Questions tagged [nsis]
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NSIS Error Launching Installer - Unicode characters in Windows Username
When downloading and running an EXE installer on my new laptop I get the NSIS Error Launching Installer. When the same installation is downloaded on a different computer and transferred via USB drive, ...
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How can I protect my installer against extraction? [closed]
In the image below, the installer can be easily extracted with the UniExtract program
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How can I prevent this? What tool should I use so that it can not be extracted at the ...
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Windows: update custom software installed on Program Files
Im the developer of a Windows software application which I currently release as "portable", meaning the user needs to extract it somewhere into his disk. Along with it I ship a small update tool (...
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How to get rid of program whose uninstall throws NSIS error?
I installed OpenVPN 2.4.x on Windows 10 and the latest version was too unstable so I wanted to uninstall it to go back to a stable version. However, uninstalling it from both the the uninstall.exe ...
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getting NSIS integrity error while installing VLC media player
I tried to install vlc media player in windows 10 today, and this one is showing me an integrity error as shown in figure during installation.
help me to resolve this error
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How do I add customer data to the end of a NSIS installer
NSIS allows you to insert data on to the back of their exe files and then allows you to be able to read that data back during installation:
http://nsis.sourceforge.net/ReadCustomerData
How do I ...
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I want to install and configure MySQL Server silently with remote access
How NSIS MySql Silent install and configure to enable remote machine access.
**ExecWait "C:\Program Files\MySQL\MySQL Server 5.0\bin\mysqlinstanceconfig.exe -i -q ServiceName=MySQL RootPassword=root ...
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NSIS installer - change path based on dialog
Im trying to create an installer using NSIS, using "installer based on zip file".
I'd like to create a dialog box at the beginning of install that gives the user 2 choices (32, 64), then depending ...
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Temp folder is not writeable for some applications, resulting app crashes
I dont know why, but suddenly many applications in my computer can't start. For example Chrome Portable shows this error on execution:
NSIS Error
Error writing temporary file. Make sure your temp ...
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Privileges for installing executables with nsis
I think this question suits better superuser than stackoverflow.
I need to write an installer for some executables. The user might copy them wherever he wants but usually this is performed in C:\...
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NSIS installer not working with InTune
So, I've reviewed as much documentation as I can about InTune and NSIS and I can't seem to figure this out.
I have an NSIS silent installer that (when executed locally, even as system via psexec) ...
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Unable to execute program from installer
I created an application (exe file) and in order to deploy it I am using two ways:
Using zip file: I zipped the entire contents including executable.
This method works and the end user is able ...
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How to change installation directory path with command line of NSIS installer of new VLC player?
I want to silently install NSIS in D:\VLC. I can do that with old VLC version i.e. VLC 1.1.9. But I cannot do the same for VLC 2.0.5.
Here is the command line I am using
vlc-1.1.9-win32.exe /D=D:\...
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Unpack NSIS executable
I am trying to decompress a NSIS executable. With the GUI version of 7zip I am able to do this and the exe is listed as:
Type = Nsis
Method = LZMA:25
Solid = +
With the command line version 7za I ...
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How can I get my NSIS context menu options back after associating a program with .NSI files?
I associated .nsi files with a text editor recently, and as a result lost all of the special NSIS context menu options for, eg., "Compile NSIS Script". How can I get them back?
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How to use GetFileSecurity to check if the current user has write access to a directory in nsis?
Nsis installer needs to check the folder write access permission before proceeding with the installation, How to achieve this?
I read online about GetFileSecurity, Could anyone please let me know how ...
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mysql silent install and configure in nsi
I want to silently install MySQL 5.0 in NSI. I tried the following code in NSI:
ExecWait 'msiexec /i "$INSTDIR\mysql-essential-5.0.27-win32.msi" /qn'
ExecWait "C:\Program Files\MySQL\MySQL Server ...
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Starting a service which may have port conflicts with existing service
Is there any way to start a service and force a service that is already running to stop if it uses the port that the service I want to start is going to be using?
I'm going to be installing apache ...
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Any ideea why every NSIS setup file(.exe) i download gives CRC error?
Any ideea why every NSIS setup file(.exe) i download gives CRC error when trying to install.
I do not have any firewall installed and also i tried with and withouth a download manager. Also files ...
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Browsing Bombs After a Short While
After a reboot, my internet connection lasts perhaps a half hour or so before tanking. I can ping (by both IP and hostname), but I cannot browse. If I restart the "Network Store Interface Service", my ...
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Why might an application fail to start on Windows 7 x64 with faulting module GDI32.dll?
I'm attempting to run NSIS.exe on Windows 7 x64, but it's crashing on start, and leaving this in the event log:
Faulting application name: NSIS.exe, version: 0.0.0.0, time stamp: 0x4b1ae3a1
Faulting ...