Hi All I just wanted to refresh this thread as I could not come up with a solution but seen the same issue on another website: http://www.appdeploy.com/messageboards/printable.asp?m=48183 Any help is appreciated! ... View more

I want to install a service in my installer. My installer also does Major Upgrades so when doing an upgrade I would want to stop the service and remove the previous one and install the new one. Also after the install, I want to start the service. For this, will I have to create 2 components: An Install Service component to install the service A Control Service that starts the service during install; stops and removes the service during uninstall. I assume I dont have to worry about sequencing here to make sure Control Service is executed after the Install Service to make sure it doesnt attempt to start a service that is not available yet. I assume stopping and removal are likewise taken care by the Windows Installer standard actions (like StartServices, StopServices) in the correct order. So I would appreciate if somebody can comment on my approach here. Thanks. ... View more

Thanks Debbie ... View more

Found it: Q109557: ERRDOC: Build Error 6041 ... View more

No UAC window is, expectedly, prompted up to this point, hence nothing was accepted. I remember that, in the log file, it shows the USERNAME property is resolved to "user" instead of "std". I can re-create and provide the logs tomorrow AM first thing if that would help. Thanks Michael. ... View more

No, I could not find a solution for that... I ended up with statically linking the dlls. ... View more

To be honest, I am not sure about the internals of the driver installation. The driver comes with a merge module and there is a Custom Action called InstallDriver. At the point where this CA is executed, following window is displayed. Thanks for the reply and looking forward to more 🙂 ... View more

MichaelU wrote: Your setup contains only prerequisites that are configured to be hidden from the list? Correct. I will try what you suggested below and let you know the outcome. Thanks Michael. ... View more

First of all, I have disabled the pre-requisite pending window. My exe directly starts installing the pre-reqs without asking user to hit Install or Cancel. So I am not seeing any visual symptoms mentioned here. But if I look at the process list, I am seeing the setup.exe process spawning on and on. The number of the process number of setup.exe's spawned reaches to hundred and more. Is there any log that I could generate for the setup.exe launcher? ... View more

How are you trying to change the product code? Is it part of a build script? You should take out the part that is trying to change the product code since there isn't one. ... View more

The OS I am using Win7 but I believe same would happen on a Vista, too. Michael, as for the patches, I believe you are asking for the Windows patches and update? I cannot guarantee that every patch is applied but I think windows updates are applied. The setup.exe gets stuck in an infinite loop. Since UAC is off, no UAC propmt nor such message are displayed. It is weird that it is not happening with all the setup.exe's that I produce. I simply have 3 products and hance 3 installers. 2 of them have same pre-reqs and 1 of them have some separate pre-reqs. I am not sure this could be to do with the pre-reqs that are used, but the 2 of them with the same pre-reqs are presenting the issue while the other not. Anyway, the problematic packages dont even get to install the pre-reqs as they go into the infinite loop. Any idea on how to debug this? AFAIK, Setup exe doesnt produce any logs (not talking about the MSI logs, but the setup.exe itself). Event viewer doesnt seem to log anything either. ... View more