Self-reg is a bad practice. Let the Windows Installer manage the registry keys for you instead. Tends to work better in general.
On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 1:02 PM, gapearce <mr_gapea...@yahoo.com> wrote: > I'm surprised that no one has commented on this problem. Either is is such > an advanced question that no one has the answer, but it is such a stupid > question that the answer is obvious. > > I'm going with the latter - that this must be the most stupid question > asked > all day. > > Well, I don't get it, and I'm up to the wall with this stuff, and I can't > figure it out - stupid or not. > > So I'll bump it and restate it, in hopes that someone has some guidelines I > can use when trying to do the following. Jeez... > > I used heat to harvest a DLL that needs to get registered on the system > when > it is installed. This DLL registers fine using regsvr32.exe. > > When I uninstall this package, the system complains that the file is in use > (it *is* in use; it is a shell extension to windows explorer). > > This only happens when it is a lowly user that is trying to uninstall this. > > I thought that the registry registration/deregistration would happen > elevated so removing this stuff from the registry would work. But > something > is causing the user to get prompted to stop explorer so the dll can be > removed. > > What is best-practice here? Am I missing something? > > > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://windows-installer-xml-wix-toolset.687559.n2.nabble.com/Registering-Explorer-Shell-Extension-using-Heat-tp7584406p7584611.html > Sent from the wix-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. > Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics > Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: > http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_d2d_mar > _______________________________________________ > WiX-users mailing list > WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_d2d_mar _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
