Software Deployment

I have the same problem. Does anyone know why this happens and if it is possible to get the correct size reported.

Thanks

Guess it's caused by the file being smaller than the cluster size on the disk (4Kb) and causing windows to incorrectly display the size of the app?! At least, that statement makes some kind of sense in my head.. ;-)

Anyway, to get around it I just added a dummy .bmp file to the installation to up the total size if the install - it now shows as 0.91mb - better than 4gb!

Hope this helps,
Rob.

Thanks

I'll give that a try.

ForrestGump and MSIPackager;

I have also encountered this issue before and rather than creating dummy files that are not needed you can create the following regsitry key within your package that will be removed when you uninstall the MSI;

HKLM\Software\Microsoft\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\%APPLICATIONGUID%\ then create a DWORD key with a Hexidecimal value called EstimatedSize.

This will populate your ARPSize on you Add & Remove programs control applet.

Hope this helps.
Jim

Thanks Jim that sounds like a much better solution :-)

Regards,
Rob.