Thanks Michael, Do you happen to have any reference information on how to do this with the Professional edition of InstallShield 2013 (i.e. not within a Suite project)? Thanks ... View more

I would also be very interested to know how to do this (a .PRQ file to achieve this would be very helpful!) ... View more

I too am interested in this. My installer will need to install an updated version of a prerequisite, but that will not be possible if it is already installed/running (service). Is it possible to remove a specific pre-requisite on uninstall/major upgrade? (I think I can see there being an issue with this, requiring functionality the setup.exe bootloader probably doesn't provide, but it would be good to get confirmation of available options - if any) ... View more

Hi all, I'm experiencing exactly the same behaviour (using InstallShield 2012 Spring - Professional Ed.) Has anyone found a solution to this issue? (seeing as Microsoft do not appear to want to fix it themselves) 😞 The only "workaround" I could find is to change the SQL Server 2008 R2 Express prereq from a Feature pre-req to an Install before pre-req (which is awful and unacceptable for our setup project) Many thanks 🙂 ... View more

Thanks TsungH for your suggestions, though it does sound that I'm fighting the system to get this happening (which just amazes me). Regarding your suggestions: 1) I think this is the only method that will *work*, sadly this kinda defeats the point of me having three files in the same source folder which then get renamed via three different installer projects (if I've understood you correctly). As I'd have a clash each time I switch installer projects. 2) Will give this a go - but again sounds like I'm *bending* the system. 3) I think you're right, this won't work as it will try to rename the file before it's been deployed. Thanks again for your suggestions - I think just avoid having to do this full-stop until the software gives us this functionality (which seems such an obvious one!) 🙂 ... View more