I have tested a very slow installation using wix compared to an msi made by
InstallShield.
The ordering the items in the installation table using the directory is perhaps
a good ideai, but what about using Heat?
I use Heat for harvesting directories with many files, anf it doesn't add a
name
In order to bring closure I thought I would post my resolution. I was able to
'fix' the issue by installing as another user on the system. Same machine,
same install, same running apps, just a different logged on user...guessing
a messed up registry but I cannot say for sure.
Thank you,
Dex
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Thank your for all the suggestions. I had already included many of the
suggestions into the original installation. I am now in the process of
determining why this occurs on only a few machines while others work fine. I
just don't know what environmental settings could be causing such a drastic
Antivirus or index server are favourites.
-Original Message-
From: Dexter [mailto:d8x...@hotmail.com]
Sent: 15 April 2013 15:33
To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Slow Installs
Thank your for all the suggestions. I had already included many of the
suggestions
on an
overprovisioned server. Really hard to say.
From: David Watson dwat...@sdl.com
Sent: Monday, April 15, 2013 10:09 AM
To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.
wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Slow Installs
Antivirus
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From: d8x...@hotmail.com
Sent: Thursday, April 11, 2013 4:49 PM
To: Wix-Users wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [WiX-users] Slow Installs
I have an installation which consists of around 7,000 files. Each file is
in it's own Component. The WXS file is auto generated during build time
To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.; Wix-Users
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Slow Installs
MSI was never fast. You should have seen it on a Pentium 200MMX with 16MB of
memory. The more keyfiles you have in an installer,
the more processing that Windows Installer has to perform. You
Seems to me that I remember reading something in Nick Ramirez' book that the
components are ordered in the table based upon the component id and that you
could speed up our installation by including the folder path in the
component id. This would order your files by directory so that the installer
I haven't read the book but I noticed the same thing awhile ago. Check out my
posting if interested:
http://windows-installer-xml-wix-toolset.687559.n2.nabble.com/Performance-Issues-with-File-table-sequencing-td4777168.html
I have an installation which consists of around 7,000 files. Each file is in
it's own Component. The WXS file is auto generated during build time (via heat)
so names, guids, etc. are auto generated. The MSI is started from an External
UI via the Deployment SDK's Installer.InstallProduct()
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