Archive: REQ: Ways to find out why my installer hung


REQ: Ways to find out why my installer hung
Hi,

I've got an installer which runs fine on my machine and several machines where it's run in some Admin account. However there are some hosts with specially limited account, like
- limited access to registry,
- can't use 'run' from 'Start' menu
and lots of other restrictions.

So, on these hosts, my installer hangs when changing from a custom to another custom page. Both of these pages have creator and leave functions, where the creator uses InstallOptions dialogs, and leave functions reads the InstallOptions ini contents.
Now, since I couldn't produce any evident on what could happened, I'd like to ask you to help to find ways or tools to discover why the installer hang. I mean such things like 'while reading a file' or 'reading a registry key'. Or like, getting some backtrace of the running process, I dont't know since haven't debugged yet on Windows.

Regards,

Zoltan


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