Re: [WiX-users] Uninstall running very Slow....

2015-07-07 Thread TimM
Here is the download link to the uninstall logs: https://www.dropbox.com/s/5qivuotwbornc8t/UninstallLogs.zip?dl=0 -- View this message in context: http://windows-installer-xml-wix-toolset.687559.n2.nabble.com/Uninstall-running-very-Slow-tp7600812p7600828.html Sent from the wix-users mailing li

Re: [WiX-users] Uninstall running very Slow....

2015-07-07 Thread TimM
Nope the VM's are strictly captured snapshots and therefore no accumulative changes are applied to the images. Another thing to note is that we have our own uninstaller application that simply launch the uninstalls of our products that are selected by the user and the tester noticed that the slow

Re: [WiX-users] Uninstall running very Slow....

2015-07-07 Thread Phil Wilson
It may help to post the logs somewhere anyway, just in case someone here can see something unusual. IIRC, the VM may be one of those that does accumulative changes but keeps the original image intact, so each action requires checking the original image and then searching the list of changes to get

[WiX-users] Uninstall running very Slow....

2015-07-07 Thread TimM
Our testing department has been doing some install/uninstall testing with our products and have reported that sometimes the uninstall can be very slow at times and therefore wanted to know if we can fix these.I reviewed the logs and there were no indication of any tasks taking an overall long time

Re: [WiX-users] Uninstall and util:RemoveFolderEx - not working

2015-05-06 Thread ronif
OK, problem solved, I had one file that was locked, that failed the deletion operation, Thanks for all your help! -- View this message in context: http://windows-installer-xml-wix-toolset.687559.n2.nabble.com/Uninstall-and-util-RemoveFolderEx-not-working-tp7600191p7600206.html Sent from the

Re: [WiX-users] Uninstall and util:RemoveFolderEx - not working

2015-05-06 Thread ronif
Sorry for that, SHOULDDELETEINSTALLATIONFOLDER = "TRUE" wrapped with CDATA.. where the property is set from burn -- View this message in context: http://windows-installer-xml-wix-toolset.687559.n2.nabble.com/Uninstall-and-util-RemoveFolderEx-not-working-tp7600191p7600205.html Sent from the w

Re: [WiX-users] Uninstall and util:RemoveFolderEx - not working

2015-05-06 Thread ronif
The inner text is: where SHOULDDELETEINSTALLATIONFOLDER is a property set from the bundle.. -- View this message in context: http://windows-installer-xml-wix-toolset.687559.n2.nabble.com/Uninstall-and-util-RemoveFolderEx-not-worki

Re: [WiX-users] Uninstall and util:RemoveFolderEx - not working

2015-05-06 Thread John Cooper
iginal Message- From: ronif [mailto:ro...@microsoft.com] Sent: Wednesday, May 6, 2015 10:50 AM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Uninstall and util:RemoveFolderEx - not working The inner text is:

Re: [WiX-users] Uninstall and util:RemoveFolderEx - not working

2015-05-06 Thread John Cooper
bject: Re: [WiX-users] Uninstall and util:RemoveFolderEx - not working Hi again, you were correct about the property but for some reason the folder is still not being delete.. Here are the relevant lines from the log: MSI (s) (A8:90) [07:55:51:893]: Doing action: SetInstallationPathProperty Actio

Re: [WiX-users] Uninstall and util:RemoveFolderEx - not working

2015-05-06 Thread ronif
Hi again, you were correct about the property but for some reason the folder is still not being delete.. Here are the relevant lines from the log: MSI (s) (A8:90) [07:55:51:893]: Doing action: SetInstallationPathProperty Action ended 7:55:51: ValidateProductID. Return value 1. MSI (s) (A8:90) [07

Re: [WiX-users] Uninstall and util:RemoveFolderEx - not working

2015-05-06 Thread ronif
Thanks for your help John! -- View this message in context: http://windows-installer-xml-wix-toolset.687559.n2.nabble.com/Uninstall-and-util-RemoveFolderEx-not-working-tp7600191p7600196.html Sent from the wix-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ---

Re: [WiX-users] Uninstall and util:RemoveFolderEx - not working

2015-05-06 Thread John Cooper
o:ro...@microsoft.com] Sent: Wednesday, May 6, 2015 9:12 AM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Uninstall and util:RemoveFolderEx - not working Hi, thanks for your answer, so what is the best way to be able to reference an msiproperty i get from

