Re: [WiX-users] Preventing apps from closing during silent upgrades

Tim Haloun wrote: > Yes I tried both alternate settings. Unfortnately, I didn't see any > difference in behaviour. > Never heard of that. You might want to try your question in the MSI newsgroups as WiX is out of the equation. -- sig://boB http://joyofsetup.com/ -

Re: [WiX-users] Preventing apps from closing during silent upgrades

Yes I tried both alternate settings. Unfortnately, I didn't see any difference in behaviour. Tim On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 9:05 AM, Bob Arnson wrote: > Tim Haloun wrote: > > On Vista though, according to > > this and > > from my obse

Re: [WiX-users] Preventing apps from closing during silent upgrades

Tim Haloun wrote: > On Vista though, according to > this and > from my observation, there is no way to stop the restart manager from > killing any apps that hold any files currently in use during a silent > Are you using the *MSIREST

[WiX-users] Preventing apps from closing during silent upgrades

Hi All, I've written a browser plugin and have encountered what seems an intractable problem with upgrades. When upgrading on XP, silent installs would handle in-use files either by doing a rename and replace on reboot, or writing over them anyway, depending on how they were held. On Vista thoug