We want the patches for the products to be hidden from the Add / Remove program.
Is there any way to hide the display in the ARP.
We need to do this for Windows 2003 and Windows XP.
regards,
Srikanth
Edited by SrikanthCJ, 07 October 2005 - 18:40.
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Hide patches to be displayed in ARP
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SrikanthCJ
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Posted 07 October 2005 - 18:39
Hi,
We want the patches for the products to be hidden from the Add / Remove program.
Is there any way to hide the display in the ARP.
We need to do this for Windows 2003 and Windows XP.
regards,
Srikanth
We want the patches for the products to be hidden from the Add / Remove program.
Is there any way to hide the display in the ARP.
We need to do this for Windows 2003 and Windows XP.
regards,
Srikanth
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Posted 08 October 2005 - 09:41
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Posted 11 October 2005 - 10:18
Why do you want to hide them? You could make them non-uninstallable.
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Posted 12 October 2005 - 06:39
Stefan,
My main requirement is to make the patch uninstallable.
We are writing a Remove patch Utility which has got certain custom logic to be executed when the patch is removed. We wanted the customers to use the remove patch utility to remove the patches and not through ARP. Is this possible ?
I am wondering if i add custom action to the patch, the custom action has to be present in the base MSI. Isnt it?
Lets say after the release of the product, if i want to change the logic due to many reasons, how do i deliver the same through patch?. Please advice
Any comments are welcome.
regards,
Srikanth
My main requirement is to make the patch uninstallable.
We are writing a Remove patch Utility which has got certain custom logic to be executed when the patch is removed. We wanted the customers to use the remove patch utility to remove the patches and not through ARP. Is this possible ?
I am wondering if i add custom action to the patch, the custom action has to be present in the base MSI. Isnt it?
Lets say after the release of the product, if i want to change the logic due to many reasons, how do i deliver the same through patch?. Please advice
Any comments are welcome.
regards,
Srikanth
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Posted 12 October 2005 - 11:19
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| We wanted the customers to use the remove patch utility to remove the patches and not through ARP. Is this possible ? |
Not sure. You could try to ark your setup as system component, thus it will not be displayed in ARP. Then you need to add entries to the Uninstall registry key yourself to add it to ARP.
A patch changes the MSI database. Custom actions are stored in the MSI database, so you should be able to add or modify custom actions in a patch, even if they didn't exist in the original MSI. However a patch cannot add a custom action that should be executed when this patch is uninstalled because the patch doesn't get executed in this case. A "patch uninstall" actually isn't a uninstall, but a repair of the productwith the unpatched msi file.
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