Re: [WiX-users] Uninstall and util:RemoveFolderEx - not working

2015-05-06 Thread ronif
Hi, thanks for your answer, so what is the best way to be able to reference an msiproperty i get from burn? If I can't use ? and how can I set it before CostInitialize? -- View this message in context: http://windows-installer-xml-wix-toolset.687559.n2.nabbl

Re: [WiX-users] Uninstall and util:RemoveFolderEx - not working

2015-05-06 Thread John Cooper
From: ronif [mailto:ro...@microsoft.com] Sent: Wednesday, May 6, 2015 8:41 AM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] Uninstall and util:RemoveFolderEx - not working Hi, util:RemoveFolderEx - doesn't seem to work.. I'm trying to delete the installation folder and its conten

[WiX-users] Uninstall and util:RemoveFolderEx - not working

2015-05-06 Thread ronif
Hi, util:RemoveFolderEx - doesn't seem to work.. I'm trying to delete the installation folder and its contents upon uninstall (the contents were created after installation by the app so they are left on the drive after uninstall). What am I doing wrong? code: ..

Re: [WiX-users] Uninstall Rollback not triggered with WIXFAILWHENDEFERRED

2015-02-12 Thread Namrata Kumari
Where to include REMOVE=ALL using WIXFAILWHENDEFERRED -- View this message in context: http://windows-installer-xml-wix-toolset.687559.n2.nabble.com/Uninstall-Rollback-not-triggered-with-WIXFAILWHENDEFERRED-tp7598874p7599202.html Sent from the wix-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

[WiX-users] Uninstall another product

2015-01-30 Thread Keith.Douglas
Is it possible for the default bundle behaviour to run an uninstall for an arbitrary ProductCode and UpgradeCode as part of its steps? I realize that ordinarily this would be rather rude, but ... This is because I've got a "related product" I need to remove ideally before installing a chain of M

Re: [WiX-users] Uninstall 'Lite' and/or 'Pro' version with RelatedBundle property

2015-01-21 Thread Aeon
Ok I came across the method you prefer to chain several MSI packages. But, what I have now is 2 bundles (let's say Light and Pro) with their own MSI packages. I want the Pro version to uninstall the Light, and vice versa. With RelatedBundle you can detect if they are related but only the version

Re: [WiX-users] Uninstall 'Lite' and/or 'Pro' version with RelatedBundle property

2015-01-21 Thread Phill Hogland
You can use Wix XML to author MSI package project(s) or a Bundle (bootstrapper) project, but you do not have to author a bootstrapper. http://wixtoolset.org/documentation/manual/v3/bundle/ A Bundle includes a "Bootstraper Application" (BA) which is processed by the Wix Burn engine. The event hand

[WiX-users] Uninstall 'Lite' and/or 'Pro' version with RelatedBundle property

2015-01-21 Thread Aeon
Hi, I want to have 2 different installers of a program, let's say lite and pro, like this: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16429687/how-to-make-a-wix-burn-bundle-that-upgrade-a-lite-version-of-my-product Both have different versions and both have to uninstall each other. Now when I search a

Re: [WiX-users] Uninstall Rollback not triggered with WIXFAILWHENDEFERRED

2015-01-19 Thread wixtester
I don't have WixFailWhenDeferred custom action in InstallExecuteSequence. Infact, when I opened the msi in ORCA, the CA was sequenced at 6599 (before InstallFinalize) with condition "WIXFAILWHENDEFERRED=1 AND VersionNT > 400" This I believe should trigger rollback for both Install and Uninstall. A

Re: [WiX-users] Uninstall Rollback not triggered with WIXFAILWHENDEFERRED

2015-01-16 Thread Jeremiahf
Include the condition in your execute sequence to include REMOVE=ALL On Fri, Jan 16, 2015 at 11:35 AM, wixtester wrote: > Hi, > >I am using the WIXFAILWHENDEFFERED customaction reference to test the > installer rollback sequence. > The Install rollback works fine with this property but the u

[WiX-users] Uninstall Rollback not triggered with WIXFAILWHENDEFERRED

2015-01-16 Thread wixtester
Hi, I am using the WIXFAILWHENDEFFERED customaction reference to test the installer rollback sequence. The Install rollback works fine with this property but the uninstall rollback does not get triggered. Appreciate any help in getting the correct command for uninstall rollback Product.wxs ha

