DEÁK JAHN, Gábor wrote:
> I don't know what's inside your MSI (you can use the MSI packer plugin in 
> Total Commander to look into it just like into any other packed file) but, 
> just a thought: if you refer to a large executable just because it contains 
> the icon you want to use, the whole executable will appear in the MSI. And if 
> you deploy the same executable with your product, the file will be included 
> twice, once for the icon, once for the deployment.
>   

The same is true of any "blob" type, both Icon and Binary. OLE storage 
doesn't compress them. If you have big bitmaps, try reducing the color 
depth.

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