Yeah, testers used to find crazy bugs with installs. Then a couple hours of
complete confusion trying to figure out what the heck went wrong, they'd
say, "Oh, by the way I ran msizap on the machine before the install." As
calmly as possible I'd respond, "Cool, format machine and try to reproduce
th
Well it worked once in a row for me! (with a very simple msi) .
It is quick and (extremely) dirty for a development VM that you forgot to
take a snapshot of, but I would never say use it where it matters if the
machine is usable afterwards.
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> the user recache your updated MSI and then remove it (ala the fixed MSI).
>
> -Original Message-
> From: Mr GAPearce [mailto:mr_gapea...@yahoo.com]
> Sent: Monday, April 15, 2013 3:42 PM
> To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.
> Subject: Re: [W
msizap creates more problems than it's worth.
On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 1:42 PM, Mr GAPearce wrote:
> Search for msizap.exe on the msdn website.
>
> On Apr 15, 2013, at 4:03 PM, Marco Tognacci wrote:
>
> > I have think about this problem, if I make a mistake in the setup and
> for some reason wh
: Monday, April 15, 2013 3:42 PM
To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] How to force uninstall
Search for msizap.exe on the msdn website.
On Apr 15, 2013, at 4:03 PM, Marco Tognacci wrote:
> I have think about this problem, if I make a mistake in
Search for msizap.exe on the msdn website.
On Apr 15, 2013, at 4:03 PM, Marco Tognacci wrote:
> I have think about this problem, if I make a mistake in the setup and for
> some reason when I have distributed the setup to customers the setup fail to
> uninstall (for example it could not show th
here any better tool to use.
> From: phil.wil...@mvps.org
> To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
> Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2013 12:41:43 -0700
> Subject: Re: [WiX-users] How to force uninstall
>
> You may need to say what "can't uninstall" means. Does it crash and rollba
You may need to say what "can't uninstall" means. Does it crash and rollback
because of a custom action, or something similar? Have you forgetten the
ProductCode?
Phil
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From: Marco Tognacci [mailto:mark...@live.it]
Sent: Monday, April 15, 2013 12:08 PM
To: wix-users@
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Find the GUID from HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall
Then in a cmd window run msiexec.exe /x {GUID}
Steve
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From: Marco Tognacci [mailto:mark...@live.it]
Sent: April-15-13 3:08 PM
To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject:
This is what I do (although I might be missing something since it's been a
while since I had my head into this). This doesn't force users to manually
uninstall, but rather it automatically uninstalls the previous version. So
it may not be what you want.
1. Increment the installer version number.
You might try either using the LaunchConditions table to block the
install, or use the Upgrage table and UpgradeCode to uninstall the
product at the beginning of the install.
These are MSI table, but have corresponding Wix elements. As always,
the Wix Reference and the downloaded Windows Installe
Search for "Major Upgrade".
Alex
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From: jo...@msli.com [mailto:jo...@msli.com]
Sent: Friday, July 24, 2009 8:59 AM
To: 'General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.'
Subject: [WiX-users] how to force uninstall before install
I am going thought the process of
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