Installing updates on Windows

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Installing updates on Windows

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UpThere	UpThere posted 6/28/2013 7:51:29 AM Topic Details Share Topic
Group: Forum Members Posts: 10, Visits: 79	The process for installing updates on Windows is pretty clunky, because MSI doesn't handle minor upgrades very well. InstallShield solves this by creating a zipped executable file containing the MSI file and a little program which automatically uninstalls the previous release if necessary. As you're still producing frequent updates, and your customer base must be quite large by now, how about splashing out on InstallShield (or any other installer with that feature), to make life easier for us?
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*stevelup*	*stevelup* posted 6/28/2013 11:39:20 AM Post Details Share Post
Group: Moderators Posts: 593, Visits: 4.9K	Although the advice is to uninstall the previous version and then install the new one, I have always just installed over the top and never had a problem. The official advice is safest, but I've never had a problem doing it the other way.
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UpThere	UpThere posted 6/28/2013 3:08:38 PM Post Details Share Post
Group: Forum Members Posts: 10, Visits: 79	I used to install over the top, but stopped when I discovered that was why its shortcut kept disappearing off the Start menu.
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