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DebugView for Windows

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DebugView is an application that lets you monitor debug output on your local system, or any computer on the network that you can reach via TCP/IP.

To monitor MSI installation actions in real time:

  1. Create the Debug (reg_dword) registry entry under
    HKLM\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Installer and set the data value to 00000002.
  2. Start DebugView, now Windows installer installations will write their Standard/Custom Actions and this will be displayed in DebugView.

You can download the latest version here:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb...