The condition on each component is indeed 'VersionNT <= 500 or Version9X'. This means the component is _only_ installed on Windows 2000 or lower, or on Windows 98. It is not the same as a launch condition, where the condition must be true for the installation to proceed.
As you discovered, the components should _not_ be installed on Windows XP or newer, because they are already installed on those operating systems and are under System File Protection. -- Mike Dimmick -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Pseudonymic Wannabe Sent: 21 May 2007 10:15 To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] Patching a mergemodule or forcing an install Our application is dependent on some MS Merge-modules which we have in our installer, they are added via the <Merge> and <MergeRef> tags. Problem is the mergemodules have a condition VersionNT <= 500 or Version9X, this is a problem because we need the mergemodules to install on Windows2000. Now making our application not dependent on them is not an option, and the merge-modules install just fine standalone via the MS installer but as I said we want them in our MSI package. Editing out the conditionals with ORCA seems to break the upgrade/backwards compatibility of the merge-modules ("Cannot update the systemfile C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Speech\sapi.cpl with Windows Installer because the file is protected by Windows"). So I'm a bit at a loss here, how to get those merge-modules to install even though they have a VersionNT <= 500 condition. I'm starting to think putting the MS installer into our bootloader would be better. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
