Setting Add or Remove Programs option via powershell or command line

[sookeke]

We have a requirement to disable the remove option for an MSI or possibly don’t show it in the list of control panels. We can achieve this using the UI and changing these options in the Product detail. My question is how do we accomplish the same using PowerShell or automated scripting as we are currently using AI in our CI pipeline build process?

Note these MSI we want to edit are not built with AI tool

[Catalin]

Hello,

For this, you do not need to modify the MSI file itself.

You can simply run the MSI and passing the ARPSYSTEMCOMPONENT property with a value of "1" in the command line, e.g.:

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msiexec /i <path_to_msi> ARPSYSTEMCOMPONENT=1

This should prevent the MSI from appearing into the Control Panel.

Best regards,
Catalin

[sookeke]

Thank you!

[Liviu]

You're always welcome!

Best regards,
Liviu