Ah, sorry, didn't see you there amongst all the spam!
I mean that from a command prompt it installs the Browser Helper Object
DLL just fine, but when run via double clicking it does not. It appears
to work the same but the DLL is not registered properly and does not get
installed into IE. But, this is only on certain systems. I worry that
they are doing something silly which they are not telling me about.
Would the MSI run OK from UNC network share? I think they are doing
this, which is the only major difference in the way I would run anything.
Regards
Ryan
Rob Hamflett wrote:
> You say it runs fine from a command prompt. How does it normally run?
>
> Rob
>
> Ryan O'Neill wrote:
>
>> Anyone got a clue about this? I can't resolve it.
>>
>> Ryan O'Neill wrote:
>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> I have an installer that works great for all Win platforms, except Vista
>>> where it will fail to register a DLL on specific machines. It runs on
>>> most Vista installations fine (under admin and limited user accounts
>>> which prompt for admin access). I did manage to get to a machine that
>>> exhibited the issue yesterday and after running the MSI from the command
>>> prompt, it installed correctly. I understand what happened there with
>>> the automatically elevated privileges using the command prompt but I
>>> can't understand why the normal UAC prompts did not allow the installer
>>> to write the DLL registration to the registry.
>>>
>>> I think perhaps the systems it fails on have a policy that is
>>> disallowing my installer registry writes, but I'm out of ideas.
>>>
>>> In testing it has proved to install correctly with;
>>> a) Admin accounts.
>>> b) Non admin accounts.
>>> c) Non default user admin account.
>>>
>>> The method I am using to write to the registy is via the usual Registry
>>> tag, as below;
>>> <Component Id="C_MainDll" Guid="{XXXXXXXXX}">
>>> <Registry Root="HKLM"
>>> Key="Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Toolbar">
>>> <Registry Name="{YYYYYYYYYY}" Type="string"
>>> Value="My toolbar" />
>>> </Registry>
>>> <Registry Root="HKCR" Key="CLSID\{YYYYYY}"
>>> Value="My toolbar" Type="string" />
>>>
>>> Obviously there are many more registry tags as well.
>>>
>>> I'm really stuck here, it works on most Vista systems and then the
>>> remainder it will work after being installed from the command prompt.
>>> Any help would be very much appreciated.
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance,
>>>
>>> Ryan
>>>
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