In my experimentations, ARPNOREMOVE would alter the Modify button to become Modify/Remove, and would thus run the GUI, giving your GUI a chance to offer removal.
However, the MSI can still be invoked without UI for removal by several tools, so unless you are prepared to prevent removal without UI you will have to accept that limitation. -----Original Message----- From: Ben Hegarty [mailto:heg...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, July 28, 2009 2:06 PM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Change Add/Remove Programs buttons Basically we wanted a GUI of some kind for the uninstall to accept passwords as we don't want to store them in the registry, Do you know of any other ways to get a GUI up from the remove button in wix? On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 8:49 PM, Sebastian Brand (Instyler Software) < wix+us...@instyler.com <wix%2bus...@instyler.com>> wrote: > Hi Ben, > > The only valid options are using ARPNOMODIFY and ARPNOREMOVE to > disable the change and/or remove button. The ARP control panel seems > to know when a Windows Installer package handles Modify different from > Remove, so you'd have to remove some registry values from the HKLM\.. > \Uninstall key. But this will break lot's of rules so I'd not > recommend it. Also note that Vista/Win7's ARP section looks completely > different, so maybe this problem can be discussed away somehow :-) > > > Best regards, > Sebastian Brand > > Instyler Setup - Creating WiX-based MSI installations, elegantly. > http://www.instyler.com > > > > > On 28.07.2009, at 18:30, Ben Hegarty wrote: > > > Hi, > > Does anyone know how to change the behaviour of the add/remove > > programs > > window so that it has a combined 'change/remove' button instead of > > separate > > ones? > > Cheers > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- > > Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 > > 30-Day > > trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and > > focus on > > what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with > > Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july > > _______________________________________________ > > WiX-users mailing list > > WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- > Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day > trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus > on > what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with > Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july > _______________________________________________ > WiX-users mailing list > WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users > -- The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at or repair. - Douglas Adams blog:http://thelifeofbenhegs.blogspot.com/ phone: +447767-322-122 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
