Disable Maintenance and Uninstall for a Basic MSI Project

Title

Summary

Disable the maintenance mode and uninstall mode options for a Basic MSI project.

This articles discusses the method to disable the maintenance mode and uninstall mode options for a Basic MSI project.

Follow the steps below to disable the maintenance mode and uninstall mode for a Basic MSI project.

In the 'Property Manager' view, create and set a new property called 'ARPSYSTEMCOMPONENT' to 1.
Browse to the 'Custom Actions and Sequences' view in the project.
In the Sequences - Installation - Execute view, change the condition for the following actions to '0'
- RegsiterUser
- RegisterProduct
- PublishFeatures
- PublishProduct
Rebuild the setup.

Now you should be able to run the Msi setup package multiple times without seeing the Maintenance or Uninstall dialogs.

For information on the ARPSYSTEMCOMPONENT property, please refer to this MSDN article: ARPSYSTEMCOMPONENT Property

For information on the Windows Installer Standard Actions, please refer to this MSDN article: Standard Action Reference

Was this helpful?

Product

InstallShield

Visibility

Guest

URL Name

disable-maintenance-and-uninstall-for-a-basic-msi-project

Are you sure you want to cancel the case creation?

Case closed successfully

Action performed successfully

Upload Attachment

Maximum file size allowed is 3 MB.

File type not supported.

Supported file types:

Documents (.txt, .doc, .docx, .pdf), Images (.jpg, .png), Comma Separated Files (.csv) Speadsheets (.xlsx, .xls)

Are you sure you want to close this case

Get Hotline support

Products	Region	Phone Numbers
FlexNet Operations FlexNet Embedded FlexNet Publisher FlexNet Connect FlexNet Code Insight InstallAnywhere InstallShield	North America *	+1 630-332-2513 (toll) +1 877-279-2853 (toll-free in North America)
	Europe *	+44 1925 944367 (toll) +44 800 047 8642 (toll-free in Europe)
	Japan *	+81 3-4540-5335 (select option 2)
	Australia *	+61 3 9895 2177 +61 1800 560 603 (toll-free in Australia)
Usage Intelligence (formerly Revulytics) Compliance Intelligence	Please use the Case Portal to submit your support ticket or reach out to your Revenera contact.