Re: [WiX-users] Uninstall previous version

2014-09-25 Thread newuser2014
By ProductCode, do you mean Product Id? I tried , but it seems like the installer will just install/overwrite and not remove the old application. By PackageCode, do you mean http://windows-installer-xml-wix-toolset.687559.n2.nabble.com/Uninstall-previous-version-tp7596982p7596999.html Sent from t

Re: [WiX-users] Uninstall previous version

2014-09-25 Thread Phil Wilson
Nobody can know if your upgrade will work because it depends on the changes made to a set of properties between old and new MSI files. The UpgradeCode must be the same, ProductCode must have changed, PackageCode too (but WiX does that by default I think) and the ProductVersion must be incremented

Re: [WiX-users] Uninstall previous version

2014-09-25 Thread newuser2014
I have the following: Is that enough and should that be modified? -- View this message in context: http://windows-installer-xml-wix-toolset.687559.n2.nabble.com/Uninstall-previous-version-tp7596982p7596985.html Sent from the wix-users mailing lis

Re: [WiX-users] Uninstall previous version

2014-09-25 Thread Nicolás Alvarez
2014-09-25 11:49 GMT-03:00 newuser2014 : > Hi, > I have the Product id as follows: > > And I have added the following: > > > > This seems to just overwrite the previous version and not uninstall it. > After installation of the newer version, I went into Add/Remove Programs > and saw that

[WiX-users] Uninstall previous version

2014-09-25 Thread newuser2014
Hi, I have the Product id as follows: This seems to just overwrite the previous version and not uninstall it. After installation of the newer version, I went into Add/Remove Programs and saw that the previous version of the application still listed. Any idea on what is wrong or how to do

[WiX-users] Uninstall with different Bundle

2014-08-05 Thread Amal VR
Hi, Someone please tell , why I am not able to uninstall my bundled packages using a newly build bundle (version and upgrade code is same) ? ie I have installed the package using a different build and tried to uninstall with a new build and there are no changes made in values. Thanks and Regards

Re: [WiX-users] Uninstall then Reinstall Same Package

2014-05-30 Thread Walter Dexter
Original Message- > From: Walter Dexter [mailto:wfdex...@gmail.com ] > Sent: Friday, May 30, 2014 1:36 PM > To: General discussion about the WiX toolset. > Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Uninstall then Reinstall Same Package > > Why is doing this a bad idea? I know that's the

Re: [WiX-users] Uninstall then Reinstall Same Package

2014-05-30 Thread John Cooper
nry.com -Original Message- From: Walter Dexter [mailto:wfdex...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, May 30, 2014 1:36 PM To: General discussion about the WiX toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Uninstall then Reinstall Same Package Why is doing this a bad idea? I know that's the common belief, b

Re: [WiX-users] Uninstall then Reinstall Same Package

2014-05-30 Thread Walter Dexter
nry.com > > > > -Original Message- > From: Ben Metheny [mailto:benmeth...@gmail.com] > Sent: Friday, May 30, 2014 11:03 AM > To: WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: [WiX-users] Uninstall then Reinstall Same Package > > I have a requirement to allow &#

Re: [WiX-users] Uninstall Guidelines - What should be happening

2014-05-30 Thread Marc Beaudry
Phil, Thanks for the info, it clarified my assumptions... Marc -Original Message- From: Phil Wilson [mailto:phildgwil...@gmail.com] Sent: May-30-2014 12:37 PM To: General discussion about the WiX toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Uninstall Guidelines - What should be happening My

Re: [WiX-users] Uninstall Guidelines - What should be happening

2014-05-30 Thread Phil Wilson
My interpretation of using a file for user-specific data is that it's being contrasted with using the registry. It is next to impossible to remove HKCU-type registry data for a user that isn't currently logged on. Removing a file in some other user's data folder is much easier. We're talking about

Re: [WiX-users] Uninstall then Reinstall Same Package

2014-05-30 Thread Ben Metheny
gt; jocoo...@jackhenry.com > www.jackhenry.com > > > > -Original Message- > From: Ben Metheny [mailto:benmeth...@gmail.com] > Sent: Friday, May 30, 2014 11:03 AM > To: WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: [WiX-users] Uninstall then Reinstall Same Package

Re: [WiX-users] Uninstall then Reinstall Same Package

2014-05-30 Thread Walter Dexter
I do this in some MSIs that we deploy strictly silently via Microsoft system management stuff. My upgrade block looks like this: And also this, which I think matters: Then I have a wxi file that I include that contains: You don't really need the vars and the .wxi fi

