Yeah, right up there with advertised COM components. <g/> Thomas S. Trias Senior Developer Artizan Internet Services http://www.artizan.com/
-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: [WiX-users] What keeps borking my ICE validation by registering VBScript and JScript under HKCU? From: Rob Mensching <r...@wixtoolset.org> To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. <wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net> Date: 2/19/2009 7:40 PM > <div class="moz-text-flowed" style="font-family: -moz-fixed">Wow, new > bad guy. See, lots of bad guys out there. > > SelfReg constantly? Seriously, geez. <sigh/> > > > Moradi, Ari wrote: >> 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 >> > > > </div> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
