Changing default UILevel for uninstall.

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Joe Coplen

Changing default UILevel for uninstall.

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The default UILevel for uninstall appears to be 3 (Basic). I need to run at UILevel 5 (Full) in all cases but 2 (None).

I have tried adding a custom action to the InstallExecuteSequence that changes the UILevel property to 5 - checking the setup log, I can see my custom action runs and the UILevel property is successfully changed. However, my dialogs still don't appear.

Does anyone have a good way of doing this?

-J
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Tony Juricic

Re: Changing default UILevel for uninstall.

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As Bob, of Joy of Setup fame, explained here once, there is no way to
change the level used by ARP and UILevel is read-only during uninstall.
However, you can add Change ARP option which would launch your authored
Change dialog from which you can proceed to a full UI uninstall (or
repair or the real change of features)

-----Original Message-----
From: Joe Coplen [mailto:Joe.Coplen@...]
Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2008 5:12 PM
To: WiX-users@...
Subject: [WiX-users] Changing default UILevel for uninstall.

The default UILevel for uninstall appears to be 3 (Basic). I need to
run at UILevel 5 (Full) in all cases but 2 (None).

I have tried adding a custom action to the InstallExecuteSequence that
changes the UILevel property to 5 - checking the setup log, I can see my
custom action runs and the UILevel property is successfully changed.
However, my dialogs still don't appear.

Does anyone have a good way of doing this?

-J

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Tony Juricic

Re: Changing default UILevel for uninstall.

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In reply to this post by Joe Coplen

I assumed you are talking about uninstalling via ARP. Otherwise the
batch file with the following content works just fine in my daily
testing:

msiexec /x myproduct.msi /qf /lv*x .\install.log

qf is for full UI and you can put product code instead of msi filename
since you are not supposed to know where is installed/downloaded msi
file.

-----Original Message-----
From: Joe Coplen [mailto:Joe.Coplen@...]
Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2008 5:12 PM
To: WiX-users@...
Subject: [WiX-users] Changing default UILevel for uninstall.

The default UILevel for uninstall appears to be 3 (Basic). I need to
run at UILevel 5 (Full) in all cases but 2 (None).

I have tried adding a custom action to the InstallExecuteSequence that
changes the UILevel property to 5 - checking the setup log, I can see my
custom action runs and the UILevel property is successfully changed.
However, my dialogs still don't appear.

Does anyone have a good way of doing this?

-J

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Joe Coplen

Re: Changing default UILevel for uninstall.

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Yeah, my primary concern is ARP. So I've set ARPNOREMOVE and ARPNOREPAIR so that modify is the only option. That's invoking my normal UI, so that's more or less all I need. Thanks for the tip.

-J

-----Original Message-----
From: wix-users-bounces@... [mailto:wix-users-bounces@...] On Behalf Of Tony Juricic
Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2008 2:44 PM
To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Changing default UILevel for uninstall.

I assumed you are talking about uninstalling via ARP. Otherwise the
batch file with the following content works just fine in my daily
testing:

msiexec /x myproduct.msi /qf /lv*x .\install.log

qf is for full UI and you can put product code instead of msi filename
since you are not supposed to know where is installed/downloaded msi
file.

-----Original Message-----
From: Joe Coplen [mailto:Joe.Coplen@...]
Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2008 5:12 PM
To: WiX-users@...
Subject: [WiX-users] Changing default UILevel for uninstall.

The default UILevel for uninstall appears to be 3 (Basic). I need to
run at UILevel 5 (Full) in all cases but 2 (None).

I have tried adding a custom action to the InstallExecuteSequence that
changes the UILevel property to 5 - checking the setup log, I can see my
custom action runs and the UILevel property is successfully changed.
However, my dialogs still don't appear.

Does anyone have a good way of doing this?

-J

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