Verbose log will show what msiexec is doing between clicking "Repair" or "Remove" & when it shows the Progress Dialog.
My guess is it's doing the stuff in InstallExecuteSequence before "InstallInitialize" but I could be wrong. Since your installer appears to be pretty large, checking all the stuff it needs to check (such as which Features/Components are installed) before it starts the repair or remove procedure is what's taking all that time. I see a similar issue when running minor upgrade MSPs. One of my installers is 400 MB+, the other is 60 MB. The 400 MB one takes a few minutes before I can start the patching process even though it is only adding 2 new small files to the installation (400 kB in total). The 60 MB one waits for a noticeably shorter time before it begins patching even though the patch itself is 20 MB containing 80 MB of files (100+ modified files) when uncompressed. There's no way to fix it without either making your MSI smaller or re-writing Windows Installer. It's one of the reasons why I have a 400 MB installer and a 60 MB installer, the 400 MB is data files which very rarely change while the 60 MB one is our actual software. Palbinder Sandher Software Deployment & IT Administrator T: +44 (0) 141 945 8500 F: +44 (0) 141 945 8501 http://www.iesve.com **Design, Simulate + Innovate with the <Virtual Environment>** Integrated Environmental Solutions Limited. Registered in Scotland No. SC151456 Registered Office - Helix Building, West Of Scotland Science Park, Glasgow G20 0SP Email Disclaimer -----Original Message----- From: Wilson, Phil [mailto:phil.wil...@invensys.com] Sent: 16 March 2010 16:44 To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] minor issues with WiX installer gui Is the repair a WiX dialog? These are typically standard Windows Installer dialogs. Disk space: http://blogs.msdn.com/heaths/archive/2008/07/24/why-windows-installer-may-require-so-much-disk-space.aspx Phil Wilson -----Original Message----- From: Jacek Pospychała [mailto:jacek.pospych...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, March 16, 2010 7:16 AM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: [WiX-users] minor issues with WiX installer gui hi WiXers, I'd like to share with you my excitement that product I'm working with, has almost ready MSI installer thanks to WiX! I still have some questions though :-) 1. We noticed that when pressing "Repair" or "Remove" button - on the last page of Repair and Remove wizards respectively, GUI hangs for significant time before going to the progress dialog. In this sate "Repair" button remains pressed, and only busy cursor icon indicates that something is going on. With Process Monitor that explorer.exe is going thru all the application files performing operations: CreateFile, QueryBasicInformationFile, QueryStandardInformationFile, CloseFile, CreateFileMapping, etc. What's happening after pressing those buttons and before going to the progress dialog? Is there any way to control that? At worst it takes up to few minutes! (Our application is big) 2. The application requires 500MB disk space. This is correctly reflected in CustomDlg, which shows correct features sizes. However "Required Space" dialog says that 1G is required. How is required space calculated by default? thanks Jacek ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. 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