Re: [WiX-users] Uninstall then Reinstall Same Package

2014-05-30 Thread John Cooper
Mission, KS  66227 Office:  913-341-3434 x791011 jocoo...@jackhenry.com www.jackhenry.com -Original Message- From: Ben Metheny [mailto:benmeth...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, May 30, 2014 11:03 AM To: WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] Uninstall then Reinstall Same Package

[WiX-users] Uninstall then Reinstall Same Package

2014-05-30 Thread Ben Metheny
I have a requirement to allow 'overwrite' of same version. I've tried various combinations of , here is my current: and in InstallExecuteSequence I have: I think the 'right' thing to do is to require uninstall and then reinstall 'manually', but my requirement is to allow u

[WiX-users] Uninstall Guidelines - What should be happening

2014-05-30 Thread Marc Beaudry
Hello All, I have a question concerning the uninstall of a package. What should happen to the user application runtime generated files of several users? Here is what I got from the MS site for Best practices: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/bb204770%28v=vs.85%2 9.a

Re: [WiX-users] Uninstall MSI from ARP doesn't remove installed files

2014-04-14 Thread Saravan1109
I got the solution for my first problem (files not removed from installed location). I forgot to set the MSI property value on uninstallation. So the MSI feature is not get called and files not removed. Now the files are removed correctly. Could anyone please share example/way for removing selecte

Re: [WiX-users] Uninstall MSI from ARP doesn't remove installed files

2014-04-07 Thread Saravan1109
Great, Thanks Rob. In which event I need to handle this process? In DetectPackageComplete I can able to get the state of the packages. My bundle having "InstallCondition" in chain/MsiPackage element. Is this condition enough for handle selected MSI on Uninstallation? -- View this message in con

Re: [WiX-users] Uninstall MSI from ARP doesn't remove installed files

2014-04-07 Thread Rob Mensching
@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Uninstall MSI from ARP doesn't remove installed files Thanks for your reply. I need some clarifications in uninstalling MSI using burn. Is it possible to remove only the selected MSI files while uninstallation? Scenario : If launch the bundle uninstall fro

Re: [WiX-users] Uninstall MSI from ARP doesn't remove installed files

2014-04-07 Thread Saravan1109
Thanks for your reply. I need some clarifications in uninstalling MSI using burn. Is it possible to remove only the selected MSI files while uninstallation? Scenario : If launch the bundle uninstall from ARP, it shows the installed MSI packages list. I will select any of one MSI from that list and

Re: [WiX-users] Uninstall MSI from ARP doesn't remove installed files

2014-04-04 Thread Phil Wilson
FireGiant | Dedicated support for the WiX toolset | > http://www.firegiant.com/ > > -Original Message- > From: Saravan1109 [mailto:biggodannau...@gmail.com] > Sent: Friday, April 4, 2014 4:54 AM > To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: [WiX-users] Uninsta

Re: [WiX-users] Uninstall MSI from ARP doesn't remove installed files

2014-04-04 Thread Rob Mensching
ssage- From: Saravan1109 [mailto:biggodannau...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, April 4, 2014 4:54 AM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] Uninstall MSI from ARP doesn't remove installed files Hi, I have created a custom bootstrapper application and Bundle using wix 3.8.

[WiX-users] Uninstall MSI from ARP doesn't remove installed files

2014-04-04 Thread Saravan1109
Hi, I have created a custom bootstrapper application and Bundle using wix 3.8. The chain contains two MSI packages. I have given Visible="yes" in msipackage element. So it shows the bundle entry and two MSI files entry in ARP. If I uninstall the bundle entry from ARP, it will uninstall tw

Re: [WiX-users] Uninstall removing the default Virtual directory and not the one user created

2014-03-24 Thread Suvrajyoti Panda
2010/5/2/the-wix-toolsets-remember-property-pattern > > > -Original Message- > From: Suvrajyoti Panda [mailto:suvrajyo...@contata.co.in] > Sent: 21 March 2014 12:53 > To: General discussion about the WiX toolset. > Subject: [WiX-users] Uninstall removing the default Vir

Re: [WiX-users] Uninstall removing the default Virtual directory and not the one user created

2014-03-21 Thread David Watson
[mailto:suvrajyo...@contata.co.in] Sent: 21 March 2014 12:53 To: General discussion about the WiX toolset. Subject: [WiX-users] Uninstall removing the default Virtual directory and not the one user created Hi All, I am creating virtual directory through WIX installer. The installer allows user to

