How can I stop this prerequisite from rebooting the machine?
I created a prerequisite for the WebView2 control. I am attaching a copy of the .prq file. When I run the install of the control manually, it doesn't require a reboot. When I install the .prq before running our installer, it does. I have tried many combinations of options and I cannot figure out why it thinks it needs to reboot when a manual install on the exact same system does not.
The install image for the .prq is MicrosoftEdgeWebView2RuntimeInstallerX64.exe. I tried adding the /noreboot flag, but it's not supported by this installer. If you look at the file I have attached, you can see the registry key that it's looking at to determine if the prerequisite needs to be installed. Is this what's triggering the reboot?
Let's take a step back. From an Administrator command prompt, if you install the same redistributable on a clean machine that has never had the redistributable installed on it before, is a reboot triggered? Does Microsoft provide any documentation on a parameter(s) that the redistributable supports for suppressing a reboot? Ultimately, it's Microsoft redistributable, so Microsoft has the experts and has the final authority on that topic.
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No. Installing on a clean machine does not trigger a reboot. I have tried on several different versions of Windows and none of them trigger a reboot. Unfortunately Microsoft does not provide much documentation about this. I was hoping that someone here had dealt with this particular redistributable.
It's not documented, but I tried adding the /noreboot option to the install prereq, but then the install failed. Obviously it's not a supported CLI option.
