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If I build a single compressed MSI installer, the filename displayed in the Windows UAC elevation dialog is a temporary (GUID) filename rather than the actual filename of the MSI file being run. This filename would be unrecognisable to our users and hence undesirable.

We have just moved from Wise Installation Studio - it always showed the actual MSI filename.

Is it possible to have this dialog show the MSI filename instead? How?

Thanks,
Edward

Dear Edward,

I'm very sorry, but Actually it's not possible to modify this behaviour.
I'll try to verify with dev team if exist any possibility to have this modified in future ... but I suspect that will be not so simple.

Regards

Hi Francesco,

Any suggestions from dev team?

Thanks,
Edward

Dear Edward,

as I said with my previous replay, actually it's not possible to modify this behaviour.

I have reported this to dev team, to verify if exist any possibility to have this modified in future
... but I suspect that will be not so easy to implement.
I haven't received any information yet and very probably, I will not receive it very soon.

I'm very sorry, but actually I can't give you any other additional info about.

Regards

Like the original poster, I also would like to display a meaningful file name and publisher name in the UAC dialog instead of the GUID and "uknown." I have built my installer (single exe) in Studio 18, and the UAC in windows 7 64 bit displays the GUID and "unknown." Has this issue been addressed in Studio 18 or later?

I have also had the same problem.

Why can't this 'inner' MSI get signed with our cert?

Dear Rosstrusler,

for what I know our latest version should sign the internal MSI as well.

Dear Drobinson,

unfortunately it's not a easy matter for what concerns the GUID. This is generated by the Windows Installer Engine directly and there isn't any method available to avoid this.

Regards

Thank you for the response.

Is there a way to modify the publisher so that it can display the company name instead of "unknown?"

Dear Drobinson,

the publisher should be issued by the applied digital signature.

Regards