[WiX-users] Uninstall removing the default Virtual directory and not the one user created

2014-03-21 Thread Suvrajyoti Panda
Hi All, I am creating virtual directory through WIX installer. The installer allows user to change the name of the virtual directory through a custom UI dialogue. The default virtual directory is PFWServiceApplication. If the user changes this to say PFWServiceApplication_Test then the correct

[WiX-users] Uninstall condition for a MSI that dependency for other applications

2014-03-10 Thread bk1234
Hello Wix-users, I have two independent applications (let's call them ProductB and ProductC) that has dependency on application ProductA. I am using two different managed bootstrapper exe to bundle: Exe1: ProductA and ProductB Exe2: ProductA and ProductC Because of independent release cycles,

Re: [WiX-users] Uninstall Patch Error 1706

2014-02-28 Thread Phil Wilson
These might help. It's possible the patched file was never cached in the baseline cache (or was removed) or it wasn't a >= MSI 3.0 patch: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/heaths/archive/2007/01/17/the-patch-cache-and-freeing-space.aspx and this may still be an issue: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/heaths/archiv

[WiX-users] Uninstall Patch Error 1706

2014-02-28 Thread Christoffel le Roux
Hi, I have two products that install from a cd. Both install and patch fine, but one of the products give ma a 1706 error only in Windows 8 and asks for the original media source when I try to uninstall an installed patch. Once I selected the original media source the source gets rejected and t

Re: [WiX-users] Uninstall by Installer not removing the path created if that path is open on the system

2013-12-19 Thread Suvrajyoti Panda
>> >> -Original Message- >> From: David Connet [mailto:d...@agilityrecordbook.com] >> Sent: Wednesday, December 18, 2013 8:25 AM >> To: General discussion about the WiX toolset. >> Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Uninstall by Installer not removing the path

Re: [WiX-users] Uninstall by Installer not removing the path created if that path is open on the system

2013-12-19 Thread Blair Murri
ring uninstall). > > -Original Message- > From: David Connet [mailto:d...@agilityrecordbook.com] > Sent: Wednesday, December 18, 2013 8:25 AM > To: General discussion about the WiX toolset. > Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Uninstall by Installer not removing the path created >

Re: [WiX-users] Uninstall by Installer not removing the path created if that path is open on the system

2013-12-18 Thread Suvrajyoti Panda
Message- > From: David Connet [mailto:d...@agilityrecordbook.com] > Sent: Wednesday, December 18, 2013 8:25 AM > To: General discussion about the WiX toolset. > Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Uninstall by Installer not removing the path created > if that path is open on the system >

Re: [WiX-users] Uninstall by Installer not removing the path created if that path is open on the system

2013-12-18 Thread Suvrajyoti Panda
hen >>>> removed as part of the reboot sequence. >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> -Blair >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>>

Re: [WiX-users] Uninstall by Installer not removing the path created if that path is open on the system

2013-12-18 Thread Hoover, Jacob
25 AM To: General discussion about the WiX toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Uninstall by Installer not removing the path created if that path is open on the system There is no way (that I know of) to delete a directory where something has an open handle on that. The only way is to make sur

Re: [WiX-users] Uninstall by Installer not removing the path created if that path is open on the system

2013-12-18 Thread David Connet
ring reboot, and unfortunately the folder will then be left >>> behind (because only file delete records are placed into the reboot >>> sequence, not folders). After reboot there isn’t an installation left to >>> run to cleanup any further. >>>>> &

Re: [WiX-users] Uninstall by Installer not removing the path created if that path is open on the system

2013-12-17 Thread Suvrajyoti Panda
me, files still in use can be moved (even if they are >> still loaded in other processes) and the folder is thus removed during the >> installation transaction (before the reboot) and the moved file is then >> removed as part of the reboot sequence. >>>> >>>> &g

Re: [WiX-users] Uninstall by Installer not removing the path created if that path is open on the system

2013-12-17 Thread Phil Wilson
; > >> From: Suvrajyoti Panda > >> Sent: Monday, December 16, 2013 8:57 PM > >> To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> No Wesley, I have not used any create folder o

Re: [WiX-users] Uninstall by Installer not removing the path created if that path is open on the system

2013-12-17 Thread Suvrajyoti Panda
rote: >>> Did you use CreateFolder to create this directory? If so I think you need >>> to use RemoveFolder to remove the folder. Not sure about that though. >>> >>> -Original Message- >>> From: Suvrajyoti Panda [mailto:suvrajyo...@contata.co.

