[wix-users] Where did this component come from!?

[Bob Arnson]

It's a magic component created by MSI for...reasons. (There are reasons, I just don't remember them.) Feel free to ignore it.

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From: wix-users [mailto:wix-users-bounces at lists.wixtoolset.org] On Behalf Of Edwin Castro
Sent: Tuesday, 21 February, 2017 13:51
To: WiX Toolset Users Mailing List <wix-users at lists.wixtoolset.org>
Subject: [wix-users] Where did this component come from!?

I understand this is not a WiX question but rather a Windows Installer question. Please let me know if there is a better place I can ask this question. I've asked here because there are a lot of folks with lots of experience with Windows Installer. I apologize for the noise.

I'm looking at a verbose log from our installer and I found a component that I wasn't expecting!

MSI (s) (38:00) [09:53:15:264]: Feature: DefaultFeature; Installed:
Absent;   Request: Local;   Action: Local
...
MSI (s) (38:00) [09:53:15:264]: Component: service.exe; Installed:
Absent;   Request: Local;   Action: Local
...
MSI (s) (38:00) [09:53:15:264]: Component: __service.exe65; Installed:
Null;   Request: Local;   Action: Local

I expected service.exe to appear in the log BUT I did NOT expect __service.exe65!

This is a "clean" install attempt _after_ the product was previously installed and uninstalled on a test system.

I've opened up the MSI in InstEdit and checked the Component table to ensure it contained all the expected rows. I see the service.exe component as expected. The __service.exe65 component does not exist in the Component table.

Does anybody have any clue as to where this "phantom" component may be coming from?

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Edwin G. Castro

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