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. Charlie says:
    May 8, 2007 at 8:10 pm

    *

    Thanks dude,

    I was almost numb to get this.

    *

    Haha you guys are so lame….

  2. Aaron says:
    May 9, 2007 at 4:51 pm

    Thank you Brent, this is very much appreciated!

  3. krishna says:
    May 11, 2007 at 5:07 am

    thanks a million

  4. Amar Nath Samal says:
    May 16, 2007 at 12:39 am

    Hi Brent, thanks a lot. U have saved a lots of time. It took 5 min to download and install orca on my machine

  5. shaun says:
    May 17, 2007 at 7:11 pm

    Thank you so much mate this was the most painfull search to obtain this msi. Much appreciated

  6. Giana says:
    May 27, 2007 at 12:56 pm

    thank you thank you thank you thank you 🙂

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  8. gaurav mehta says:
    June 4, 2007 at 4:14 am

    thanks

  9. Muktish says:
    June 5, 2007 at 4:47 am

    Thanks!

    In Kannada, (apathbandhava) real rescuer. It has helped me a lot.

    Muktish KG

  10. Gavin Cornelius says:
    June 7, 2007 at 6:45 am

    Many Thanks – had a problem unpacking WSUS 3.0 – this tool worked a treat and saved me downloading the 300meg SDK package.

  11. GhosT says:
    June 8, 2007 at 5:08 pm

    Great work dude.
    Saved my pc for junky 400 MB’s.

    Btw, This (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/255905) Can be helpful.

    GhosT 🙂

  12. Dinther says:
    June 13, 2007 at 4:35 pm

    I cracked up lauging when I finally arrived at the microsoft download page where a file larger than a Gig needed to be downloaded just so I could get my hands on orca.msi. Even with broadband. This is just stupid.

    I know, I should have gone to trusty Google first where I found this page is several milliseconds. Thanks dude.

  13. Rahul says:
    June 19, 2007 at 11:23 pm

    Thanks dear,

    This is great thiong u done for us.
    Thank you again.

  14. Rumplestiltskin says:
    June 22, 2007 at 10:31 am

    Thanks – very handy.
    🙂

  15. Michael says:
    July 9, 2007 at 11:56 am

    Michael from Odense, Denmark…. says thank you very much:-)

  16. ivan says:
    July 9, 2007 at 8:27 pm

    thanks a lot.. thats so kind of you man..:) tytytytytyty……..!!!1

  17. Pierre says:
    July 17, 2007 at 2:11 am

    Dude, This is why I love the internet – made me gain simply hours thanks to this!

  18. anonymous says:
    July 17, 2007 at 5:15 pm

    word. As others have said, this has saved me the hassle from downloading a huge sdk from MS for one little file.

    Really appreciate it!

  19. Swaroop says:
    July 31, 2007 at 12:59 am

    Great Post! Thanks a lot bud! Saved me a lot of time in downlaoding the entire SDK.

    Warm Regards,
    Swaroop

  20. ORCA858 says:
    August 2, 2007 at 10:30 pm

    Thanks a lot!!!!!

  21. Lolb_UK says:
    August 6, 2007 at 12:09 pm

    Cheers Brent – Now the BBC iPlayer works on XP64 bit after a mino tweek with ORCA ;-}

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  23. bao says:
    August 17, 2007 at 1:52 pm

    thank you!
    saved me a lot of hassle

  24. carlos says:
    August 20, 2007 at 8:06 am

    Thanks…

  25. David says:
    August 21, 2007 at 8:40 am

    Thank you much,

    Once again MS makes you jump through hoops just to get something simple accomplished.

    Thanks

  26. Pradeep says:
    August 29, 2007 at 6:02 am

    Great man,
    many thanks to you i have searched alot for this….:)

  27. Mark says:
    August 30, 2007 at 4:29 pm

    Thank you. Handy Dandy

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  29. Samuel says:
    September 4, 2007 at 8:44 am

    Thanks much!

  30. Lailson Bandeira says:
    September 8, 2007 at 8:15 pm

    Really thank you guy.

  31. Shihab says:
    September 26, 2007 at 5:08 am

    Thank u very much & I’ve to say that my GPRS connection is so weak to download large file, so this is very helpful. Thanks again!

  32. Sharad Sharma says:
    September 27, 2007 at 10:03 pm

    Thanks a lot for this valuable help.

  33. eydryan says:
    September 28, 2007 at 8:54 am

    i love you man, i remember how much i had to search and then wait for one simple program so i could install stuff on my server2003 machine… good stuff man, good stuff

  34. edwin_1 says:
    October 1, 2007 at 9:47 am

    Thanks for the file!!! needed it and didnt want to have to download the junk to get it.

  35. VInix says:
    October 4, 2007 at 7:15 pm

    Thanks. I need it for change something. 😉

  36. freddyzdead says:
    October 11, 2007 at 4:14 pm

    Thanks buckets, man. You’re an absolute champion.

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  38. Steve Banza says:
    November 7, 2007 at 3:25 am

    Thanks,
    I hope it will work fine.
    Steve

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  40. Kernelnet Informática says:
    November 14, 2007 at 3:27 am

    Thanks,
    I hope it will work fine.

  41. jessn says:
    November 26, 2007 at 6:00 am

    I have been using this for a couple of years ago and it is really a useful tool. Thanks for the “quick-download” for this nifty tool.

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  43. tracymeee says:
    December 3, 2007 at 7:24 am

    thank you, i am looking for it and stucked before in Microsoft jungle website…

  44. Sayed B says:
    December 5, 2007 at 12:00 am

    Thanks Brent. keep up the good work

  45. Dean says:
    December 9, 2007 at 4:03 pm

    Thanks a ton. I am on dial up and have to fix Guitar Hero III for my system since the developers failed to give the game x64 support.

    you just saved me a bundle of time!

  46. dan says:
    December 11, 2007 at 10:35 am

    THENK YOU!

    i was just downloading the crap from microsoft … you saved me a lot of time

  47. Dave Scrivener says:
    December 28, 2007 at 9:58 am

    Brent,
    Needless to say you’ve provided a valuable public service. Some recognition should probably be given to Microsoft for making the editor freely available. However, they pretty much negate the good karma by requiring such a ridiculously large download.
    Again just a reinforcement of all the other thanks.

  48. tim says:
    January 2, 2008 at 12:23 am

    thanks you are the man!!!!

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  50. roach says:
    January 22, 2008 at 6:45 pm

    thanks man.

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