The problem isn't anything to do with Vista, its because your service has a dependency on something in the GAC and the files don't really appear in the GAC until after the Commit phase of the install.
Just mark your service as starting automaticly and you shouldn't have any problem. Then Windows will start the service when its needed. Why do you think that you must start your service before the install finishes? -- "The Direct3D Graphics Pipeline" -- DirectX 9 draft available for download <http://www.xmission.com/~legalize/book/download/index.html> Legalize Adulthood! <http://blogs.xmission.com/legalize/> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users