How to disable the "do not close application" option in MSI Installshield restart manager dialog

Question

How to disable the "Do not close application" option in MSI installshield restart manager dialog so that the user is forced to select the first option - automatically close and attempt to restart applications so that the user does not have to accidentally require reboot during installation. Disabling the dialog completely shows the "FilesInUse" dialog which when Ignored caused the Restart Manager to appear again. So the most elegant option might be to disable the second option altogether.

I am using installshield 2015 SP2.

Answer 1

I'll suggest a little hack, even if I can't test it in Installshield right now.

I believe this dialog has a RadioButtonGroup control element which sets the property RestartManagerOption. The visibility and enabled / disabled status for such a control element is set in the Attributes column of the Control Table.

You could try to set the Attributes value to 1 for "Visible, but disabled". Here are the flags or control attributes for reference. I suppose you could hide the whole control, but I would keep it visible. Just my preference.

I just might try to make this change to a compiled MSI using Orca or Installshield itself to "hotfix" an MSI - just to see if it actually works the way you want it. Otherwise I think there should be a property in the property view for that dialog that says something along the lines of "Enabled". Set it to False.

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Some Links:

• Windows Installer-Avoid FileinUse dialog box when Installing a package (a write-up of issues relating to the RestartManager and the wish to suppress files in use dialogs)