Prerequisites - Detect Pending Reboot on Computer before installing prerequisites

[darylc@magenic.com]

Hi Admin,

We've been using advance installer on our project and we are planning to have a feature to detect a pending reboot on a computer before the prerequisites are installed to avoid any errors.

The attempts that I tried were the following:
1) Created a dialog that would be displayed before prerequisite ui dialogs - this dialog would initially run a custom action. The custom action would check if theres a pending reboot using powershell script then update a user defined windows installer property that would be used as a condition to display the restart dialog. - But it seems that this is not possible viewtopic.php?t=26450

2) Created a conditional text and buttons on existing prerequisite dialog. The existing prerequisite dialog would initially run a custom action. The custom action would check if theres a pending reboot using powershell script then update a user defined windows installer property that would be used as a condition to display the conditional text and buttons inside the existing prerequisite dialog - didn't worked as well, I assume due to the same reason as #1

3) Created a console app in c# that detects pending reboot(shows dialog message if there is). Then the executable file that would be produced by this console app would then be added as a prerequisite on our installer - not sure if this would work but I'm still in-progress on doing this.

Would just like to seek assistance if you have other better options in mind? Thanks in advance.

[Catalin]

Hello and welcome to our forums,

In order to achieve that, you can create your own custom action which detects if a reboot is pending before the prerequisite is installed.

You can find some useful information about this in our " How do I detect a reboot is pending BEFORE install?" thread.

Hope this helps!

Regards,
Catalin

[darylc@magenic.com]

Thanks for the response! I'll try this out

[Daniel]

You are always welcome.

All the best,
Daniel