2 reproducable bugs related to Windows System Restore

[Steve]

Tiago
Yesterday, Nov 26 was the Thanksgiving holiday in the US. All companies are closed. Most people are also off today, Friday the 27th as well. I suspect that you will probably receive a reply from InstallAware come Monday.

-Steve

[sinan]

Yes, this fix is indeed there in version 9 (damaged old versions that are present on the target system no longer limit installation/upgrades to the new version).

[Tiago]

Thank you so very much, mr. Sinan.

[MarkElder]

Actually I just ran into this problem last week so there still seems to be a way for system restore to break InstallAware setups.

No one responded to my post yet, but this post has the information I was looking for. I didn't know where the cached directories for InstallAware were located. I'll go try and delete those to see if my install will run now.

Here is my post: Unable to Load plug-in library - Possible corrupt cache?

I am using version 9.

[SteveDude]

This problem about drove me nuts. I had a RAID(0) drive that failed on my build box, which I thought was I fortunate because I had a recent full system backup. After replacing the drives, restoring my system and having to reinstall a couple of programs for license reasons, I encountered an issue that required a system restore. Since that point any installs I created would fail on Windows Vista, not on XP or Windows 7, but Vista only and plus it would corrupt a couple of other programs that then required a system restore on those machines and the cycle repeated. Had v9 for awhile, but because of a couple of non-compatible plug-ins, I hadn't completely moved from 8. Glad I found this post or I could of spent another umpteen hours trying to solve an unsolvable problem. v9's going on now and it looks like for good...Plug-ins or not.

[kenwellsied]

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