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Hello, During installation, there might be an error displayed that the CAB file has an invalid digital signature. The error is displayed during the ProgressDlg : A file that is required cannot be installed because the cabinet file <path>. cab has an invalid digital signature. This may indicate that ...

Hello, Installer Analytics allows you to define your own custom reports through the custom properties report . This functionality is available starting with the 19.4 version of Advanced Installer , Basically you can get any information in your reports, be it a property set by the user or automatical...

Hello,

This problem was further investigated on the email.

The behavior was encountered due to some missing dll dependencies.

Best regards,
Dan

Hello, Some installers have actions that are executed on the Wizard Dialogs Stage and since it may take some time to complete those actions, the user might think the setup got stuck. The easiest way to provide more feedback to the user is to display an indeterminate progress. Here's how it may look ...

Hello, Although Advanced Installer has support for predefined operations executed as build events, you can also execute custom PowerShell scripts. Build event.PNG It is a simple PowerShell script that displays a messagebox with the path where the folder is located. $workingPath = Get-Location #Displ...

Hello and welcome to Advnaced Installer forums, This may happens if the Windows Explorer is open in the location where the EXE installer is build. Is this your case too? If Yes, does it make any difference if you close the Windows Explorer? Usually, this usually happens when the Windows Explorer is ...

Hello, Please note that if the installer can request upfront admin privileges e.g. right after you select Uninstall/Change in the Control Panel if the below options are used: Run as administrator option is enabled in the Install Parameters page Always (install, uninstall and maintenance) option is e...

Hello, To create a shortcut you can follow the steps from the create shortcut tutorial. If the shortcut should be conditionally created, then add the ShortcutsDlg . Based on the checkbox state, the shortcuts placed in the corresponding folders will be created or not. Here we have 2 limitations. To c...

Hello, In case you want to add context menu item to Windows Explorer for folders or files of any kind, here is what you need to do: Explorer context menu item.png To achieve this, just follow the steps from the following article: 1) Create a new project of Professional type in Advanced Installer: Cr...

Hi,

Indeed, we've sent you over the email a hotfix. Please let us know if the problem is fixed when using the sent dll.

Best regards,
Dan

Hi Alex, I just saw that -in case of uninstalling the program the msiexec is called with the paramter /i. Shouldn't it be /x ?? I manually tried to do this with the /x param and it worked just fine... Why is windows calling the msiexec with /i instead of /x and how can i modify that from within Adva...

Hi Alex, Sorry for the late reply, we were quite busy these days. It looks like, the installer lost track of the files, because I'm also able to run the installer more than once for the same version of my product. Normally the installation would stop right at the beginning saying that the product is...

Hi, If you want to edit an existing variation for a theme in Advanced Installer, here's the correct approach. Let's try to implement a blue variation for the Vivid theme: variation_VividBlueSky.png Select theme and variation Select the theme and variation that you want to be used as a starting point...

Hello,

To automatically install updates at user logon or any other custom trigger, check the following forum thread that contains a sample project and more information on how to achive this: Install updates without elevation, automatically at user logon.

Best regards,
Dan

Hello, Indeed, we tested this and the log is not created. You need to pass arguments one by one. Only one command line with "/" is accepted at a time. Please try to adjust your code like in the screenshot below: process.png The log file is named "updater.log" and created in the f...

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