Re: [WiX-users] Replacing files in WINDOWS\System32

2010-03-25 Thread Wilson, Phil
> -Original Message- > From: Thorsten Schöning [mailto:tschoen...@am-soft.de] > Sent: Donnerstag, 25. März 2010 16:23 > To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. > Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Replacing files in WINDOWS\System32 > > Guten Tag Markus Karg, >

Re: [WiX-users] Replacing files in WINDOWS\System32

2010-03-25 Thread Thorsten Schöning
Guten Tag Markus Karg, am Donnerstag, 25. März 2010 um 16:28 schrieben Sie: > ...because I need to install a VisualBasic5 runtime, and Microsoft > only provides a EXE but not a MSM for that. What the EXE does is > basically replacing some DLLs in Windows\System32. So it is not *my* > idea to do th

Re: [WiX-users] Replacing files in WINDOWS\System32

2010-03-25 Thread Markus Karg
en Schöning [mailto:tschoen...@am-soft.de] > Sent: Donnerstag, 25. März 2010 16:23 > To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. > Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Replacing files in WINDOWS\System32 > > Guten Tag Markus Karg, > am Donnerstag, 25. März 2010 um 13:37 schrie

Re: [WiX-users] Replacing files in WINDOWS\System32

2010-03-25 Thread Thorsten Schöning
Guten Tag Markus Karg, am Donnerstag, 25. März 2010 um 13:37 schrieben Sie: > Doesn't sound really promising... Maybe it's just best to run > Microsoft's original Runtime Installer EXE then (unfortunately it's such old > that there is no MSM). Maybe the more preferable way is to get a solution f

Re: [WiX-users] Replacing files in WINDOWS\System32

2010-03-25 Thread Markus Karg
.sand...@iesve.com] > Sent: Donnerstag, 25. März 2010 13:25 > To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. > Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Replacing files in WINDOWS\System32 > > Use a bootstrapper to install the redistributable from Microsoft which > updates that file to the

Re: [WiX-users] Replacing files in WINDOWS\System32

2010-03-25 Thread Pally Sandher
lix Building, West Of Scotland Science Park, Glasgow G20 0SP Email Disclaimer -Original Message- From: Markus Karg [mailto:k...@quipsy.de] Sent: 25 March 2010 11:05 To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] Replacing files in WINDOWS\System32 Dear WiX Community, fo

[WiX-users] Replacing files in WINDOWS\System32

2010-03-25 Thread Markus Karg
Dear WiX Community, for one of our applications, we need to provide the latest version of a DLL which comes with XP in an older version (e. g. ASycFilt.dll) and lives in WINDOWS\System32. When we try to run our MSI on XP, it says that it cannot replace this DLL since it is protected by the