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Oct 25^th, 2012 at 11:36pm

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Some of the newest Virtavia freeware files are ".msi" files instead of ".zip" files. When I try to download them my Vista op system gives me a warning message to the effect that ".msi" files can damage my computer.

What is going on ? What is a ".msi" file anyway ?

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Reply #1 - Oct 26^th, 2012 at 4:51am

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Gringo6 wrote on Oct 25^th, 2012 at 11:36pm:

That's odd. .msi is the format used by the Microsoft Windows Installer files designed to work with Windows.

You might need 3rd party software like 7-Zip to extract the files. http://www.7-zip.org/

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Reply #2 - Oct 26^th, 2012 at 7:55am

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Just double click on it --- it should install fine. (No need to use anything else or 7zip) It's just an install file and actually very easy to use.

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