I found this information which solved the problem for me:
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/astebner/archive/2007/01/16/mailbag-how-to-detect-the-presence-of-the-vc-8-0-runtime-redistributable-package.aspx

After closer examination, I suspect that the following line in "checkvc8sp1secure_x86" is taking so long. Find All Files in path $WINDIR$\WinSxS\mfc80.dll (include subfolders), write result into variable VC81SECURE Is there another way to check for existing MFC Runtimes that might be faste...

That's a single executable. But as the de-compression happens before, that shouldn't really make a difference. Right?

Some users lately complained about the long delay between the language selection and the welcome dialog. Nothing is shown during that time. The setup.bmp background is only displayed for a brief period right before the language selection dialog. They asked if we could at least display this backgroun...

Oh my god, that just happened to me when copying a jenkins project to one with a slightly longer name.
I'm looking forward to the day when Windows goes away...

This question is not exactly related to InstallAware, but it's probably something, InstallAware users have to care or think about. I've done automatic testing of the installer on Virtual machines for a while now. With FinalBuilder I start up the virtual machine(varying operating systems), copy the i...

That sounds good. Does that mean real while and for loops, so that we no longer have to do loops with goto's?
Do you have a teaser to show?

Yes, Replace String was what I did in the end. But it's a bit counter intuitive, that's why I report it here. "Extract Full File Name" sounds like it's aware of what it deals with. Instead it's just a simple find and substring operation. In contrast other filesystem abstractions like boost...

Hi Michael, sure... Find All Files in path C:\Program Files (x86)\PointLine21\UserDat\lic\*.lic (include subfolders), write result into variable LicenseNames LicenseNames="C:\Program Files (x86)\PointLine21\UserDat\lic\default\PointLine3D.lic"|"C:\Program Files (x86)\PointLine21\UserD...

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think some themes use an avi video as the progress bar e.g. swoosh.avi that you could easily replace.

What's wrong with the following code? Find All Files in path C:\Program Files (x86)\PointLine21\UserDat\lic\*.lic (include subfolders), write result into variable LicenseNames Set Variable LicTmpName to Parse String $LicenseNames$ into Variables LicTmpName and LicenseNames (Split at first occurrence...

While searching for a way in which WindowsInstaller packages can depend on each other and build a versioned dependency tree, like debian packages do, I stumbled over CoApp (http://coapp.org).
Is there anything planned to support the creation of dependent packages in InstallAware?

Hi, I have two installer projects that share the same files (scripts, dialogs, translations...). I know, it's not exactly how it was thought, but if I get it to work one way or another, it would save me a lot of maintenance work. The different variations are built by passing different compiler varia...

Hello everybody, usually after I get the translated files back, I start up InstallAware, go to design tab, and import the translation files. Now if the translator doesn't tell me that he changed something or if I forget to import, the new translations might be missing in the next release. That's why...

Thanks Michael,

that solved the issue.