I've never seen this. In fact, the default max time to wait for a service to
start is 30 seconds. I suspect this has been tweaked on your machine.
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From: "Daniel Zolopa" <daniel.zol...@gmail.com>
Sent: Thursday, November 07, 2013 1:19 PM
To: "General discussion about the WiX toolset."
<wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] ServiceInstall takes 2 minutes to install one service
on Windows 8
Please try to measure time without Start="install". I assume that your
service start is very long and this is the reason.
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regards
danz
2013/11/7 wixtester <sangee...@hotmail.com>
> Hi,
>
> I have a msi that installs 4 services just fine on Windows XP and
> Windows
> 7 devices. However on Windows 8 and 8.1, it takes 2 minutes to install one
> service amounting to 8 minutes in all for just installing the services. Are
> there any parameters I can tweak to improve the msi performance?
>
> A typical service definition looks like this
>
> <Component Id="RunUser" Guid="{..VALUE...}" Location="local" >
> <Condition></Condition>
>
> <File Id="RunUser" Source="$(var.RunUser.TargetPath)"
> KeyPath="yes"/>
> <ServiceInstall Name="SVC" DisplayName="!(loc.DisplayName)"
> Description="!(loc.Description)" Start="auto" ErrorControl="ignore"
> Type="ownProcess" />
> <ServiceControl Id="RunAs" Name="SVC" Start="install" Stop="both"
> Remove="uninstall" />
> </Component>
>
>
> thanks!
>
>
>
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