That just runs MsiZap in the end and leaves your machine in a dirty state. I always told my testers that if they came to me with a installation bug after running MsiZap to format the machine and try again. I didn't like hunting the voodoo bugs that came from dealing with a machine that had MsiZap run on it. YMMV.
-----Original Message----- From: Scott Moyer [mailto:scott.mo...@appliedvision.com] Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2014 12:48 PM To: 'General discussion about the WiX toolset.' Subject: Re: [WiX-users] (Gentle Reminder)Creating directory under C:\Programdata same as what the user specified in the UI dialogue I found a tool, called MicrosoftFixit*, that you can use to fix orphaned installs that did not show up in ARP but were causing sharing issues with some of my files. I now know what to do if this happens again. Thanks. See http://support.microsoft.com/mats/Program_Install_and_Uninstall Scott Moyer -----Original Message----- From: Phil Wilson [mailto:phildgwil...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2014 2:41 PM To: General discussion about the WiX toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] (Gentle Reminder)Creating directory under C:\Programdata same as what the user specified in the UI dialogue We seem to have crossed threads here, Suvra's "disallowing uninstallation" and Scott's similar sounding problem,. Suvra is off looking at the actual file, as far as I know. I've no idea why Scott would see "disallowing uninstallation" messages referring to component ids that re not in the MSI file, unless it's an upgrade and they are related to the older product being removed. Turn this into a vbs script and run it. It lists every component id on the system and the owning products, so it might be overkill, but look in the output for the questionable ids. Option Explicit Public installer, fullmsg, comp, a, prod, fso, pname, ploc, pid, psorce Set fso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject") Set a = fso.CreateTextFile("comps.txt", True) ' Connect to Windows Installer object Set installer = CreateObject("WindowsInstaller.Installer") a.writeline ("MSI Components") on error resume next For Each comp In installer.components a.writeline (comp & " is used by the product:") for each prod in Installer.ComponentClients (comp) pid = installer.componentpath (prod, comp) pname = installer.productinfo (prod, "InstalledProductName") a.Writeline (" " & pname & " " & prod & "and is installed at " & pid) Next Next --------------- Phil Wilson On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 11:15 AM, Hoover, Jacob <jacob.hoo...@greenheck.com> wrote: > I believe the ID's are encoded in the registry to prevent manual scrubbing, > but the MsiZap may be able to help you if you can find a copy. You might > want to scan ARP on your dev machine after the application is uninstalled to > see if there is an old MSI lying around (or even look for old MSI's you may > have built that are still on your machine). If you can find the old MSI's > you can use them to remove the data. > > One option would be to change your path of your installation (not optimal) so > that the auto-generated components have a different ID. > > And some more info on the location of the stored references and how > the GUID's are compressed: > http://windows-installer-xml-wix-toolset.687559.n2.nabble.com/Windows- > Installer-Service-and-reference-counting-td702967.html > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Scott Moyer [mailto:scott.mo...@appliedvision.com] > Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2014 12:42 PM > To: 'General discussion about the WiX toolset.' > Subject: Re: [WiX-users] (Gentle Reminder)Creating directory under > C:\Programdata same as what the user specified in the UI dialogue > > I found some "Disallowing uninstallation of component: {<guid>} since another > client exists" messages in the uninstall log, which look to be referencing > the exe files, but can't find any references to the those guids in my MSI or > in the Registry. They are not from a merge module, and I have never used the > Permanent or Shared attributes. I have been running on my dev machine (not in > a VM). Sounds like there is no recovery for this situation? > > Thanks, > Scott > > -----Original Message----- > From: Phil Wilson [mailto:phildgwil...@gmail.com] > Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2014 1:07 PM > To: General discussion about the WiX toolset. > Subject: Re: [WiX-users] (Gentle Reminder)Creating directory under > C:\Programdata same as what the user specified in the UI dialogue > > If the issue is that "disallowing uninstallation" message, then look up the > component guid in your MSI to see what it is, a file name or registry item. > Without that detail it's impossible to say if it's working correctly. 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