Wix Installer Problem: Why does RestartManager mark Service as RMCritical and not RMService

Question

I\'m trying to prevent our wix installers from prompting the user for a reboot when uninstalling. Our services are set to be uninstalled and deleted on an uninstall. Unfor

Answer 1

Restart Manager will not normally prompt for any files-in-use situations for services that are marked to be stopped in the current operation. In other words it goes through the ServiceControl table to see if the service will be stopped anyway, and will not automatically prompt for in-use files.

Unfortunately this behavior was compromised at one time by a bug - only the first entry in the ServiceControl table was checked. I don't know if this bug was ever documented so I can't cite anything. The original question was posted in 2011, so I would assume that this particular issue has been corrected. The only issues of this kind that occur now tend to be situations where the service is multi-process in some sense, or jacketed (some java services are like this) or when the service does indeed stop being a service but the containing process does not complete promptly, or the ServiceControl doesn't do a full wait and it is still in fact running.