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Legacy Apps with No Install Media: Capture and Repackage to MSI or MSIX

The installer is gone, the vendor is gone, and the app still runs the business. It can still move.

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In this video

  • Our consultants capture the application from the machine where it still works, even Windows XP or an old Windows Server
  • Files, registry and configuration, exactly as they are, with no installer or source code needed
  • Repackaged as MSI or MSIX, fixed for modern Windows and tested on a supported operating system
  • Deploy it again and again on Windows 11 or a current Windows Server
  • If an app genuinely cannot move, such as 16-bit code on 64-bit Windows, we tell you early
  • Packaging specialists since 2013

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Transcript

There's always one. The app the business relies on, on a machine nobody dares touch. The installer's gone, the vendor's gone, and the person who set it up left years ago.

So it can't be rebuilt, can't be retired, and it holds the whole upgrade back.

Systech can move it anyway.

Our consultants capture the application from the machine where it still works, even Windows XP or an old Windows Server. Its files, settings and configuration, exactly as they are.

Then we repackage it as MSI or MSIX, fix what modern Windows objects to, and test it on a supported operating system.

The result is a package you can deploy again and again, on Windows 11 or a current Windows Server.

And if an app genuinely can't move, like 16-bit code on 64-bit Windows, we'll tell you early, and help you isolate or replace it.

Packaging specialists since 2013.

Book a call, tell us about the app nobody can touch, and we'll tell you if it can move.

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