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This is a very interesting feature in MSI and I would like to explore and explain this for your knowledge and benefit. Word Count generally known as Word Count Summary property. This is a mandatory Summary property in MSI and can be changed from your WSI. Please note that this property is not in Property table but is in Summary table. This property has a different meaning for MSI, Transforms and Patch. This property is a bit feild. There are 4 bits which can be set or unset as in 0 or 1. eg. 01 Here is the description for these bits: --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bit 0 0 Long file names. 1 Short file names. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bit 1 0 Source is uncompressed. 2 Source is compressed. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bit 2 0 Source is original media. 4 Source is a administrative image created by an administrative installation. -...

Packages which need to include or which capture files with a total size exceeding 2 GB, it's necessary to use some tricks. Usually the MSI with cabs compressed outside the MSI allows the maximum size of cab files to be 2 GB. If the cab size file tries to exceed 2 GB, then the WISE package compilation throws an error. For this you need to create separate features. In these separate features, distribute the files in the package so that the feature has a total file size of less than 2 GB. After this you need to go to Media option in Installation expert and choose option one cab file per feature. This will give you the MSI along with cab files which have size less than 2 GB. Since the total package size will be very big, the downloading of cab files while deploying and then uncompressing them, will take lots of time. So the other solution is to choose the option of Uncompressed Files outside MSI in the media option. This will save time during installation.