Orca MSI Editor

Posted on August 9, 2006 by Brent

I had to use a program that Microsoft puts out for free today. It is called orca and it can be used to edit MSIs at the database level. It is a good tool, but to get it you have to download like 300 megs of junk from MS. It seemed pretty dumb, so I am posting here so that I don’t have to do that anymore.

Download orca.msi

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  1. Prashant Mehta says:
    January 4, 2007 at 7:27 am

    Can anyone help me out?

    I want to remove Repair/Remove option in Setup. I want the setup to install everytime it is run,

    Do anyone have an idea hoe it can be done?

  2. Akanimo says:
    January 8, 2007 at 12:28 pm

    Couldnt help but also throw in my $0.02 of thanx for time and effort saved! THANX!!!

  3. vie says:
    January 12, 2007 at 5:48 am

    thanks for the help buddy..it has saved my time.
    thanks.

  4. Another says:
    January 18, 2007 at 9:52 pm

    Thanks for the file!

  5. Jay says:
    January 19, 2007 at 8:32 am

    Thanks so much for this file! I really didn’t want to download 300 megs of junk just to get to this file.

    You rule!

    -Jay

  6. Al says:
    January 31, 2007 at 11:22 am

    Thanks for the download! Saved tons of time over downloaded that whole SDK!

    Alchik

  7. Dinny says:
    February 1, 2007 at 1:36 am

    Well i guess you blessed me with 10hrs of my life. i would have wasted atleast that much to download the whole SDK for ORCA.

    Thanx Again
    Bless
    Dinny

  8. Boris Alexandrov says:
    February 2, 2007 at 2:21 pm

    a brilliant and really thoughtfull move. You deserve an award from William Gates.

  9. szlevi says:
    February 5, 2007 at 5:41 pm

    Halleluja, you saved me a lot of time – thank you!!!

  10. Mukta says:
    February 6, 2007 at 3:28 pm

    Thanks a lot. It was really helpful. I was not able to download that stuff.

  11. Arun Mathew says:
    February 20, 2007 at 8:19 am

    Thanks a lot buddy!!!

  12. muad says:
    February 22, 2007 at 5:55 am

    u are the man

  14. Gim says:
    February 25, 2007 at 5:32 pm

    Thanks heaps. Was about to start my second attempt at wading through the cruft that is the ‘Windows 2003 Platform SDK’ and it’s associated GenuineAdvantage restrictions.

    Saved. My. Day.

  15. Quimin says:
    February 27, 2007 at 2:07 pm

    Awsome! Thank you much!!!!!!

  16. Hrishi says:
    February 27, 2007 at 5:14 pm

    Thanks a lot!!!!

  17. Raul Macias says:
    February 27, 2007 at 10:13 pm

    Thanks a lot; you saved my day.

  19. ZicoZac says:
    March 1, 2007 at 4:19 am

    Woooo! Cool Man! Awesome! Thanx!

  20. Vincent says:
    March 1, 2007 at 9:45 pm

    God Bless you 🙂

  21. Francis says:
    March 1, 2007 at 10:10 pm

    Thank you sir

  22. Tinus says:
    March 6, 2007 at 3:05 am

    Thanx a billion! 😀

  23. orthoepy says:
    March 6, 2007 at 8:08 pm

    searching for this without the big download forever, thank you muchly

  24. Moloch says:
    March 7, 2007 at 8:19 pm

    Thanks, you saved me alot of time and effort, keep up the great work!

  25. Gert says:
    March 8, 2007 at 11:46 am

    seems you’re very popular 😉

  26. Webster says:
    March 10, 2007 at 5:07 pm

    Thanks dude!

  28. eatman says:
    March 15, 2007 at 10:29 pm

    i downloaded the 300mb! but i formatted my comp w/o backing up this little files!!!
    thanks matey 😉

  29. Rob D. says:
    March 16, 2007 at 5:38 pm

    Thanks so much for posting this. It’s always a headache when you find out the one file you need is buried within another bloated download. Much appreciated!

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  32. Jim says:
    March 21, 2007 at 12:26 pm

    Thank God someone had the sense to separate Orca out from the SDK. You’ve just saved me from a 2+ hr download wait before I could continue to try to sort out the mess of an MSI that one of my suppliers has sent me.

    Ta.

  33. raul says:
    March 22, 2007 at 12:52 pm

    Thanks a lot Im from Costa Rica and I have been looking for orca for a long time.

  34. renne says:
    March 27, 2007 at 7:59 pm

    Thanks i really nedded this utility.

  35. ThankFullUser says:
    March 28, 2007 at 1:10 am

    Thank you very much

  36. Marcos says:
    March 30, 2007 at 4:26 am

    Nice one Brent 🙂

  37. raj says:
    April 1, 2007 at 1:12 am

    thanxs mate!

  38. Troy says:
    April 1, 2007 at 6:33 pm

    AWESOME thanks very very much! Saved me heaps of time mate

    🙂

  39. M says:
    April 3, 2007 at 8:48 am

    Thanks!!! I didn’t have enough free space to download the whole SDK… So this is perfect

  40. Troz says:
    April 9, 2007 at 7:13 pm

    Thanks heaps mate, I was just going to give it a miss until i came across your site. Big thumbs up.

    Troz

  41. Musayyub says:
    April 12, 2007 at 3:00 am

    When installing the Google Video Downloader:-
    http://switch.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/gvdownloader/GVDownloader180.zip,.net framework version 1.1.4322 is required even though .Net framework v2.0 is installed http://www.brentnorris.net/blog/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_confused.gif.

    While searching for the solutions I fall upon this:-
    http://geekswithblogs.net/pavelka/archive/2006/02/14/69425.aspx

    On further search I landed here and I was deeply relieved http://www.brentnorris.net/blog/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif.

    Thanks a lot, I am saved from dowloading the BIG SDK package http://www.brentnorris.net/blog/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif.

  42. John says:
    April 14, 2007 at 7:49 am

    Thanks, we need more people like you.

  43. Frank says:
    April 15, 2007 at 3:50 am

    Brent, Thanx dude, it doesn’t get easier than this !

  44. angelo says:
    April 17, 2007 at 1:18 pm

    u da man. needed this.

  45. Arash says:
    April 25, 2007 at 4:54 am

    Thanks a lot !! , I need it.

  46. hollister says:
    April 25, 2007 at 3:17 pm

    You rock. thanks for the file

  47. Cesar O. says:
    April 29, 2007 at 4:47 pm

    A millions of thanks for this! It saved me a lot of time!

  48. Berlic says:
    May 2, 2007 at 5:38 am

    Thanks, dude!
    Saved my time!

  49. Jawad says:
    May 6, 2007 at 5:41 pm

    Thanks dude! saved my time and from downloading 300mb of un-needed junk!

  50. Dirty Harry says:
    May 6, 2007 at 8:04 pm

    Thx Buddy!

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