Re: [WiX-users] Uninstall by Installer not removing the path created if that path is open on the system

2013-12-17 Thread Suvrajyoti Panda
--Original Message- >> From: Suvrajyoti Panda [mailto:suvrajyo...@contata.co.in] >> Sent: December-16-13 12:37 AM >> To: General discussion about the WiX toolset. >> Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Uninstall by Installer not removing the path >> created if that path is o

Re: [WiX-users] Uninstall by Installer not removing the path created if that path is open on the system

2013-12-17 Thread Blair Murri
lders. >> >> -Original Message- >> From: Suvrajyoti Panda [mailto:suvrajyo...@contata.co.in] >> Sent: December-13-13 1:48 AM >> To: General discussion about the WiX toolset. >> Subject: [WiX-users] Uninstall by Installer not removing the path >> created if t

Re: [WiX-users] Uninstall by Installer not removing the path created if that path is open on the system

2013-12-16 Thread Suvrajyoti Panda
inal Message- > From: Suvrajyoti Panda [mailto:suvrajyo...@contata.co.in] > Sent: December-16-13 12:37 AM > To: General discussion about the WiX toolset. > Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Uninstall by Installer not removing the path created > if that path is open on the system > >

Re: [WiX-users] Uninstall by Installer not removing the path created if that path is open on the system

2013-12-16 Thread Wesley Manning
WiX toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Uninstall by Installer not removing the path created if that path is open on the system Hey Wesley, checked it on a reboot, that does not work. The structure is still there. Any others suggestions guys? Regards, SuvraJyoti On 13-12-2013 20:13, Wesley Manning

Re: [WiX-users] Uninstall by Installer not removing the path created if that path is open on the system

2013-12-15 Thread Suvrajyoti Panda
it. But I think it marks it for removal. I know > for sure files have this behaviour but I'm not sure about folders. > > -Original Message- > From: Suvrajyoti Panda [mailto:suvrajyo...@contata.co.in] > Sent: December-13-13 1:48 AM > To: General discussion about the

Re: [WiX-users] Uninstall by Installer not removing the path created if that path is open on the system

2013-12-13 Thread Wesley Manning
o:suvrajyo...@contata.co.in] Sent: December-13-13 1:48 AM To: General discussion about the WiX toolset. Subject: [WiX-users] Uninstall by Installer not removing the path created if that path is open on the system Hi All, I just saw this behaviour. My installer creates the following :"C:\Energy Solution

[WiX-users] Uninstall by Installer not removing the path created if that path is open on the system

2013-12-12 Thread Suvrajyoti Panda
Hi All, I just saw this behaviour. My installer creates the following :"C:\Energy Solutions International\PFWService\config", if this path is open and i run the uninstall from control panel, then the path remains("C:\Energy Solutions International\PFWService\config") although files under it is

Re: [WiX-users] Uninstall previous version with new version

2013-10-02 Thread Blair Murri
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Uninstall previous version with new version > > Thank you Blair. In my wxs file I see a Product element with an Id attribute > - I found a webpage that says that this is the ProductCode. Can you confirm? > That appears to be static in my case so I suspect

Re: [WiX-users] Uninstall removing user data

2013-09-22 Thread Christopher Painter
013 12:08 PM To: chr...@iswix.com, "General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset." Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Uninstall removing user data The rule is that if MSI installs it, then an uninstall will uninstall it. The modify/creation date difference is what determines whether to o

Re: [WiX-users] Uninstall removing user data

2013-09-22 Thread Phil Wilson
The rule is that if MSI installs it, then an uninstall will uninstall it. The modify/creation date difference is what determines whether to overwrite it, not uninstall it. User data is created by the app, not installed with the app, in this context that's the way I look at it. (Unless I'm having a

[WiX-users] Uninstall removing user data

2013-09-21 Thread Christopher Painter
I'm having a senior moment with what seemed like a pretty simple and well established concept in windows installer: don't uninstall user data. I created a very simple installer with a single component / file ( test.txt ). I tested with test.txt as the key file and with no key file ( directory

Re: [WiX-users] Uninstall previous version with new version

2013-09-20 Thread Mark Risen
ll need to find out how to update that within TFS. Cheers! .Mark -Original Message- From: Blair Murri [mailto:os...@live.com] Sent: Thursday, September 19, 2013 10:43 PM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Uninstall previous version with n

