You say it runs fine from a command prompt. How does it normally run? Rob
Ryan O'Neill wrote: > Anyone got a clue about this? I can't resolve it. > > Ryan O'Neill wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> I have an installer that works great for all Win platforms, except Vista >> where it will fail to register a DLL on specific machines. It runs on >> most Vista installations fine (under admin and limited user accounts >> which prompt for admin access). I did manage to get to a machine that >> exhibited the issue yesterday and after running the MSI from the command >> prompt, it installed correctly. I understand what happened there with >> the automatically elevated privileges using the command prompt but I >> can't understand why the normal UAC prompts did not allow the installer >> to write the DLL registration to the registry. >> >> I think perhaps the systems it fails on have a policy that is >> disallowing my installer registry writes, but I'm out of ideas. >> >> In testing it has proved to install correctly with; >> a) Admin accounts. >> b) Non admin accounts. >> c) Non default user admin account. >> >> The method I am using to write to the registy is via the usual Registry >> tag, as below; >> <Component Id="C_MainDll" Guid="{XXXXXXXXX}"> >> <Registry Root="HKLM" >> Key="Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Toolbar"> >> <Registry Name="{YYYYYYYYYY}" Type="string" >> Value="My toolbar" /> >> </Registry> >> <Registry Root="HKCR" Key="CLSID\{YYYYYY}" >> Value="My toolbar" Type="string" /> >> >> Obviously there are many more registry tags as well. >> >> I'm really stuck here, it works on most Vista systems and then the >> remainder it will work after being installed from the command prompt. >> Any help would be very much appreciated. >> >> Thanks in advance, >> >> Ryan >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft >> Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. >> http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ >> _______________________________________________ >> WiX-users mailing list >> WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users >> >> >> > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft > Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. > http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users