September 25, 2007 by admin.

I just finished installing a hot water dispenser on our sink. My wife had been wanting one since we moved into the house over three years ago, but we could never find one that was 1) affordable, or 2) in-stock. Luck finally shined on her when she found one at Lowes for $149. She pulled cash from her work savings account (just about all that was in there), and bought it this past Sunday evening. She thought it would be a quick and easy install. Oh, noooooooo….

So here I sit on Tuesday evening after four trips back and forth to Lowes and Ace Hardware over the past two days, getting the right combination of fittings to split off a line from our hodge-podge hookup under our sink. I’m sore, I’m frustrated, and I’m tired, but by God she has her hot water!

The things we do for our loved ones….

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September 25, 2007 by admin.

I’m working on creating a Windows Installer XML package on Vista. So far I’m able to install everything on XP and Vista on my Mac under Parallels. However, the installer fails to register our ActiveX control on a standalone machine running Vista. Queries on the WiX mailing list seem to indicate the problem is with User Access Control (UAC), whereby even the Administrator doesn’t run with full Administrative priviledges (huh?).

Our old installer works just fine, and the software to create it almost pre-dates Windows XP. I don’t know how it’s getting around UAC, but it is.

I’ve posted another plea for help to the WiX users list. I hope they can help. This has taken up over a month of my time and I’m getting extremely frustrated!

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