Re: [WiX-users] Uninstall previous version with new version

2013-09-19 Thread Blair Murri
(which can be fixed by immediately repairing, but that is very counter-intuitive). Also the upgrades do not use the Upgrade table (which is ignored during minor upgrades). > From: mri...@realtyim.com > To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2013 01:03:36 + >

[WiX-users] Uninstall previous version with new version

2013-09-19 Thread Mark Risen
I remember using this feature from the past. I would have an .msi that is version 1 and another being version 2. I install version 1 on my machine and then I am able to right click the version 2 .msi and select "uninstall" and have it succeed. Does anyone know how to do this? It's quite conveni

Re: [WiX-users] Uninstall bundle by name ?

2013-09-07 Thread Phill Hogland
This is just a wild idea, but could you create a bundle (with a product search), which you use to stage your test project (uninstall the old and install the new)? -- View this message in context: http://windows-installer-xml-wix-toolset.687559.n2.nabble.com/Uninstall-bundle-by-name-tp7588776p7

Re: [WiX-users] Uninstall bundle by name ?

2013-09-05 Thread Keith.Douglas
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Re: [WiX-users] Uninstall bundle by name ?

2013-09-04 Thread Rob Mensching
Nothing that is documented today. On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 3:57 PM, wrote: > Hi all - I've managed to upgrade some of our installs to Wix 3.7 with the > burn bootstrapper, hooray ! > > One thing I haven't quite anticipated is this: after our automated build > we need to push a newly-built install

[WiX-users] Uninstall bundle by name ?

2013-09-04 Thread robert_yang
Hi all - I've managed to upgrade some of our installs to Wix 3.7 with the burn bootstrapper, hooray ! One thing I haven't quite anticipated is this: after our automated build we need to push a newly-built installer to a test machine for an automated smoke/sanity test. First we need to uninstal

Re: [WiX-users] uninstall ApplyComplete status

2013-09-03 Thread Sean Hall
only thing you can do at that point is ask the user to reboot. Hope that helps, Sean > From: hanspett...@prediktor.no > To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2013 11:09:01 +0000 > Subject: [WiX-users] uninstall ApplyComplete status > > Hello, > I am tryin

[WiX-users] uninstall ApplyComplete status

2013-09-03 Thread Hans Petter Ladim
Hello, I am trying to uninstall a installed program while there is a pending system restart. We have used Burn to create the BA, and the ApplyComplete event sends ApplyCompleteEventArgs with status -2147024546. I have problems to interpret the status code and handle this properly. Is there an

Re: [WiX-users] Uninstall on W7 with activated UAC from ARP: No UAC elevation prompt

2013-07-25 Thread Rob Mensching
It's ARP being magical. Never quite tracked down how they did it. Fortunately, Burn is smart enough to recognize that it is already elevated and doesn't ask again. On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 3:55 AM, Tobias S wrote: > Any idea on that behavior? Feedback highly appreciated. > > Best regards, > To

Re: [WiX-users] Uninstall on W7 with activated UAC from ARP: No UAC elevation prompt

2013-07-25 Thread Tobias S
Any idea on that behavior? Feedback highly appreciated. Best regards, Tobias 2013/7/16 Tobias S > Hi, > > Didn't find any answer related to this on the mailing list yet. > > Have following behavior on Win7 VMs with Custom BAL as well as when using > BootstrapperApplicationRef Id=" > WixStandar

[WiX-users] Uninstall on W7 with activated UAC from ARP: No UAC elevation prompt

2013-07-16 Thread Tobias S
Hi, Didn't find any answer related to this on the mailing list yet. Have following behavior on Win7 VMs with Custom BAL as well as when using BootstrapperApplicationRef Id="WixStandardBootstrapperApplication.RtfLicense ". There is no UAC prompt when uninstalling a bundle from ARP. When doing the

Re: [WiX-users] Uninstall restart issue

2013-06-28 Thread Alain Forget
the meantime. Alain -Original Message- From: Hoover, Jacob [mailto:jacob.hoo...@greenheck.com] Sent: June 28, 2013 16:07 To: afor...@cmu.edu; General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: RE: [WiX-users] Uninstall restart issue Do you still have the computer management console

