It would be rather difficult to update the progress bar, while another process is running. I do not see a point of endeavoring it, as you are unlikely able to tell the progress of the sub-installer, so you won’t know what to update the progress bar to. Except for special cases, when the sub-installer provides … Read more
WARNING: Do not use pip to try to solve the problem The Pip package manager cannot help to solve the problem. No part of the Python standard library – including tkinter, turtle etc. – can be installed from PyPI. For security reasons, PyPI now blocks packages using names that match the standard library. There are … Read more
I do not think you can write explicitly to registry keys of logged in user from Inno Setup. You can write to registry keys of the user which is running the installer only. You can write to any (or all) user’s registry keys via HKEY_USERS, but I do not know, if you can tell, which … Read more
Pretty sure you need the product code for this since the upgrade code identifies a family of products, and not a single one. Fire up PowerShell and run this command to get a list of installed products with product code: Get-WmiObject -Class win32_product Here is a different way to get the output in a tabular … Read more
For generic information, see: Registering an Application for Use with Default Programs on Microsoft Docs. How do I add my application in the Default Programs list of Windows Vista/7? on Stack Overflow In Inno Setup, you implement this using [Registry] section: [Registry] ; Create the application capability key ; (The location of the key does … Read more
Try to change: RegistryKey key = Registry.LocalMachine.OpenSubKey(key_path); To: RegistryKey key = Registry.LocalMachine.OpenSubKey(key_path, Microsoft.Win32.RegistryKeyPermissionCheck.ReadWriteSubTree);
For us, the vast majority of the time was spent invoking light (for the linking phase). light is very slow at compressing cabinets. Changing the DefaultCompressionLevel in the .wixproj from high to mszip (or low or none) helps a lot. However, our build was still too slow. It turns out that light handles cabinets independently, … Read more
Example VBScript that you could use to update (or add) a property post-build… Option Explicit Const MSI_FILE = “myfile.msi” Dim installer, database, view Set installer = CreateObject(“WindowsInstaller.Installer”) Set database = installer.OpenDatabase (MSI_FILE, 1) ‘ Update Set view = database.OpenView (“UPDATE Property SET Value=”” & myproperty & “” WHERE Property = ‘MYPROPERTY'”) ‘ .. or Add … Read more
Okay, revisiting this question with my own answer providing nice little VB script that will do all heavy lifting. As mentioned in the original question, the aim was provide a simple solution for sysadmin users to make the updates/changes themselves. Below is a simplified version of the code I’m currently providing to customers Option Explicit … Read more