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
>>
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