Re: [WiX-users] Uninstall restart issue

2013-06-28 Thread Hoover, Jacob
: Alain Forget [mailto:afor...@cmu.edu] Sent: Friday, June 28, 2013 2:38 PM To: 'General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.' Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Uninstall restart issue I'll open by saying that I don't think this is why the services are being disabled, because I&#

Re: [WiX-users] Uninstall restart issue

2013-06-28 Thread Alain Forget
such a nightmare, I might have pushed harder to redo everything in .NET. Alain -Original Message- From: Phil Wilson [mailto:phil.wil...@mvps.org] Sent: June 28, 2013 14:55 To: 'General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.' Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Uninstall restart issue Any proc

Re: [WiX-users] Uninstall restart issue

2013-06-28 Thread Phil Wilson
it will be ok and the service will stop. If your java runtime has an explicit way to stop a Windows service and wait for it to actually finish, use that. Phil -Original Message- From: Alain Forget [mailto:afor...@cmu.edu] Sent: Friday, June 28, 2013 11:14 AM To: 'General discuss

Re: [WiX-users] Uninstall restart issue

2013-06-28 Thread Alain Forget
gestions. Alain -Original Message- From: Phil Wilson [mailto:phil.wil...@mvps.org] Sent: June 28, 2013 14:03 To: 'General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.' Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Uninstall restart issue I've mentioned this before, but I don't recall if

Re: [WiX-users] Uninstall restart issue

2013-06-28 Thread Phil Wilson
is not complicated and is much more manageable than a command shell. Phil -Original Message- From: Alain Forget [mailto:afor...@cmu.edu] Sent: Friday, June 28, 2013 7:07 AM To: 'General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.' Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Uninstall restar

Re: [WiX-users] Uninstall restart issue

2013-06-28 Thread Alain Forget
es aren't being completely removed immediately at uninstall, even though I have specified that they should be removed at uninstall in the ServiceControl tags? Alain -Original Message- From: Blair Murri [mailto:os...@live.com] Sent: June 27, 2013 19:06 To: 'General discussion

Re: [WiX-users] Uninstall restart issue

2013-06-27 Thread Blair Murri
wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2013 16:12:04 -0400 > Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Uninstall restart issue > > I have just confirmed that, when my service is running the cmd.exe process, > the RestartManager requests the restart, while otherwise, it does not. > >

Re: [WiX-users] Uninstall restart issue

2013-06-27 Thread Alain Forget
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Re: [WiX-users] Uninstall restart issue

2013-06-27 Thread Alain Forget
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Re: [WiX-users] Uninstall restart issue

2013-06-26 Thread Blair
Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Uninstall restart issue Hey Alain, Take a look at my answer to this problem on stackoverflow - http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6913332/wix-installer-problem-why-does-restartmanager-mark-service-as-rmcritical-and-no/8147540#8147540 Basically, you can

Re: [WiX-users] Uninstall restart issue

2013-06-25 Thread Joel Budreau
Hey Alain, Take a look at my answer to this problem on stackoverflow - http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6913332/wix-installer-problem-why-does-restartmanager-mark-service-as-rmcritical-and-no/8147540#8147540 Basically, you can 'lie' about the custom action and mark it as immediate instead of de

Re: [WiX-users] Uninstall restart issue

2013-06-21 Thread Alain Forget
r the problem (and hopefully a solution)? Alain -Original Message- From: Alain Forget [mailto:afor...@cmu.edu] Sent: June 21, 2013 12:14 To: 'General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.' Subject: RE: [WiX-users] Uninstall restart issue I've found a number of

Re: [WiX-users] Uninstall does not uninstall my driver package

2013-06-21 Thread Gonzalez, John
Original Message- From: shane_cor...@selinc.com [mailto:shane_cor...@selinc.com] Sent: Thursday, June 20, 2013 5:35 PM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] Uninstall does not uninstall my driver package I'm using difx to install a handful of drivers in a single

Re: [WiX-users] Uninstall restart issue

2013-06-21 Thread Alain Forget
orget [mailto:afor...@cmu.edu] Sent: June 21, 2013 11:42 To: 'General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.' Subject: RE: [WiX-users] Uninstall restart issue Blair (and anyone else interested), You were bang on about both manually trying to launch the service to test it and using

Re: [WiX-users] Uninstall restart issue

2013-06-21 Thread Alain Forget
oing on? Alain -Original Message- From: Blair Murri [mailto:os...@live.com] Sent: June 21, 2013 04:31 To: 'General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.' Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Uninstall restart issue Alain, Temporarily remove the ServiceControl\@Start and install. The

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