Our installer's logs show that it takes 3 minutes to create a restore point 
before our software is installed, between the user
accepting the EULA and the UAC prompting the user for admin rights. The 
computers we've tested aren't very old or underpowered
either.

The problem is that, for those 3 minutes, the WixUI_Minimal interface we're 
using only shows the user an uninformative "please wait
while the software is installed..." message with a progress bar that doesn't 
move during the restore point creation. We're
particularly concerned that users might think the installer crashed and cancel 
the installation (and of course contact us thinking
there's a problem).

Since restore points are useful/important, trying to skip it wouldn't be great 
for users who have it enabled. Would there be some
way to let the user know that a restore point is being created, and it could 
take several minutes, so they should be patient?

I've had little luck inserting custom UIs panels in the WiXUI extension, so I'm 
hoping there's something easy/simple we can do,
without having to roll our own UI altogether.

Alain

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Alain Forget, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Researcher
CyLab, Carnegie Mellon University
afor...@cmu.edu
http://cups.cs.cmu.edu/~aforget/
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