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discussion comment 17 Dec 2008

looeee commented on: Do orphaned HKCR root keys cause significant slowdown of os performance or is the effect limited ?

What do you mean by an orphaned HKCU key? Could you provide an example? There are a whole load of things in HKCU and some of them will slow down Explorer if they are correctly installed.

New download 18 Nov 2008

looeee posted: Transform Combiner

This is a script to add MST transforms together. Usage: TransformCombiner.VBS MSI MST1 MST2 [MST3] .. [MSTn] Alternative Usage: Select the MSI and the MSTs in explorer. Drag the MSI onto TransformCombiner.VBS while still having the MSTs selected.

blog entry comment 11 Nov 2008

looeee commented on: What is Deferred Execution Custom Action and Why is it Used ?

Nice article. Here's some more info for you. An immediate custom action's role is to gather data to be used by the deferred actions. They are used for checking for prerequisites, licensing, configuring, etc. To pass data to a deferred ...

New blog entry 31 Oct 2008

looeee posted: How To: Fix the Borland Database BDE MergeModule MSM

Ok there are a few changes you need to make to the BDE MSM to get it to work properly: Open the MSM in Orca or Inst Ed The errors requiring admin rights when your user self-repairs all come from a dodgy CustomAction. Fixing the CustomAction's Component:

New blog entry 30 Oct 2008

looeee posted: Shell Extensions Are Like File Extensions

When you right-click on a file it shows the verbs associated with the program, giving you the choice to print, edit, etc. It also shows you any Shell Extensions installed by your program. Funcionally, shell extensions behave similarly to file extensions but they have a special int

article comment 29 Oct 2008

looeee commented on: How to Use the BDE Merge Module

Moved to here

article comment 28 Oct 2008

looeee commented on: Deploy MSIs that Have No Advertised Entry Points

I do not agree with your commandline msiexec /fauvs "a" should be used with extreme caution. It writes the files in your MSI regardless of version. Any files that are in your application that are shared by others (like system files) will ...

blog entry comment 16 Oct 2008

looeee commented on: Does an Application Create an ODBC Driver?

Yes I have always preferred the ODBC entries to be in the registry. Another disadvantage to the ODBC table is that it causes the DLLs to be loaded at install-time. That's something that we should try to avoid because of dependencies. Quite ...

blog entry comment 16 Oct 2008

looeee commented on: Mandatory TESTS

You should always test the user with no rights before you test the software with the admin user. Quite often the application can fix itself on 1st run (e.g. ActiveX EXEs reregistering themselves) in a way that it cannot in a restructed user's ...

blog entry comment 16 Oct 2008

looeee commented on: Installing Selected Features of MSI with ADDLOCAL Property

You get the ice87 error becuse you are not supposed to hardcode ADDLOCAL in the Property Table. It will be forcing those features to be installed at repair-time and I'm sure that it can't be healthy at uninstall-time. The condition on your ...

blog entry comment 16 Oct 2008

looeee commented on: Using SOURCEDIR Property in Package

You should only ever run ResolveSource at install-time by using the condition "not Installed" or the MSI will bounce the media unnecessarily. Your users don't want to have to find the CD at uninstall-time. Also, I think the property that you ...

download comment 07 Sep 2008

looeee commented on: Using WiseScript to Register DLLs

don't forget to uninstall them you should use the commandline /s /u %NEWFILE% oh and you'll need to put the uninstall customaction into rollback sequence and the install customaction in at uninstall-rollback sequence. If installing ...

New download 03 Sep 2008

looeee posted: VBScript to Help Explain Rolback and Commit CustomActions

This script shows how the Deferred, Rollback and Commit actions work. Hopefully the inline comments are enough to explain how to use it. looeee License: AJSL By clicking the download link below, you agree to the terms and conditions in the Altiris Juice Software License

download comment 14 Aug 2008

looeee commented on: Uninstall MSI with VBScript

Const ProductCode = "{00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000}" Const msiInstallStateAbsent = 2 On Error Resume Next Set oInstaller = CreateObject("WindowsInstaller.Installer") oInstaller.UILevel = 99 oInstaller.ConfigureProduct ...

download comment 14 Aug 2008

looeee commented on: Uninstall MSI with VBScript

your subject is "UNinstalling MSI Without using VBscript" but this is the "uninstall msi with vbscript" thread. I think one or both of us are confused. is this what you meant? ...

discussion comment 13 Aug 2008

looeee commented on: Wise Package Studio vs. Installshield

Component Rules is a really nice feature. InstallShield has nothing like it. Wise is smaller, so easier to install. Wise has a nicer view of the Sequence tables Unfortunately that's about it

discussion comment 12 Aug 2008

looeee commented on: HKLM\Software\Classes

@ericw: read this The .Default user is not the default user @djscriptd This is only my second post :) What you have encountered is a program that is also a COM server. Some naughty programmers re-register their EXE files when they start ...