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This option sets the Windows Installer MsiLogging property to vp value. Windows Installer will automatically set the MsiLogFileLocation property to the path where the log file will be generated.

By default, the MsiLogFileLocation will point to:. The MsiLogFileLocation is a Read-only property and cannot be changed by the package author or by the user. Its value is automatically set during the runtime of the installation package. This option requires Windows Installer 5.

Windows Installer 4. Run as administrator - enabling this option automatically sets the execution level to "Require Administrator". Disabling it will set the execution level back to "As Invoker" default. Checking "Run as administrator" doesn't give administrative permissions to the Control Panel instance of the application.

Run as administrator does not work for MSI packages launched in maintenance mode. Execution level These options enable you to drastically reduce the time it takes your application to install by:.

On Windows 7 and above when Fast Installation option is used, the standard users access to installed files will be restricted. The three following options can be used together but are ignored on machines with Windows Installer 4. The installation time can be decreased with these options only when Windows Installer 4.

If this option is set, Windows Installer will no longer create system restore points for the install process.

If this option is set, Windows Installer will perform only file costing, ignoring the rest of costs. Table of Contents. Install Parameters Windows Installer properties are used during the installation process.

During the installation, the user can modify this path by either using the [ Browse ] button in the "FolderDlg" Select Installation Folder dialog or by manually editing the Path Edit control on the same dialog. The default value of this field points to a sub-folder of the ProgramFilesFolder for the per--machine installs. The default value of this field points to a sub-folder of the ProgramMenuFolder. Installation Type Per-user only - the application will be available only for the user who installed it.

This size is used by the EXE bootstrapper to determine if the prerequisite was downloaded correctly. This field contains the MD5 signature of the prerequisite installation package.

After the prerequisite is downloaded the bootstrapper calculates its MD5 signature. If its the same as the MD5 signature you specify in this field then the prerequisite was downloaded correctly.

If not, the user is notified. You can edit these fields directly with the appropriate values or you could use the [ Browse Optional command lines for launching the prerequisite under different UI environments.

Each command is used by your prerequisite based on the UI level of the main package, i. This way you can have different command lines for each UI level. This field supports Formatted type only if the prerequisite is feature-based. These options allow you to repair or uninstall the prerequisite when the main package is in maintenance mode. If no command line parameters are specified after checking the maintenance options, the MSI will simply launch the prerequisite installer.

For feature-based and post-install prerequisites, on below Enterprise project types only the "Full UI" install command line can be used and the prerequisite will be installed only if the main package is run with full UI. All other command line fields will be ignored and the prerequisite will not be installed if the main package is installed with silent or basic UI.

Table of Contents. Prerequisite Setup Files Tab This page allows you to configure the prerequisite files. This could happen when the setup to be repackaged resides on a drive root of the host machine. Due to a limitation in the our Repackager's design, it cannot handle this situation. As a workaround you could move the setup in a subfolder of the drive root. Another posible cause of this error could be if the Integration Services are disabled on the guest virtual machine.

Please make sure these services are enabled. The "Data Exchange" and "Heartbeat" services are especially important. Organization view uses a native TREE control that does not support multiple components selection. However, a workaround to select multiple components in the Organization view is the following:.

All other data created by custom actions, by the installed application or by the user is not registered in the MSI, therefore it will not be removed. If you want to also delete this data, you need to use the "Uninstall Cleanup" wizard available from the context menu when a folder is selected in the Files and Folders Page. When launching an installation, Windows Installer calculates the space required by adding the size of the resources which will be installed with the size needed for rollback.

Also, some space is required for the installation script and for the cached package. Additionally, the installation runs from a temporary copy of the package, therefore more space is required. Basically, an installation requires much more space than just the size of the files it creates. An installation will require a reboot if it tries to overwrite a file which is in use.

After a reboot is performed, the file will no longer be used and Windows will be able to overwrite it. One of the features offered by Windows Installer is self-healing for the installed application.

Therefore, if Windows Installer detects there is an important resource missing, it will automatically repair the installation and show a progress bar. The progress bar may also be showed by an on-demand installation. This is usually caused by an Advertised shortcut. Sometimes a package cannot be uninstalled for example, it contains a custom action which cannot run. This broken package can be removed by following these steps:. Note that in the above command you need to specify the modified MSI's actual path.

Microsoft has also automatized most common uninstall problems into the Fix it program. Another deprecated way of repairing a broken installation is by using the Windows Installer Cleanup utility or the "MsiZap. Note that these tools remove only the Windows Installer information for the package, the installed resources must be manually removed.

All you have to do is add it to the installation dialogs from the Dialogs page. Here are the steps to do that:. Please note that you should use a valid. RTF file, not just a simple file to which you have changed the extension to. After following the above steps you should have a new dialog displayed in the installation sequence containing the text specified by your file.

During this process, all the unnecessary information is removed in order to decrease the size of the file. When a Repair is called, some data required may not be found in the cached MSI.

In this case, Windows Installer will prompt the user for the original package in order to retrieve the data it needs. If an Advertised Shortcut is present in a feature, during the first launch, it checks all the key paths for the current feature and all its subfeatures.

However, if the MSI contains multiple features, this does not check the missing key paths in other features, only the feature of which the Advertised shortcut is launched.

By default, the paths used in an Advanced Installer project are relative to the project file. Therefore, when you move the project file you also need to make sure you move the files used in the project in order to maintain the relative paths. The type of the paths relative or absolute can be changed in the Project Settings tab of the "Edit Project Settings" dialog.

Note that you can also use path variables instead of relative paths. Advanced Installer allows you to create or modify registry entries through the Registry page.

When you create a new registry value, you can specify [ProductVersion] in the Data section of the Edit Registry Entry dialog. This way, the registry entry will contain the version of the package. The information displayed on the security dialog is collected from the digital signature of the package. This is useful when setting a folder's permissions for example. It is known that in Windows Installer only Everyone and Administrators are the same for all languages and all other account names should be localized.

Advanced Installer automatically performs the localizations when using one of the following "Users and Groups" properties:. The modifications to the environment variables do not result in an immediate change. The list of environment variables is loaded when the process is initialized but not refreshed.

To have the newly created environment variable, you can have a custom action that forces a refresh of the environment variables. You need to broadcast a settings change message to all windows in the system so that any interested application can perform an update. To solve the issue create a custom action that contains the code below which forces the operating system to refresh the environment variables.