Re: Windows restart ?

On 20.02.2010 13:29, Adrian Buehlmann wrote:

>> Does this work properly for you on Win7?
>
> Yes it does.
>
> I just tried this:
>
> I copied a TortoiseHg msi ('B') onto the desktop of a Windows 7 Ultimate
> x64, running in a virtual machine of VirtualBox, which had a slightly
> older build of TortoiseHg msi ('A') preinstalled. The shell extension of
> 'A' was loaded into explorer, which I knew for sure because I saw the
> overlay icons and context menu working as expected (I had done a
> logoff/login after installing 'A' on the clean Windows 7).
>
> Then I made sure that no window was open. Not even a window of explorer.exe.
>
> Then I double-clicked the 'B' msi on the desktop to start an upgrade
> install (the 'B' msi had a different product id than the 'A' msi, so
> doing a major upgrade in Windows Installer terms).
>
> ValidatingInstall then presented the "Files in Use" dialog with an entry
> for "Windows Explorer" as usual. And it did shut down and restart explorer.
>
> I haven't been able to test this on Vista yet.

I knew that MS was aware of the problem and that they had a fix for
this, but I heard that the fix didn't make it into msi V5 (which ships
with Win7). I guess they got the fix in there anyway.
Thanks for testing!

I'll remove the forced reboot in the TSVN installer too.

Stefan

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