Hi everyone, Been developing wix installers for over a year now, and thanks to my Googling skill and the archive of this mailing list, I've been able to solve most of my problems. So thanks for that!
But I have a need now to use the Restart Manager to kill explorer during install of a product. I have gotten it to the point where it mostly works fine. Using the GUI as normal user and Admin user successfully restarts explorer. Running a silent install (/qn) without elevation as Admin also restarts explorer correctly. But running a silent install as a normal user (without install privileges) via an elevated command prompt does not successfully restart explorer. It does stop it, but explorer never starts back up. Installer logs report no issue - in fact, the installer logs report that all services were successfully restarted. Only in the event logs is the below message reported: Application 'C:\Windows\explorer.exe' (pid 2964) cannot be restarted - Application SID does not match Conductor SID.. Now I think I understand the root issue here, and it is explained away in this link <http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/windows/en-US/c4bf8857-144f-46f8-93b7-a9cb5109c6fd/restart-manager-fails-to-restart-an-application-for-standard-users-in-windows-7?forum=winformssetup>. A user's session cannot be started by another user, for obvious security reasons. However, there doesn't seem to be much of a solution there, other than maybe to not use Restart Manager at all. This seems pretty basic to me. A working SCCM install of this product is just as important (if not more so) than a normal GUI install. But if this is a known issue, no SCCM install requiring Restart Manager would ever work (I'm assuming explorer is not the culprit here). This leads me to believe I am missing something. Has anyone else come across this issue, and if so, how did you solve it? Thanks for any help, AJ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ HPCC Systems Open Source Big Data Platform from LexisNexis Risk Solutions Find What Matters Most in Your Big Data with HPCC Systems Open Source. Fast. Scalable. Simple. Ideal for Dirty Data. Leverages Graph Analysis for Fast Processing & Easy Data Exploration http://p.sf.net/sfu/hpccsystems _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
