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garyhalb
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Restart after every prerequisite

Postby garyhalb » Wed Jun 02, 2010 6:14 am

Hi,

My app installs the following prerequisites:
Windows Installer 3.0
Windows Installer 4.5
All the dot net frameworks up till 3.5 SP1.
SQL Express 2008.

What I've found on some Windows XP computers is that my installer requires a reboot after every single pre-requisite finishes installing. Which means that the setup reboots the machine 6 times! I also found that with the default command line parameters for installing SQL Express the install failed because SQL Express required a restart and the computer thought that it needed to restart - even after restarting... I solved that problem by following the steps outline here: http://www.sqlcoffee.com/Troubleshooting051.htm

My conclusion is that in some instances my installation causes the issue outlined in the post above - have you guys come across this before? Could it be something I'm doing in my setup project?

Kind regards,
Gary

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