Comment by pragma_x

7 days ago

I feel like this would also solve the "I just need the printer driver file(s), not everything else" use-case. Nice work.

Printer drivers rarely if ever come in MSI format. They most commonly use self extracting exe archive.

  • Yeah, start the installer, quickly look at the temp directory for the files, nab em then quit the installer. This and many other janky techniques are what I use to survive in the jungles of the Windows platform.

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    It takes a complete HDD and Registry snapshot, you install something then it takes another snapshot and shows you the diff in a easy to read format.