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-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: [WiX-users] What triggers "The following applications should be closed..." ? Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2006 10:17:09 -0500 From: Scott Palmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On 12/14/06, *Chris Allen* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: Although we have our own local copy of the CRT DLLs, if any other applications running on the system are using DLLs with the same basename, MSI complains that you need to close those applications even though they are using the DLL from a totally different path. So we just advise our users to either stop the service manually or just click the "Ignore" button in this case. It appears that something similar is happening to me. The log shows that Windows Installer thinks the offending application is holding a file that didn't even exist when that application was started. That is, I have application 'A' running, I do an install of my product followed immediately by an uninstall and it complains that 'A' is holding files that were just installed to a private folder that it would now nothing about. Application 'A' is using a file with the same name, but on a totally different path. I guess it is a bug in Windows Installer, but I don't want to advise our users to ignore the message because there are applications that we install that might be running... funny enough Windows Install doesn't complain at all if those applications are running when we uninstall. So it gets it as wrong as it possible could :-). In that case I suspect one difference is that our own application, the one it should complain about, doesn't have a window open, just an icon in the system tray. Regards, Scott ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
