Software Deployment

If the upgrade works as an administrator, with no problems, then its a permissions issue.

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If i launch the shortcut once again in the user it doesn not go for repait and it launch perfectly fine. and application is launching fine in administrator.

permissions are already given to HKLM\SOFTWARE\Deloitte\Abacus Technology and installdir

permissions are already given to HKLM\SOFTWARE\Deloitte\Abacus Technology and installdir...except that that isn't the location where registration information is written. That'll be somewhere in HKLM\Software\Classes\CLSID (ghosted as HKCR\CLSID).

Your package is attempting to register a DLL in User context instead of System. Almost guaranteed to fail...

I'd bet my last pound that it's doing that either via the SelfReg table or by a Custom Action calling RegSrv32. If it's a vendor MSI, you can either live with that nonsense (but you'll still need to switch the context, of course) or proceed as for a captured MSI. If you have captured the install to your own MSI, then do the registration properly, by extracting the COM information into a .REG, importing that .REG and having your authoring tool (which is...?) populate the advertising tables.

I agree with VBScab, and my test would have proved that ;)

When I talk about permissions I dont just mean under 1 hive I mean under them all, which includes the HKCU key which is why I asked if your package worked as an adminsitrator.

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my test would of proved that ...would have proved that.

No offence, Paul but this is a common error, owing to the 'of' sound which is used when the conjugation is spoken in short form, as in "my test would've proved that".

Is there no end to my pedancy? LOL

There we go just to be different, have a "have" NURF!

Oh and trust me ill be checking out each of your posts for "errors" going forward ; )

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