Software Deployment

Hi,

I you ar using Wise for Windows Installer there is a services tab in the Installation Expert. There you can tell what services should do at deinstall.

It's simple:

click Add | Service Control
Type the name of the service.

Ive tested it with an dummy install. At install anly a text was placed. At de-install the spooler services was stopped.

Edwin

I am using Installshield Devstudio 5.5

The services i am concerned with are of 'Service Type 1', those can't be mapped to service tables when i build ism. they have to be stored in registries n they will be active only after Rebooting the machine..

Since the processes spawn by services have imagename SYSTEM.
It can't be stopped/killed using NET/SC commands..

Hi...

Did you solve this?? I have the same situation now....

I imagine, with over 3 years having elapsed between today and the original post, that either the issue was solved or worked around.

- Please don't resurrect old threads.
- If you took the time to read other posts on the forum, you would have learned that you cannot just kill kernel services. Think about it...a system-protection program which could just be killed with TaskKill wouldn't be a great deal of use, would it? You need to uninstall, then reboot.

VBScab,

I am just reading at the older posts before i could post a message cos that saves everyone's time.I am still on my way to solve the issue.

Anywayz i m not using taskkill to kill the services. During Uninstallation a file called LogFile00.dat is not getting removed it is held by ScreenAgent.exe running background. When i remove it manually i can unisntall the application.
I remved this file from the package. Its getting created in runtime and troubling uninstallation.
I am just trying with the following code..

strComputer = "."
strProcessToKill = "ScreenAgent.exe"
Set objWMIService = GetObject("winmgmts:" _
& "{impersonationLevel=impersonate}!\\" _
& strComputer & "\root\cimv2")
Set colProcess = objWMIService.ExecQuery _
("Select * from Win32_Process Where Name = '" & strProcessToKill & "'")
count = 0
For Each objProcess in colProcess
objProcess.Terminate()
count = count + 1
Next

wscript.echo "Killed " & count & " instances of " & _
strProcessToKill & "on " & strComputer

Anywayz i m not using taskkill to kill the services. True, but you're still trying to kill the process, which you can't do in this case.

True.. I coud not... can i control start or stop of services through registries?
I damn sure if i kill ScrennAgent.exe i can uninstall without any issues.

I tried through regsitries manually by stopping services & rebooted the machine. Still the ScreenAgent.exe is running and blocking the roads.......