Being a Mac user, I can proudly say it is one of the most powerful machine ever built for the Developers. When I switched to Mac from Windows, for 2-3 days I found it very difficult to operate Mac. But now, I can’t think of switching back considering the User-friendly GUI and my love for UNIX. Though everything is just amazing, but there’s always room for improvement and Mac is no exception to it.
Microsoft has an excellent tool called IntuneWinAppUtil.exe to convert existing MSI packages to.IntuneWin. If you are wondering why to convert MSI package source to.IntuneWin format, I would recommend reading Vimal’s post here. I’m planning to have a couple of other follow up posts on. Review your selections before building the MSI file. Finally, the exe file should converted to MSI file. Right click the output msi package and see the result. MSI Package Properties. That is all about how to convert exe to msi package to install software with Group Policy. If this software is not help you to create msi package from an exe file. The.MSI extension is a file that acts as an installation package developed exclusively by Microsoft for the Windows format. For Mac users, this may pose a problem for viewing.MSI files. But there is a solution in the form of extracting software.
- Convert MSI Online. The list shows what formats can convert to MSI and what formats can be converted from MSI. Click on a link below to start a specific conversion. # Conversion Position Type 1: MSI to 7z: convert from MSI.
- If you are converting a.msi installer, you can simply browse for it, and specify the.msi. If you have an accompanying.mst or.msp file, you can specify that in the installer arguments field. One of the benefits of specifying your.msi here is that we can pull all of the package information from it, saving you time on the next step of conversion.
Most of the people don’t even realise that many of the apps that they used to run on Windows are not available for Mac until they hit the roadblocks. Some of them end up paying the hefty amount for Parallel Desktop and other install Windows via BootCamp. In case you don’t need complete Windows experience and just want to run some apps or programs, we have a better solution for you. Today, at GizmoStorm, we are with How To Run exe Files On Mac Without Installing Windows :
Before We Begin, You Need:
- Mac running on OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard or above.
- WineBottler and Wine app installed on your Mac. Both the app comes in a single package, just drag both the apps to Application folder.
[DownloadWineBottlerPackage]
How To Run exe Files On Mac Without Installing Windows
Step 1: Done with installing WineBottler and Wine app? If not, please follow the pre-requisite section before proceeding further. WineBottler packages the Windows-based applications like media players, applications, business tools and any other significant program that has not been ported to OS X into mac bundles.
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Step 2: Keep your .exe file that you want to run on your Mac handy.
Step 3: Now head over to the file and double click on it. I am a big fan of classic games and Sonic is one of them, so in my case, I’ll be using Sonic.exe
Step 4: It’ll ask you if you want to run the .exe file directly or want to convert it to Mc bundle first, the choice is totally yours. For illustration purpose I am selecting the latter.
Step 5: A window will pop up. Keep the settings same, but the particular settings highlighted in the screenshot totally depends upon your choice. Select any one of them according to your needs, it’ll not be a problem.
Step 6: Press the Install button, sit back and relax as Wine will do rest of the work for you. Finally, you’ll be gifted with the Mac bundled application of your favourite windows .exe file.
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In case you didn’t understand the procedure, we have a video tutorial for you :
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