AI lost the Preinstall and Feature dialogs display

[kkkwj]

I was trying to hide some of the FOUR flickering and unreadable dialogs that popped up on my simple EXE installer before the Welcome to the Setup Wizard dialog. Somewhere along the line, I saw an option to change Full UI to Basic UI and Progress dialogs. (I think that's an option on the Preinstall category under the EXE boostrapper on the Dialogs section.

Nothing I could do would stop the endless flickering dialogs, so I dragged the NET 6 prerequisite back into the Feature category.

Now nothing at all shows up in the Dialogs category. No EXE category. No Preinstall category under EXE. No MSI category. No First Time Install category. No dialog groups below either one.

I think my project file is now corrupt and that I will have to build a new one.

I attached the file and an image of what I see on my screen.

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[Liviu]

Hello,

I'm not sure why this happens on your machine as it worked well on my side.

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Can you try to remove the following project settings from that machine and see if it helps:

1. go to the following registry key, export it to have a backup, then remove it:

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HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Caphyon\Advanced Installer\Projects\{2CCFAD61-54A6-42D3-B9F0-D4E478ECD3E4}

or

1. uninstall the product from the Control Panel

2. remove all the repository resources from the path below (please perform a backup first):

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C:\ProgramData\Caphyon\Advanced Installer\Repository

3. remove the following registry keys (also perform a backup first):

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HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Caphyon
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\WOW6432Node\Caphyon

After you remove these, reinstall Advanced Installer.

Let me know if any of the above options worked.

Best regards,
Liviu

[kkkwj]

Hi Liviu, thank you for your response.

Sorry to say, but I deleted that broken project file. If AI loses the elements somehow, I don't want to waste another minute of my time hacking registry settings. I deleted the file long ago and made a whole new project from scratch.

[Liviu]

Hello,

That is not hacking the registry. That is the optimal solution when something is corrupted on your machine (regarding your .AIP project).

Best regards,
Liviu