I feel like this would also solve the "I just need the printer driver file(s), not everything else" use-case. Nice work.

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blangk 2 days ago | parent [-]

Printer drivers rarely if ever come in MSI format. They most commonly use self extracting exe archive.

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nebula8804 2 days ago | parent [-]

Yeah, start the installer, quickly look at the temp directory for the files, nab em then quit the installer. This and many other janky techniques are what I use to survive in the jungles of the Windows platform.

I would also like to promote one of my most favorite tools ever: InstallWatch Pro by Epsilon Squared

It takes a complete HDD and Registry snapshot, you install something then it takes another snapshot and shows you the diff in a easy to read format.

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lloydatkinson 7 hours ago | parent | next [-]

What’s its homepage? I only see the usual fake software sites on google

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wiseleo 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Thank you for InstallWatch Pro mention. That app tends to get reinvented every so often. I remember seeing something like it as early as 1996.

	▲	nebula8804 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		Yeah Im sure even ChatGPT can spit out a script that can do this work. It just seems like this particular software by this company is really simple and super solid. I wish there was an equivalent for MacOS & Linux as the scripts I have tried to make(or had ChatGPT try to make) just don't cut the mustard. I'd rather just have some commercial software do this even if I have to pay for a license.