I was afraid this was the case. Is there a typical approach to fixing this
mistake when pushing an upgrade to a product that is already out in the
wild?
On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 8:23 PM, Christopher Painter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> Upgrades ( including Major ) can't migrate an installed application from
> per-user to all-users. You have to first uninstall the app for each user
> who might have installed it and then reinstall the application as all
> user. This servicing ugliness is the reason for MSI Tao Rule # 30.
>
> http://blogs.msdn.com/windows_installer_team/archive/2006/05/24/605835.aspx
>
> *Chad Blomquist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>* wrote:
>
> In my initial realease of a product, the installer left the ALLUSERS
> property undefined. As a result, the software seems to be installed
> per-user instead of for all users on the system. When I correct this and
> set the ALLUSERS property to 1, the upgrade fails to remove the old
> version. If, in the new installer, I leave ALLUSERS undefined, upgrade
> works as expected.
>
> What should I do to remove the previous versions?
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