How to extract Bartender .msi and installation files Follow
Question
You want to do a silent install and would like to know how to extract the installation files
Answer
There maybe some scenarios where a you want to be able to extract the BarTender .msi and installation files. This may be for silent installs or various other types of deployments
In BarTender 2016
You can do the following to extract the BarTender .msi and installation related files:
- Open the Windows command prompt
- In the Windows command prompt, use the cd command to change the directory to where the BarTender .exe installer is located.
- Run the command <BarTender Installer name>.exe /a. This will bring up a wizard to allow you to extract the .msi and related installation files to a specific directory location.
In BarTender 2019
This command does not work in BarTender 2019. However, you can use the command <Installer name>.exe /extract instead. This will extract the contents of the entire installer to the installer's folder. The msi should be in the folder labeled with an alphanumeric sequence. In R4, this is 8BBA231. It may change between revisions.
You can also run the following from a command prompt (as administrator) as it will tell you what command line parameters you can use with the installation package you download from the BarTender portal:
