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ORCA MSI Editor Standalone Download

ORCA MSI Editor Standalone Download

December 20, 2022 by Mitch Bartlett 48 Comments

Orca MSI Editor allows you to edit the properties of any MSI file. With this tool, you can change the title and text within the installer and look at how and where the files are delivered. It’s also handy if you need to “hack” an MSI to work with a newer version of Windows.

This tool used to be a part of Microsoft Developer Tools but is now retired and no longer supported by the company. Since finding the Microsoft Developer Tools is such a chore, I have made a download available with just the Orca MSI Editor tool.

Click here to download Orca MSI Editor then install it. Once installed you can right-click any MSI and select “Open with Orca”.

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  1. Talha Nasiruddin says

    June 9, 2021 at 3:04 am

    Thanks a lot for sharing this.

  2. Roland Lyngvig says

    May 30, 2021 at 2:48 am

    The version here is VERY old. I have version 5 from 2012 (signed by Microsoft). How can I send it to you?

  3. Benjie Alvarez says

    February 28, 2021 at 8:50 pm

    Thank you, it’s really working!.

  4. Benjie Alvarez says

    February 24, 2021 at 2:56 am

    Thank you! so helpful.

  5. Lee says

    February 8, 2021 at 12:12 pm

    Thanks!

  6. Zviko says

    November 28, 2020 at 5:08 am

    This is a great tool. However it needs protection from misuse

  7. pk says

    August 15, 2020 at 10:43 pm

    does it required an admin access to install ?

  8. Martin says

    June 9, 2020 at 7:05 am

    Still works, thanks for providing this :-)

  9. Gerald Yohana says

    March 31, 2020 at 4:21 pm

    Thanks. It work

  10. Kurt G Peterson says

    July 31, 2019 at 10:20 am

    Thank you!!!

  11. Levi says

    July 25, 2019 at 3:26 pm

    Thanks for a great tool!

  12. Edmund says

    June 26, 2019 at 11:05 am

    This appears to be the version for XP. There is also a version available for Vista, I haven’t checked the internals to see what’s different. (Just a binary comparison).

    Cool trix tho’
    Thanks

  13. Santosh Gurav says

    January 9, 2019 at 7:10 am

    Thanks for making available this useful tool.

  14. Jason says

    December 6, 2018 at 2:27 pm

    Thank you. This was very Helpful.

  15. Suryo A says

    November 11, 2018 at 7:51 pm

    Thank you very much.

  16. Chuck says

    October 30, 2018 at 2:16 pm

    That’s great! Thank you so much!

  17. kiran says

    August 10, 2018 at 4:50 am

    Thank you for orca.msi

  18. Aleksandr Rogembaum says

    August 4, 2018 at 8:45 am

    Thank you Mitch!!!!

  19. IanG says

    May 29, 2018 at 7:56 pm

    This is Orca 3.1.3790

  20. jisuren says

    February 8, 2018 at 7:57 am

    THKS !!!

  21. Artur says

    February 1, 2018 at 5:38 pm

    Thanks Mitch!

  22. Marat M says

    January 11, 2018 at 5:55 am

    Thank’s a lot!

  23. Bert Logan says

    December 1, 2017 at 8:43 am

    An absolute star.

    Thanks

  24. Ange; says

    October 13, 2017 at 10:44 am

    Great!!

  25. Parker says

    September 5, 2017 at 10:11 pm

    Thank you!

  26. Craig says

    August 31, 2017 at 6:41 am

    Thank you :-)

  27. Nightkiller says

    June 8, 2017 at 10:07 pm

    Thank you for making this available

  28. S Hehir says

    April 30, 2017 at 1:25 pm

    THANK YOU!!!

  29. skyth says

    April 10, 2017 at 10:34 am

    When I open bluestacks using orca, it says ” Failed to open MSI Database ”
    .
    Please help
    Thanks

  30. soft33 says

    February 16, 2017 at 6:20 am

    i want to have orca without admin please make a way for that

  31. Dennis says

    February 13, 2015 at 2:21 pm

    Still a great tool for peering inside an msi file to see what version it is.
    I downloaded a Google Admin file claiming that it was version 1.2 when it was version 1.1.
    No wonder it did not update me to the latest version – Bad Google, Bad!

