Hi All, I've written a browser plugin and have encountered what seems an intractable problem with upgrades. When upgrading on XP, silent installs would handle in-use files either by doing a rename and replace on reboot, or writing over them anyway, depending on how they were held.
On Vista though, according to this<http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa372466(VS.85).aspx> and from my observation, there is no way to stop the restart manager from killing any apps that hold any files currently in use during a silent invocation. Even if I use a versioned subdirectory for each release, the IntallInitialize inside the RemoveExistingProducts call will attempt to remove the existing version and kill the user's session. This is very frustrating from their perspective, as they could be writing an email or have many tabs open, etc. Is there a way to relax the procedure so that it will attempt to delete the file later when they are unloaded, or to complete the deletion after a reboot? Would skipping execution of removeFiles action during an upgrade and then cleaning old versions away in a full uninstallation do the trick? Is there a best practice for this scenario? Thanks, Tim ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial Check out the new simplified licensing option that enables unlimited royalty-free distribution of the report engine for externally facing server and web deployment. http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
