Month: March 2008
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Detect if a MSI component is installed
A C# program for those who don’t know MSI SDK or C++. C++ programmers can find the API inside the msi.h file in Windows SDK. class Program { static int Main(string[] args) { uint pathSize = 0; try { foreach (string componentId in args) { MsiInstallState state = MsiLocateComponent( componentId, null, ref pathSize); if (state…
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Hard Drive broke
The first 3 Dell support technicians tried to persuade me to clean the temp files, to remove unnecessary startup programs and to reinstall Windows. It does not help if the computer complains an error during self test. I keep saying a self test error can not be solved by twisting the OS, but they won’t…
Sheng Jiang 蒋晟 