Wow, new bad guy. See, lots of bad guys out there. SelfReg constantly? Seriously, geez. <sigh/>
Moradi, Ari wrote: > I found the exact same problem and (after a lot of investigating) found that > on my machine, it was PSPad causing the problems. Every time I launched > PSPad (ran the app, not install it), it was attempting to reregister > vbscript.dll. Since it runs unelevated, vbscript gets registered in my user > account, which breaks vbscript. There was some setting I found in the > application settings to make it stop attempting to register vbscript and that > fixed the problem on my machine. I mention it just in case you're using > PSPad too. > > It became such a problem for me that seriously ended up sitting with procmon > open while I worked. I had it filtered to the vbscript registry values in > HKCU and just waited until I did something that created the keys. If you > don't use PSPad, you might try the same thing to find out what's doing it on > your machine. > > -Ari > > -----Original Message----- > From: Anthony Wieser [mailto:wix-l...@wieser-software.com] > Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2009 1:42 AM > To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. > Subject: Re: [WiX-users] What keeps borking my ICE validation by registering > VBScript and JScript under HKCU? > > Bummer. So these installers just decide to re-register the DLLs "to be sure > that they're registered", and as a result probably break their own > functionality. > > Thanks for the response, Rob. > > Anthony Wieser > Wieser Software Ltd > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Rob Mensching" <r...@wixtoolset.org> > To: "General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset." > <wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net> > Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2009 4:51 AM > Subject: Re: [WiX-users] What keeps borking my ICE validation by registering > VBScript and JScript under HKCU? > > > >> My understanding was that there are many bad guys. >> >> Anthony Wieser wrote: >> >>> Heath Stewart reports the solution here, but I find this frustrating that >>> every now and then, I go to build and suddenly I can't, getting light.exe >>> errors. As I don't build every day, I'm not sure what's registering >>> these >>> under HKCU, but something is. >>> >>> I don't remember installing anything but windows updates, and it looks >>> like >>> a Java update. >>> Oh, and I did see an installshield update thing run too. >>> >>> Is anyone else seeing this occasionally? Anyone figured out who the bad >>> guy >>> is? >>> >>> http://blogs.msdn.com/heaths/archive/2007/05/31/windows-installer-errors-2738-and-2739-with-script-custom-actions.aspx >>> Check that vbscript.dll and jscript.dll aren't registered in >>> HKEY_CURRENT_USER (HKCU), checking for the registry keys below. >>> >>> VBScript, HKCU\SOFTWARE\Classes\CLSID\{ >>> B54F3741-5B07-11CF-A4B0-00AA004A55E8} >>> JScript, HKCU\SOFTWARE\Classes\CLSID\{ >>> F414C260-6AC0-11CF-B6D1-00AA00BBBB58} >>> >>> >>> >>> Anthony Wieser >>> Wieser Software Ltd >>> >>> >>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >>> Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, >>> CA >>> -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the >>> Enterprise >>> -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source >>> participation >>> -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: >>> SFAD >>> http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H >>> _______________________________________________ >>> WiX-users mailing list >>> WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net >>> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users >>> >>> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, >> CA >> -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the >> Enterprise >> -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source >> participation >> -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: >> SFAD >> http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H >> _______________________________________________ >> WiX-users mailing list >> WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users >> > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA > -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise > -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation > -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD > http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H > _______________________________________________ > WiX-users mailing list > WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA > -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise > -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation > -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD > http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H > _______________________________________________ > WiX-users mailing list > WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