  32. mohamed says

    February 8, 2014 at 4:17 pm

    Is there any useful data on using orca? More specifically to modify a msi file so that it contains user input such as a user name and password automatically.

  33. Jim F says

    June 30, 2013 at 8:46 pm

    This beats downloading the entire Windows SDK, thanks.

  34. Champaign_Lee says

    June 8, 2013 at 1:00 am

    I need the product to check the stucture of the msi database. Thanks

  35. softwaregiant says

    January 17, 2013 at 3:49 pm

    It works ok. Go to the release folder where you created your executables. Right click on the msi file and choose the new “edit with orca ” option. To highlight an entry I use the keys to create a pointer to the component. Anyway my use of this nifty program is limited.

  36. IGadget says

    November 25, 2011 at 1:17 am

    Make a backup of your MSI and then edit that. Use “Save”, not “Save As” to ensure all the bits are kept. then look in the tables for LaunchConditon or *ExecuteSequence for what you need. there are other places but those are the main ones. It may take several attempts.

  37. Raymond says

    November 3, 2011 at 1:20 am

    I have the MSI file which will install the program.
    How to make in the MSI file by using ORCA so that the program (exe file after install) can be run in compatible mode for windows 7 or XP (SP3)??

  38. Richard Pettigrew says

    March 17, 2011 at 4:52 am

    This doesn’t appear to be entirely accurate for the latest version of the MSI you can download from LogMeIn.

    (as of the date of this post)

    The Fields within the tables refered to in the article no longer exist in the MSI I downloaded today.

    I am trying to figure out what to change myself to get this working, but any further pointers would be appreciated.

  39. spinafex says

    February 2, 2011 at 9:56 pm

    This is awesome. works great on windows 7 64bit too..

  40. Rajeev Kanale says

    March 9, 2010 at 6:35 pm

    Need this tool for inspecting the installation of msi on 32 bit & 64 bit machine, and find issues.

  41. CuLuN says

    October 31, 2009 at 11:52 am

    Finally iphone is doing well. thanks for the orca

  42. LaunchCondition says

    September 30, 2009 at 11:11 pm

    If you’re trying to install an MSI onto an “unsupported” operating system–
    1. Use ORCA to open the MSI
    2. Find the line labeled “Launch Condition”
    3. Delete all the value or try modifying them but likely you aren’t qualified to if you need these rudimentary instructions
    4. SAVE THE NEW MSI AND PREFERABLY AS A COPY INSTEAD OF OVERWRITING THE ORIGINAL JUST IN CASE YOU BORKED UP SOMETHING ELSE OR DELETING THE LAUNCH CONDITIONS (UNLIKELY) BREAKS IT AND YOU’RE BETTER OFF TRASHING A NEW COPY INSTEAD OF BORKING YOUR ORIGINAL.

  43. nsurjitsingh_hq_dgar_assamrifles says

    September 18, 2009 at 1:42 am

    Very useful and fruitful in controlling msi files.

  44. Mohammed says

    August 21, 2009 at 3:38 pm

    thn in this folder, which install the actual Orca tool. Update: Several people have mentioned this link, where you can download Orca directly without having to download and install the Microsoft Windows […]

  45. Jacques says

    April 2, 2009 at 3:08 am

    Is there any useful data on using orca? More specifically to modify a msi file so that it contains user input such as a user name and password automatically.

  46. Craig Steddy says

    January 27, 2009 at 11:38 pm

    I’m surprised that anybody still uses Orca. There is a free alternative MSI editor that owns it called InstEd. It’s available at http://www.instedit.com

  47. Mona. says

    November 27, 2008 at 4:29 am

    Downloading Orca trying to create custom dialogs for setup.

  48. Bob says

    January 11, 2008 at 1:47 pm

    Wicked tool!

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