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[aarthi_m]

When i uninstall my software on Longhorn, there is a dialog box which which asks the user to

1. Automatically close applications and attempt to restart after the setup is complete OR
2. Do not close the applications (A reboot will be required)

Is this due to the restart manager on Longhorn. I don't see such dialog box when i uninstall on win2k3 or win2k.

How can i disable this dialog box or how can i decouple the msi from restart manager. I tried using the property MSIRESTARTMANAGERCONTROL and set it to disable in the MSI. This did not help. Is there some other way of disabling restart manager or how should this property be used?

Thanx!

Edited by aarthi_m, 02 August 2006 - 10:51.

[Stefan Krueger]

Yes this looks like the Restart Manager. What's wrong with it? Would you prefer the old-fashioned FilesInUse dialog?

[aarthi_m]

Thanks Stephan !

I don't want that dialog box. I would prefer the services to stop without expecting any input from the user like it used to happen in windows 2000 or windows 2003.

Hence, i tried to disable restart maanger by using MSIRESTARTMANAGERCONTROL property. I edited the msi using installshield, added this property and set it to disable. This does not help.

Does the property requite LH SDK? I use win2k3 SDK. Wondering if that is the reason why it is not working.

Also, how do i get back to the old filesinuse dialog?

[Stefan Krueger]

If your setup is properly authored to stop the services this should work on all Windows versions. Are there any specific messages in the log that suggest the services cannot be stopped on Vista (maybe a permission problem)?

What's different betwenn Vista and older versions of Windows is that MSI4/Vista has better capabilities to detect running processes that conflict with the setup. Before Vista running services were often simply not detected, so the problem was there but your setup didn't notice. Now on Vista it sees the problem and reports it.

See also this chat transcript: What's New in Windows Installer 4.0 (November 15, 2005)