Thanks Bob for reply.
By design, it is ok for the privileged user to hack to uninstall my app (e.g.
change registry, delete files). However, I don't want my MSI to be used to
uninstall the app.
Is it possible to disable uninstallation in my msi to achieve below goals?
1. A user right clicks my application item in Add/Remove programs, he
can only see repair option, no remove option.
2. A user cannot uninstall my application by using "msiexec /x my.msi
/q".
Thanks
Lian
-----Original Message-----
From: Bob Arnson [mailto:b...@joyofsetup.com]
Sent: Monday, August 03, 2009 6:24 PM
To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] is it possible to disable user uninstall while still
enable major upgrade?
Lian Jiang wrote:
> I agree it sounds like a strange requirement for most projects which I didn't
> even believe at the beginning. But it is legitimate for my project due to
> some business reason...
>
> Can this be done technically?
>
Users already have to elevate to do the uninstall; once they have admin
privs, they can do anything they want to the machine (OS components
excepted).
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