Run MSI installer on Windows 10
TLDR
> msiexec /i filename.msi
The Story
Recently I encountered an issue on a MacBook Pro with Touch Bar running Windows 10 Enterprise where BootCamp Setup.exe was never ending it’s installation, I left it running for long hours think about +6 hrs, one solution I found online was to run the BootCamp.msi, but when executing the msi directly, it showed an error telling me to to run Setup.exe instead, I was ready to flip tables
┻━┻ ︵ヽ(`Д´)ﾉ︵ ┻━┻
because I spent a lot of time trying to figure out if it was a driver, or another driver or bad Windows installation I did a bunch of things, when I explain the problem to a friend, he tells me, open cmd as Administrator, type msiexec /i C:\WindowsSupport\BootCamp\Drivers\Apple\BootCamp.msi,
BUM! it installed all drivers like in 2 minutes compared to hours and hours
(╥﹏╥) and to think that I was planning to leave my computer ON for 3 straight days installing the drivers on the weekend, I had to gift him a beer the next day!
Lesson learned, sometimes it’s better to ask around :)
