Also, why are you never prompted to elevate to Admin rights when you run the setup, that is strange. ... View more

Try compiling it and running it on a clean machine like a VMWare virtual machine. When I do it that, it does not prompt, nor does it reboot.   ... View more

Your sample does exactly as I described. The setup runs to the end, there is no prompt to reboot, and there is no reboot, even though a reboot is required. There is no option in your system to run the setup to the end and then prompt for a reboot. Please fix this. ... View more

I am not able to open this sample in InstallShield 2021 ... View more

Hi Varul, you can test this with InstallShield's own prerequisites. I tried both the .NET 4.8 Full, and the Visual C++ 2019 Redistributable. If you ask me it's quite simple. InstallShield gives a number of options in the Behavior tab for dealing with reboot scenarios, none of which are "correct". There are only two scenarios, both of which the setup should run to the end. At the end, either a standard user is prompted to reboot now or later or; the user is a doing an admin rollout where they don't won't to be prompted, they want it to reboot automatically. The admin rollout should actually be a commandline option so, really there is only one "correct" reboot scenario configuration. And InstallShield currently does not support the only "correct" configuration. If the "Note it,..." selection worked as it is documented then that would solve the problem, as it is the system is broken.   ... View more

Hi roman2, Thanks, I tried your solution and various tweaks of it and still cannot get it work. I am able to log the main msi, where I get: PROPERTY CHANGE: Adding MsiSystemRebootPending property. Its value is '1' and then: Skipping action: ScheduleReboot (condition is false) I am trying to log the prerequisite in the setup.exe using this advice in the help file: Setup.exe and Update.exe Command-Line Parameters  but the setup.exe does not recognize the /debuglog switch and fails to run the setup. When it does run, it is acting as if the prerequisite is running from the setup.exe in a windows installer instance that ends and then the main msi runs in a it's own instance and there is no communication between the two instances. In any case it is definitely not acting as described in the Behavior page documentation says it should. ... View more

Ok, hopefully almost there. Getting the prerequisite files into the setup.exe requires a setting on the Media\Release\Setup.exe. So now I have the prerequisite installing, but it dos not continue with the main setup setup after installing the prerequisite, I have run the setup again to run the main setup. ... View more

Thanks for the link. There seems to be some missing information, though. I have successfully created the prerequisite with the Application To Run set as the vs_redist.x86.exe, it compiles, but when I run the setup.exe it errors that it cannot find the file to run for this prerequisite. How do I make sure the vc_redist.x86.exe is included in the msi or the setup.exe package and the prerequisite knows where to find it?   ... View more

I installed the sp6 update to a test machine and it copies .cab files for each control to a folder, I imagine for redistribution. Is there some way to reconcile these .cab files with the merge modules? ... View more