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[subodh_jai]

Hi,

I have an install requirement where I need to remove and install a service during the installation, While doing so I can see that service removal and installation works fine and service is getting installed ok, however as soon as I reboot the system service gets deleted from the system.

I tried checking the reg operations using regmon but could not find anything significant during the installation however when I enable the boot options in regmon and checked the logs I could find that services.exe has deleted the service during the boot.

This service works pretty much standalone and does not have any dependency, also the service was stopped before the uninstall and install. Please advice what could have been the trigger for the service deletion. Thanks in advance.

Regards,
Subodh

[Stefan Krueger]

If you try to manually do the same (stop service, delete service files) does that work?
Did you check HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\PendingFileRenameOperations (after your setup has run but before you reboot)? You can also use this tool: http://technet.micro...s/bb897556.aspx

[subodh_jai]

Hi Stefen,

Thanks for your reply, I checked pendingfilerename reg key but could not find any entry there (even key was not present), I also ran the tool you have suggested but the result was same.

I also tried the same operation manually (not from the MSI) and It was working fine service was not removed during reboot.

Regards,
Subodh

[Stefan Krueger]

So if PendingFileRenameOperations is empty you need to find out who else is deleting the file. Maybe ProcessMonitor from SysInternals will help.