It's a WiX MSI installer and each time I uninstall and reinstall it in my virtual machine environment the size reported in Add/Remove Programs gets bigger. It's up to 200MB now when the installed files are only just over 30MB. Any idea how this could happen and what I might be doing wrong? Edit: Not using any custom actions, and I don...
I am a novice tool user but was required to load VS 2008 for a class I was taking which we only used one time. I did not register the copy on my one time use and now 6 months later am required to use VS 2005 for another class. My problem - I need to uninstall 2008 and install 2005. I'm not sure what programs to uninstall from the Add...
Hi, I'm on a WinXP Pro SP3 box. Some time ago, I noticed that opening the Add/Remove programs window takes a lot of time. The window itself opens, but it's building the list that takes so long. I fired FileMon from SysInternals, and it turned out that the process that's supposed to list the programs tries to open every file on my HD. A...
Basic MSI Project: In "Project Assistant" tab in "Application name" i provided japanese text When i try to install it any english OS(xp) it show the error message like "1152: Error extracting ....msi from the temporary location" and exits installation just after clicking setup.exe(all compressed, nothing there though). But setup is ok i...
I want to assign an icon to display next to my app's Uninstaller in the Windows Add/Remove programs. I assume that would be in the Registry setting for the uninstaller, but I don' see an obvious place to assign that. ...
Hi, I am making a setup project for my dependent project in the same solution, i have a icon for my dependent project which i set in project properties, i have also added this icon to setup project in the application folder, i want this icon to appear in the add/remove programs dialog but so far only default no icon is appearing. this ....