Phil Wilson
5/18/2007 7:17:00 PM
Repair is a built in feature of Windows Installer. You cannot absolutely
prevent it (someone can right-click on the MSI file and repair, or go to
Add/Remove Programs and repair, or simply try to reinstall the MSI file
again where it shows a Remove or Repair choice. Anyway, if these are
executables used as custom actions during the install you can usually mark
them as Exclude=True in the solution explorer view of the files. They still
run - they're stored in the MSI file and streamed out to run from a temp
folder instead of being installed.
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Phil Wilson
[Microsoft MVP Windows Installer]
"apondu" <apondu@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1179143415.819053.132870@w5g2000hsg.googlegroups.com...
> Hi
>
> I am deploying a desktop application and adding some files to the
> folder in the application folder (I also tried to add these files to
> custom folder also). All goes fine when the setup is installed but
> when i try to delete or update these files and then try to launch the
> application with exe .I always gets a infromation regarding install/
> reinstall of the application.
>
> I am just stuck into it , so please help me out with the solution so
> that i can delete files from the folder without having that
> installer.These files are the .exe files which are required only
> during the installtion ( for eg. to install the database) after they
> are not needed.
>
> Thanks for the response and help people here are doing.
>
> Regards,
> Govardhan
>