Legacy Update: Get back online, activate, and install updates on your legacy Windows PC

The Microsoft® Windows® Installer (MSI) is the application installation and configuration service for Windows. These download packages will update the version of Windows Installer on your system to version 4.5.

• The Microsoft® Windows® Installer (MSI) is the application installation and configuration service for Windows. Version 4.5 of the Windows Installer has several new features, including:
  
  Multiple Package Transaction: In a multiple package transaction, you can create a single transaction from multiple packages. In a multiple package transaction, a chainer is used to dynamically include packages in the transaction. If any of the packages do not install as expected, you can roll back the installation.
  
  Embedded UI Handler: You can embed a custom user interface (UI) handler in the Windows Installer package. This makes a custom UI easier to integrate. You can also invoke an embedded UI handler from the Add or Remove item in Control Panel. Or, you can invoke an embedded UI handler during a Windows Installer repair process.
  
  Embedded Chainer: You can use the embedded chainer to add packages to a multiple package transaction. You can use an embedded chainer to enable installation events across multiple packages. For example, you can enable the install-on-demand events, the repair events, and the uninstall events across multiple packages.
  
  Update Supersedence Resiliency: This feature enables you to correct for changes in the FeatureComponent table during supersedence.
  
  Shared Component Patching Resiliency During Uninstall: This feature makes sure that the most recent version of a component is available to all the products.
  
  Custom Action Execution On Update Uninstall: This feature enables an update to add or change a custom action so that the custom action is called when an update is uninstalled.
  
  After installation of this package, the version of Windows Installer on the system will be upgraded to 4.5.

Files

Status: Deleted This download is no longer available on microsoft.com. The downloads below are archives provided by the Internet Archive Wayback Machine from the Microsoft Download Center prior to August 2020.

File	Size
redist.txt SHA1: c61e9150fc8dd7d43b42594bbd771265e692cbc9	1 KB
Windows6.0-KB942288-v2-ia64.msu SHA1: 8460aef9621862ad8770cf380c94af4320855150	3.42 MB
Windows6.0-KB942288-v2-x64.msu SHA1: cf17cfa81a8dc032662e6309cc136a7f4324c143	2.94 MB
Windows6.0-KB942288-v2-x86.msu SHA1: 77db6dd4a51e4c5bc2a474a87ae54c3cce2dbb31	1.68 MB
WindowsServer2003-KB942288-v4-ia64.exe SHA1: 1982244bf6f5dfd91935976ccd7b550d1e86ab5c	24.58 MB
WindowsServer2003-KB942288-v4-x64.exe SHA1: 9724f8b3c12fadeee26cd68e139f515cee28acee	4.43 MB
WindowsServer2003-KB942288-v4-x86.exe SHA1: 8ecc8fd0549ab6f26803e9c2f840a671760f913b	2.88 MB
WindowsXP-KB942288-v3-x86.exe SHA1: 86e1cc622dbf4979717b8f76ad73220cdb70400b	3.12 MB

• The Windows Installer 4.5 redistributable can be installed on Windows XP Service Pack 2, Windows XP Service Pack 3, Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1, Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 2, Windows Vista, Windows Vista Service Pack 1, and Windows Server 2008 in X86, X64 and IA64 flavors.

• Download the file that is appropriate for your operating system version and platform.
  
  For Windows Vista, Windows Vista Service Pack 1 and Windows Server 2008:
  x86 Platform: Windows6.0-KB942288-v2-x86.msu
  x64 Platform: Windows6.0-KB942288-v2-x64.msu
  IA64 Platform: Windows6.0-KB942288-v2-ia64.msu
  
  For Windows XP Service Pack 2 and Windows XP Service Pack 3 (32-bit platforms):
  x86 Platform: WindowsXP-KB942288-v3-x86.exe
  
  For Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1, Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 2 and Windows XP 64-bit Editions:
  x86 Platform: WindowsServer2003-KB942288-v4-x86.exe
  x64 Platform: WindowsServer2003-KB942288-v4-x64.exe
  IA64 Platform: WindowsServer2003-KB942288-v4-ia64.exe
  
  For complete information on installing or upgrading Windows installer, including command line options, please see the Windows Installer Start Page on MSDN.