Rob, is there someone at Microsoft that I can bug about this, either on the Windows Installer team or Vista team?
--Quinton -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rob Mensching Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2008 4:01 PM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Ugly Uninstall under Vista Known issue. Stupid bug on their part. You probably could register your bootstrapper as the uninstaller for your product but that requires a fair bit of work and can get very tricky to do correctly (read about ARPSYSCOMPONENT on the internet... some really strange things that need to be handled, IIRC). -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Quinton Tormanen Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2008 14:42 To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Ugly Uninstall under Vista I found KB929467 which discusses this VERY briefly. It simply says "To work around this issue, click Allow in the User Account Control dialog box to let the repair or remove operation continue." Does anyone have a real way to work around this? --Quinton -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Quinton Tormanen Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2008 2:34 PM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] Ugly Uninstall under Vista I'm sure this has been discussed before but I couldn't find anything searching the mailing list archive. My apologies if you guys have seen this many times. I have a relatively small application .msi installer based on WiX (9.6MB). I distribute it wrapped in a bootstrap executable. Everything works great, but I'm greatly annoyed that after all the work I went through to digitally sign the .msi, .exe, and the application itself, when the user does an uninstall on Windows Vista with UAC enabled, the user gets a UAC warning about an unsigned program wanting access to their computer. This makes my installer/uninstaller look highly unprofessional. I think I know the general reason for this. That is, I expect that Windows Installer builds an abbreviated version of my .msi installer and caches it to use for the uninstall, repair, etc. However, Windows Installer can't digitally sign it on my behalf (or anyone else's for that matter) so it generates the ugliest of UAC warnings. So, is there some way around this? I'm thinking that since my installer is only 9.6MB, perhaps I can signal Windows Installer to cache my .msi as is? Or perhaps someone could otherwise point me in the right direction? Perhaps I should save a copy of my .msi in my install folder and then somehow point Windows Installer to it for the uninstall? Thanks for any help you can provide. Quinton Tormanen Software Engineer Delta Computer Systems, Inc. http://www.deltamotion.com <http://www.deltamotion.com/> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------ - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------ - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
