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Jul 18, 2013

We have a few MSIs that successfully shut down Windows Explorer, but don't restart it about 50% of the time (guesstimate); RmRegisterResources() is used. A number of other functions and methods were also tried (including looking for all process threa...

Nov 22, 2008

Hey Derek,I'm coming across similar problems... I need to create an application and virdir (that have the same name) under IIS 7 (a user chosen dir) and then under that initiall app/virdir, create a tree of more vir dirs.When I install on IIS 7 (I us...

Jul 30, 2008

In my case, I am using a Basic MSI project w/no InstallScript. That said, my mind set has been that a custom action called close to removing backup files (one in deferred mode and one in commit right by InstallFinalize) may be hanging. I eliminated t...

Jul 30, 2008

That one line I take back: I am now unable to reproduce the issue on the machine on which this was happening for the past 9 hours! But when it was showing up, I was able to constantly reproduce the hang... sigh... 

Jul 30, 2008

I am seeing a similar problem---except the hang seems permanent. I've left it overnight (on various machines etc.) and can see it still hung. The issue is also posted on other threads here and I noted in one of those as well.Essentially:Hung at "Remo...

Jan 08, 2008

By the way, to counter the InstallFinalize/GAC commit issue, which is not the same as this issue yet closely related to the VS C++ runtimes, I used a commit custom action with the noImpersonate bit set (2048 + commit bit) in the Type column, then pla...

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Win Explorer doesn't restart when shut down via Restart Manager (RMRegisterResources)

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