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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
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
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
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
You can't update a per-machine install from a per-user install (or vice versa).
It's an inherent limitation.
There were some threads on this earlier and you should be able to find them via
search.
From: Chris Lord [chris.l...@atterotech.com]
Sent: Friday
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