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Re: [PATCH/CFT] Fix setup.exe COM initialisation problem.
On Oct 24 01:53, Dave Korn wrote:
> Charles Wilson wrote:
> > Dave Korn wrote:
> >
> >> However because of the scary comment about win7, I think this must be a
> >> slightly hairy and not necessarily entirely backward-compatible area. I've
> >> tested it on XP and 2k; can anyone help out by checking it on any of
> >> NT/2k3/Vista/2k8/W7 for me? I just moved my desktop icons and start folder
> >> menu out of the way, clicked through it in "install from local package dir"
> >> and "keep" mode, and verified in windows explorer that it had created the new
> >> shortcuts correctly, I think that's sufficient.
> >
> > Windows Vista SP2: it did create the shortcuts.
> >
> > However, on exit I got the "This program might not have installed
> > correctly...'Reinstall using recommended settings' or [confirm] 'This
> > program installed correctly'" dialog box. Is that an indication of
> > crash-on-exit? The log files seemed to be fine.
>
> I think that's a UAC thingy to do with how elevated it was or was not and
I tested setup with your patch applied on two Windows 7 32 and one 64 bit
machine and it worked fine in all three cases. I didn't even get the
above "This program might not have installed correctly..." message, even
though I got it when using setup without your patch. Looks like a clear
win to me.
Thanks,
Corinna
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