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What are the install times like if you
disable system restore? Apparently MSI installations take a large
up-front hit while loading on system restore and disabling it (assuming you don’t
use it), can speed things up quite a bit. Derek From:
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On Behalf Of Simon Topley Preaching to the choir there, we were
using an old shonky none msi version of installshield. It clearly did less
work, it's just hard explaining that to users/support staff, when all they see
is the end result. With the previous version the guy who wrote it put a million
workarounds in there to allow our support staff to install multiple copies of
the same version of the product... Trying to explain that this is bad practice
just gets me insults. Oh well, all is well now, the performance figures have
calmed people down a little now that they realize they are complaining about
nothing. Cheers Rob. From: Rob
Mensching [mailto: When you say you've
replaced InstallShield with the WiX toolset, what version of InstallShield did
you replace? I ask because the non-MSI versions of InstallShield used a
scripting engine to do the install. That engine (as I've been told)
doesn't do nearly the same amount of integrity checking that the Windows
Installer does. For example, the
Windows Installer maintains a rollback script of all the files that were
replaced during the installation. Thus, if the user cancels, everything
gets put back the way it was. That adds overhead that most installation
technologies don't implement (and one of the reasons I cringe every time I see
another product released on those engines). Now, if you were using
InstallShield for Windows Installer and the package you created with the WiX
toolset was slower... well, then the WiX toolset probably has a bug.
<smile/> From:
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Simon Topley Good
morning to the Brotherhood/Sisterhood, I'm sure
this is a problem others have encounted. I have now replace our suite of installsheild
products with spanky new WIX versions. I have managed to elimitnate a large
amount of redundant code (previous installers copied large amounts of file that
were never used). Most of the installers are now half the size in compressed
form. Dispite this the installation process now takes longer (so I'm told, I
intend to run some performance tests later today). Is there a standard
explaination for this that I can give to people (i.e. talk to city hall) I am
playing with the idea of having internal versions (products that will only be
used by testers and support staff) as uncompressed in the hope that most of the
time is being spent extracting files. Simon
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