[WiX-users] Terminating running process before uninstallation

2007-01-19 Thread Kaushik Barat
Hi All, One way of solving this is to invoke Taskkill passing in the exe name via a custom action. This CA can be invoked before remove files. Here's more on TaskKill http://commandwindows.com/taskkill.htm It is better to check if the status of the exe is running, while calling taskkill to kill

[WiX-users] Terminating running process before uninstallation

2007-01-18 Thread Kaushik Barat
Hi All, I have an application whose executable will be running when user tries to uninstall. The process of the executable should be killed before the files are removed. Currently i am seeing that the files are being deleted but the process is not killed. Somehow the process is running and points