Re: [WiX-users] Vista uninstall from control panel

2008-08-11 Thread MatPdr
I didn't get anything interesting in the uninstall log... only the following: Error 1730. You must be an Administrator to remove this application. To remove this application, you can log on as an Administrator, or contact your technical support group for assistance. === Logging stopped: 11/08/200

Re: [WiX-users] Vista uninstall from control panel

2008-08-08 Thread Bob Arnson
Mat wrote: > I've been running into a problem which I haven't been able to solve > related to vista and uninstalling. I have a package which is set to > install per-machine and elevated, which requires the user to be > administrator to install the package. Under windows vista when the user > is

Re: [WiX-users] Vista uninstall from control panel

2008-08-07 Thread MatPdr
Javier Liceaga wrote: > > Our solution/hack was to create a small executable that elevates the > privilege that then calls our msi. > Thats what we're planning on doing for future releases where we require a bootstrapper, however, for the next release I wanted to fix this only using the msi s

Re: [WiX-users] Vista uninstall from control panel

2008-08-07 Thread Javier Liceaga
Our team ran into the same issue last year, the problem appears to be a bug in msiexec for Vista (and Longhorn). You will probably have the same problem with the Repair and Modify options as well, at least we did. Our solution/hack was to create a small executable that elevates the privilege that