I found the exact same problem and (after a lot of investigating) found that on my machine, it was PSPad causing the problems. Every time I launched PSPad (ran the app, not install it), it was attempting to reregister vbscript.dll. Since it runs unelevated, vbscript gets registered in my user account, which breaks vbscript. There was some setting I found in the application settings to make it stop attempting to register vbscript and that fixed the problem on my machine. I mention it just in case you're using PSPad too.
It became such a problem for me that seriously ended up sitting with procmon open while I worked. I had it filtered to the vbscript registry values in HKCU and just waited until I did something that created the keys. If you don't use PSPad, you might try the same thing to find out what's doing it on your machine. -Ari -----Original Message----- From: Anthony Wieser [mailto:wix-l...@wieser-software.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2009 1:42 AM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] What keeps borking my ICE validation by registering VBScript and JScript under HKCU? Bummer. So these installers just decide to re-register the DLLs "to be sure that they're registered", and as a result probably break their own functionality. Thanks for the response, Rob. Anthony Wieser Wieser Software Ltd ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rob Mensching" <r...@wixtoolset.org> To: "General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset." <wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net> Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2009 4:51 AM Subject: Re: [WiX-users] What keeps borking my ICE validation by registering VBScript and JScript under HKCU? > My understanding was that there are many bad guys. > > Anthony Wieser wrote: >> Heath Stewart reports the solution here, but I find this frustrating that >> every now and then, I go to build and suddenly I can't, getting light.exe >> errors. As I don't build every day, I'm not sure what's registering >> these >> under HKCU, but something is. >> >> I don't remember installing anything but windows updates, and it looks >> like >> a Java update. >> Oh, and I did see an installshield update thing run too. >> >> Is anyone else seeing this occasionally? Anyone figured out who the bad >> guy >> is? >> >> http://blogs.msdn.com/heaths/archive/2007/05/31/windows-installer-errors-2738-and-2739-with-script-custom-actions.aspx >> Check that vbscript.dll and jscript.dll aren't registered in >> HKEY_CURRENT_USER (HKCU), checking for the registry keys below. >> >> VBScript, HKCU\SOFTWARE\Classes\CLSID\{ >> B54F3741-5B07-11CF-A4B0-00AA004A55E8} >> JScript, HKCU\SOFTWARE\Classes\CLSID\{ >> F414C260-6AC0-11CF-B6D1-00AA00BBBB58} >> >> >> >> Anthony Wieser >> Wieser Software Ltd >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, >> CA >> -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the >> Enterprise >> -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source >> participation >> -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: >> SFAD >> http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H >> _______________________________________________ >> WiX-users mailing list >> WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users >> > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, > CA > -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the > Enterprise > -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source > participation > -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: > SFAD > http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H > _______________________________________________ > WiX-users mailing list > WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
