to I tell it to do a complete install from the command line using the /passive switch?

The installer version is: 5.0.7600.

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UPDATE June 2018: Although the tool shown below is no longer available for download, I found it via Wayback machine. I assume it is OK and legal to link to it, seeing as the tool was freeware. Updated links below.

UPDATE: This tool from Wise is regrettably not downloadable anymore. I am not sure if it is OK to distribute it either. It seemed to be a free tool distributed as part of their main Wise Package Studio suite, but I don't think it is open source. I wish they would release it as an open source tool.

The Wise packaging products have been discontinued due to a number of legal issues.


On a related note. To deal with the ridiculously complex command line for msiexec.exe you can use this free msi command line builder tool from Wise: http://www2.wise.com/filelib/WICLB.exe (resurrected from Wayback machine).

Please run the download by virustotal.com for safety.

It allows you to build a command line interactively: enter image description here

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