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Re: [PATCH/CFT] Fix setup.exe COM initialisation problem.
Hi Dave,
On Oct 24 11:44, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Oct 24 01:53, Dave Korn wrote:
> > 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?
> > >> [...]
> > > 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
>
> I tested setup with your patch applied on two Windows 7 32 and one 64 bit
> machine and it worked fine in all three cases. I didn't even get the
> above "This program might not have installed correctly..." message, even
> though I got it when using setup without your patch. Looks like a clear
> win to me.
any reason that you didn't check this in already?
Corinna
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