Check Windows Installer Version

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Deepesh picture Deepesh · Jun 9, 2011 · Viewed 85.1k times · Source

I have checked my Add/Remove program panel and Components panel as well but could not find the version of Windows Installer on my machine. Can anybody please guide me in finding out the version of Windows Installer installed on any machine

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Anirudh Ramanathan picture Anirudh Ramanathan · Jun 9, 2011

Go into cmd(command prompt) or the run dialog (Windows + R) and execute msiexec -?. It will open a window containing your version at the top.

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