Disable Change/Remove/Repair buttons under Add/Remove Programs Not working

[Sergio_ag]

Hi everyone, 🙂

I am trying to disable the Change/Remove/Repair buttons for my install and I changed all the values to "Yes" under General Information -> Add Remove Programs, in the MST which I working on.

But, when I install the msi+mst, the Change/Remove" button still appears and it is possible to repair and remove the application that is what I want to avoid. :mad:

Any idea why this happens and how this can be fixed? :confused:

Thanks in advance !!

[Dan_Galender]

Are there other changes in your transform that are working correctly?

[Sergio_ag]

I think the mst is working fine because other modifications worked well.
Finally, I was able to disable the buttons, I created manually entries NoModify and so on in the registry.

In that key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\ program create those entries under product code, but not under name product folder so I created them and it worked.

[Cary_R]

Hi Sergio,

While it's good that you found the way around the issue, the "Best Practice" way is probably worth troubleshooting still.

Basically, what you'll want to do is:

1. Create a logfile:

msiexec.exe /i package.msi /l*v c:\install.log

2. Look at the property dump at the end of the log. Specifically, these properties should have a value of '1':

ARPNOMODIFY
ARPNOREMOVE
ARPNOREPAIR

If these are not set, your transform either isn't getting applied, or it doesn't contain the entries you thought it does.

Regards,

Cary

[Sergio_ag]

Hi Cary,

That's what I did,
I saw that properties were created under the ProductCode folder, but there was also a folder with the name of the aplication that I didn't see and under that folder, those properties weren't not created so I did it manually and it worked.

regards,
Sergio.