diff --git a/CHANGELOG.adoc b/CHANGELOG.adoc
index 3412d1bf7..e019a6f48 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.adoc
+++ b/CHANGELOG.adoc
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ The full list of changes for this release can be found in https://github.com/dev
 
 Release with new features and bugfixes:
 
+* https://github.com/devonfw/IDEasy/issues/315[#315]: Fix frozen process after MSI installation
 * https://github.com/devonfw/IDEasy/issues/312[#312]: Add ability to prefer git (ssh) protocol instead of https for cloning repo
 * https://github.com/devonfw/IDEasy/issues/685[#685]: Upgrades and cleanup of dependencies and according license and doc
 * https://github.com/devonfw/IDEasy/pull/693[#693]: Setup not working on Mac
diff --git a/cli/src/main/java/com/devonfw/tools/ide/tool/GlobalToolCommandlet.java b/cli/src/main/java/com/devonfw/tools/ide/tool/GlobalToolCommandlet.java
index 9a5bb6d92..8bcd676e5 100644
--- a/cli/src/main/java/com/devonfw/tools/ide/tool/GlobalToolCommandlet.java
+++ b/cli/src/main/java/com/devonfw/tools/ide/tool/GlobalToolCommandlet.java
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@
 import com.devonfw.tools.ide.process.EnvironmentContext;
 import com.devonfw.tools.ide.process.ProcessContext;
 import com.devonfw.tools.ide.process.ProcessErrorHandling;
+import com.devonfw.tools.ide.process.ProcessMode;
 import com.devonfw.tools.ide.repo.ToolRepository;
 import com.devonfw.tools.ide.version.VersionIdentifier;
 
@@ -141,7 +142,7 @@ public boolean install(boolean silent, EnvironmentContext environmentContext) {
       executable = fileAccess.findFirst(downloadBinaryPath, Files::isExecutable, false);
     }
     ProcessContext pc = this.context.newProcess().errorHandling(ProcessErrorHandling.LOG_WARNING).executable(executable);
-    int exitCode = pc.run();
+    int exitCode = pc.run(ProcessMode.BACKGROUND).getExitCode();
     if (tmpDir != null) {
       fileAccess.delete(tmpDir);
     }