[wix-users] Another installer is already running

[Vanniekerk, Tyrel (GE Healthcare)]

So there are no generic solutions?  I thought if Office was installing or some other tool was installing, then other installers would be able to check that and stop their install.  If I understand that article correctly, that would work for certain parts of an MSI install, right?  So if they ran my bootstrapper, then ran it again, they would both run without a problem.

I would have thought there would be something in Windows itself that all installers could use.

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https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/desktop/msi/-msiexecute-mutex

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/32049193/how-to-prevent-msi-error-another-program-is-being-installed/32056485#32056485




The person asking the question wanted it in powershell but it should be easy to port it back to c#.

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Subject: [wix-users] Another installer is already running

Hi,

Something I have been meaning to do it make my installer show a message and stop running if another installer is already running.  Is that something one can do?  I use a custom bootstrapper (C# .NET bootstrapper application).

Thanks,
Tyrel

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