msiexec.exe Windows process description

Windows 7, Windows XP or Windows Vista software, task, program or application with exename msiexec.exe

Specific issues and troubleshooting:

• Is msiexec.exe virus or not? And how you can recognize it.
• Solve problems with msiexec.exe error.
• A little bit more specific msiexec.exe application error.
• Removal guide: How to remove msiexec.exe.
• Solve problems with msiexec.exe not responding.
• Windows performance problems: msiexec.exe high cpu.
• File damaged: msiexec.exe corrupted.

What is msiexec.exe - purpose and description:

This program is part of the Microsoft Windows Installer Tool, and is used to allow users to install, change, and perform other tasks to computer packages and products from the command line.

Ports opened by this process:

This process opens 0 ports. See details of ports opened by msiexec.exe

Security risk rating: N/A
Trojan and malware info: N/A*
Typical errors: File not found, An error occurred in file, Not responding, Application Error 0x, Howto delete, stop, run, remove and find the file.
Note: N/A means "Not available". That means that now we have no information if this process is harmful or not.

Operating system distribution

msiexec.exe was seen on this operating systems:

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Latest user reviews

Summary: 1 user(s) rated this process.
Average security risk: Very low

Disclaimer: this user reviews are provided "as is" without any warranty. Reviews are uncensored opinions submitted by our users. We are not responsible for the content of these User Reviews.

User (IP)	Security risk
98.66.185.*	Very low
microsoft thing, OK

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msiexec.exe version list:

The name msiexec.exe can be used by many programs from different vendors. Also, the same vendor can create msiexec.exe in more than one version. Thus, we distinguish between all such variants by so called "checksum". Checksum is unique number identifying particular version of msiexec.exe:

Checksum (MD5)	Version	Size (bytes)	Manufacturer
16C2980	3.1.4000.1823	78848	Microsoft Corporation
C522500	2.0.2600.0	63488	- Unknown -
D9BA9B4	3.0.3790.2096	77312	- Unknown -
			- Unknown -
8F491CD2	3.1.4000.1823	236544	- Unknown -
207CC42D	3.1.4000.1823	78848	- Unknown -
21E1724	3.0.3790.2180	77312	- Unknown -
946EBC13	3.0.3790.2180	77312	- Unknown -
DA249726	2.0.2600.1106	64512	- Unknown -
7D34ED88	3.0.3790.2180	77312	- Unknown -
C0702F3	3.0.3790.2180	77312	- Unknown -
246A9EDB	1.20.1710.0	43280	- Unknown -
58D6F891	2.0.2600.1	83456	- Unknown -
34F14031	3.1.4000.1830	78848	- Unknown -
130CBDA6	4.0.6000.16386	71680	- Unknown -
40566C02	2.0.2600.0	63488	- Unknown -
7B833C73	3.1.4000.1823	128512	- Unknown -
374186CE	3.1.4000.1823	78848	- Unknown -
B9032313	3.1.4000.3959	78848	- Unknown -
80167B05	3.0.3790.2538	77312	- Unknown -
964F399A	1.11.1314.0	47888	- Unknown -
F90DE485			Microsoft Corporation
F3A9B6C			- Unknown -
990e7452			Microsoft Corporation
324bad9			Microsoft Corporation
72973251			Microsoft Corporation
96af78b9			Microsoft Corporation
25c328e6			- Unknown -
5442ffab			Microsoft Corporation
8209f2e5	3.1.4001.5512		Microsoft Corporation
a7c272a7	3.1.4001.5512		Microsoft Corporation
ed2954f3			- Unknown -
2b7e9687	5.0.9200.16384		Microsoft Corporation
839e91ed	3.1.4001.5512		Microsoft Corporation
748c97e3			- Unknown -
bcf426aa	5.0.9600.16384		Microsoft Corporation
3105f53a			- Unknown -
8ac6e625	1.10.1029.1		Microsoft Corporation
5622f4e1	5.0.7600.16385		Microsoft Corporation
f92c8f58	5.0.10240.16384		Microsoft Corporation
1afedbed	4.5.6002.18005		Microsoft Corporation
3d8f02e1	5.0.10586.0		Microsoft Corporation
a1f0aae8	5.0.7600.16385		Microsoft Corporation
5424fd3c	3.1.4001.5512		Microsoft Corporation
55c73835	5.0.7600.16385		Microsoft Corporation
923fde26	5.0.7600.16385		Microsoft Corporation
455288e2	5.0.14393.0		Microsoft Corporation
2853e0e3	5.0.14393.0		Microsoft Corporation
d1aae266	5.0.15063.0		Microsoft Corporation
cdbffcb8	5.0.7600.16385		Microsoft Corporation
a190da6546501cb4146bbcc0b6a3f48b	5.0.7601.17514	128000	Microsoft Corporation
eee470f2a771fc0b543bdeef74fceca0	5.0.7601.17514	73216	Microsoft Corporation

Help us: where is msiexec.exe located on your harddisk?

"C:\Windows\system32\"
"C:\Windows\"
"C:\"
"C:\Program files\%subfolder%\"
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