Ugly prompted uninstall message of Vista UAC

[Simon_Yang]

I had a basic msi project. In install package, I signed setup.exe and *.msi. The problem is when I wanted to unisntall my application on Vista which turned UAC on, UAC prompted a message that "An unidentified program wants to access to your computer". If I clicked "details", it shows

unidentified Publisher

Update
[ProductVersion]
[CompanyName]


Since I alreaday signed setup.exe and *.msi, why did UAC warning about "unidentified Publisher"? And why it shows the unidentified Publisher is "Update", I did not have such file in my package.

Anyone knows what's happened?

Thanks!

[RobertDickau]

Please see, for example, Acresso KB article Q112476, as well as http://blogs.msdn.com/astebner/archive/2006/12/03/uac-prompt-from-unidentified-publisher-appears-when-uninstalling-msis-on-windows-vista.aspx.

[Simon_Yang]

Got it,

Thanks a lot for big help!!!

[mr_slava]

RobertDickau wrote:
Please see, for example, Acresso KB article Q112476, as well as http://blogs.msdn.com/astebner/archive/2006/12/03/uac-prompt-from-unidentified-publisher-appears-when-uninstalling-msis-on-windows-vista.aspx.

Oh Robert, this is like relive for my research. I almost start to sign .MST files 😉 Also found Microsoft KB: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/929467/en-us

Thanks, great find!