a) Yes, that's the restart manager. Try reading up on this stuff at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa372059(v=vs.85).aspx (Rob gave me this link when I was working through something else.) It's tricky and confusing, took me a day or two of reading, testing and begging for help here to get a quiet install to quietly install without killing off running programs. And I'm targeting Windows 7 only.
Do you really need to target XP? It's end of life from Microsoft April 8. At that point I expect a lot of ISVs to use that as a reason to discontinue their support. Perhaps you could just punt and tell the user they have to exit the GUI app if they want the uninstall to work. On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 6:01 PM, ashish thomas <ashishptho...@yahoo.co.in>wrote: > Hi All, > > We are using Wix MSI for doing installation/uninstallation of > our application. Currently our application is supported from Windows XP and > above. As a part of uninstallation, we are removing Gui application from > system > tray. But we are finding two different behavior > for XP vs Non XPS > > Non XP - Vista and Above (eg: Win7) - Here ,when we remove > uninstall from Add or Remove Programs, gets a pop up that Gui application > needs > to closed before continuing the install. I select "Automatically close > applications and attempt to restart them > after setup is complete" and uninstallation is completed successfully and > everything works fine. > > XP - When I invoke uninstall from Add or Remove Programs, I didn't > get the pop up that Gui application needs to closed. Uninstallation > removes all > the files from the installation directory but application is still seen in > the > system tray. > > Here are the questions > a) Why the different behavior seen in Windows XP? Is > it since Restart Manager is not present in XP. > b) How can I get Windows 7 behavior in Windows XP (ie > getting pop up that Gui application needs to closed) > c) In Windows7, how can I prevent "Gui application > needs to be closed" from not appearing. > d) For XP, I have added the below code to remove > Gui during uninstallation and found working. Can someone please comment if > I am > doing correct or something wrong with the below code. > > <InstallExecuteSequence> > <!--WixCloseApplications is a built in custom action that uses > util:CloseApplication below --> > <CustomAction="WixCloseApplications"Before="InstallInitialize"/> > </InstallExecuteSequence> > > <util:CloseApplicationId="CloseGui"CloseMessage="yes"Description="Needs > to close.Sorry about that" > ElevatedCloseMessage="no"RebootPrompt="no" > Target="Gui.exe"/> > > </Product> > What I am basically aiming is the same behavior in both XP > and Windows7 operating systems. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Subversion Kills Productivity. Get off Subversion & Make the Move to > Perforce. > With Perforce, you get hassle-free workflows. Merge that actually works. > Faster operations. Version large binaries. Built-in WAN optimization and > the > freedom to use Git, Perforce or both. Make the move to Perforce. > > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=122218951&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk > _______________________________________________ > WiX-users mailing list > WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Subversion Kills Productivity. Get off Subversion & Make the Move to Perforce. With Perforce, you get hassle-free workflows. Merge that actually works. Faster operations. Version large binaries. Built-in WAN optimization and the freedom to use Git, Perforce or both. Make the move to Perforce. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=122218951&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
