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https://devblogs.microsoft.com/setup/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2018/08/vsfeaturemed.png559350Windows Installer custom actions that launch executables (base custom action type msidbCustomActionTypeExe, 0x2) are typically bad and should be avoided. How are they bad? Let the Windows Installer team count the ways. During internal audits we question any EXE custom actions (CAs) but inevitably some make it into the product. Typically these EXE CAs are […]