[PATCH/CFT] Fix setup.exe COM initialisation problem.

Dave Korn dave.korn.cygwin@googlemail.com
Sat Oct 24 00:38:00 GMT 2009


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
manifests and whether it was trying to create All-Users or Current-User
shortcuts, probably?  I'm guessing that it's letting you know that it
redirected one of the shortcuts from one location to another and it's taking
that as a sign of an old non-limited-user-aware installer.

  Does it do anything different without the patch?  You might just not have
seen this before (or since the very first time you installed on that machine
which I don't know how long ago it was).

    cheers,
      DaveK



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