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Jan 19, 2010

I am wondering if anyone can help here.I have a file that I am registering during an installation. It fails on Windows 7/Vista because of a permission issue.There is a documented discrepancy between something with requireAdministrator defined in its...

Oct 29, 2008

We have been seeing an issue with a setup that only sometimes happens on Vista. During self-registration of flagged files the ISSelfRegisterFiles custom action seems to die out while in the middle of successfully registering files.It doesnt complete...

Aug 27, 2012

I am seeing this also on Windows 7. I isntall to a standard start menu folder and at seemingly random a program that we isntall new for the first time is populating the recently run programs list in the start menu.It seems to be something in windows...

Mar 02, 2010

I also have dealt with this issue recently. When you set the PATH variable it does get updated right away but your MSIEXEC sessions does not see it yet - it only knows of the PATH definition as it existed when the process started.So in essence you u...

Jan 20, 2010

I looked into it more. THe registration routine (regsvr32 of a com dll) is trying to write/modify a key in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\xyz\ which is not permitted even in elevated mode.Only with Run As Administrat...

Nov 13, 2008

Yes it is deferred in system context and the setup has a defined required execution level of administrator.

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