2. What you describe here is called a "Major Upgrade" by the Windows
Installer. There is a topic devoted to it in the MSI SDK.
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Vidhya Sagar
Bhogavalli (Infosys Technologies Ltd)
Sent: Wednesday, February 21, 2007 8:02 AM
To: Levi Wilson
Cc: Kansana Hariharan (Infosys Technologies Ltd);
[email protected]
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Reg. Disabling Remove from Windows Defender, and
Upgrade feature
1. The ALLUSERS property is already set to 1. This property is set to 1
just to install it for all users but it doesn't serve in disabling the Remove
feature for ALLUSERS.
2. I don't want to Product Code by doing a major Upgrade. A major Upgrade
finds if the previous version is installed or not using its Upgrade Code but
the product code is changed. Also I don't want to use a bootstrapper. I want
the msi to check if the previous version exists, if it does then uninstall it
and then proceed with the installation. Can I do it with the help of any custom
actions?
From: Levi Wilson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, February 21, 2007 8:21 PM
To: Vidhya Sagar Bhogavalli (Infosys Technologies Ltd)
Cc: [email protected]; Kansana Hariharan (Infosys Technologies
Ltd)
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Reg. Disabling Remove from Windows Defender, and
Upgrade feature
1.) Maybe if you set the ALLUSERS property to 1 that would take care of it?
2.) Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but it sounds like a major upgrade is
what you're talking about. I think that if you change the version string it
will do a major upgrade? The major upgrade from my understanding will
uninstall the previous version, and install the new version. If you use the
same product Guid, I think that's how it finds the previous version, and you
don't have to do anything yourself. If you want to package the msi into an
exe, on the WiX sourceforge page there's a nice bootstrapper sample project
that is akin to msistuff.exe in that, well, it is msistuff.exe with an
additional option to package an msi file right into the exe.
On 2/21/07, Vidhya Sagar Bhogavalli (Infosys Technologies Ltd) <[EMAIL
PROTECTED]<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote:
Hi All,
I've a couple of queries on WIX installers.
1. I've created an installer for Windows Vista. I've disabled the Remove
feature from Add/Remove Programs by setting the "ARPNOREMOVE" property to 1.
This has also disabled the "Remove" option from Windows Defender. Though, When
I click on "Show All Users" in Windows Defender, the "Remove" is enabled. But I
want the "Remove" option to be disabled even for "Sow All Users". Is there any
property that I can set to do this or any custom action that would help the
cause?
2. I want to check if a previous version of the Product already exists
and If it does, I want to uninstall it and then install the current version.
Though, I cannot resort to the Upgrade feature because it mandates the use of
the "ReinstallAll" property with the msiexec command. Otherwise, it mandates
the change of the Product GUID as a major Upgrade. But I don't want to change
the product GUID either. I want to do the uninstall of the previous version and
then proceed with the current installation from within the .msi. Also, I don't
want to write a wrapper Setup.exe which would in turn call the msiexec command
with the ReInstallAll property. Is there a possible way of doing this from the
.msi?
Please mail me If you have a solution for either of my queries.
Thanks In Advance,
Sagar
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