Re: [WiX-users] enter user into registry

2007-04-04 Thread Some user
that's what I have tried to do, but it didn't seem to work so I thought it couldn't be done that way. In the components I had a and then in one of the dialogs I had but the key is not created? But why would you want to do that? You can have the UI set a property with the value the user ent

[WiX-users] enter user into registry

2007-04-04 Thread Some user
how do I enter something the user puts into an edit field into the registry somewhere? Using a custom action I cannot add registry entries? -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/enter-user-into-registry-tf3524223.html#a9832070 Sent from the wix-users mailing list archive at Nab

Re: [WiX-users] setting computer regional time format

2007-04-03 Thread Some user
I totally agree, and in fact it was one of the points I brought up. But my boss wants it to do this specifically. Lucky our users are locked in eh... :/ -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/setting-computer-regional-time-format-tf3509715.html#a9828848 Sent from the wix-user

[WiX-users] setting computer regional time format

2007-04-02 Thread Some user
I need to change the user's regional time format on a computer http://www.nabble.com/file/7627/Untitled.gif During the installation. Our program does not run unless the regional time format is at a particular setting. And yet we do not want for users to need to set it manually themselves. I h

Re: [WiX-users] upgrade nightmare

2007-03-29 Thread Some user
the problem is that requiring commandline parameters or bootstrapper is unacceptable for us, we have seen that our users are too stupid to type a commandline (!?) so I have been told toto make a thing that can do installs and updates on the same package without requiring any commandline parameter

Re: [WiX-users] Upgrade problem

2007-03-29 Thread Some user
How does a major upgrade differ from small one? Tamas Tiboldi wrote: > > Yes, i know thanks. > We are planning to have major upgrades too. > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Upgrade-problem-tf1755143.html#a9747529 Sent from the wix-users mailing list archive at Na

[WiX-users] install uninstall run conditions

2007-03-29 Thread Some user
I have an MSI where I need to run some programs after the installation. I have put in some custom actions to run the items and they seem to work fine. however I don't want to run these files when it is uninstalled, because obviously the files won't be there anymore and it will give an error messag

Re: [WiX-users] Permissions for Groups

2006-09-15 Thread Some user
roxana wrote: > > the installer gives me the well known error. I don't understand why MSI > doesn't consider the Users group as a well known sid, for this seems to > be the problem... > AFAIK Windows Installer only knows the SID for the Administrator and Everyone. If you want to use other SID

Re: [WiX-users] Permissions for a windows service

2006-09-15 Thread Some user
Simon Burgess-2 wrote: > > > GenericRead="yes" GenericWrite="yes" /> > > > > > But now, the service does not have enough permissions to start, not least > because setting the permission as I have done above gets rid of all > existing > permissions on that director

Re: [WiX-users] installing service to run as a particular user

2006-09-15 Thread Some user
Rene Hollan wrote: > > I've searched but can't find the Wix magic (if there is any) to install a > service to run as a particular user. Can anyone point me in the right > direction? > Check the "Account" and "Password" attributes of the ServiceInstall element. http://wix.sourceforge.net/manual

Re: [WiX-users] COM+ Activation - Run as NT Service

2006-09-14 Thread Some user
George Abraham-5 wrote: > > I want to create an MSI to deploy a COM+ application. I could create the > MSI to do so, but, I could not find a way to change the Activation to "Run > application as NT Service". Is this possible using the COM+ custom action? > If not any ideas on how to approach the