Re: Running program detection - Windows Installer vs the OS
"Rob Hamflett" <rob@snsys.com> wrote in message
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> Hi all,
>
> I have a question regarding the 'detect running programs' capabilities of
> Windows Installer. When Vista came along the ability for an installer to
> detect what running programs were holding files open was improved. My
> question is, how much of this is down to Vista and how much is down to
> Windows Installer? We've been using the Windows Installer 4.5
> redistributable, but XP is still not asking the user to close the running
> programs that Vista is. In this case it's a COM component that Visual
> Studio has loaded. My installer detects that it is running and requests a
> reboot, but this results in different behaviour between XP and Vista. Is
> it just a difference in behaviour between the operating systems, or should
> Windows Innstaller 4.5 be taking care of this?
>
> Thanks,
> Rob
You're welcome!
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