Components in windows installer

As a standard, Advanced Installer automatically creates the components when generating the product package. The automatic process respects a strict set of Windows Installer rules , together with a series of best practices we have gathered from our customers during the years.

The GUI based packaging tool ensures a rapid, reliable, clean build of the product package without the need for in-depth knowledge and double-checks. Of course, Advanced Installer includes the possibility to create components and we will go through every step of the process in this article. Windows Installer organizes a product in features and components. A feature contains all the components needed when installing a product.

This makes components the smallest piece in a Windows Installer project. Thanks for your feedback. David Stephens david. I have the same question Report abuse. Details required :. Cancel Submit. You may also try disabling the task completely and check if that helps: Type Command Prompt in the search bar on the Taskbar.

Let us know the results. How satisfied are you with this reply? Condition A Windows Installer condition which is evaluated and the result determines the component's installation.

If the condition is null or is evaluated to false, the component is not installed. Use the [ Optional The component can run locally or from source. Permanent This component is not removed during an uninstall. Transitive Windows Installer reevaluates the statement from the Condition field after a reinstall. Never Overwrite The component is not installed or reinstalled if a key path file or a key path registry entry for the component already exists.

This affects only future installers which try to overwrite the component key path; it doesn't affect already installed resources. Disable registry reflection This option applies only to bit systems with Windows Installer 4. If this option is not enabled for a component, Windows Installer makes the associated registry changes in both 64 and bit registry views.

Uninstall on supersedence Windows Installer 4. Step 1. Step 2. Step 3. Name the value Logging. Double-click Logging key and set its Value data as voicewarmupx in its Properties window.