Re: [WiX-users] UAC Prompt on Minor Upgrade

2011-07-30 Thread Christopher Painter
Nevermind, I figured it out.  I cleared bit 3 of the Word Count Summary Property and all is behaving as I need it now. --- Christopher Painter, Author of Deployment Engineering Blog Have a hot tip, know a secret or read a really good thread that deserves attention? E-Mail Me From: Christopher

[WiX-users] UAC Prompt on Minor Upgrade

2011-07-30 Thread Christopher Painter
All,   In the past ( Windows XP )  I could install an MSI from a network share that was set up as ALLUSERS=1 / Managed.    This was a properly designed/ behaving MSI ( tested with /jm ).   I could then create a new installer following minor upgrade rules and drop it into the same directory on t

Re: [WiX-users] computing space requirements - takes a long time

2011-07-30 Thread Rob Mensching
The Windows Installer always adds a backslash to paths. I'd be really surprised if it is the adding of the backslash that takes a lot of time. When upgrading lots of existing files the Windows Installer is also preparing for how to rollback all those files that would be replaced. This is why repair

Re: [WiX-users] Building Source/Learning Burn

2011-07-30 Thread Rob Mensching
Someone else noted recently that uninstalls aren't happening in all cases. If you have a Burn log file showing the problem, please open a bug. It sounds like something is wrong in there. On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 9:06 PM, JesseBearden wrote: > With a little tweaking 5 out of 8 projects built, but

[WiX-users] Conditions not working at all

2011-07-30 Thread Marc Bauer
Hi I'm trying to uninstall an old app that was made with suxxx NSIS installer and need to upgrade it to MSI. What could be the best way? I tried to make a registry search and set the UNINSTALLNSIS property. I ran MSI with debug mode and see the property has been set: MSI (c) (78:40) [15:40:42:577