Re: RC2 installer problem on XP

["Ben Trewern" <ben_trewern(at)hotmail(dot)com>]

Mmmm nice.

I've been reading a book called "The Art of Unix Programming" by Eric S. 
Raymond.  It's has a lot to say about software transparency and 
discoverability.  If anyone gets the chance it's one of the best general 
programming books I've read.  If the bloke who wrote the Microsoft Installer 
or had anything to do with the Windows Registry had read this beforehand it 
would have saved us all a lot of headaches.

Thanks for the info.

Regards,

Ben

> From: "Dave Page" <dpage(at)vale-housing(dot)co(dot)uk>
> To: "Ben Trewern" 
> <ben_trewern(at)hotmail(dot)com>,<pgadmin-support(at)postgresql(dot)org>
> Subject: Re: [pgadmin-support] RC2 installer problem on XP
> Date: Fri, 26 Nov 2004 11:03:28 -0000
>
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Ben Trewern [mailto:ben_trewern(at)hotmail(dot)com]
> > Sent: 26 November 2004 10:56
> > To: Dave Page; pgadmin-support(at)postgresql(dot)org
> > Subject: Re: [pgadmin-support] RC2 installer problem on XP
> >
> > I thought this had been fixed by installing with the local
> > Administrator account but it's come back.  Every time i start
> > pgAdmin now it asks me if I want to reboot my machine.  Click
> > no and start it again and it runs.  Any other ideas?
>
> Yeah, a couple, but they're not pretty.
>
> Simple answer:
>
> Copy the pgAdmin3 directory, and then uninstall the MSI. Put the copied
> pgAdmin directory where the original one was and recreate the shortcuts.
> This will work because pgAdmin doesn't register and dlls/ocxs etc. You
> won't be able to uninstall in the future of course.
>
> Complex answer:
>
> Install the Microsoft Installer SDK from microsoft.com. Use the msispy
> program to check for pgAdmin MSI installations. Use msizap to kill *all*
> those entries using the guid(s) found in msispy. Then reinstall pgAdmin.
>
>
> Regards, Dave.
>
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