Re: [WiX-users] Removing a previous Installshield installation

2009-01-23 Thread Chris Lord
al Message- From: Richard [mailto:legal...@xmission.com] Sent: Friday, January 23, 2009 12:24 To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Removing a previous Installshield installation In article , Chris Lord writes: > I have two further questions

Re: [WiX-users] Removing a previous Installshield installation

2009-01-23 Thread Richard
In article , Chris Lord writes: > I have two further questions > 1) Would it be possible to set ALLUSERS and then detect the previous > products and if found, give a warning and exit the installer. If a > previous product isn't found then clear all users and continue with the > inst

Re: [WiX-users] Removing a previous Installshield installation

2009-01-23 Thread Chris Lord
riday, January 23, 2009 12:01 To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Removing a previous Installshield installation You can't upgrade away a per-machine install with a per-user install and vice-versa. The best way to handle this is to set ALLUSERS

Re: [WiX-users] Removing a previous Installshield installation

2009-01-23 Thread Richard
You can't upgrade away a per-machine install with a per-user install and vice-versa. The best way to handle this is to set ALLUSERS according to what was installed previously and not let them change it during the upgrade. Another way of dealing with it is to cope with it in a bootstrapper and fo

Re: [WiX-users] Removing a previous Installshield installation

2009-01-23 Thread Ian Elliott (Excell Data Corporation)
.com] Sent: Friday, January 23, 2009 8:10 AM To: wix-users Subject: [WiX-users] Removing a previous Installshield installation Hello, I have a Wix installation built to replace an Installshield one. However, on testing, some files are updated but add remove programs contains uninstalls for both th

[WiX-users] Removing a previous Installshield installation

2009-01-23 Thread Chris Lord
Hello, I have a Wix installation built to replace an Installshield one. However, on testing, some files are updated but add remove programs contains uninstalls for both the original software and the Wix installed one. I used the same Upgrade code as in the previous Installshield versions. I