Look again at my previous post - my vote is for an issue with msconfig. Look at the service paths for services where it doesn't work and I bet they have quoted paths. The ones that work fine do not have quoted paths. Windows Installer starting quoting service paths relatively recently. Your command line install doesn't quote the service path. When it's quoted msconfig apparently can fail to get the path to the executable properly to get the version info.
Phil Wilson -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kevin Richardson Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2007 6:54 PM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] MSCONFIG shows "unknown" for service manufacturer > There is very little doubt in my mind that msconfig is getting the > company name from the resources of the code file (in the cases where > it > gets it right). For just one example, look at what msconfig says about > the Logical Disk Administrator Service, and then look at the company > name in the actual service code file. Not only that, but there are no > Service-oriented APIs or registry entries about Services that let you > specify the company name.=20 I completely agree with you that msconfig is supposed to grab the company name from the resources of the code file; the point of my post is that it's not doing that when I install the service through the ServiceInstall table. It only displays the company name if the service is self-registered from the command-line. I would assume that MSI invokes the CreateService API for entries in the ServiceInstall table, just as the self-registering code does, so I'm confused as to why it doesn't work. -kevin ------------------------------------------------------------------------ - SF.Net email is sponsored by: The Future of Linux Business White Paper from Novell. From the desktop to the data center, Linux is going mainstream. Let it simplify your IT future. http://altfarm.mediaplex.com/ad/ck/8857-50307-18918-4 _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: The Future of Linux Business White Paper from Novell. From the desktop to the data center, Linux is going mainstream. Let it simplify your IT future. http://altfarm.mediaplex.com/ad/ck/8857-50307-18918-4 _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
